# swiss-academic-libraries-mcp MCP Server

Swiss academic libraries + open-access Swiss legal literature (SRU/OAI-PMH, no API key)

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## Connect

Published as `swiss-academic-libraries-mcp` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**12 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 9.

### Most discussed

### Live-Tests gegen api.crossref.org rot (2026-08-17)

Die geplante Live-Suite gegen `api.crossref.org` ist rot.

Lauf: https://github.com/malkreide/swiss-academic-libraries-mcp/actions/runs/31997507767
Einordnung: 13 Fehlschlag/Fehlschlaege und 0 Fehler von 30 Test(s)

**Rot heisst hier nicht zwingend «unser Fehler».** Es heisst: Der Vertrag
mit der Quelle hat sich geaendert, oder die Quelle ist gerade aus. Beides
gehoert gesehen, nur das Erste gehoert gefixt — und genau das Erste sehen
die Unit-Tests nicht, weil ihre Fixtures aus derselben Annahme

[Read the thread](https://github.com/malkreide/swiss-academic-libraries-mcp/issues/65) · 2026-08-17 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### [low][ci] test (3.11) schlägt fehl seit v1.0.0 — pytest-asyncio Version-Drift?

**Symptom:** Nach Merge von #23 (v1.0.0) zeigt CI `test (3.11)` als `failure`, während `test (3.12)`, `test (3.13)`, `lint` und `Dependency security scan` grün sind.

**Job:** https://github.com/malkreide/swiss-academic-libraries-mcp/actions/runs/26211489142/job/77123217197

**Lokal:** 47/47 grün auf Python 3.11.15 mit `pytest 9.0.3`, `pytest-asyncio 1.3.0`.

## Verdachtskandidaten

1. **`TestSharedClient::test_shutdown_closes_client`** ist async und manipuliert Modul-Globals (`_client`). Vermut

[Read the thread](https://github.com/malkreide/swiss-academic-libraries-mcp/issues/24) · 2026-05-21 · closed · 0 comments

### [low] F-13 OBS: request_id-Korrelation zwischen MCP-Call und Upstream

**Audit-Referenz:** F-13 · **Severity:** low · **Kategorie:** OBS · **Effort:** XS (Teil von F-03)

## Problem

Keine Korrelations-ID verbindet MCP-Tool-Invocation und Upstream-HTTP-Call. Bei Logging (F-03) sinnvoll mitziehen.

## Fix

```python
from uuid import uuid4
import contextvars

request_id_var: contextvars.ContextVar[str] = contextvars.ContextVar("request_id", default="-")

# In jedem Tool-Entry:
request_id_var.set(uuid4().hex[:8])

# Im LogFormat:
format="%(asctime)s %(levelname)s [%(r

[Read the thread](https://github.com/malkreide/swiss-academic-libraries-mcp/issues/16) · 2026-05-21 · closed · 0 comments

### [low] F-11 OPS: Version-Badge in README synchron mit pyproject.toml halten

**Audit-Referenz:** F-11 · **Severity:** low · **Kategorie:** OPS · **Effort:** XS

## Problem

`README.md:3` zeigt `version-0.1.0`-Badge, `pyproject.toml:8` deklariert `0.2.0`.

## Fix

Statisches Badge durch dynamisches ersetzen:
```markdown
![Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/swiss-academic-libraries-mcp)
```

## Akzeptanzkriterien

- [ ] Dynamic Badge in beiden README-Varianten
- [ ] Wert stimmt nach nächstem PyPI-Release automatisch

[Read the thread](https://github.com/malkreide/swiss-academic-libraries-mcp/issues/14) · 2026-05-21 · closed · 0 comments

### [low] F-10 ARCH: library_info aus library://sources-Resource generieren

**Audit-Referenz:** F-10 · **Severity:** low · **Kategorie:** ARCH · **Effort:** XS

## Problem

`server.py:268-339` enthält eine fest codierte Markdown-Übersicht, die mit `README.md`/`EXAMPLES.md`/`library://sources` drifted.

## Fix

`library_info` aus der `library://sources`-Resource generieren (Single Source of Truth) oder umgekehrt: Tool-Output → Resource.

## Akzeptanzkriterien

- [ ] Datenquellen-Liste exakt einmal definiert
- [ ] `library_info` und `library://sources` synchron

[Read the thread](https://github.com/malkreide/swiss-academic-libraries-mcp/issues/13) · 2026-05-21 · closed · 0 comments

### Most recent

### [high][v0.3.0] F-03 OBS: Strukturiertes Logging einführen

**Audit-Referenz:** F-03 · **Severity:** high · **Kategorie:** OBS · **Effort:** M (~3–4h) · **Ziel-Release:** v0.3.0

## Problem

Weder `server.py` noch `api_client.py` importieren `logging`. Es existiert keinerlei Logging-Schicht — Tool-Calls, Upstream-Requests und Fehler sind im Betrieb nicht nachvollziehbar.

## Fix

```python
import logging, sys
logging.basicConfig(
    stream=sys.stderr,   # WICHTIG: stderr — stdout würde stdio-JSON-RPC korrumpieren
    level=logging.INFO,
    format="%(as

[Read the thread](https://github.com/malkreide/swiss-academic-libraries-mcp/issues/7) · 2026-05-21 · closed · 0 comments

### [high][v0.3.0] F-02 SEC: Streamable-HTTP-Transport härten (Host-Binding, Origin, Auth-Hinweis)

**Audit-Referenz:** F-02 · **Severity:** high · **Kategorie:** SEC · **Effort:** S (~2–3h) · **Ziel-Release:** v0.3.0

## Problem

`server.py:1029-1042` startet `mcp.run(transport="streamable_http", port=port)` ohne `host=`-Argument, ohne Origin-Allowlist und ohne Auth. README empfiehlt `--http --port 8000` ohne Sicherheitshinweis.

## Risiko

- Default-Binding kann je nach FastMCP-Version `0.0.0.0` sein → LAN-Exposure.
- Amplification: SLSP/ETH sehen Server-Betreiber als Quelle.
- DNS-Rebinding

[Read the thread](https://github.com/malkreide/swiss-academic-libraries-mcp/issues/6) · 2026-05-21 · closed · 0 comments

### [medium][v0.2.1] F-06 SEC: User-Agent-Header für Upstream-Requests setzen

**Audit-Referenz:** F-06 · **Severity:** medium · **Kategorie:** SEC · **Effort:** XS (~15min) · **Ziel-Release:** v0.2.1

## Problem

`api_client.py:69-74` setzt keinen `User-Agent`. Public-API-Best-Practice (SLSP, OAI-PMH) verlangt identifizierende UA.

## Risiko

- Bei Abuse-Erkennung kann Upstream den Server nicht als Verursacher identifizieren.
- Kein Whitelisting / Rate-Limit-Exception möglich.
- Compliance-Issue gegenüber öffentlichen Diensten.

## Fix

```python
from importlib.metadata i

[Read the thread](https://github.com/malkreide/swiss-academic-libraries-mcp/issues/5) · 2026-05-21 · closed · 0 comments

### [high][v0.2.1] F-01 SEC: defusedxml statt xml.etree für Upstream-XML verwenden

**Audit-Referenz:** [F-01 im Audit-Report](audits/2026-05-21-swiss-academic-libraries-mcp/report.md)
**Severity:** high · **Kategorie:** SEC · **Effort:** S (~1–2h) · **Ziel-Release:** v0.2.1

## Problem

`src/swiss_academic_libraries_mcp/api_client.py:14` importiert `xml.etree.ElementTree`. Sämtliche Upstream-XML-Antworten (SRU/MARC21, OAI-PMH) werden damit geparst. CPython blockt seit 3.7.1 externe Entities, aber XML-Bomben (billion-laughs, quadratic blowup) bleiben möglich.

## Risiko

Ein ko

[Read the thread](https://github.com/malkreide/swiss-academic-libraries-mcp/issues/4) · 2026-05-21 · closed · 0 comments

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