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    {
      "Title": "Too many file watches on Linux",
      "Excerpt": "I don't know why, but the sherlock-mcp on my ubuntu system has reached the  (already increased) max inotify threshold. I tracked it down to the sherlock, which consumes massive amount of inotify.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jcucci/dotnet-sherlock-mcp/issues/31",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-28T10:45:03.000Z",
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      "Title": "Signature rendering polish (umbrella)",
      "Excerpt": "## Consumer report\n\n> Signature rendering nits.\n> - `Nullable<int>` → `int?` (and `IList<RecordedEvent>` etc. are already fine — just this one)\n> - `overwrite = True` / `combineSubstreams = False` — C# literal should be lowercase.\n> - `public abstract` on interface members is redundant noise.\n> - `Snapshot\\u00601` in `FullName` leaks backtick-arity encoding to the user; consider normalizing display to `Snapshot<>` or keeping `Snapshot\\`1` but not letting the unicode-escaped form through JSON.\n\n#",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jcucci/dotnet-sherlock-mcp/issues/24",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-18T01:00:54.000Z",
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      "Title": "Add direct NuGet package -> assembly lookup tool",
      "Excerpt": "## Consumer report\n\n> NuGet-aware lookup. I knew \\\"Sharp.Events v41.0.1\\\" but had to find `~/.nuget/packages/...` manually. A `find_assembly_by_nuget_package(packageId, version?, tfm?)` that probes `~/.nuget/packages/<id>/<v>/lib/<tfm>/` would save a lot of grep. Or have `assemblyPath` accept `sharp.events:41.0.1` shorthand.\n\n## Validation\n\n`ResolvePackageReferences` already exists (`src/server/Tools/ProjectAnalysisTools.cs:66-82`) but it requires a project file path. There is no direct package-",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jcucci/dotnet-sherlock-mcp/issues/23",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-18T01:00:51.000Z",
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      "Title": "Add reverse-lookup tools: implementations, returns, references",
      "Excerpt": "**Priority: High** — flagged by an AI consumer as the most-requested missing capability.\n\n## Consumer report\n\n> Cross-reference queries are missing. The three most valuable questions I had no tool for:\n> - \\\"What implements `IEventStreamReader`?\\\"\n> - \\\"What methods return `Snapshot<T>`?\\\"\n> - \\\"What references `RecordedEvent`?\\\"\n>\n> I ended up using strings over the DLL via Bash. `find_implementations_of(typeName)`, `find_references_to_type(typeName)`, `find_methods_returning(typeName)` would b",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jcucci/dotnet-sherlock-mcp/issues/22",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-18T01:00:49.000Z",
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      "Title": "Add projection (summary|full) parameter to listing endpoints",
      "Excerpt": "## Consumer report\n\n> Response size on listing endpoints. `get_types_from_assembly` for a mid-size assembly blew past the token limit (147KB for Sharp.Events — forced me to dump to a file and parse with Python). The per-type payload includes attributes + base type + interfaces + generic params + nested types, which is great for a detail view but overkill for a listing. Consider a projection: `\\\"summary\\\"|\\\"full\\\"` parameter — summary returns `{FullName, Namespace, Kind}` only. Similar for `get_t",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jcucci/dotnet-sherlock-mcp/issues/21",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-18T01:00:47.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "AttributeUtils leaks RuntimeType to System.Text.Json",
      "Excerpt": "**Priority: High** — flagged by an AI consumer as a session-blocker.\n\n## Consumer report\n\n> Attribute dumping can't serialize `Type` values. Repeated `Serialization and deserialization of 'System.RuntimeType' instances is not supported` on e.g. `Sharp.Events.RecordedEvent` and `EventApplicator` methods. `[JsonConverter(typeof(X))]` puts a `Type` into `ConstructorArguments`, which `System.Text.Json` can't handle. Project `Type` args to `{ \\\"typeFullName\\\": t.FullName, \\\"assemblyName\\\": t.Assembly",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jcucci/dotnet-sherlock-mcp/issues/20",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-18T01:00:37.000Z",
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      "Title": "Switch tool surface from default ALC to MetadataLoadContext",
      "Excerpt": "**Priority: High** — flagged by an AI consumer as a session-blocker.\n\n## Consumer report\n\n> Load context is the biggest issue. I hit `Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=13.0.0.0'` multiple times on `get_type_methods`/`get_type_properties` (Sharp.Events types whose attributes touch Newtonsoft). Cause: server/Tools/*.cs uses `Assembly.LoadFrom` into the default ALC with no resolver wired up. You already have `DependencyResolvingLoadContext` and reference `System.Reflection.M",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jcucci/dotnet-sherlock-mcp/issues/19",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-18T01:00:35.000Z",
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      "Title": "Transitive assembly resolution issue",
      "Excerpt": "The assembly resolver in dotnet-sherlock sometimes cannot load transitive dependencies even though the DLL existed in the same directory. This appears to be an assembly binding/resolution issue within the MCP tool when the target assembly has dependencies on other assemblies.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jcucci/dotnet-sherlock-mcp/issues/14",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-01-14T21:08:00.000Z",
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      "Title": "Upgrade ModelContextProtocol SDK from 0.3.0-preview.2",
      "Excerpt": "## Why\n\n`src/server/Sherlock.MCP.Server.csproj` pins `ModelContextProtocol` at `0.3.0-preview.2`. Preview-to-newer upgrades in this SDK have had breaking changes around `WithToolsFromAssembly`, attribute namespaces, and DI parameter injection into static tools — the upgrade likely touches all 7 tool files mechanically.\n\n## Plan\n\n1. Land the end-to-end MCP integration tests first (separate issue) — they are the only realistic regression net for transport-level changes.\n2. Check the current stable",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jcucci/dotnet-sherlock-mcp/issues/41",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-11T13:54:05.000Z",
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      "Title": "End-to-end MCP integration tests over stdio",
      "Excerpt": "## Why\n\nIntegration coverage is currently a single Linux inotify test. Nothing exercises the actual MCP wire protocol: tool discovery, invocation, envelope shape, pagination round-trips. This is also the prerequisite regression net for the ModelContextProtocol SDK upgrade.\n\n## Proposal\n\nAdd a fixture in `src/integration-tests` that launches the built server as a child process over stdio and drives it with the `ModelContextProtocol` client package (`McpClientFactory` + `StdioClientTransport`):\n\n1",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jcucci/dotnet-sherlock-mcp/issues/40",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-11T13:54:04.000Z",
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      "Title": "Persistent on-disk assembly index for reverse lookup",
      "Excerpt": "## Why\n\n`IndexStore` and `NoopAssemblyIndexService` are placeholder stubs (\"Minimal in-memory placeholder for future on-disk store\"). Reverse lookups now scan in parallel with shared contexts (Phase A), but repeat queries against large solution-wide scopes still re-walk every type. An on-disk index makes repeat reverse lookups near-instant.\n\n**Build this only if Phase A parallelism proves insufficient on real workloads** — measure first.\n\n## Sketch\n\n- Per-assembly index file under `~/.sherlock-m",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jcucci/dotnet-sherlock-mcp/issues/39",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-11T13:54:02.000Z",
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      "Title": "GetTypeHierarchy: populate DerivedTypes via optional searchScope instead of silent empty array",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\n`TypeAnalysisService.GetTypeHierarchy` always returns an empty `DerivedTypes` array (documented internal stub). Consumers can't tell \"no derived types\" from \"not computed\" — the empty array is actively misleading to an LLM.\n\n## Proposal\n\nTwo-part fix:\n1. Add optional `searchScope` (additional assembly paths) parameter to the `GetTypeHierarchy` tool. When provided, populate derived types via `ReverseLookupService.FindImplementations` (already does exactly this scan).\n2. When absent (t",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jcucci/dotnet-sherlock-mcp/issues/38",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-11T13:53:28.000Z",
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      "Title": "AnalyzeSolution returns zero projects for .slnx solutions",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\n`ProjectAnalysisService.AnalyzeSolutionFileAsync` parses solutions with a regex that only understands the classic `.sln` format. The new XML `.slnx` format — which this very repository uses (`src/Sherlock.MCP.slnx`) — silently returns zero projects.\n\n## Fix\n\nBranch on file extension in `AnalyzeSolutionFileAsync`:\n- `.sln` → existing regex path.\n- `.slnx` → `XDocument` parse of `<Project Path=\"...\"/>` elements (including `<Folder>` nesting), filtered to the supported `.csproj/.vbproj/",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jcucci/dotnet-sherlock-mcp/issues/37",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-11T13:53:27.000Z",
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      "Title": "Add GetAssemblyInfo tool: assembly-level attributes, TFM, and references",
      "Excerpt": "## Why\n\nThere is no tool for assembly-level metadata: target framework, version attributes, `InternalsVisibleTo`, or referenced assemblies. These are cheap to extract and frequently needed for orientation before deeper analysis.\n\n## Proposal\n\nNew `GetAssemblyInfo` tool in `ReflectionTools`:\n\n- `ctx.Assembly.GetCustomAttributesData()` + existing `AttributeUtils.Convert` (already extracts constructor/named args structurally).\n- `Assembly.GetReferencedAssemblies()` for names/versions.\n- Summary pro",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jcucci/dotnet-sherlock-mcp/issues/36",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-11T13:53:25.000Z",
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      "Title": "IL call analysis: GetMethodCalls tool and analysisDepth=il for FindReferencesTo",
      "Excerpt": "## Why\n\n`FindReferencesTo` is signature-surface only (base types, interfaces, method returns/params, field/property/event types). It cannot answer *\"who actually calls X?\"* or *\"what does this method call?\"* — method bodies are invisible. This is the single biggest capability unlock for LLM code-navigation workflows.\n\n## Proposal\n\n1. New `src/runtime/IlAnalysisService.cs` using `System.Reflection.Metadata` directly (already in the dependency closure via `System.Reflection.MetadataLoadContext`):\n",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jcucci/dotnet-sherlock-mcp/issues/35",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-11T13:53:24.000Z",
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      "Title": "Add FindExtensionMethodsFor tool: discover extension methods for a target type",
      "Excerpt": "## Why\n\nFor LINQ-style APIs the interesting surface isn't on the type itself — it's extension methods declared elsewhere. There is currently no way to answer *\"what extension methods exist for `IEnumerable<T>`?\"* without scanning every static type manually.\n\n## Proposal\n\nNew `FindExtensionMethodsFor` tool alongside the other reverse-lookup tools (`src/server/Tools/ReverseLookupTools.cs` + `ReverseLookupService`).\n\n- Scan static classes for methods carrying `System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Extens",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jcucci/dotnet-sherlock-mcp/issues/34",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-11T13:53:22.000Z",
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      "Title": "Add SearchMembers tool: assembly-wide member search by name fragment",
      "Excerpt": "## Why\n\nToday the LLM must know the declaring type before it can find a member (`GetTypeMethods` etc. all require `typeName`). The most common real question is the inverse: *\"where is `ParseConnectionString` defined?\"* There is no way to search an assembly for a member by name without enumerating every type first.\n\n## Proposal\n\nNew `SearchMembers` tool in a new `src/server/Tools/SearchTools.cs`, backed by a new `ISearchService`/`SearchService` in `src/runtime`.\n\n**Parameters:** `assemblyPath`, `",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jcucci/dotnet-sherlock-mcp/issues/33",
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