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      "Title": "bug(output): rendered content truncates rows and fields present in structuredContent",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.16\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n^0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nFour `format()` paths cap a value in `content[]` that `structuredContent` carries in full, so clients reading only `content[]` lose data with no way to retrieve it:\n\n- `socrata_dataframe_query`: executed SQL sliced to 200 characters, silently.\n- `socrata_get_dataset`: dataset description capped at 2000 characters.\n-…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/socrata-mcp-server/issues/19",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-05T18:22:46.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(socrata-service): 404 and 429 lose reason and recovery unless the body is SODA-shaped JSON",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.16\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`SocrataService.fetchJson` maps 404 → `not_found` and 429 → `rate_limited` only inside `if (sodaErr)`, which requires a JSON body with `code`/`errorCode` plus `message`. Any other body falls through to `httpErrorFromResponse` with no `reason`, so the tools' contract rewrap never fires and no recovery hint is sent. Three live 404…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/socrata-mcp-server/issues/27",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-27T14:27:41.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(socrata_get_dataset): off-host redirect to a non-Socrata JSON page returns an empty success",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.16\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n^0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### Description\n\n`data.oxnard.org` no longer serves Socrata: `/api/views/<id>.json` redirects to `oxnardca.opengov.com/data`, which answers `Accept: application/json` with HTTP 200 and an unrelated JSON document. `socrata_get_dataset` accepts that as dataset metadata and returns a \"successful\" record with an empty name and no columns. The dataset resource already…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/socrata-mcp-server/issues/38",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-22T19:45:09.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "bug(socrata-service): URL-shaped domain builds https://https:// and retries a DNS failure to exhaustion",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.16\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n^0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### Description\n\n`domain` is interpolated into `https://${domain}/...` verbatim, so a caller who passes a URL-shaped value — the form a portal's address bar shows — builds `https://https://data.cdc.gov/...`. On `socrata_get_dataset` and `socrata_query_dataset` the resulting DNS failure is treated as transient and retried to exhaustion before surfacing as a raw…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/socrata-mcp-server/issues/35",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-22T18:48:39.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(socrata_list_portals): dataset_count skips the Discovery alias, reporting 0 for a portal that has datasets",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.15\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n^0.13.6\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`findDatasets` comma-joins `DISCOVERY_DOMAIN_ALIASES` into the Discovery `domains` filter, but `fetchPortalDatasetCount` sets `domains: domain` with no alias expansion. For a portal whose catalog assets live under an alias tenant, the count query necessarily returns `resultSetSize: 0` — the map's own doc comment records that…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/socrata-mcp-server/issues/32",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-20T14:06:42.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(socrata_query_dataset): name the staged table and socrata_dataframe_describe when a result spills to canvas",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\nWhen `socrata_query_dataset` spills to a DataCanvas, it returns a `canvas_id` but no table name, and it never mentions `socrata_dataframe_describe`, the only tool that reveals the name. A caller writing SQL has to guess the `FROM` target, gets `table_not_found`, and only then sees the hint that points at describe.\n\nThe truncation notice is also written before the spill runs. Responses that already carry a `canvas_id` still say to query the canvas \"when…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/socrata-mcp-server/issues/30",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-13T01:11:47.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(socrata_find_datasets,socrata_query_dataset): column_names are display labels, unusable as SoQL field names",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.16\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`socrata_find_datasets` fills `column_names` from the Discovery API's `resource.columns_name` — display labels, not the API field names SoQL takes. A label matches only when it equals the field name up to case (`DBA` works); labels with spaces fail to parse. The describe frames the gap as types-only (\"Preview column name list (no type info)\"), and…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/socrata-mcp-server/issues/29",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-27T16:45:41.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(socrata_get_dataset,socrata_query_dataset): not_found hides the queried domain and blames retirement for a cross-portal ID",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.16\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\nA Socrata four-by-four ID is only meaningful relative to its portal. `socrata_get_dataset` and `socrata_query_dataset` take `domain` as optional and fall back to `SOCRATA_DEFAULT_DOMAIN` (`data.seattle.gov`), so an ID from any other portal is looked up on the wrong host. The `not_found` that follows names neither the ID nor the domain (the…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/socrata-mcp-server/issues/28",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-27T16:45:31.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(socrata-service): a non-tabular asset's 403 surfaces as bare 'Forbidden' with no reason",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.2.1\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\nRelated: #39\n\nA row query against a non-tabular Socrata asset (a file, a map, or an external link that `socrata_find_datasets` lists by default) gets HTTP 403 with a SODA body, `{\"error\": true, \"message\": \"no row or column access to non-tabular tables\"}`. That body matches neither the app-token branch nor the gateway branch in…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/socrata-mcp-server/issues/42",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-29T21:18:25.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(socrata_query_dataset): no way to stage a canvas without paying for the full inline page",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\nAn agent that wants the wider result set for SQL analysis has to request a full page it will not read. The canvas spill fires only when `rowCount >= limit`, so staging the bounded 50,000-row copy requires asking for the maximum page — and that page comes back inline in `structuredContent.rows` as well.\n\nMeasured: `{\"limit\":5000,\"select\":\"report_number,offense_date,offense_category,precinct,neighborhood\"}` against a Seattle crime dataset returned 1,135,178 bytes (~284k tokens)…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/socrata-mcp-server/issues/33",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-20T14:07:00.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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      "Title": "bug(socrata_dataframe_describe): description promises registration time but output omits it",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.14\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.14\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`socrata_dataframe_describe`'s description says it lists each table's \"schema, row count, column names, and registration time,\" but neither the advertised output schema nor either client response path contains a registration timestamp.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1. Enable canvas and stage rows with…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/socrata-mcp-server/issues/26",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-16T01:38:41.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(canvas): spilled tables lose SODA number types and drop columns null in the first 100 rows",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.2.0\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### OS\n\nmacOS 27.0\n\n### Description\n\nWhen `socrata_query_dataset` spills to a DataCanvas, it registers the rows with no schema, so DuckDB sniffs the first 100 rows. This causes two problems:\n\n- SODA 2.1 returns number values as strings, so every Number column lands as `VARCHAR`. `year > 2020` then fails, even though `socrata_dataframe_query`'s description says it…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/socrata-mcp-server/issues/25",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-16T01:37:43.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(socrata_query_dataset): assembled_query omits pagination offset",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.2.0\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### OS\n\nmacOS 27.0\n\n### Description\n\n`socrata_query_dataset` returns `assembled_query` as the SoQL behind the returned rows, but drops `$offset`. Two pages of the same query report the same `assembled_query` in `structuredContent` and in the `**Query:**` line of `content[]`. Paging itself works: only the reported query is incomplete.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1.…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/socrata-mcp-server/issues/24",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-16T01:37:20.000Z",
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