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    {
      "Title": "Port the hardened Retry-After parser from lexware #54 + first real interceptor test coverage",
      "Excerpt": "Same fleet bug-class lexware fixed in lazyants/lexware-mcp-server#54; sibling issue exists for hetzner. The 429/401 interceptor currently has zero direct test coverage.\n\n## Findings\n\n### Transkribus 429 backoff has the same bare-parseInt Retry-After bug lexware fixed in #54\n\n`transkribus-mcp-server/src/services/transkribus.ts:105` — **low** bug\n\n**Evidence:** transkribus.ts:102-107: `const retryAfter = error.response.headers['retry-after']; let delay: number; if (retryAfter) { delay = parseInt(r",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/lazyants/transkribus-mcp-server/issues/31",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-03T17:53:47.000Z",
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      "Title": "Port parseRetryAfterMs: 429 Retry-After HTTP-date parses to NaN -> immediate retry",
      "Excerpt": "Same bug class as lexware #54 and hetzner #61 — verified still present here.\n\n`src/services/transkribus.ts:102`:\n```ts\ndelay = parseInt(retryAfter, 10) * 1000;\n```\n`parseInt` yields `NaN` for the RFC 7231 HTTP-date form of `Retry-After` (only bare delta-seconds parse), so `setTimeout(NaN)` fires immediately and collapses the 429 backoff into a tight retry loop against an already rate-limited API.\n\n### Fix (port the shipped fleet solution)\nhetzner-mcp-server fixed this in **#61 (PR #65)** by port",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/lazyants/transkribus-mcp-server/issues/41",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-18T08:53:20.000Z",
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      "Title": "Accepted #26 redaction residuals (adversarial-only, defense-in-depth)",
      "Excerpt": "Tracking, low priority. The #26 fail-closed sanitizer (PR #37) covers all realistic JSON responses. Two residuals remain, each requiring an **adversarial / hand-crafted non-JSON** server response and documented in code as accepted:\n\n1. A bare session token echoed in a **non-Set-Cookie custom header** with no `sessionid=` key prefix and not equal to the module session — not collected, survives on the chained cause.\n2. A token split across **non-session-named keys** (e.g. `{JSESSION:{ID:x}}`) — no",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/lazyants/transkribus-mcp-server/issues/40",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-17T19:38:33.000Z",
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      "Title": "Tighten models.ts `type` path segment to a verified z.enum",
      "Excerpt": "Deferred from #32 (PR #37). The 14 model tools type `type` as `PathSegmentSchema` (a string guard + pathSeg encoding). The API documents a closed set (e.g. `htr`/`la`/`ocr`) but the authoritative value list is unverified. A `z.enum` would make traversal unreachable by construction — stronger than pathSeg.\n\n**Blocker:** needs the authoritative `type` value set from the Transkribus API — an incomplete enum would break working calls (a hard regression). Verify against the API, then convert the 14 s",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/lazyants/transkribus-mcp-server/issues/38",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-17T19:38:31.000Z",
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      "Title": "429 backoff mis-parses Retry-After HTTP-date to NaN → immediate retry",
      "Excerpt": "Same class as lexware #54 (fixed there with `parseRetryAfterMs`, shipped in lexware 4.0.0). `src/services/transkribus.ts:107` computes the 429 delay with `parseInt(retryAfter, 10) * 1000` (header read at `:104`), which is `NaN` for an HTTP-date `Retry-After`; `setTimeout(NaN)` fires immediately and defeats the backoff.\n\n**Fix:** port lexware's `parseRetryAfterMs` (delta-seconds + strict IMF-fixdate validated by an exact `Date.UTC` round-trip) to `:107`, and add the accompanying `retry-after.test",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/lazyants/transkribus-mcp-server/issues/36",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-17T16:47:03.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Schema consistency: 18 hand-rolled pagination blocks (losing intCoerce), raw ID params in du.ts/kws.ts, hand-rolled userid params",
      "Excerpt": "## Findings\n\n### 17 tools hand-roll index/nValues/sortColumn/sortDirection instead of spreading PaginationParams, silently losing intCoerce string coercion\n\n`transkribus-mcp-server/src/tools/collections-core.ts:19` — **medium** duplication\n\n**Evidence:** collections-core.ts:19-22 `index: z.number().int().optional().default(0)... nValues: z.number().int().optional().default(0)... sortColumn... sortDirection...` — the same 4-line block is copy-pasted in 17 tools (collections-core ×4, collections-u",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/lazyants/transkribus-mcp-server/issues/33",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-03T17:53:49.000Z",
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      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "Add pathSeg(): raw string params interpolated into URL paths (admin tools + 14 model tools); scrub config.params too",
      "Excerpt": "The repo has zero encodeURIComponent usage. Hetzner already ships `pathSeg()` in schemas/common.ts after codex flagged the same class on its DNS PR. The config.params scrub extension complements #26 (which covers bodies).\n\n## Findings\n\n### Admin tool string params (reportType, reportTime, jobImpl) interpolated raw into URL path without encoding\n\n`transkribus-mcp-server/src/tools/admin.ts:103` — **low** security\n\n**Evidence:** reportType: z.string() / reportTime: z.string() then: return transkrib",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/lazyants/transkribus-mcp-server/issues/32",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-03T17:53:48.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "401 re-auth interceptor recurses without bound when /auth/login itself responds 401",
      "Excerpt": "## Findings\n\n### 401 interceptor recurses without bound when /auth/login itself responds 401\n\n`transkribus-mcp-server/src/services/transkribus.ts:86` — **medium** bug\n\n**Evidence:** `if (error.response?.status === 401) { ... if (!retried) { (config...).__authRetried = true; sessionId = await login(client); ... } }` — login() posts /auth/login through the SAME client, so a 401 from the login endpoint re-enters this handler with a FRESH config (no __authRetried), which calls login() again, recursi",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/lazyants/transkribus-mcp-server/issues/30",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-03T17:53:46.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "Port lexware's OS-keyring credential resolution (env var as fallback)",
      "Excerpt": "`lexware-mcp-server` 4.2.0 moved credential lookup off plain-text env vars and onto the OS keyring, with the env var kept as a fallback (lazyants/lexware-mcp-server#91, commit `eb2a89c`). This server still reads its credentials only from the environment, so a Claude Desktop / Claude Code config file has to carry the password in clear text.\n\n## Current state\n\n`src/services/transkribus.ts:9-16` reads `TRANSKRIBUS_USER`, `TRANSKRIBUS_PASSWORD` and `TRANSKRIBUS_SESSION_ID` directly from `process.env",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/lazyants/transkribus-mcp-server/issues/44",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-27T14:35:10.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "ensureSession() has no in-flight login de-duplication",
      "Excerpt": "`ensureSession()` in `src/services/transkribus.ts` has no promise memo, so N concurrent cold-start tool calls can each fire a `/auth/login`. Pre-existing; low impact now that #30 (PR #37) removed the recursion, but concurrent first-calls still mean redundant logins.\n\n**Fix:** memoize the in-flight login promise (store the pending `login()` promise, await it for concurrent callers, clear on settle). Noted while fixing #30.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/lazyants/transkribus-mcp-server/issues/39",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-17T19:38:32.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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    {
      "Title": "Feature ideas from audit: job_wait, doc_get_plaintext, export download URL, page images as MCP image content",
      "Excerpt": "Curated from the audit's gap analysis. Complements (does not depend on) the deferred Metagrapho work in #22.\n\n## Proposals\n\n- **transkribus_job_wait — poll a job until FINISHED/FAILED with timeout** _(small)_ — Every substantive action (HTR/OCR/LA recognition, training, export, doc duplication, ingest) returns a jobId and completes asynchronously; today an LLM client must call transkribus_job_get in a manual loop, burning turns and context on 'still RUNNING' JSON. A single tool that polls GET /j",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/lazyants/transkribus-mcp-server/issues/35",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-03T17:53:51.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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    {
      "Title": "Cleanup & test hardening: dead src/types/, smoke-test entry lists, redaction-test extension",
      "Excerpt": "## Findings\n\n### src/types/ directory (7 files, 142 lines) is dead code — zero imports anywhere in the repo\n\n`transkribus-mcp-server/src/types/common.ts:1` — **low** refactor\n\n**Evidence:** `export interface TranskribusSession { sessionId: string; userId: number; ... }` — grep for `types/<name>.js` and any `../types/` import across src/ returns nothing outside src/types/ itself. All 7 modules (collections, common, credits, jobs, models, recognition, user) are unreferenced; tools type responses a",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/lazyants/transkribus-mcp-server/issues/34",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-03T17:53:50.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 0,
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    {
      "Title": "transkribus_auth_login sends username/password/OTP as URL query parameters",
      "Excerpt": "Flagged independently by both the security and the bugs finder: credentials land in server/proxy logs AND the endpoint (JAX-RS @FormParam) won't read them from the query string, so the tool both leaks and fails. The safe form-encoded `login()` already exists in services/transkribus.ts.\n\n## Findings\n\n### transkribus_auth_login sends username/password/OTP as URL query params instead of form body\n\n`transkribus-mcp-server/src/tools/auth.ts:52` — **medium** bug\n\n**Evidence:** Tool: `transkribusReques",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/lazyants/transkribus-mcp-server/issues/29",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-03T17:53:46.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Document ingestion is broken end-to-end: 8 tools send JSON where the API expects multipart/XML/CSV/query params",
      "Excerpt": "Every ingestion path was verified against the live TrpServer WADL / official Java client: as shipped there is **no working way to get a document into Transkribus** through this server. The multipart helper `transkribusUpload()` already exists but is dead code. Decision needed per tool: implement real transport or remove the tool (a tool that can never succeed is worse than a missing one).\n\n## Findings\n\n### transkribus_upload_page cannot upload a page image — sends JSON to a multipart/form-data e",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/lazyants/transkribus-mcp-server/issues/28",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-03T17:53:45.000Z",
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      "Title": "Redact secrets from AxiosError request/response BODIES (config.data password + response.data session echo)",
      "Excerpt": "Follow-up to #23 / PR #25. The cookie sanitizer (`sanitizeAxiosError`) added in #23 strips secrets from the **cause-chain structure** — request `Cookie` / response `Set-Cookie` / `authorization` / `proxy-authorization` headers, `config.auth` / `proxy.auth`, the raw `request._header` block, and an object `cause`. It deliberately does **not** touch request/response **bodies**, to preserve request-body debuggability for normal requests. Two distinct body-secret vectors remain:\n\n### 1. Login passwor",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/lazyants/transkribus-mcp-server/issues/26",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-22T08:31:03.000Z",
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      "Title": "Harden wrapAxiosError: strip request._header + cause; assert depth:null & toJSON leak-free",
      "Excerpt": "`src/services/transkribus.ts` `wrapAxiosError` chains `{ cause: err }` and is documented as safe for **default-depth** `util.inspect` — but it does **not** actively strip secrets, so it's below the fleet strong-sanitizer bar now set by lexware #51 (`sanitizeAxiosError`, released v3.2.1) and hetzner #44. The secret here is the **session cookie** `JSESSIONID`, not a bearer token: the request interceptor sets `config.headers['Cookie'] = 'JSESSIONID=' + sessionId`, so on a thrown `AxiosError` that c",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/lazyants/transkribus-mcp-server/issues/23",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-20T15:52:42.000Z",
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