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    {
      "Title": "Publish to PyPI",
      "Excerpt": "The package is release-ready (CI green, unit-tested). Publishing is blocked on PyPI account/token setup.\n\nOnce the token exists: build sdist/wheel, upload, verify `pip install mcp-server-malcolm` from a clean environment, then add install instructions to the README.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/nagameTW/mcp-server-malcolm/issues/3",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-17T09:36:05.000Z",
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      "Title": "§1 install check uses `timeout`, which macOS does not ship (and macOS/arm64 is now verified)",
      "Excerpt": "## What happened\n\nTwo things in §1 Install that a macOS reader hits, one of them on the very first\ncommand they run.\n\n### 1. The install check uses `timeout`, which macOS does not ship\n\n```bash\ntimeout 3 mcp-server-malcolm < /dev/null\n```\n\n`timeout` is GNU coreutils. It is not part of the BSD userland macOS ships, so on a\nstock Mac this is `command not found` — on the one command whose entire job is to tell\nthe reader the install worked. It only ran here because Homebrew coreutils is installed\n(",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/nagameTW/mcp-server-malcolm/issues/45",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-14T02:02:59.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "Design: opt-in write capabilities",
      "Excerpt": "The server is read-only by design, and read-only should stay the default posture. Some workflows would benefit from writes (e.g. tagging sessions, pcap upload — the upload endpoint is already exercised in the client code but not exposed as a tool).\n\nTask: design what an opt-in write layer should look like — explicit per-tool allowlist, off by default, separate configuration flag — before any implementation.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/nagameTW/mcp-server-malcolm/issues/2",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-17T09:36:04.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "Survey Malcolm API for additional read-only tool coverage",
      "Excerpt": "The server deliberately exposes a small read-only surface (OpenSearch DSL via the /mapi/opensearch proxy, field caps, pcap payload). Malcolm's API has more read-only endpoints that could be cheap wins (index/health introspection, Arkime session helpers, etc.).\n\nTask: survey the Malcolm API surface, list read-only endpoints worth exposing as MCP tools, and rank them by value vs. effort. Implementation follows as separate PRs.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/nagameTW/mcp-server-malcolm/issues/1",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-17T09:36:02.000Z",
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      "Title": "Per-tool disable list layered on the read groups",
      "Excerpt": "## The problem\n\n`MALCOLM_MCP_DISABLE_READ_GROUPS` trims at group granularity, and one group cannot be\ntrimmed at all in practice. `arkime` is 11 tools and roughly 8,450 schema tokens, the\nlargest block of the 51, and it is also the one nobody can drop: `arkime_sessions` is the\nonly search that returns a session ID, so disabling the group takes every\n`arkime-content` tool down with it.\n\nSo the most expensive part of the read surface is the part group granularity cannot touch.\nA deployment that wa",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/nagameTW/mcp-server-malcolm/issues/52",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-14T02:28:34.000Z",
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      "Title": "§2 should warn that the password on the `claude mcp add` line reaches shell history, ps, and ~/.claude.json",
      "Excerpt": "## What happened\n\nREADME §2 shows registration as:\n\n```bash\nclaude mcp add malcolm \\\n  -e MALCOLM_PASSWORD='your-password' \\\n  …\n```\n\nand later warns that `claude mcp get malcolm` prints `MALCOLM_PASSWORD` in cleartext.\nThat warning covers reading the value back, but not the two exposures the command itself\ncreates:\n\n1. **Shell history.** The literal password is typed on the command line, so it lands in\n   `~/.zsh_history` / `~/.bash_history` and stays there.\n2. **`ps` output.** While `claude mc",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/nagameTW/mcp-server-malcolm/issues/47",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-14T02:03:03.000Z",
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      "Title": "Accept MALCOLM_BASE_URL as a fallback for MALCOLM_URL",
      "Excerpt": "## The problem\n\n`from_env` reads `MALCOLM_URL` (`client.py:316`) and falls back to `https://localhost`\nwhen it is unset. That default is a sensible one, but combined with how people arrive at\nthis server it produces a confusing first failure.\n\nThe path I took, which I suspect is common: I already had a Malcolm `.env` from another\nproject, so I reused it. It names the variable `MALCOLM_BASE_URL` (alongside\n`MALCOLM_USERNAME` / `MALCOLM_PASSWORD` / `MALCOLM_SSL_VERIFY`, which all match this\nserver",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/nagameTW/mcp-server-malcolm/issues/46",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-14T02:03:02.000Z",
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      "Title": "README documents 1.0.2 while PyPI, pyproject and server.json are at 1.1.0",
      "Excerpt": "## What happened\n\n`pyproject.toml`, `server.json` and PyPI are all at **1.1.0**, but the README still\nshows **1.0.2** everywhere it prints a version. A first-time reader compares the two\nand cannot tell whether they installed the wrong thing or the README is stale.\n\nPlaces that carry the old number:\n\n- §1 Install — the `uv build` transcript (`mcp_server_malcolm-1.0.2.tar.gz`, `…-1.0.2-py3-none-any.whl`)\n  and the `pip install` line that follows it\n- §2 Register it with your client — the `initial",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/nagameTW/mcp-server-malcolm/issues/44",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-14T02:02:58.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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