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      "Title": "Enhance MCP Testing Suite with Best Practices",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nImplement comprehensive MCP testing best practices to improve test coverage, reliability, and protocol compliance based on official MCP documentation and industry standards.\n\n## Background\n\nResearch into MCP testing best practices from [modelcontextprotocol.info](https://modelcontextprotocol.info/docs/best-practices/) and related resources reveals several opportunities to enhance our testing infrastructure.\n\n## Recommended Improvements\n\n### 1. Multi-Layer Testing Architecture\n\n**Unit",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp/issues/77",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-02-09T07:10:56.000Z",
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      "Title": "Test MCP Inspector compatibility",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\nVerify the server works correctly with the official [MCP Inspector](https://inspector.modelcontextprotocol.io/) tool.\n\n## Why This Matters\nMCP Inspector is the official testing/debugging tool for MCP servers. Ensuring compatibility:\n- Validates MCP spec compliance\n- Provides confidence in interoperability\n- Identifies issues before users encounter them\n- Serves as documentation for expected behavior\n\n## Test Checklist\n\n### Tools Discovery\n- [ ] All 5 tools listed in Inspector's tool p",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp/issues/62",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-02-08T23:04:16.000Z",
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      "Title": "google discontinuing \"entire web\" search",
      "Excerpt": "### Area\n\nNew MCP tool\n\n### Problem or motivation\n\nI think this will effect the mcp.\nhttps://support.google.com/programmable-search/answer/12397162\n\n> Full web search via the \"Search the entire web\" feature will be discontinued on January 1, 2027. Please update your search engine to specify specific sites to search.\n\n### Proposed solution\n\ndon't know\n\n### Alternatives considered\n\nperplexity\n\n### Would you be willing to contribute this?\n\nNone\n\n### Additional context\n\n_No response_",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp/issues/107",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-30T13:45:08.000Z",
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      "Title": "Split server.ts into modules",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\nSplit the monolithic `server.ts` (2,677 lines / 111KB) into focused modules for better maintainability, testability, and extensibility.\n\n> **Note (2026-02-09):** This file has grown significantly since the issue was created. Originally 1200+ lines, it is now 2,677 lines, making modularization increasingly important.\n\n## Current State\n`src/server.ts` handles:\n- MCP server configuration\n- Cache initialization\n- HTTP routing and middleware\n- OAuth validation\n- Tool registration (8 tools:",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp/issues/40",
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      "Title": "scrape tool fail",
      "Excerpt": "Using latest version in npx. Getting this.\n\n⏺ The scrape tool isn't returning visible content. Let me use analyze_with_gemini with the search context, and also try the research tool with a more specific query.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp/issues/91",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-02-11T00:46:11.000Z",
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      "Title": "Add content size optimization and smart truncation",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nWhen using `scrape_page` or `search_and_scrape`, responses often exceed 50-100k tokens:\n\n```\n⚠ Large MCP response (~65.3k tokens), this can fill up context quickly\n```\n\nThis creates several issues:\n- **Context exhaustion**: A single tool call can consume 50%+ of available context\n- **Reduced reasoning capacity**: Less room for the LLM to analyze and respond\n- **Wasted tokens**: Much of the scraped content may be irrelevant to the query\n- **Poor UX**: Users hit context limits mid-conv",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp/issues/79",
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      "Title": "Add distributed Redis caching support",
      "Excerpt": "## Description\nSupport Redis as an optional cache backend for multi-instance deployments. The cache interface (IPersistenceManager) already exists — implement a Redis adapter.\n\n## What to do\n- Implement RedisIPersistenceManager adapter\n- Configure via REDIS_URL environment variable\n- Fall back to disk persistence when Redis is unavailable\n- Support all existing cache operations (get, set, invalidate, clear)\n\n## Priority\nLow — only needed for multi-instance/horizontal scaling\n\n## References\n- TOD",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp/issues/72",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-02-08T23:04:48.000Z",
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      "Title": "Support alternative search engines (Brave, Exa, Tavily)",
      "Excerpt": "## Description\nAdd a pluggable search backend architecture supporting multiple search engines with fallback.\n\n## What to do\n- Define a search provider interface\n- Implement adapters for: Brave Search API, Exa API, Tavily API\n- Fallback chain: if primary engine fails or rate limits, try next\n- Configurable via environment variables\n\n## Priority\nLow — nice-to-have for resilience and flexibility\n\n## References\n- TODO.md item P4.4",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp/issues/55",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-02-08T23:04:04.000Z",
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      "Title": "Orphan detection fails when spawned via npx — all three health checks defeated by intermediate npm process",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nOrphaned `google-researcher-mcp` processes spin at 100% CPU indefinitely after the parent MCP client (Claude Code) exits. The health check introduced in v6.2.0-v6.2.3 does not detect the orphan state when the server is launched via `npx` (which interposes an `npm` wrapper process between the MCP client and the `node` worker).\n\n## Environment\n\n- google-researcher-mcp 6.2.3 (npm)\n- Node v25.9.0\n- macOS Darwin arm64 (launchd as PID 1)\n- MCP client: Claude Code (spawns server via `npx go",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp/issues/108",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-06T09:53:14.000Z",
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      "Title": "v6.2.0 PID lock kills concurrent healthy instances",
      "Excerpt": "The PID lock added in v6.2.0 (commit `5405b24d`) assumes only one MCP server instance can exist per install. When a client like Claude Code spawns two instances within a few seconds, the newer one reads `storage/.server.pid`, finds the earlier PID sitting there, and kills it with SIGTERM — even though that earlier process is alive and happily serving its own client. The victim's stdio pipe goes dead and its client drops the server from its registry. Looks like a mystery disconnect from the outsi",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp/issues/104",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-20T10:16:41.000Z",
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      "Title": "🔒 OAuth middleware not applied to /mcp endpoint in HTTP mode",
      "Excerpt": "## Security Finding — MEDIUM Severity\n\n**Category:** Authentication Bypass\n**Confidence:** 9/10\n**Found by:** Security audit (2026-03-30)\n\n### Description\n\nWhen the HTTP/SSE transport is configured with OAuth (`OAUTH_ISSUER_URL` and `OAUTH_AUDIENCE` set), `oauthMiddleware` is created but **never applied** to the main `/mcp` endpoint routes:\n\n- `app.post(\"/mcp\", ...)` — no auth\n- `app.get(\"/mcp\", ...)` — no auth\n- `app.delete(\"/mcp\", ...)` — no auth\n\nThe only route using `oauthMiddleware` is `/mc",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp/issues/102",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-31T03:18:32.000Z",
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      "Title": "🔒 SSRF via redirect bypass in document parser fetchDocument()",
      "Excerpt": "## Security Finding — HIGH Severity\n\n**Category:** SSRF\n**Confidence:** 9/10\n**Found by:** Security audit (2026-03-30)\n\n### Description\n\n`fetchDocument()` in `src/documents/documentParser.ts` validates the initial URL via `validateUrlForSSRF(url)`, but the subsequent `fetch()` call uses Node.js native fetch which follows HTTP redirects by default (`redirect: 'follow'`). No redirect validation is performed.\n\nAn attacker-controlled URL ending in `.pdf` (to pass `isDocumentUrl()`) can redirect to a",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp/issues/101",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-31T03:18:30.000Z",
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      "Title": "🔒 SSRF via Playwright redirect bypass in scrapeWithPlaywright()",
      "Excerpt": "## Security Finding — HIGH Severity\n\n**Category:** SSRF\n**Confidence:** 9/10\n**Found by:** Security audit (2026-03-30)\n\n### Description\n\n`scrapeWithPlaywright()` in `src/server.ts` does **not** validate redirect URLs for SSRF. While `scrapeWithCheerio()` has `preNavigationHooks` that call `validateUrlForSSRF()` on every redirect, the Playwright crawler follows redirects at the browser level with zero SSRF checks.\n\nThe initial URL is validated before scraping begins, but an attacker-controlled pu",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp/issues/100",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-31T03:18:28.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "npm registry version mismatch: v6.0.0 on npm vs v1.2.1 in repo",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nThe npm package `google-researcher-mcp` shows version **6.0.0** published today (2026-02-10), but the repo's `package.json` on `main` still shows **1.2.1**. The latest GitHub release tag is also `v1.2.1` from July 2025.\n\n## Observed behavior\n\n- `npx -y google-researcher-mcp` pulls **6.0.0** from npm\n- MCP tools execute without errors but return **empty content** — metadata (URLs, processing time, character counts) comes back, but no actual scraped/analyzed text\n- `npx -y github:zohar",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp/issues/92",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-02-11T00:54:36.000Z",
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      "Title": "MCP Distribution Channels - Comprehensive Guide",
      "Excerpt": "# MCP Distribution Channels\n\nThis issue documents all available channels for distributing MCP servers, including submission processes and best practices.\n\n## Overview\n\n| Channel | Type | Submission | Status |\n|---------|------|------------|--------|\n| **npm** | Package Registry | `npm publish` | ✅ Published |\n| **MCP Registry** | Official Registry | `mcp-publisher` CLI | ✅ Published |\n| **MCPB / GitHub Releases** | One-click Install | GitHub Actions | ✅ Automated |\n| **awesome-mcp-servers** | Cu",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp/issues/89",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-02-10T19:28:05.000Z",
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      "Title": "Simplify Installation Experience",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nImprove the installation experience for google-researcher-mcp by providing copy-paste configurations, platform-specific guides, and optional setup wizards.\n\n## Background\n\nUser research and community feedback indicate common pain points:\n1. Manual JSON config editing is error-prone\n2. Environment variable setup confuses non-developers\n3. Path differences between macOS/Windows/WSL cause issues\n4. API key acquisition process is unclear\n\n## Implementation Steps\n\n### 1. Add Copy-Paste Re",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp/issues/86",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-02-10T15:35:52.000Z",
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      "Title": "List on Smithery MCP Marketplace",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nList google-researcher-mcp on [Smithery](https://smithery.ai), the largest third-party MCP marketplace, to increase visibility and provide users with one-click installation.\n\n## Background\n\nSmithery is a popular MCP marketplace featuring:\n- One-click terminal installation commands\n- Built-in observability and distribution\n- Featured servers on homepage carousel\n- Large user base of AI developers\n\n## Implementation Steps\n\n### 1. Create `smithery.yaml` in repository root\n\n```yaml\nrunti",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp/issues/84",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-02-10T15:35:00.000Z",
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      "Title": "Publish to Official MCP Registry",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nSubmit google-researcher-mcp to the official Model Context Protocol Registry to increase discoverability and enable one-click installation for users.\n\n## Background\n\nThe [MCP Registry](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry) is the official \"app store\" for MCP servers, currently in preview with API freeze at v0.1. It's backed by GitHub and provides:\n- Centralized discovery for MCP clients\n- One-click installation in VS Code\n- Automatic updates to downstream registries\n\n## I",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp/issues/83",
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      "Title": "Add patent portfolio analysis capabilities (tools + prompt)",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nEnable comprehensive patent portfolio analysis for companies and their subsidiaries. This enhancement follows MCP best practices by:\n1. Adding focused, atomic tools that complement the existing `patent_search`\n2. Creating a prompt to guide LLMs on orchestrating the workflow\n3. Letting the LLM handle business logic (iteration, aggregation, reporting)\n\n---\n\n## Architecture: MCP vs LLM Responsibilities\n\n### MCP Server Provides (Atomic Tools)\n\n| Component | Type | Purpose |\n|-----------|",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp/issues/80",
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      "Title": "Add Patent Search Tool",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nImplement a new `patent_search` tool to enable comprehensive patent research capabilities, supporting both broad prior art searches and deep specific patent analysis.\n\n## Background\n\nPatent research is critical for:\n- **Prior Art Search**: Finding existing patents/publications before filing\n- **Freedom to Operate (FTO)**: Ensuring products don't infringe existing patents\n- **Patent Landscaping**: Understanding competitive patent portfolios\n- **Technology Monitoring**: Tracking innova",
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