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guardian-mcp-server MCP Server

Guardian Open Platform — search and retrieve full article text from The Guardian archive.

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Published as @cyanheads/guardian-mcp-server on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

7 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 5.

Most discussed

feat(guardian_browse): expose /editions as a browse mode

Use case

guardian_browse has discovery modes for sections (list_sections) and tags (list_tags), but nothing surfaces the Guardian's regional editions (UK, US, Australia, Europe, International). A caller who wants to know which editions exist has no way to ask the server.

Proposed behavior

Add a list_editions mode to guardian_browse that calls the Guardian /editions endpoint and returns the fixed list of Guardi

Read the thread · 2026-06-03 · closed · 1 comment

feat(guardian_search): support OR logic for tag filters

The guardian_search tag parameter currently applies AND logic when multiple tag IDs are provided (comma-separated). The Guardian Open Platform API natively supports OR logic by joining tag IDs with |, but the tool has no way to express this — every multi-tag query is implicitly AND.

Proposal

Expose OR semantics for tag filtering in guardian_search by supporting |-delimited tag IDs that get forwarded verbatim to the upst

Read the thread · 2026-06-03 · closed · 1 comment

feat(config): default MCP_SESSION_MODE to stateless across env, Docker, and src

Dockerfile sets ENV MCP_SESSION_MODE="stateless", but .env.example carries a commented # MCP_SESSION_MODE=stateful, whose comment documents the value set as stateful | stateless (default: stateful). The container and the same code run via bunx, npm start, or from source therefore resolve to different session modes — stateless in Docker, stateful everywhere else, since the framework schema defaults to auto and auto resolves to stateful.

Related: cyanheads/mcp-ts-core#376

Read the thread · 2026-08-22 · open · 0 comments

test(errors): no coverage for recovery-hint wiring (ctx.recoveryFor)

Concrete statement of what's currently missing: guardian_search and guardian_browse declare errors[] contracts with recovery text, and their handlers pass ctx.recoveryFor(reason) into every ctx.fail(...) call so the hint reaches data.recovery.hint on the wire. annotateHttpError in src/services/guardian/guardian-service.ts does the same for the service-level HTTP failures (unauthorized, not_found, section_not_found, api_error). None of this is covered by a test — the tes

Read the thread · 2026-08-21 · open · 0 comments

bug(tools): truncated:false is implied, never stated, in content[] output

Server version

0.1.2

mcp-ts-core version

0.12.3

Runtime

Bun

Runtime version

Bun 1.4.0

Transport

streamable-http

Description

All three tools declare truncated: boolean in their output schema, but format() only mentions truncation when it is true (a truncation note) or when body is absent (**Truncated:** ... line). A body-present, non-truncated result renders no truncation marker at all, so structuredContent.truncated: false has no mirror in content[]

Read the thread · 2026-08-21 · open · 0 comments

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