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      "Title": "bug(comtrade_get_services_trade): cmdDesc enrichment uses HS lookup instead of EBOPS lookup",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.2\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n^0.9.9\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 24.x\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`comtrade_get_services_trade` returns wrong `cmdDesc` values for service categories. The description enrichment fallback in `ComtradeDataService.fetchTradeData` always calls `ref.getHsCode(row.cmdCode)` regardless of trade type. EBOPS service category codes (e.g. `\"10\"`, `\"3\"`, `\"1\"`) collide with HS chapter codes. When the…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/un-comtrade-mcp-server/issues/6",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-26T06:08:22.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(comtrade_get_top_partners): same partner appears multiple times in results",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.2\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n^0.9.9\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 24.x\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`comtrade_get_top_partners` returns duplicate entries for the same partner country. Same root cause as #4: when querying without `partnerCode`, the API returns one row per distinct `(partnerCode, motCode, customsCode, partner2Code)` combination. For Germany 2022, Poland (`partnerCode=616`) appears at rank 2 as `motCode=0,…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/un-comtrade-mcp-server/issues/5",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-26T06:08:06.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(comtrade_get_trade_balance): balance values inflated due to multi-HS-edition summation",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.2\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n^0.9.9\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 24.x\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`comtrade_get_trade_balance` produces grossly inflated trade values — approximately 8–9x the real figure for tested countries. Root cause: the Comtrade preview API returns one row per distinct `(motCode, customsCode, partner2Code)` combination for each reporter/flow/period/cmdCode. For example, Germany 2022 exports with…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/un-comtrade-mcp-server/issues/4",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-26T06:07:51.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(setup): reference data load log silently dropped — logger not initialized during setup()",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.9.9\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 25.9.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 25.1.0\n\n### Description\n\nThe `setup()` callback in `src/index.ts` calls `core.logger.info('Comtrade reference data loaded...')` to confirm that reference data was loaded at startup. This log message is silently dropped and never appears in the server output.\n\nRoot cause: the mcp-ts-core framework initializes the logger (via `logger.initialize()`)…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/un-comtrade-mcp-server/issues/3",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-26T02:29:13.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(comtrade_get_top_commodities): aggrLevel filter passes all records when API returns null for aggrLevel field",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.9.9\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 25.9.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 25.1.0\n\n### Description\n\n`comtrade_get_top_commodities` returns 6-digit HS codes when called with `aggr_level: 2` (chapters). The Comtrade preview endpoint returns records with `aggrLevel: null` regardless of the `aggrLevel` query parameter — the API accepts the param but doesn't filter rows by it. The handler filter at line 143 is:\n\n```ts\nconst…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/un-comtrade-mcp-server/issues/2",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-26T02:28:58.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(comtrade-reference-service): server crashes at startup — reference endpoint response envelope not unwrapped",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.9.9\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 25.9.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 25.1.0\n\n### Description\n\nThe server crashes immediately at startup with `TypeError: reporters is not iterable`. The `ComtradeReferenceService.fetchJson` method typed and cast each reference file response as a direct array (`T[]`), but every UN Comtrade reference endpoint wraps its data in a `{ \"results\": [...] }` envelope. Iterating over the…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/un-comtrade-mcp-server/issues/1",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-26T02:28:43.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(config): default MCP_SESSION_MODE to stateless across env, Docker, and src",
      "Excerpt": "`Dockerfile` sets `ENV MCP_SESSION_MODE=\"stateless\"`, but `.env.example` carries a commented `# MCP_SESSION_MODE=stateful`, whose comment documents the value set as `stateful | stateless (default: stateful)`. The container and the same code run via `bunx`, `npm start`, or from source therefore resolve to different session modes — stateless in Docker, stateful everywhere else, since the framework schema defaults to `auto` and `auto` resolves to `stateful`.\n\nRelated: cyanheads/mcp-ts-core#376\n\n##…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/un-comtrade-mcp-server/issues/12",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-22T19:01:14.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(comtrade_get_trade_flows): multi-period calls always fail without a subscription key — preview endpoint accepts one period",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.6\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\n\n### Description\n\n`comtrade_get_trade_flows`, `comtrade_get_trade_balance`, and `comtrade_get_services_trade` all declare `period` as 1–12 entries and describe passing several years in one call to build a time series. The [UN Comtrade](https://comtradeplus.un.org/) public preview endpoint accepts exactly one period, so on the keyless path — the default — every…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/un-comtrade-mcp-server/issues/13",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-20T21:16:11.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(comtrade_get_data_availability): default classification should follow type_code — services lookups need EB10, not HS",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.5\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.3\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### Description\n\n`comtrade_get_data_availability` defaults `classification` to `\"HS\"`, but services availability lives under EB10. So `type_code: \"S\"` with defaults always returns empty, even for reporters with substantial services coverage — verified: USA with defaults → 0 datasets; USA with `classification: \"EB10\"` → 14 datasets (2021 alone: 10,640 records).\n\nThe recovery hint…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/un-comtrade-mcp-server/issues/11",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-21T15:21:37.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(comtrade_get_services_trade): 200 responses without a data field are silently normalized to empty results",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.5\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.3\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### Description\n\n`comtrade-data-service.ts:92` normalizes every upstream response with `raw.data ?? []`. Any HTTP 200 body that lacks a `data` field — including API rate-limit/quota envelopes, which the Comtrade preview endpoint returns with a 200 in some paths — is silently converted to \"0 records\". A transient rate-limit response is therefore indistinguishable from genuine empty coverage,…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/un-comtrade-mcp-server/issues/10",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-21T15:21:35.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(comtrade-data-service): free-tier truncation flag can never fire — preview endpoint caps totalCount alongside rows",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.5\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.3\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### Description\n\nThe tools' `truncated` output field is documented as \"True when results were capped at 500\" (free-tier preview cap), but the condition computing it can never be true on the free tier, because the preview endpoint caps its `count` field at 500 alongside the rows. The disclosure is dead exactly when data is actually cut.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1. Keyless, call…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/un-comtrade-mcp-server/issues/9",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-21T15:21:03.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(comtrade_get_top_commodities): chapter-level rankings return wrong values — duplicate chapters, totals far below reporter total",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.5\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.3\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### Description\n\n`comtrade_get_top_commodities` at chapter level (`aggr_level: 2`) returns impossible rankings and totals that are a small fraction of the reporter's real trade. Chapter `97` appears twice in a single top-5 ranking, and the summed total is ~3% of what the sibling tools report for the identical reporter/period/flow.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1. Call…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/un-comtrade-mcp-server/issues/8",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-21T15:20:40.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(comtrade_get_trade_flows): add SITC classification support",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\nThe `classification` parameter on `comtrade_get_trade_flows` and `comtrade_get_trade_balance` is restricted to HS variants only (`HS | H0 | H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 | H6`). The [UN Comtrade API](https://comtradeplus.un.org/) also publishes commodity data under the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revisions 1–4 (`S1`–`S4`, plus the combined `SS`), but passing any of these codes is blocked at the Zod layer before the request is sent. Trade research workflows that…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/un-comtrade-mcp-server/issues/7",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-03T23:55:40.000Z",
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