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      "Title": "GeoFRED output leaves FRED's raw `meta` envelope unwrapped (inconsistent with macro tools)",
      "Excerpt": "Found by the agent-driven MCP audit (ADR-0028, harness in #54).\n\n## Symptom\n`get_regional_data` / `get_series_data` return the values two levels deep under FRED's raw wrapper:\n```json\n{ \"meta\": { \"data\": { \"2026-05-01\": [ {code, region, series_id, value}, ... ],\n            \"frequency\": ..., \"region\": ..., \"seasonality\": ..., \"title\": ..., \"units\": ... } } }\n```\nThe tool description says \"Returns the values keyed by date,\" but the macro tools cleanly unwrap FRED's envelopes (e.g. `{count, series",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/agpalindrome/ferric-fred/issues/57",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-14T17:07:31.000Z",
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      "Title": "Uniform local validation for empty required inputs (tag_names, search text)",
      "Excerpt": "Found by the agent-driven MCP audit (ADR-0028, harness in #54). NIT / polish.\n\n## Symptom\nEmpty required arrays/strings fall through to FRED's terser messages:\n- `get_tags_series { tag_names: [] }` / `get_related_tags { tag_names: [] }` → \"The variable tag_names must be set.\"\n- `search_series { text: \"\" }` → \"Variable search_text is not set.\"\n\nMeanwhile the `realtime_*` and `start_time/end_time` pairings are caught locally with polished `-32602` messages, so the input-validation experience is un",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/agpalindrome/ferric-fred/issues/60",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-14T17:07:56.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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    {
      "Title": "get_release_tables silently ignores release_id when element_id belongs to another release",
      "Excerpt": "Found by the agent-driven MCP audit (ADR-0028, harness in #54).\n\n## Symptom\n`{ release_id: 10, element_id: 12886 }` (release 10 = CPI; element 12886 belongs to release 53 = GDP) **succeeds** and returns release **53**'s GDP subtree — the `release_id: 10` is silently ignored. A well-formed element for release 10 (`36721`) returns release-10 data, so `element_id` fully overrides `release_id`. A consumer asking for CPI gets GDP with no warning.\n\n## Suggested fix\nEither validate that the returned el",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/agpalindrome/ferric-fred/issues/59",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-14T17:07:51.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "tool score: get_release",
      "Excerpt": "**Behavior** 3/5\nDoes the description disclose side effects, auth requirements, rate limits, or destructive behavior?\n\nAnnotations already provide readOnlyHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint, and destructiveHint, so the safety profile is known. The description adds that the tool returns name, press-release flag, and link, which is useful but not critical. No additional behavioral traits (e.g., rate limits) are disclosed, but the tool is simple and the annotations cover most needs.\n\nAgents need t",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/agpalindrome/ferric-fred/issues/34",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-06T18:07:27.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "GeoFRED / Maps API support (regional & geographic data)",
      "Excerpt": "## What\n\nFRED's **Maps API** (formerly GeoFRED) is an entirely separate surface that the client does not cover: regional/geographic economic data and the shape files to map it (`shapes`, `series-group` metadata, `series-data`, and `regional-data`). Different base URL (`https://api.stlouisfed.org/geofred/`) from the core FRED API.\n\n## Why it's core\n\nIt unlocks a whole data class — economic indicators by state/county/MSA/country, with geometry for choropleth mapping — that the current client can't",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/agpalindrome/ferric-fred/issues/7",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-05T23:54:57.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "get_release_tables: output observation_date is an undocumented display string ('Jun 2026'), asymmetric with YYYY-MM-DD inputs",
      "Excerpt": "Found by the agent-driven MCP audit (ADR-0028).\n\n## Symptom\nWith `include_observation_values: true`, series rows carry `\"observation_date\": \"Jun 2026\"` — FRED's human display label — whereas every *input* date param (including the tool's own `observation_date`) requires `YYYY-MM-DD`. A consumer can't feed the returned date back into any date param and can't parse it deterministically, and neither the tool description nor the `outputSchema` says the field is a display string distinct from the ISO",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/agpalindrome/ferric-fred/issues/80",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-19T04:51:51.000Z",
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      "Title": "get_regional_data: county/MSA cross-sections overflow (262k chars) with no limit or paging",
      "Excerpt": "Found by the agent-driven MCP audit (ADR-0028).\n\n## Symptom\n`get_regional_data` at `region_type: \"county\"` returns a ~3000-region cross-section — the audit saw a **262,685-character** result that blew past the token cap and spilled to a file. Unlike the paginated series/tag tools, `get_regional_data` (and the library `regional_data_request`) expose **no `limit` or offset**, and the tool description gives no size warning.\n\nAudit input: `{series_group: \"882\", region_type: \"county\", date: \"2022-01-",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/agpalindrome/ferric-fred/issues/79",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-19T04:51:50.000Z",
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      "Title": "get_observations: MCP 'aggregation' description says 'ignored' but the handler rejects it (and CLI silently ignores)",
      "Excerpt": "Found by the agent-driven MCP audit (ADR-0028); confirmed against source.\n\n## Symptom — self-contradiction on the MCP surface\nThe `aggregation` param description says it is *ignored* without `frequency`:\n- `crates/ferric-fred-mcp/src/main.rs:99` — `` /// `frequency`. Requires `frequency`; on its own it is ignored. ``\n\n…but the handler **hard-rejects** it:\n- `crates/ferric-fred-mcp/src/main.rs:567` — returns `-32602 aggregation requires frequency (FRED only aggregates when a target frequency is g",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/agpalindrome/ferric-fred/issues/78",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-19T04:51:49.000Z",
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      "Title": "Make the L2 'test the class, not the instance' stance explicit — adopt or deliberately decline proptest (ADR-0029 G2)",
      "Excerpt": "Follow-up **G2** surfaced by [ADR-0029](docs/adr/0029-shared-disciplines-across-the-sibling-rust-mcp-repos.md) (the cross-repo shared-disciplines index).\n\n## Context\nADR-0029's **L2** row records ferric-fred as **PARTIAL / gap** on the shared \"test the class, not the instance; pin every stated assumption\" discipline (canonical owner: `rustrolabe` ADR-0107 — universals → property tests, finite enums → exhaustive iteration, type invariants → `compile_fail` doctests). Today ferric-fred uses layered",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/agpalindrome/ferric-fred/issues/73",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-16T03:01:01.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "get_observations: validate/document the aggregation & frequency constraints",
      "Excerpt": "Found by the agent-driven MCP audit (ADR-0028, harness in #54). Two related rough edges on `get_observations`, both inconsistent with the excellent local pairing validation the server already does for `realtime_*` and `start_time/end_time`.\n\n## (a) \\`aggregation\\` without \\`frequency\\` is a silent no-op\n`{ series_id: \"GNPCA\", aggregation: \"sum\" }` returns the untransformed values with no warning. The schema says aggregation is \"used together with a `frequency`.\" Since the server already enforces",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/agpalindrome/ferric-fred/issues/58",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-14T17:07:45.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
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      "Title": "GeoFRED tools surface a raw HTTP 500 for a bad or non-regional series id",
      "Excerpt": "Found by the agent-driven MCP audit (ADR-0028, harness in #54) and reproduced by hand (deterministic).\n\n## Symptom\n`get_series_data` / `get_series_group` return an opaque `FRED API error (HTTP 500): Internal Server Error` for both a nonexistent id **and** a valid-but-non-regional series:\n```\nget_series_group { series_id: \"GNPCA\" }   -> HTTP 500 Internal Server Error\nget_series_data  { series_id: \"NOTAREAL\" } -> HTTP 500 Internal Server Error\n```\n`GNPCA` is a perfectly valid *macro* series — it's",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/agpalindrome/ferric-fred/issues/56",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-14T17:07:24.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
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      "Title": "get_release_tables duplicates descendants: non-root nodes appear in both `roots` and their parent's `children`",
      "Excerpt": "Found by the agent-driven MCP audit (ADR-0028, harness in #54) and reproduced by hand.\n\n## Symptom\nFor a multi-level subtree request, `roots` contains **every** descendant flattened, while `children` is *also* populated — so non-root nodes are reachable via two paths and a consumer walking the tree double-counts series.\n\nRepro — `get_release_tables { release_id: 53, element_id: 12886 }` yields:\n```\nid:12887 parent:12886 children=[12888,12889]\nid:12888 parent:12887 children=[]   <- also in roots,",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/agpalindrome/ferric-fred/issues/55",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-14T17:07:18.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
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      "Title": "Slim the workspace README into a concise landing page (fix version staleness, surface Glama score)",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\nThe workspace `README.md` (246 lines) is both **stale** and **oversized**:\n\n- **Stale versions.** It states *\"`0.3.1` of all three crates is published\"* — but the crates are now `ferric-fred` 0.3.2 / `ferric-fred-cli` 0.3.2 / `ferric-fred-mcp` **0.3.3**, and they are **no longer in lockstep** (the mcp crate is ahead after the tool-annotations release). Any hardcoded version is wrong the moment a single crate bumps.\n- **Oversized / duplicative.** The bulk is a ~40-line CLI example gall",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/agpalindrome/ferric-fred/issues/31",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-06T14:42:24.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
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      "Title": "Add MCP tool output schemas (feature-gated JsonSchema on library return types)",
      "Excerpt": "## Motivation\nGlama's per-tool quality scores repeatedly note *\"no output schema\"* as the main completeness gap (after the annotations gap, now closed in #29). Output schemas let MCP clients/agents know the **exact shape of a tool's return value** without guessing — a genuine best practice, not just a score bump.\n\nThis is the deliberate follow-up to #29 (tool annotations).\n\n## Background: what rmcp supports\n`rmcp 2.1.0`'s `#[tool]` macro can attach an `outputSchema` two ways:\n1. **Auto-derive** ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/agpalindrome/ferric-fred/issues/30",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-06T14:23:47.000Z",
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      "Title": "release/tables: fold in observation values (include_observation_values)",
      "Excerpt": "## What\n\n`release/tables` currently ships **structure-only** — the table tree without the actual numbers. [ADR-0017](docs/adr/0017-release-tables-tree.md) explicitly deferred the observation-value dimension:\n\n> **Scope boundary — defer observation values.** … `include_observation_values` / `observation_date` (and the per-element value fields) …\n\n## Proposed approach\n\n- Add `include_observation_values` (bool) and `observation_date` (date) to `ReleaseTablesRequest`.\n- Extend `ReleaseTableElement` ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/agpalindrome/ferric-fred/issues/9",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-05T23:54:59.000Z",
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