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      "Title": "bug(uklaw_get_amendments): direction affecting with a counterpart always fails with filter_refused",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\n\n### Description\n\n`uklaw_get_amendments` with `direction: \"affecting\"` and a `counterpart` always fails with `filter_refused`. The server builds `/changes/affecting/{item}/affected/{counterpart}`, and legislation.gov.uk only answers the affected-first order.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1. `uklaw_get_amendments` `{\"item\":\"ukpga/2025/18\",\"direction\":\"affecting\",\"counterpart\":\"ukpga/2018/12\"}`\n\n### Actual behavior\n\n`filter_refused`:…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/uk-legislation-mcp-server/issues/14",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T19:47:02.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(uklaw_get_amendments): draft ISBN items always fail with filter_refused",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\n\n### Description\n\n`uklaw_get_amendments` sends draft instruments (`ukdsi`, `sdsi`, `nidsr`, numbered by ISBN) to legislation.gov.uk's changes feed. The feed doesn't index draft types at all, so every such call fails with `filter_refused`. The recovery hint points at checking the item, but the item is valid: `/ukdsi/2026/9780348287233/data.xml` returns 200.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1. `uklaw_get_amendments`…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/uk-legislation-mcp-server/issues/13",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T19:24:03.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(uklaw_get_amendments): lower the default limit; a default page runs ~120 KB",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\n`uklaw_get_amendments` defaults to `limit` 50. For a heavily amended Act, one default page is large: `{ \"item\": \"ukpga/2018/12\" }` returns 119,257 B (about 30k tokens), and `limit` 100 on `ukpga/1955/19` returns 232,461 B. A caller that takes the default spends a large share of its context on the first page before it knows whether it needs more.\n\n### Proposed behavior\n\nLower the default `limit` to 20 and keep the maximum. The cursor and the truncation disclosure already let a…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/uk-legislation-mcp-server/issues/12",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T18:06:00.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(uklaw_track_changes): show read progress in item-log mode on older windows",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\nIn item-log mode, `uklaw_track_changes` reads an item's Publication Log newest-first. For a heavily amended Act and a window months back, each call returns 0 events with `has_more: true` and an empty `days[]`, so the caller can't tell how far back the read has reached or how many calls remain.\n\nRepro: `{ \"start_date\": \"2025-06-01\", \"end_date\": \"2025-06-30\", \"item\": \"ukpga/2018/12\" }` took 3 calls (12 requests, pages 1–12 of a 1,330-event log) and returned no events.\n\n### Proposed…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/uk-legislation-mcp-server/issues/11",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T18:05:38.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(uklaw_track_changes): day walk spends its request budget on future days",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nThe `uklaw_track_changes` day walk starts at `end_date` even when that date is in the future, so it spends its four-request budget on days that can't have events. A window that ends in the future returns nothing with `has_more: true`, and the notice blames the filters. A window entirely in the future costs 8 empty calls to…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/uk-legislation-mcp-server/issues/10",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T18:05:36.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(uklaw_get_amendments): provision-scan continuation page says nothing matched",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nWhen a provision scan spans several calls, a continuation page with no further matches gets the full-scan zero-hit notice. That notice says no effect references the provision, which contradicts matches already returned on earlier pages. The early-stop fragment also says \"Only the first N…\" on continuation pages.\n\nRelated: #7…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/uk-legislation-mcp-server/issues/9",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T18:05:34.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(uklaw_get_amendments): counterpart with a provision is silently widened to the whole Act",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`uklaw_get_amendments` drops the provision from `counterpart` and widens the filter to the whole Act, with no error or notice. `uklaw_track_changes` rejects an `item` that carries a provision with `invalid_item`; `counterpart` should do the same, or filter by the counterpart's provision.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1.…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/uk-legislation-mcp-server/issues/8",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T18:05:32.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(uklaw_search_legislation): past-the-last-page notice says nothing matched and suggests widening filters",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nFor a page past the last page, the zero-hit notice still opens with \"No legislation matched\" and appends the filter-widening fragments. The query did match; only the page is out of range, so the widening advice sends the caller to change a filter that is not the problem.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1. `uklaw_search_legislation`…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/uk-legislation-mcp-server/issues/7",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T18:04:44.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(uklaw_lookup_citation): read common citation forms that miss or come back ambiguous",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\n`uklaw_lookup_citation` misses several forms that UK legal writing uses routinely, or returns them as ambiguous. For a title miss, the guidance sends the caller to `uklaw_search_legislation` `title`, which also returns 0 for these inputs. Its zero-hit notice then sends the caller back to `uklaw_lookup_citation`.\n\n| Input | Result now | Resolves to |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| `section 45 of the Data Protection Act 2018` | miss (whole string read as a title) | `ukpga/2018/12`,…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/uk-legislation-mcp-server/issues/6",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T18:04:24.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(uklaw_get_document): dated read of an unrevised instrument reports the provision missing",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nlegislation.gov.uk holds only the made text of an unrevised instrument, so any dated read 404s. The tool reports that 404 as `provision_not_found` or `version_not_found`. A caller asking for the text in force on a date after the instrument was made is told the provision had no text then, when the made text is the answer.\n\n###…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/uk-legislation-mcp-server/issues/5",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T18:04:11.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(uklaw_get_document): outline chars understate read size; outlines carry 24 KB of effects",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nThe outline `chars` value and the 40,000-character budget count text and annotation text but not the annotation citation lists, so a provision the outline reports as fitting renders to about twice that. Item-level outlines, which are the smaller read, also carry 20 full effect records, about 24 KB. Measured on the wire…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/uk-legislation-mcp-server/issues/4",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T18:04:00.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(uklaw_get_document): provision valid_from/valid_to mix dates from different elements",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`provision.valid_from` and `provision.valid_to` are each inherited from the nearest element carrying that one attribute, so on dated reads the start and end come from different elements. The result is a window that ends before it starts, or one that contradicts the same text read at another date.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1.…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/uk-legislation-mcp-server/issues/3",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T18:03:38.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(uklaw_get_amendments): pre-1963 regnal item paths always fail with filter_refused",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`uklaw_get_amendments` fails with `filter_refused` for every pre-1963 Act addressed by its regnal path, which is the form `uklaw_lookup_citation` returns and the form effect records carry in `affected.item`. The calendar-year path of the same Act returns its effects, so the recovery hint (check the item with…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/uk-legislation-mcp-server/issues/2",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T18:03:31.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(uklaw_get_document): complete per-provision unapplied effects from the table of contents",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\nA `uklaw_get_document` provision read lists only the unapplied effects legislation.gov.uk attaches to that fragment: those whose affected URI nests under the fragment's `IdURI`, plus item-wide `FoundRef` effects. Effects on an enclosing Part, Chapter or cross-heading never appear on a section read (`s. 65 heading` attaches to `part/3/chapter/4/crossheading/general-obligations`, not `section/65`), and a `part/3` read omits its sections' effects. A caller checking whether a…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/uk-legislation-mcp-server/issues/1",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T17:43:53.000Z",
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