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      "Title": "bug(pagination): preserve approximate count semantics",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.8.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.3\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\nHigh-volume OpenFEC endpoints label some pagination counts as approximate with `is_count_exact: false`, but the\nservice layer discards that field. Tools then present the count as an unqualified total in both `structuredContent`\nand `content[]`.\n\n`fetchPage` and `fetchSeek` both normalize `pagination` without carrying…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openfec-mcp-server/issues/40",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-31T03:37:18.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(search_legal): reject citations upstream cannot parse",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.8.4\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`/legal/search/` silently ignores a `*_regulatory_citation` or `*_statutory_citation` value it cannot parse and answers HTTP 200 with the type unfiltered. `openfec_search_legal` forwards the citation as given and echoes it in `search_criteria`, so a citation missing its title prefix reads as an applied filter.\n\n### Steps to…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openfec-mcp-server/issues/49",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-25T04:20:13.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "bug(format): legal records render nested fields as raw JSON",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.8.3\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nNested fields on legal records reach `renderValue`'s object catch-all in `format-helpers.ts` and render in `content[]` as inline `JSON.stringify` output. `renderRecord`'s field renderers apply only to a plain-object value, so none can reach an array.\n\n| Record | `openfec_search_legal` | `openfec_get_legal_document` |\n|:--|:--|:--|…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openfec-mcp-server/issues/47",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-24T00:37:54.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(candidate resource): principal_committees reflects current designation, not the latest campaign",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.8.2\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### Description\n\n`openfec://candidate/{candidate_id}` builds `principal_committees` from `/candidate/{id}/committees/?designation=P`, which filters on each committee's *current* designation with no cycle. The field can list long-dormant campaigns and omit the committee that actually ran the latest campaign once it has been redesignated. Same root cause as the…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openfec-mcp-server/issues/45",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-23T23:41:38.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "feat(calendar): add House district filter for election dates",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\n`openfec_lookup_calendar`'s `election_dates` mode filters by state, office, and year but not House district, so district-specific special elections stay mixed with statewide and other-district rows even though OpenFEC's `/election-dates/` exposes `election_district`. Verified live today: CA House 2026 returns 6 rows spanning districts 01, 14, and statewide; `election_district=14` alone returns exactly the 2 district-14 rows.\n\nRelated: #26, #27\n\n### Proposed behavior\n\nAdd an…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openfec-mcp-server/issues/41",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-31T03:37:18.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(search_expenditures): make election period explicit",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.8.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.3\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`openfec_search_expenditures` describes `cycle` as a two-year election cycle, but `mode:\n\"by_candidate\"` leaves OpenFEC's `election_full` parameter unset. The [OpenFEC\nAPI](https://api.open.fec.gov/developers/) defaults it to `true`, so the tool silently returns\nthe candidate's full election period while…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openfec-mcp-server/issues/42",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-31T03:37:18.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "bug(prompts): resolve cycle-specific principal committees",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.8.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.3\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\nBoth campaign prompts resolve a candidate's principal committee with `openfec_search_committees(candidate_id, designation: \"P\")`, which reflects a committee's *current* designation. A committee whose designation or name has since changed can't be found this way for the cycle being investigated — reproduced live…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openfec-mcp-server/issues/39",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-31T03:37:17.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "bug(search_legal): structuredContent carries the same total as both total_count and totalCount",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.7.1\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.3\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`openfec_search_legal` puts the same total on `structuredContent` twice under two casings. `src/mcp-server/tools/definitions/search-legal.tool.ts` declares `total_count` in its `output` schema and returns it from the handler, and separately declares `totalCount` in its `enrichment` block and sets it with…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openfec-mcp-server/issues/38",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-25T05:53:49.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(election resources): empty results and office rejections give the caller nothing to act on",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.7.1\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.3\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\nThe three election resources leave the caller with no way forward in two separate cases: an empty race list, and a rejected office code.\n\n**Empty results carry no explanation.** `fetchElection` adds a `truncation_notice` only when `pagination.pages > 1`; nothing is added when the list is empty. `openfec_lookup_elections` already has…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openfec-mcp-server/issues/37",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-25T05:53:32.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "bug(search_legal): from_hit advertises offsets past the upstream 10,000-result window",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.7.1\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.3\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`openfec_search_legal`'s `from_hit` advertises a range the upstream cannot serve, and the failure it produces\nmisdirects the caller.\n\n`from_hit` is declared `z.number().int().min(0).default(0)` in\n`src/mcp-server/tools/definitions/search-legal.tool.ts`, which emits\n`{\"type\":\"integer\",\"minimum\":0,\"maximum\":9007199254740991}` in…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openfec-mcp-server/issues/36",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-25T05:53:11.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "bug(format): candidate-scoped expenditure rows render the committee object as raw JSON",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.7.1\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.3\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`openfec_search_coordinated_expenditures` and `openfec_search_expenditures` (itemized) render\neach row's nested `committee` object as one `JSON.stringify` blob in `content[]` whenever the\nquery is scoped by `candidate_id` instead of `committee_id`.\n\n`renderValue` in `src/mcp-server/tools/definitions/utils/format-helpers.ts` ends…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openfec-mcp-server/issues/35",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-25T05:52:52.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "bug(committee resource): do not hide totals fetch failures",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.7.1\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.11.0\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nThe `openfec://committee/{committee_id}` resource suppresses every error from its totals sub-fetch:\n\n```ts\nfec.getCommitteeTotals(committeeId, { per_page: 1 }, ctx).catch(() => null)\n```\n\n`getCommitteeTotals` already normalizes OpenFEC's own not-found response to an empty page (service layer, design decision 11). The genuine \"no…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openfec-mcp-server/issues/33",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-17T07:44:53.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(search_legal): normalize upstream highlight markup",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.7.1\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.11.0\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nOpenFEC wraps the matched term in every legal-search highlight in `<em>` / `</em>`. `openfec_search_legal` forwards the tags unchanged into `structuredContent` and renders them unchanged into Markdown `content[]`.\n\nThe trimming block in `src/mcp-server/tools/definitions/search-legal.tool.ts` caps `highlights` at three entries and…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openfec-mcp-server/issues/32",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-17T07:44:52.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(search_legal): route type-specific filters correctly",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.7.1\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.11.0\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`openfec_search_legal` sends each type-specific filter under one upstream name whatever `type` says, and accepts filters the selected type ignores. Upstream answers 200 with those types unfiltered while `search_criteria` echoes the filter.\n\n`/legal/search/` per document type:\n\n| Input | Advisory opinions | MURs / ADRs | Admin fines |…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openfec-mcp-server/issues/31",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-17T07:44:50.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(legal): bound search_legal and get_legal_document responses",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.7.1\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.11.0\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`openfec_search_legal` and `openfec_get_legal_document` have no response bound: one search page, or one legal record, can fill most of a model's context on both `structuredContent` and `content[]`. #14 deferred selective detail retrieval until an oversized record turned up; as of 2026-09-24 eleven MURs and one ADR exceed 100,000…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openfec-mcp-server/issues/30",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-17T07:44:48.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(response bounds): bound high-volume page payloads",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.7.1\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.11.0\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nSeveral page-based and keyset tools permit a single page whose response exceeds a practical model context window. Pagination works; the problem is that one permitted page already carries hundreds of kilobytes, duplicated across `structuredContent` and formatted `content[]`, with no bound and no warning.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\nCall…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/openfec-mcp-server/issues/29",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-17T07:44:46.000Z",
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