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      "Title": "`zotero_db_query` always fails: \"result.columns.join is not a function\"",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\n`zotero_db_query` fails on every query, including trivial ones. `zotero_db_schema` is affected by the same underlying cause. Two independent defects are involved — either one alone is sufficient to break the tool.\n\n## Environment\n\n| | |\n|---|---|\n| `@introfini/mcp-server-zotero-dev` | 1.1.2 (latest on npm) |\n| Zotero | 9.0.6 (Firefox 140 platform) |\n| MCP Bridge for Zotero plugin | 1.0.5 |\n| OS / Node | macOS 15 / Node 22 |\n\n## Minimal reproduction\n\nWith Zotero running and the RDP br",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/introfini/mcp-server-zotero-dev/issues/20",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-16T17:57:17.000Z",
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      "Title": "openListener() reports success when another process holds the port; health check then reopens every 10s forever",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nWhen another process already holds the RDP port, `openListener()` reports **success** — at startup and on every health-check reopen — while the bridge is not actually serving. The plugin's internal notion of \"listening\" stays wrong for as long as the conflict lasts, and the health check reopens on a 10s loop indefinitely.\n\n## Why it happens\n\n`SocketListener.open()` does not reject when the port is already bound (Mozilla server sockets set `SO_REUSEADDR`; on Windows a second bind is a",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/introfini/mcp-server-zotero-dev/issues/19",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-31T09:09:27.000Z",
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      "Title": "MCP tool surface audit: add safety/trigger language for execute, scaffold, and log tools",
      "Excerpt": "Hi, I ran a deterministic MCP tool-surface audit against the Zotero dev MCP tool definitions and found a few places where description and profile hints could improve agent safety.\n\nScope: static audit from `packages/mcp-server/src/tools/*.ts`, not a live runtime test.\n\n## Summary\n\n- 25 tools detected.\n- Average discoverability score: 75/100.\n- Lowest-scoring tools: 56/100.\n- 4 of 25 tools score below 60.\n- 25 of 25 tools are missing explicit \"Use when\" trigger language.\n- 12 write tools lack exp",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/introfini/mcp-server-zotero-dev/issues/11",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-21T09:03:29.000Z",
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      "Title": "evaluateJS silently re-executes side effects after connection drops; pending requests hang 30s on socket close",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nTwo related reply-loss problems in `RDPClient` (`packages/mcp-server/src/rdp/client.ts`):\n\n1. **`evaluateJS` re-sends the same code after a connection error.** A connection drop loses the *reply*, not necessarily the request — `evaluateJSAsync` may already have executed in Zotero. The blind resend then runs the code's side effects twice. This is dangerous for non-idempotent tool calls (`zotero_plugin_install`, UI mutations, DB-adjacent scripts).\n\n2. **`handleClose()` leaves pending r",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/introfini/mcp-server-zotero-dev/issues/5",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-10T21:45:50.000Z",
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      "Title": "RDP client frames outbound packets with UTF-16 char count — non-ASCII payloads corrupt the stream",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\n`RDPClient.sendMessage()` (`packages/mcp-server/src/rdp/client.ts`) frames outbound packets with\n\n```ts\nconst packet = `${json.length}:${json}`;\n```\n\nbut the RDP `<length>:<json>` prefix is the **UTF-8 byte length**, and `json.length` is the UTF-16 character count. Any non-ASCII character in an outbound payload (emoji or accented text inside `zotero_execute_js` code, search strings, etc.) understates the length: the receiving transport reads a truncated JSON document, the stream desy",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/introfini/mcp-server-zotero-dev/issues/4",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-10T21:45:32.000Z",
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      "Title": "Bridge plugin health check closes the live RDP listener every 2s — port refuses most connections",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nThe bridge plugin's \"health check\" (`packages/zotero-plugin-mcp-rdp/src/bootstrap.js`) calls `openListener()` every 2 seconds, and `openListener()` unconditionally **closes the live listener** before rebinding. The comment says a re-open \"will fail harmlessly (port in use)\" — but since the close frees the port first, the re-open always succeeds. The listening socket is therefore torn down and recreated every 2 seconds for the entire Zotero session.\n\n## Measured impact (Windows 11, Zo",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/introfini/mcp-server-zotero-dev/issues/3",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-10T21:45:14.000Z",
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      "Title": "MCP server cannot communicate with Zotero bridge plugin on Windows",
      "Excerpt": "Thanks so much for building this -- it'd be a great help, but I'm not currently getting it to work.\n\nI have the MCP server show up in clode and the bridge plugin in Zotero 8.0.2-beta.1+62894d56e (64-bit). When I ask Claude code to do anything, I get an incoming communication message pop-up in Zotero, which I OK (could there be a way to permanently allow that rather then having to OK for every communication?). After that, Claude says it's not getting anything back and just keeps waiting until I e",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/introfini/mcp-server-zotero-dev/issues/1",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-01-30T03:34:59.000Z",
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