# GeoLens MCP Server

Read-only access to a self-hosted GeoLens spatial catalog: datasets, features, maps, sandboxed SQL.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `geolens-mcp` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**12 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 9.

### Most discussed

### Client-side state survives an identity change: drawing-store and search-store are unguarded

Found while fixing a review finding on #1708: the URL-import session was module-scoped state keyed only by URL, so a logout followed by a login **without a page reload** left it alive and attached the new identity to the previous user's in-flight import and job id.

While fixing it I found `stores/analysis-form-store.ts` already carrying a comment about this exact bug class, from #793. Someone hit it, fixed that one instance, and the pattern didn't propagate. A sweep of the client-side stores an

[Read the thread](https://github.com/geolens-io/geolens/issues/1713) · 2026-08-30 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### OpenAPI: declare the cookie-mode auth headers as operation parameters

Found during the docs API-reference sync (getgeolens.com#94, codex review): the cookie-mode browser auth flow shipped in v1.13.0 (#1446) negotiates with `X-GeoLens-Auth-Mode: cookie` and enforces double-submit CSRF via `X-CSRF-Token` (`backend/app/modules/auth/cookies.py:29-30`), but the OpenAPI spec mentions both only in prose. At v1.13.1, `/auth/login/`, `/auth/refresh/`, and `/auth/logout/` declare zero operation parameters, so generated SDKs and the docs reference's request UI cannot express

[Read the thread](https://github.com/geolens-io/geolens/issues/1496) · 2026-08-15 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### sec(catalog): decide one provenance projection — dataset reads, /versions/, and MCP disagree

Three surfaces currently project dataset provenance three different ways, and the strictest one contradicts the loosest one. A decision is needed before #1285 builds Source-panel UI on top of the loosest surface — changing a projection after UI ships on it is a breaking change; deciding now is cheap.

## The three disagreeing surfaces (verified on `main` at 403027cba)

1. **`GET /datasets/{id}` and list reads** — `DatasetResponse` (`backend/app/modules/catalog/datasets/domain/schemas.py:264`, fi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/geolens-io/geolens/issues/1316) · 2026-08-09 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### feat(catalog): project source health and freshness timestamps into search summaries

Search result summaries omit `source_health`, `last_checked_at`, and `last_refreshed_at`, so the search-card health chips added in #1279 stay silent on the search surface and MCP/SDK search reads return null for those fields (documented in #1278). Dataset detail responses already carry all three.

Scope:
- Add the three fields to the search summary projection (respecting the existing visibility filtering — the projection must not leak health detail for datasets the caller cannot access).
- Regen

[Read the thread](https://github.com/geolens-io/geolens/issues/1281) · 2026-08-08 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### feat(mcp): expose origin, freshness, and health in MCP and SDK reads

Blocked by the source-state fields and staleness issues in this milestone.

An agent deciding whether to trust a dataset needs exactly the fields this milestone adds: origin, freshness, health, last refreshed. `mcp/geolens_mcp` is hand-maintained (like the CLI) and read-only; the SDKs regenerate from `openapi.json` and pick the fields up mechanically. No competing catalog product ships an MCP server at all, so keeping ours current with the trust metadata is cheap differentiation.

## Scope

- MC

[Read the thread](https://github.com/geolens-io/geolens/issues/1228) · 2026-08-05 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Most recent

### url_redaction: has_url_credentials raises ValueError on a malformed authority, unguarded at the connector-config gate

## Problem

`has_url_credentials` (`backend/app/core/url_redaction.py:66`) calls `urlsplit` unguarded, so it has the same failure mode #1119 fixed in its sibling `redact_url_credentials`:

```
>>> has_url_credentials("https://.[::1]")
ValueError: Invalid IPv6 URL
>>> has_url_credentials("https://[::1")
ValueError: Invalid IPv6 URL
>>> has_url_credentials("https://user:pw@.[::1]/x")
ValueError: Invalid IPv6 URL
```

All three reproduce on current main (`0506a5260`).

## Why most call sites are fi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/geolens-io/geolens/issues/1132) · 2026-08-02 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### test(mcp): server.py has no tests and CI's path filter excludes backend changes — contract drift invisible

From the 1.6.0 pre-tag audit. The MCP server's tests are mock-only (`mcp/`), `server.py` itself is untested, and the CI job's path filter doesn't include `backend/**` — so a backend API change that breaks the MCP server's read contract runs zero MCP tests.

Fix: a small live-contract test tier (spin the API, exercise each MCP tool against it) and add `backend/openapi.json` (or `backend/**`) to the MCP job's path filter.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/geolens-io/geolens/issues/827) · 2026-07-28 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### sec(auth): API-key hardening — no expiry, no staleness check, query-param lane writes the credential into logs

From the 1.6.0 pre-tag audit (latent, P3). Three related gaps in the API-key lane:

- No `expires_at` column: keys live forever unless manually revoked (`auth/models.py:176-202`).
- No `token_version` staleness check: a role demotion doesn't invalidate previously minted keys the way it does JWTs.
- The query-param fallback (`_resolve_api_key()`, `auth/dependencies.py:62-68`) puts the credential in request URLs, so it lands in access logs and any upstream proxy logs.

Suggested shape: add optiona

[Read the thread](https://github.com/geolens-io/geolens/issues/821) · 2026-07-28 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### AI map generation: LLMMapSpec pydantic validation failures are not repaired/retried — parse errors get a retry, shape errors don't

**Priority: P2** — AI map generation fails hard on schema-invalid LLM output; a real demo user hit it twice in a row and gave up.

## What happened

Demo VM, 2026-07-23 (36h window): two `ValidationError: 2 validation errors for LLMMapSpec` tracebacks in the api logs, both from one user's non-English session ("Yeongwol-gun" boundary map, Korean admin region):

```
Field required [type=missing, input_value={'title': 'Yeongwol-gun i...n boundary': '#FF0000'}}, ...]
Field required [type=missing, in

[Read the thread](https://github.com/geolens-io/geolens/issues/642) · 2026-07-23 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

[See all 12 reports Pod holds for GeoLens](/mcp/geolens/issues).

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