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    {
      "Title": "Google, Meta, Amazon and Apple self-hosted careers sites are unreachable, and there is no Recruitee adapter (Workday and SmartRecruiters are done)",
      "Excerpt": "> [!NOTE]\n> **Status refreshed 2026-09-17 — three of the four asks in the old title have landed.**\n> The title used to say *\"add Workday, SmartRecruiters adapters\"*. Both exist. Verified:\n>\n> ```\n> $ python -c \"from payband_mcp import ats; print([n for n,_ in ats._BOARDS])\"\n> ['greenhouse', 'ashby', 'lever', 'smartrecruiters', 'workday']\n> ```\n>\n> | From the list below | State |\n> | --- | --- |\n> | Workday | **Done** — in `_BOARDS` (63fea18) |\n> | SmartRecruiters | **Done** — in `_BOARDS` |\n> |…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/dheerajjha/payband-mcp/issues/13",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-16T07:13:15.000Z",
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      "Title": "Keka and Workday tenants cannot be found from a company name -- build the registry",
      "Excerpt": "> [!WARNING]\n> **Correction, 2026-09-17.** This issue used to open by saying we can already read pay off\n> Keka boards. That was wrong, and I have filed **#27** for it: `keka.py` is imported by\n> nothing — no `_BOARDS` entry, no loader — so no tool can reach a Keka board today. The\n> parser is real and its 22 tests pass; nothing calls it.\n>\n> **What that means for you, concretely:**\n> - **Workday rows are live work.** Workday *is* in `_BOARDS`, so a Workday row you add is\n>   reachable the…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/dheerajjha/payband-mcp/issues/26",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-17T14:01:39.000Z",
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      "Title": "SmartRecruiters and Workday should pass posting location to the pay parser (claimed)",
      "Excerpt": "Follow-up to [#19](https://github.com/dheerajjha/payband-mcp/pull/19), which teaches `money.parse` to resolve a bare `$` using the posting location — `Toronto, ON` means CAD, not USD.\n\n#19 threads the location through the three inline boards (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever). The two boards that fetch pay in a second request do not:\n\n- `src/payband_mcp/smartrecruiters.py` — `fetch_pay()` calls `money.parse(content)`. The posting carries `location.country`.\n- `src/payband_mcp/workday.py` —…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/dheerajjha/payband-mcp/issues/23",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-17T09:33:41.000Z",
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      "Title": "research produces zero probes for \"what is the rto policy\", because `rto` is filtered as too short and `policy` as low-signal (Blind path, currently dormant — see #12)",
      "Excerpt": "`research` turns a question into keywords and probes them against Blind's company pages. Two filters in `_probe_terms` combine badly: words of 3 characters or fewer are dropped (`len(w) > 3`), and `_LOW_SIGNAL` drops `policy`. For the single most common question this server exists to answer, nothing survives.\n\n```python\n>>> from blind_mcp import server as s\n>>> s._probe_terms(\"what is the rto policy\", \"Acme\", [])\n[]\n>>> s._probe_terms(\"is wfh allowed\", \"Acme\", [])\n['allowed']\n```\n\nWith no…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/dheerajjha/payband-mcp/issues/1",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-09T09:48:00.000Z",
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      "Title": "A bare \"$\" is assumed to be USD, so Canadian and Australian bands are mislabelled",
      "Excerpt": "Four currencies write themselves as `$`. `money.py` resolves it by looking for an explicit code nearby, and falls back to USD when there is none:\n\n```python\nif match.group(\"syma\") or match.group(\"symb\"):\n    return \"USD\"\n```\n\nThat is right often enough to be useful and wrong silently when it is wrong. A Toronto posting that says `$120,000 - $150,000` with no code attached is recorded as USD, and since `pay_bands` groups by currency it then lands in the US band — inflating a Canadian salary by…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/dheerajjha/payband-mcp/issues/17",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-16T10:17:27.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 2,
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    {
      "Title": "The disk cache never evicts anything -- 61MB after casual use, growing without bound",
      "Excerpt": "`http.fetch` writes every response to `~/.cache/blind-mcp/` and never removes anything. Entries expire for *reading* after `CACHE_TTL` (6h), but the files stay on disk forever, and a stale entry is overwritten only if that exact URL is requested again.\n\nMeasured after ordinary use — a few dozen research questions:\n\n```\n$ du -sh ~/.cache/blind-mcp\n61M\n$ ls ~/.cache/blind-mcp/www.teamblind.com/anon/*.html | wc -l\n85\n```\n\nThat is ~700KB per page, because Blind ships the whole RSC payload inline.…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/dheerajjha/payband-mcp/issues/8",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-09T18:40:41.000Z",
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      "Title": "The server reports an empty version to every MCP client, because `__version__` is never passed to `MCPServer`",
      "Excerpt": "`src/blind_mcp/__init__.py` defines `__version__ = \"0.1.0\"`, but `server.py` constructs `MCPServer(\"blind\")` without it. Every MCP client is therefore told the server has no version:\n\n```\n$ blind-mcp   # initialize handshake\nserverInfo: {'name': 'blind', 'version': ''}\n```\n\nClients display this in their server list, and it is the first thing anyone debugging a stale install will check. An empty string is worse than useless — it looks like the handshake is broken rather than the metadata being…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/dheerajjha/payband-mcp/issues/7",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-09T18:40:39.000Z",
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      "Title": "Ranking ignores thread age, so a 2021 parental-leave thread outranks newer ones and the model reports stale policy as current (Blind path, currently dormant — see #12)",
      "Excerpt": "Ranking in `research` scores a thread on keyword overlap plus a specificity bonus. Nothing looks at the date. On policy questions — which are most of what this server gets asked — that reliably surfaces answers that were true years ago.\n\nReal example. Asked for Intuit's parental leave policy, `research` returns:\n\n| thread | published |\n| --- | --- |\n| Maternity leave/benefits at Intuit | **2021-07-04** |\n| Best company for paternity leave? | **2022-02-15** |\n\nBoth are genuinely the best keyword…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/dheerajjha/payband-mcp/issues/4",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-09T09:48:49.000Z",
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      "Title": "An employer we have already probed and rejected is reported as a lookup failure, so callers are sent slug-hunting for a board that does not exist",
      "Excerpt": "Ask this tool about Amazon and it sends you to go read a Greenhouse slug out of Amazon's careers page. There isn't one, there never was, and we already know that — it is written down in `selfhosted.py`, four lines from the code that gives the advice.\n\n## What happens today\n\n`fetch_postings` raises `BoardNotFound` with a genuinely good message (`ats.py:375`):\n\n> No public Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever or SmartRecruiters board found for 'amazon' (tried slugs [...]). Two common reasons: the board token…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/dheerajjha/payband-mcp/issues/29",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-18T03:27:41.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 0,
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      "Title": "no_range_count merges 'published nothing where a band is required' with 'published nothing where none is'",
      "Excerpt": "`no_range_count` answers two different questions with one number, and they do not mean the same thing.\n\nAn employer that posts a Denver role with no band and an employer that posts a Bengaluru role with no band are not doing the same thing. Colorado requires the range; India requires nothing. The first is a finding. The second is the expected state of the world. Today both land in the same bucket:\n\n```python\n# server.py, inside pay_bands\nsilent = [p for p in base_pay if not p[\"pay\"] and…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/dheerajjha/payband-mcp/issues/28",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-18T03:26:31.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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      "Title": "The Keka adapter is wired to nothing, so no tool can reach a Keka board (blocks the Keka half of #26)",
      "Excerpt": "`keka.py` is imported by nothing, so no tool can reach a Keka board and the adapter is unreachable code.\n\nFound during a maintainer sweep on `main` @ `7bde2c2`, while re-verifying #26 before re-advertising it.\n\n## The claim that is wrong\n\n#26 opens with \"**We can now read pay off Keka boards (#25)**\", and I repeated that to @Rayan-and-beyond on #19 as a reason his location fix matters less for that source. Both statements are false in the way that matters to a user: the *parser* works, and…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/dheerajjha/payband-mcp/issues/27",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-17T14:26:39.000Z",
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      "Title": "Workday tenants are only found under the company name, so Intuit and Dell are unreachable (folded into #26 — take #26, not this)",
      "Excerpt": "> [!IMPORTANT]\n> **Do not pick this up as a standalone task — take [#26](https://github.com/dheerajjha/payband-mcp/issues/26) instead.**\n> #26 asks for the same tenant registry, covering Keka *and* Workday in one data file, and\n> it is the issue that is mentored and open for claiming. This one stays open as the place\n> the **Workday URL shapes** are written up, which is what #26 links here for.\n> Discovery labels removed on 2026-09-17 so two people cannot start the same work.\n\nStill true on…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/dheerajjha/payband-mcp/issues/18",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-16T10:17:31.000Z",
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      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "Blind now 403s every non-browser User-Agent site-wide; we will not spoof a browser to get around it",
      "Excerpt": "Around 2026-09-16 Blind began returning **403 to every automated request**. Verified from a clean shell:\n\n| User-Agent | `/company/Roku/posts` |\n| --- | --- |\n| `blind-mcp/0.1.0 (+github…)` | **403** |\n| `curl/8.4.0` | **403** |\n| *(empty)* | **403** |\n| `Mozilla/5.0 … Chrome/128` | 200 |\n\nEvery path is affected, including `/` and `/robots.txt` itself. `robots.txt` — read with a browser UA — is unchanged and still permits `/company/`. So this is a WAF/bot-protection layer sitting in front of…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/dheerajjha/payband-mcp/issues/12",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-16T07:13:13.000Z",
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      "Title": "Every multi-word company name fails to resolve, because `_resolve` tries capitalisations but never hyphens",
      "Excerpt": "`_resolve` finds a company's Blind URL by trying four capitalisations of the name. None of them touch whitespace, so every multi-word employer fails — and takes six seconds of throttled requests to do it.\n\n```python\n>>> from blind_mcp.server import _resolve\n>>> _resolve(\"Goldman Sachs\")\nValueError: No Blind company page found for 'Goldman Sachs'\n  (tried ['Goldman Sachs', 'Goldman sachs', 'GOLDMAN SACHS'])\n```\n\nBlind uses hyphens, and the slug is case-insensitive:\n\n| URL | result |\n| --- | ---…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/dheerajjha/payband-mcp/issues/6",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-09T18:40:37.000Z",
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