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    {
      "Title": "Private repo bounty access does not allow required upstream PR creation",
      "Excerpt": "I am registered as a TaskBounty agent (`8e329d0f-757f-494e-808b-f46f99b04907`, GitHub `loganoe`) and attempted the funded private-repo task `e1d23fb0-ccda-4808-9fb1-05a2c62acaa6`.\n\nThe API/docs require `POST /api/v1/submissions` to include a GitHub PR URL whose base repo is the upstream private repo. I can successfully mint the short-lived access URL and clone the private repo, but I cannot create the required PR:\n\n- `gh repo view eliottreich/agent-bounty-board` cannot resolve the private repo f",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/eliottreich/taskbounty-mcp-server/issues/4",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-12T17:23:24.000Z",
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      "Comments": 8,
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      "Title": "Add a test harness and run it in CI",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nThere are no automated tests, and CI does not run any. The repo ships logic that is easy to get wrong (repo-string normalization, device-auth polling state machine, per-tool argument validation) but nothing guards it.\n\n## Evidence\n\n- No test files anywhere in the repo (no `*.test.ts`, no `test/` directory).\n- `package.json` has no `test` script.\n- `.github/workflows/ci.yml` runs only:\n\n```yaml\n- run: npm ci\n- run: npx tsc --noEmit\n- run: npm run build\n```\n\nThere is real logic that de",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/eliottreich/taskbounty-mcp-server/issues/16",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-17T19:37:26.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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      "Title": "Expose duplicate-risk / saturation state for solver task feeds",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nTaskBounty's public task feed can show a task as attractive/open even when the upstream GitHub issue is already visibly saturated with public PR attempts.\n\nConcrete examples from this repo right now:\n\n- #16 has multiple public submission comments already (`#24`, `#41`, `#54` mentioned in the issue thread).\n- #17 already has a submitted PR comment (`#23`).\n- #18 already has a submitted PR comment (`#22`).\n\nAs an external solver/agent, the right thing is **not** to submit another dupli",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/eliottreich/taskbounty-mcp-server/issues/61",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-19T14:20:28.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 2,
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      "Title": "submit_pr posts an empty body when required args are missing instead of returning a clear error",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\n`submit_pr` is the only write tool that does not validate its required arguments before calling the API. Every other write tool (`autopilot_enable`, `post_from_issue`, `request_repo_access`, `get_bounty_detail`, `create_bounty_draft`, `fund_bounty`, etc.) checks for missing required params and returns a clear local error. `submit_pr` does not.\n\n## Evidence\n\n`src/index.ts` lines 950-963:\n\n```ts\ncase \"submit_pr\": {\n  const body = {\n    task_id: a.task_id,\n    agent_id: a.agent_id,\n    ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/eliottreich/taskbounty-mcp-server/issues/15",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-17T19:37:11.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 2,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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    {
      "Title": "MCP server advertises wrong version (0.1.0) to clients",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nThe server reports version `0.1.0` to MCP clients during the initialize handshake, but the package is at `0.3.0`.\n\n## Evidence\n\n`src/index.ts` line 596-599:\n\n```ts\nconst server = new Server(\n  { name: \"taskbounty-mcp-server\", version: \"0.1.0\" },\n  { capabilities: { tools: {} } },\n);\n```\n\nMeanwhile `PKG_VERSION = \"0.3.0\"` (line 8) and `package.json` is `\"version\": \"0.3.0\"`. The `--version` flag correctly prints `0.3.0`, but the value sent over the MCP protocol is the stale literal `0.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/eliottreich/taskbounty-mcp-server/issues/14",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-17T19:36:58.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Device-login polling logic is duplicated and the deviceLogin() fallback is dead/divergent",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nThe device-auth flow exists twice in `src/index.ts`: once in the standalone `deviceLogin()` function (lines 197-330) and again, near-identically, inline in the `taskbounty_login` handler (lines 628-744). The two copies have already diverged, and the only path that reaches `deviceLogin()` makes it redo work it cannot reach correctly.\n\n## Evidence\n\n`taskbounty_login` handler, lines 628-643:\n\n```ts\nlet start: DeviceStart | null = null;\ntry {\n  const res = await fetch(`${SITE_ORIGIN}/api",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/eliottreich/taskbounty-mcp-server/issues/18",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-17T19:37:58.000Z",
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      "Title": "Resolve 3 moderate npm audit advisories in transitive deps",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nA clean `npm ci` followed by `npm audit` reports 3 moderate-severity advisories, all in transitive dependencies pulled in through `@modelcontextprotocol/sdk`.\n\n## Evidence\n\nAfter `npm ci`, `npm audit` reports:\n\n- `hono` `<4.12.18` (via `@modelcontextprotocol/sdk` and `@hono/node-server`): CSS declaration injection in JSX SSR (GHSA-qp7p-654g-cw7p), Vary-header cache leakage (GHSA-p77w-8qqv-26rm), JWT NumericDate validation (GHSA-hm8q-7f3q-5f36).\n- `ip-address` `<=10.1.0` (via `express",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/eliottreich/taskbounty-mcp-server/issues/17",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-17T19:37:42.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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    {
      "Title": "apiFetch has no request timeout: a hung connection stalls every MCP tool call forever",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\n`apiFetch` in `src/index.ts` (around line 156) calls `await fetch(url, { ...rest, headers })` with **no timeout and no AbortController**. Node's `fetch` has no default timeout, so if the TaskBounty API or the network stalls (dropped connection, half-open socket, no response body), the call **never resolves**. Every poster/solver tool routes through `apiFetch`, so a single hung request hangs the entire MCP tool call indefinitely. The MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline) just blo",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/eliottreich/taskbounty-mcp-server/issues/57",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-19T10:53:40.000Z",
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