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    {
      "Title": "docs(skills): release-and-publish is stale against mcp-ts-core — version reads ahead but content is behind",
      "Excerpt": "### Description\n\n`skills/release-and-publish/SKILL.md` in this repo declares `metadata.version: \"2.9\"`, while the current `@cyanheads/mcp-ts-core` copy of the same skill (`node_modules/@cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/skills/release-and-publish/SKILL.md`) is at `\"1.11\"`. Because the local version string reads numerically ahead of the framework's, a version-gated resync treats it as an intentional local override and leaves it untouched — but a content diff shows the local copy is missing real upstream guid",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/13",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-22T12:40:09.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(ia_get_snapshot): Wayback 404 on exact-timestamp direct path doesn't map to no_snapshot_available contract",
      "Excerpt": "When `ia_get_snapshot` is called with an exact 14-digit timestamp (e.g. `\"20200601000000\"`), the handler skips the Availability API and calls `fetchContent` directly. If the Wayback Machine returns a 404 for that URL/timestamp combination (no capture at that exact timestamp), the raw `FetchHttpError` propagates without being mapped to the declared `no_snapshot_available` contract entry. The result: `data.reason` is `null` and the error text is the generic fetch failure message, not the actionabl",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/5",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-07T04:55:16.000Z",
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      "Title": "ux(ia_search_items): empty-result notice lives only in structuredContent, not in content[]",
      "Excerpt": "`ia_search_items` uses `ctx.enrich.notice()` to surface actionable guidance when the query returns zero results. The notice is correctly placed in `structuredContent.notice` — visible to Claude Code and API clients reading structured output — but the `format()` function only renders the result-count line, leaving `content[]` with no guidance text.\n\nClients that only consume `content[]` (Claude Desktop, stdio integrations) see nothing helpful when a search returns zero results.\n\n## Repro\n\nCall `i",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/4",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-07T04:55:03.000Z",
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      "Title": "ux(ia_get_snapshot): resolved_status is hardcoded '200' for exact-timestamp direct path",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.1\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n^0.9.21\n\n### Description\n\nIn `ia-get-snapshot.tool.ts`, when the caller passes an exact 14-digit timestamp, `ia_get_snapshot` builds the replay URL directly and skips the Availability API check. The `resolved_status` field is hardcoded as `'200'` in this path:\n\n```ts\nif (isExactTimestamp) {\n  snapshotUrl = svc.buildReplayUrl(input.timestamp.trim(), input.url);\n  resolvedTimestamp = input.timestamp.trim();\n  resolvedStatus = '200'; // status wil",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/3",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-07T04:43:09.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(ia_get_item): dark/restricted items return empty metadata instead of an error",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.1\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n^0.9.21\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun / Node.js\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nThe Internet Archive Metadata API returns `HTTP 200` with a non-empty response body for dark (restricted/removed) items, but the body contains only server routing fields (`created`, `d1`, `d2`, `dir`, `is_dark`, etc.) — no `metadata` key and no `files` array.\n\nThe current check in `archive-metadata-service.ts` only throws `item_not_found` when the respo",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/2",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-07T04:42:55.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(ia_find_snapshots): closest mode always fails — SSRF guard checks https:// but Wayback API returns http:// URLs",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.1\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n^0.9.21\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun / Node.js\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`ia_find_snapshots` with `mode=closest` always returns `no_snapshot_available`, even for well-archived URLs like `example.com`. The same bug breaks `ia_get_snapshot` when a non-exact (< 14-digit) timestamp is passed, since both code paths call `WaybackService.findClosest()`.\n\nRoot cause: the SSRF guard in `wayback-service.ts` validates that the Availabi",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/1",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-07T04:42:40.000Z",
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      "Title": "docs: SECURITY.md and CONTRIBUTING.md ship unresolved template author-comments",
      "Excerpt": "### Description\n\n`.github/SECURITY.md` and `.github/CONTRIBUTING.md` were scaffolded from templates that include HTML comments meant to guide the maintainer before publishing (e.g. whether GitHub private vulnerability reporting is enabled, whether to commit to a response-time window, whether PRs are accepted). The placeholder tokens were filled in correctly, but the guidance comments were left in verbatim and are now committed to the public repo:\n\n- `SECURITY.md`: `<!-- GitHub's private reportin",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/15",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-22T12:40:16.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(ia_get_text): download_forbidden response omits the declared recovery hint",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.3 working tree (pending 0.1.4; @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core adoption 0.10.6 → 0.12.3)\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n^0.12.3\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode\n\n### Runtime version\n\nv26.5.0 (Bun 1.4.0 as package manager)\n\n### Transport\n\nhttp (handler-level — applies to stdio too)\n\n### Description\n\nWhen the Internet Archive download endpoint answers 403 for a restricted item, the remap to the declared `download_forbidden` contract fires correctly — but the thrown McpError carries no recovery hint: `",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/12",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-21T15:13:48.000Z",
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      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "feat(config): default MCP_SESSION_MODE to stateless across env, Docker, and src",
      "Excerpt": "`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`.\n\nRelated: cyanheads/mcp-ts-core#376\n\n## ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/16",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-22T19:00:49.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(ia_find_snapshots): missing timestamp in closest mode surfaces as no_snapshot_available instead of a validation error",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.3 working tree (pending 0.1.4; @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core adoption 0.10.6 → 0.12.3)\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n^0.12.3\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode\n\n### Runtime version\n\nv26.5.0 (Bun 1.4.0 as package manager)\n\n### Transport\n\nhttp (handler-level — applies to stdio too)\n\n### Description\n\n`ia_find_snapshots` with `mode: \"closest\"` and no `timestamp` throws the declared `no_snapshot_available` contract entry, whose `when` clause is \"No capture exists near the requested timestamp for this UR",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/11",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-21T15:13:24.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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      "Title": "feat(ia_get_item): cap or paginate the file manifest — large items bloat both response surfaces",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\n`ia_get_item` returns the complete file manifest with no cap, and `format()` renders every file into `content[]`. Routine multi-file items make this heavy: a single LibriVox audiobook lookup — `adventures_holmes` (126 files) — produces ~24 KB of `content[]` text plus ~30 KB of `structuredContent` (~53 KB / ~14K tokens) for one call; `LibrivoxM4bCollectionAudiobooksMain` has 285 files. The manifest dominates the response and is duplicated across both surfaces, even though a caller u",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/10",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-30T15:38:32.000Z",
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      "Title": "docs(ia_get_item): example identifier pg1342 is now a dark item — advertised resource example errors",
      "Excerpt": "### Description\n\n`pg1342` (\"Pride and Prejudice\") is the canonical example identifier across the metadata surface: the descriptions of `ia_get_item` and `ia_get_text`, the `ia://item/{identifier}` resource's `params` description, and — functionally — the resource's `list()`, which advertises `ia://item/pg1342` as *\"Example: Pride and Prejudice (pg1342)\"*.\n\nThat item is now **dark**: `https://archive.org/metadata/pg1342` returns routing fields with `is_dark: true` and no metadata or files. So the",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/9",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-30T15:38:29.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(ia_get_snapshot): stripHtml leaves numeric and most named HTML entities undecoded",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.3\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode\n\n### Runtime version\n\nv26.3.1\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS\n\n### Description\n\n`ia_get_snapshot` extracts readable text with `stripHtml()`, which decodes only six HTML entities (`&amp;`, `&lt;`, `&gt;`, `&quot;`, `&#039;`, `&nbsp;`). Real archived pages are full of numeric entities (`&#160;`, `&#8217;`) and other named ones (`&rsaquo;`, `&mdash;`, `&copy;`), all of which pass through as literal noise in the retur",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/8",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-30T15:38:19.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(ia_get_text): restricted items surface a raw 401 instead of the declared download_forbidden error",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.3\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode\n\n### Runtime version\n\nv26.3.1\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS\n\n### Description\n\n`ia_get_text` declares a `download_forbidden` error contract (code `Forbidden`, recovery hint about login/borrowing), but it is never delivered. For access-restricted items (lending / print-disabled, `access-restricted-item: true`), fetching the text file redirects to a fulfillment host that returns a non-2xx status. `fetchWithTimeout`",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/7",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-30T15:38:17.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(ia_get_item): array-valued language fails output validation (also ia://item resource)",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.3\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode\n\n### Runtime version\n\nv26.3.1 (runtime-independent — fails in the output-schema validation layer)\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS\n\n### Description\n\n`ia_get_item` casts several IA metadata fields to a bare `string`, but the [Internet Archive Metadata API](https://archive.org/developers/md-read.html) returns an **array** for any multi-valued field. When `language` (and likewise `licenseurl`, `title`, `date`, `rights",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/6",
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