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    {
      "Title": "setup --config PATH is ignored on first run; the unexpected scope prompt then shifts piped answers by one",
      "Excerpt": "### Summary\n\nOn a **first-time** run, `db-conn-mcp setup --config PATH` silently ignores `PATH`. The wizard still asks for a scope and writes to the global or repo location instead. `--config` is only honoured once a config already exists.\n\nVersion: 0.7.1 (pipx, Python 3.12.3, Ubuntu). Also present in the current `main` as far as the code reads.\n\n### Where it comes from\n\n`run_setup_wizard()` in `cli.py`:\n\n```python\nexisting = _existing_config(config_arg)\nif existing is not None:\n    ...         ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Idle-Sync/db-conn-mcp/issues/56",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-21T14:26:38.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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    {
      "Title": "fallback_ports never probed: dual-stack localhost refusal (asyncio \"Multiple exceptions\" OSError) classified UNKNOWN, aborting the chain",
      "Excerpt": "**Version:** 0.7.1 (a3963e5), macOS, Python 3.14 (pipx)\n\n## What happened\n\nA connection with its primary DSN on a dead port and a live server on the configured fallback port fails outright — the fallback is never probed:\n\n```json\n{ \"name\": \"aws-aurora-db\", \"dsn\": \"postgresql://...@localhost:5433/...\", \"fallback_ports\": [5432] }\n```\n\nWith nothing on 5433 and an SSH tunnel serving Postgres on 5432, every tool call returns:\n\n```\n[UNKNOWN] Unrecognized connection error. Fix: Open the `troubleshoot_c",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Idle-Sync/db-conn-mcp/issues/55",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-17T06:44:14.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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      "Title": "CLI status/setup/remove/add crash with a traceback on malformed connections.json",
      "Excerpt": "> Filed from a `deep-review` full-repo audit (find-then-adversarially-verify). Verifier verdict: **CONFIRMED**.\r\n\r\n**Location:** `src/db_conn_mcp/cli.py:325`\r\n**Category:** correctness\r\n\r\n## Summary\r\n`config.load` raises `ConfigError` from `_print_status`/`cmd_remove`/`_add_connection_interactive`, but only `cmd_check` and `cmd_yolo` catch it — the rest crash. [same root cause also at: src/db_conn_mcp/handlers.py:734, src/db_conn_mcp/cli.py:634, src/db_conn_mcp/cli.py:634, src/db_conn_mcp/cli.py",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Idle-Sync/db-conn-mcp/issues/54",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-13T09:10:16.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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      "Title": "write_config non-atomic write can truncate client configs holding other servers' secrets",
      "Excerpt": "> Filed from a `deep-review` full-repo audit (find-then-adversarially-verify). Verifier verdict: **CONFIRMED**.\r\n\r\n**Location:** `src/db_conn_mcp/clients.py:141`\r\n**Category:** correctness\r\n\r\n## Summary\r\nwrite_config rewrites a client config with a non-atomic write_text, unlike config.save's temp-file-and-replace, risking truncation of files that hold other servers' secrets [same root cause also at: src/db_conn_mcp/server.py:512, src/db_conn_mcp/clients.py:164, src/db_conn_mcp/clients.py:164, sr",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Idle-Sync/db-conn-mcp/issues/53",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-13T09:09:55.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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    {
      "Title": "verify_stdio ignores isError, reporting failed tool calls as a passing verdict",
      "Excerpt": "> Filed from a `deep-review` full-repo audit (find-then-adversarially-verify). Verifier verdict: **CONFIRMED**.\r\n\r\n**Location:** `src/db_conn_mcp/verify.py:84`\r\n**Category:** correctness\r\n\r\n## Summary\r\n`verify_stdio` never checks `dbs.isError`, so a tool call that came back as an MCP error is still reported as verdict \"answers\". [same root cause also at: src/db_conn_mcp/verify.py:84, src/db_conn_mcp/verify.py:84, src/db_conn_mcp/verify.py:199, src/db_conn_mcp/verify.py:128, src/db_conn_mcp/verif",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Idle-Sync/db-conn-mcp/issues/52",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-13T09:09:52.000Z",
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      "Title": "check_sequences reports false \"all healthy\" when probes fail on privileges",
      "Excerpt": "> Filed from a `deep-review` full-repo audit (find-then-adversarially-verify). Verifier verdict: **CONFIRMED**.\r\n\r\n**Location:** `src/db_conn_mcp/handlers.py:676`\r\n**Category:** correctness\r\n\r\n## Summary\r\ncheck_sequences promises `behind_count: 0` is an affirmative \"nothing is stale\" answer, but sequences whose probe fails on privileges are silently dropped from both the report and total_sequences. [same root cause also at: src/db_conn_mcp/dialects/postgres.py:413, src/db_conn_mcp/dialects/postg",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Idle-Sync/db-conn-mcp/issues/51",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-13T09:09:49.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "execute() silently discards RETURNING rows on write statements",
      "Excerpt": "> Filed from a `deep-review` full-repo audit (find-then-adversarially-verify). Verifier verdict: **CONFIRMED**.\r\n\r\n**Location:** `src/db_conn_mcp/dialects/postgres.py:882`\r\n**Category:** correctness\r\n\r\n## Summary\r\nexecute() routes any statement whose leading keyword is not a read leader through conn.execute(), silently discarding RETURNING result rows. [same root cause also at: src/db_conn_mcp/dialects/postgres.py:882, src/db_conn_mcp/dialects/postgres.py:882, src/db_conn_mcp/dialects/postgres.p",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Idle-Sync/db-conn-mcp/issues/50",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-13T09:09:45.000Z",
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      "Title": "_KEYS_SQL cartesian product duplicates composite PK/FK columns",
      "Excerpt": "> Filed from a `deep-review` full-repo audit (find-then-adversarially-verify). Verifier verdict: **CONFIRMED**.\r\n\r\n**Location:** `src/db_conn_mcp/dialects/postgres.py:78`\r\n**Category:** correctness\r\n\r\n## Summary\r\n_KEYS_SQL LEFT JOINs information_schema.constraint_column_usage on constraint name only, producing a cartesian product for any multi-column PK/FK. [same root cause also at: src/db_conn_mcp/dialects/postgres.py:78, src/db_conn_mcp/dialects/postgres.py:75, src/db_conn_mcp/dialects/postgre",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Idle-Sync/db-conn-mcp/issues/49",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-13T09:09:42.000Z",
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      "Title": "Operator-precedence bug makes diagnostics misreport DB_NOT_FOUND as AUTH_FAILED",
      "Excerpt": "> Filed from a `deep-review` full-repo audit (find-then-adversarially-verify). Verifier verdict: **CONFIRMED**.\r\n\r\n**Location:** `src/db_conn_mcp/diagnostics.py:113`\r\n**Category:** correctness\r\n\r\n## Summary\r\nUnparenthesized `A or B and C` plus check ordering makes any connection error containing both \"role\" and \"exist\" report AUTH_FAILED, shadowing the DB_NOT_FOUND branch on the next line. [same root cause also at: src/db_conn_mcp/diagnostics.py:113, src/db_conn_mcp/diagnostics.py:109, src/db_co",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Idle-Sync/db-conn-mcp/issues/48",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-13T09:09:38.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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    {
      "Title": "fetch_rows leaks cursor + connection when fetch raises",
      "Excerpt": "> Filed from a `deep-review` full-repo audit (find-then-adversarially-verify). Verifier verdict: **CONFIRMED**.\r\n\r\n**Location:** `src/db_conn_mcp/handlers.py:611`\r\n**Category:** correctness\r\n\r\n## Summary\r\n`fetch_rows` refreshes `last_used` and then awaits `cursor.fetch(n)` outside any try/except, so a fetch that raises leaves the cursor registered in `self._cursors` with its dedicated database connection still open. [same root cause also at: src/db_conn_mcp/handlers.py:611, src/db_conn_mcp/handl",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Idle-Sync/db-conn-mcp/issues/47",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-13T09:09:35.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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    {
      "Title": "config.save() silently deletes unknown keys from connections.json",
      "Excerpt": "> Filed from a `deep-review` full-repo audit (find-then-adversarially-verify). Verifier verdict: **CONFIRMED**.\r\n\r\n**Location:** `src/db_conn_mcp/config.py:114`\r\n**Category:** correctness\r\n\r\n## Summary\r\nsave() serializes the pydantic model, which ignores unknown keys, so any extra key in the user's connections.json is silently deleted the first time anything writes the file. [same root cause also at: src/db_conn_mcp/config.py:114, src/db_conn_mcp/config.py:114, src/db_conn_mcp/config.py:114, src",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Idle-Sync/db-conn-mcp/issues/46",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-13T09:09:32.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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      "Title": "config.save() is an unlocked read-modify-write: concurrent writers lose/corrupt data",
      "Excerpt": "> Filed from a `deep-review` full-repo audit (find-then-adversarially-verify). Verifier verdict: **CONFIRMED**.\r\n\r\n**Location:** `src/db_conn_mcp/config.py:115`\r\n**Category:** correctness\r\n\r\n## Summary\r\n`save()` is a read-modify-write with a fixed `.tmp` filename and no lock, so concurrent writers lose updates or interleave into one temp file. [same root cause also at: src/db_conn_mcp/config.py:115, src/db_conn_mcp/gui/app.py:376, src/db_conn_mcp/config.py:120, src/db_conn_mcp/gui/app.py:503]\r\n\r",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Idle-Sync/db-conn-mcp/issues/45",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-13T09:09:28.000Z",
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      "Title": "_leading_keyword mis-parses nested block comments, defeating the read-only classifier",
      "Excerpt": "> Filed from a `deep-review` full-repo audit (find-then-adversarially-verify). Verifier verdict: **CONFIRMED**.\r\n\r\n**Location:** `src/db_conn_mcp/dialects/postgres.py:725`\r\n**Category:** correctness\r\n\r\n## Summary\r\n`_leading_keyword` terminates a block comment at the first `*/`, but PostgreSQL nests `/* */`, so the leader it reports can differ from the statement Postgres actually runs. [same root cause also at: src/db_conn_mcp/dialects/postgres.py:724, src/db_conn_mcp/dialects/postgres.py:729, sr",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Idle-Sync/db-conn-mcp/issues/44",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-13T09:09:25.000Z",
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      "Title": "config.save() resets connections.json to world-readable on every write",
      "Excerpt": "> Filed from a `deep-review` full-repo audit (find-then-adversarially-verify). Verifier verdict: **CONFIRMED**.\r\n\r\n**Location:** `src/db_conn_mcp/config.py:116`\r\n**Category:** correctness\r\n\r\n## Summary\r\nsave() writes the temp file with the default umask and os.replace's it over connections.json, so the file's owner-only permissions are silently reset to world-readable on every config write. [same root cause also at: src/db_conn_mcp/config.py:116, src/db_conn_mcp/config.py:116, src/db_conn_mcp/co",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Idle-Sync/db-conn-mcp/issues/43",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-13T09:09:21.000Z",
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      "Title": "HTTP/SSE transport exposes all tools including execute_write_query with no authentication",
      "Excerpt": "> Filed from a `deep-review` full-repo audit (find-then-adversarially-verify). Verifier verdict: **CONFIRMED**.\r\n\r\n**Location:** `src/db_conn_mcp/server.py:533`\r\n**Category:** correctness\r\n\r\n## Summary\r\nThe `http`/SSE transport exposes all 23 tools, including `execute_write_query`, with no authentication at all, while the read-only dashboard on the same machine is token-guarded. [same root cause also at: src/db_conn_mcp/gui/app.py:394, src/db_conn_mcp/server.py:37, src/db_conn_mcp/guard.py:23, s",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Idle-Sync/db-conn-mcp/issues/42",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-13T09:09:18.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Dry-run grants are process-global and content-keyed: previews leak across HTTP sessions",
      "Excerpt": "> Filed from a `deep-review` full-repo audit (find-then-adversarially-verify). Verifier verdict: **CONFIRMED**.\r\n\r\n**Location:** `src/db_conn_mcp/handlers.py:151`\r\n**Category:** correctness\r\n\r\n## Summary\r\nDry-run grants live in a single per-process dict with no session scoping, so under the http/SSE transport one client's preview authorizes a different client's commit. [same root cause also at: src/db_conn_mcp/handlers.py:504, src/db_conn_mcp/handlers.py:498, src/db_conn_mcp/handlers.py:484]\r\n\r\n",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Idle-Sync/db-conn-mcp/issues/41",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-13T09:09:14.000Z",
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      "Title": "Dry-run can permanently commit via embedded COMMIT on simple query protocol",
      "Excerpt": "> Filed from a `deep-review` full-repo audit (find-then-adversarially-verify). Verifier verdict: **CONFIRMED**.\r\n\r\n**Location:** `src/db_conn_mcp/handlers.py:497`\r\n**Category:** correctness\r\n\r\n## Summary\r\nThe \"always rolled back\" dry-run can permanently commit: `execute_dry_run` routes non-row-returning SQL to `conn.execute(sql)` with no bind args, which asyncpg sends over the simple query protocol (multi-statement), so an embedded `COMMIT;` ends the wrapping transaction before `tx.rollback()` r",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Idle-Sync/db-conn-mcp/issues/40",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-13T09:09:10.000Z",
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      "Title": "Ergonomics: output filters, parameter parity, and version staleness for table_stats, explain_query, get_table_schema, check_database, doctor",
      "Excerpt": "Five ergonomics improvements to existing tools, all observed in one real session (v0.5.6, a ~3.3 GB / 146-table PostgreSQL database). None are new capabilities — each one is an existing tool returning too much, refusing an input its sibling already accepts, or omitting a check it is perfectly placed to make.\n\n## 1. `table_stats`: add `limit` / `min_size` / `table` filters\n\n`table_stats` returns every table inline — 146 entries in this session — when the question is almost always \"the top N by si",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Idle-Sync/db-conn-mcp/issues/29",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-11T12:07:52.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "Notify users on older versions that a newer release is available",
      "Excerpt": "Users on an old version have no way of finding out a newer one exists unless they run `doctor` by hand. The pipx/uvx install model makes this worse: nothing ever auto-updates, and the \"client silently ran a stale cached binary\" failure class (see #20's stale-install verdict) shows people genuinely sit on old versions without knowing.\n\n## What exists already\n\n- `doctor`'s `pypi_latest` check queries PyPI (cache-bypassed) and reports when the installed version is behind — but only when the user ex",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Idle-Sync/db-conn-mcp/issues/28",
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      "Title": "read-only guarantee bypassable: execute_read_query allows SET SESSION CHARACTERISTICS ... READ WRITE",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nThe README states that a `read`-mode database is read-only \"by PostgreSQL itself\" and that \"even if an agent insists, a write physically cannot happen.\" This guarantee can be bypassed: `execute_read_query` forwards arbitrary SQL to the connection, and a single statement can re-enable writes on the same session, because read-only is enforced as a **session default** (`SET SESSION CHARACTERISTICS AS TRANSACTION READ ONLY`) rather than at the role/privilege level.\n\n## Root cause\n\nRead-o",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Idle-Sync/db-conn-mcp/issues/1",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-03T09:55:37.000Z",
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