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      "Title": "bug(search_entities, resolve_name, citation_graph): uppercase ID schemes and PubMed URLs pass through to OpenAlex verbatim and 404",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.7.9\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.3\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.x\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### OS\n\nLinux (Docker)\n\n### Description\n\n`openalex_search_entities` (`id`), `openalex_resolve_name`, and `openalex_get_citation_graph` (`seed_id`) forward two common identifier spellings to OpenAlex verbatim, and OpenAlex answers 404 for both even though the work exists:\n\n| Input | Sent to OpenAlex | Result |\n|:---|:---|:---|\n| `PMID:21491125` /…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server/issues/66",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-25T05:20:34.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(search_entities, resolve_name, citation_graph): PMCID is advertised as an accepted identifier but resolves for no work",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.7.11\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n^0.12.7\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 24\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS\n\n### Description\n\n`PMCID` is listed as an accepted identifier on `openalex_search_entities` (`id`), `openalex_resolve_name` (`query`), and `openalex_get_citation_graph` (`seed_id`), and in the matching README bullets. No PMCID resolves — [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org) indexes none, so every `pmcid:` lookup is a guaranteed…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server/issues/67",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-09T05:34:12.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(config): declare stateless session mode in createApp() — blocked on mcp-ts-core#376",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\n`Dockerfile` sets `ENV MCP_SESSION_MODE=\"stateless\"`; every other launch path (`bunx`, `npm start`, a local checkout with no `.env`) gets none of that and falls through to the framework schema default, `auto`, which resolves to `stateful`. The hosted deployment (Docker) runs stateless today, confirmed by the absence of an `Mcp-Session-Id` response header on `initialize`. Source and every non-Docker launch path still disagree with it.\n\n`.env.example` was already corrected in…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server/issues/65",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-22T19:01:00.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(search_entities): alias summary_stats leaves (h_index, i10_index) so bibliometric selects resolve",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\n`select: [\"h_index\"]` on `authors` fails, and nothing in the failure says where `h_index` actually lives. It is real OpenAlex data at `summary_stats.h_index`, but `select` only projects top-level fields, so the caller has to already know the parent object to reach the leaf.\n\nThe rejection lists every valid `authors` field. `summary_stats` is in that list, but nothing connects it to `h_index` — the caller sees 21 names, none resembling what they asked for:\n\n```\nh_index is not a…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server/issues/64",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-30T13:02:08.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(describe_fields): query path drops zero-similarity fields, hiding the parent of a nested leaf",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.7.10\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n^0.12.5\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nhttp\n\n### Description\n\n`openalex_describe_fields` exists so a caller who guessed a field name can find the real one. Its `query` path fails hardest on exactly that case: `rankFields` drops every candidate scoring `0`, so a field with no lexical overlap with the query is omitted from `fields` while `total` still counts it.\n\n`h_index` is real OpenAlex author data — it…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server/issues/63",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-30T13:00:55.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(enrichment): list responses hide the upstream 100-author cap",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.7.12 (`8d6339b`)\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.7\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nv26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nA works list returns only the first 100 authorships of a large collaboration without indicating that the author/affiliation data is partial. The same work's singleton lookup returns the full list.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\nCall `openalex_search_entities` with:\n\n```json…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server/issues/73",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-09T07:04:29.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(output): large records exceed context limits without bounded retrieval",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.7.12 (`8d6339b`)\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.7\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nv26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nPage-size and top-level field selection do not bound response size. One requested field on one work can exceed two megabytes per response surface.\n\nRelated: #29 (curated defaults; full-record and explicit-field requests remain unbounded).\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\nCall `openalex_search_entities`:\n\n```json…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server/issues/72",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-09T07:04:26.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(text): markup and scientific entities survive normalization unescaped",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.7.12 (`8d6339b`)\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.7\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nv26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nText normalization decodes only six named HTML entities, leaves HTML/JATS markup intact, and interpolates provider strings directly into Markdown. Scientific named entities and literal formatting characters therefore do not survive as readable plain text consistently across clients.\n\nRelated: #2 (numeric/hex and…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server/issues/76",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-09T07:04:34.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(analyze_trends): label numeric unknown buckets explicitly",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\nAPC distributions expose OpenAlex's numeric missing-value sentinel as if it were a real negative amount. The caller needs to distinguish unknown charges from measured values before comparing publication costs.\n\n### Proposed behavior\n\nPreserve the provider key for round-tripping, but label or annotate numeric unknown buckets explicitly on both response surfaces. Document `include_unknown` semantics for numeric groupings.\n\n### Evidence\n\nOn v0.7.12, call `openalex_analyze_trends`:…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server/issues/75",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-09T07:04:32.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(pagination): exhausted pages receive no-match recovery advice",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.7.12 (`8d6339b`)\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.7\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nv26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nEmpty terminal pages are presented as queries with no matches, despite nonzero totals and a cursor showing that earlier pages were already consumed.\n\nRelated: #7 (true-empty query notices).\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1. Search `{\"entity_type\":\"publishers\",\"query\":\"Elsevier\",\"per_page\":2}`. It returns two records and a…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server/issues/74",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-09T07:04:31.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(search_entities): semantic pagination and input limits are silent",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.7.12 (`8d6339b`)\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.7\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nv26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nSemantic search accepts a cursor but drops it, exposes no page input, and reports its 50-result candidate cap as a total without explaining the limit.\n\nRelated: #8 (per-page cap only).\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\nCall `openalex_search_entities`:\n\n```json\n{\"entity_type\":\"works\",\"query\":\"Estimating groundwater recharge…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server/issues/71",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-09T07:04:24.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(filters): alias collisions silently overwrite constraints",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.7.12 (`8d6339b`)\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.7\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nv26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`translateFilters()` maps aliases into an object with last-write-wins behavior. Two declared constraints can collapse into one while the response echoes both as applied.\n\nRelated: #17 (alias introduction).\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\nCall `openalex_search_entities` with `entity_type:\"works\"`, `per_page:1`,…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server/issues/70",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-09T07:04:22.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(validation): blank inputs become unfiltered successful queries",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.7.12 (`8d6339b`)\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.7\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nv26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nExplicitly empty search and aggregation inputs are silently omitted instead of rejected. An empty aggregation field can turn an upstream list response into a successful empty aggregation.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\nCall:\n\n- `openalex_search_entities`: `{\"entity_type\":\"works\",\"id\":\"\",\"per_page\":1,\"select\":[\"id\"]}`.\n-…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server/issues/69",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-09T07:04:20.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(identifiers): returned keyword URLs fail to resolve",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.7.12 (`8d6339b`)\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.7\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nv26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nKeyword IDs returned by `openalex_search_entities` cannot round-trip into its own ID lookup or `openalex_resolve_name`.\n\nRelated: #50 (numeric native-ID routing; keyword IDs use a path and slug).\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1. Search: `{\"entity_type\":\"keywords\",\"query\":\"groundwater\",\"per_page\":1}`. The returned ID is…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server/issues/68",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-09T07:04:18.000Z",
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