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      "Title": "bug(service): api_timeout and api_unavailable never reach the wire with reason or recovery",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.4.2\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.3\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nAll 18 tools declare `api_timeout` and `api_unavailable` (`thrownBy: 'service'`), but `USASpendingService.request()` attaches no `reason`, `retryable`, or `recovery`, so neither `structuredContent.error` nor `content[]` carries the declared hint.\n\n`usaspending_disaster_spending`'s hint (fewer DEF codes or a smaller limit) would…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server/issues/57",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-12T16:48:36.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(usaspending_disaster_spending): recipient id is comma-joined when upstream sends several",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.4.3\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`disaster/recipient/spending/` returns each row's `id` as an array of recipient hash IDs. The tool maps it with `String(r.id)`, so a recipient that has both a child-level and a recipient-level ID comes back as one comma-joined string. That string is not a valid `recipient_id` for `usaspending_get_recipient`.\n\nRelated: #63.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1. Call…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server/issues/65",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-25T05:58:20.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(date-filters): an inverted date range is sent upstream and surfaces as api_unavailable",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.4.3\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nNo date input checks that the start precedes the end. An inverted range (start after end) goes upstream as-is:\n\n- `search/spending_over_time/`, `spending_by_category/`, and `spending_by_geography/` answer HTML 500. The service classifies that as `api_unavailable`, retries it, and tells the caller the API may be down. Retrying can never help.\n-…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server/issues/64",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-25T04:50:03.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(usaspending_disaster_spending): surface breakdown totals and budgetary resources",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\n`usaspending_disaster_spending`'s breakdown dimensions are the working route to disaster totals while the upstream `/disaster/overview/` endpoint times out, but the tool drops the totals the breakdown response already carries, so a caller has to sum rows for obligations and outlays and cannot get budgetary resources at all.\n\nRelated: #57\n\n### Proposed behavior\n\nSurface the breakdown response's `totals` object (`obligation`, `outlay`, `total_budgetary_resources`) and the per-row…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server/issues/63",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-25T03:51:40.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(date-filters): a lone start or end date is dropped but echoed as applied",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.4.3\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 (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nThe optional date-range inputs send a `time_period` upstream only when both ends are present (`buildFilters` in `filters.ts`, and the `filters.time_period_*` branch of `usaspending_search_awards`). A lone start or end date is dropped without notice, but the response still echoes it as `applied_time_period_start` /…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server/issues/62",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-25T03:51:38.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(usaspending_search_awards): filter awards by assistance listing (CFDA) number",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\nAgents researching a grant program need \"who has won awards under Assistance Listing 93.866, and for how much.\" `usaspending_autocomplete_filters type=cfda` returns the listing number with a note to use it in filter parameters, but `usaspending_search_awards` has no filter that accepts it, so the lookup dead-ends.\n\n### Proposed behavior\n\nAdd an `assistance_listings` input (array of listing numbers) to `usaspending_search_awards`, mapped to the USAspending API's `program_numbers`…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server/issues/61",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-22T20:55:02.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(usaspending_search_awards): sort is not award-type-aware — loans fail by default, IDVs reject End Date",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.4.3\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 (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### OS\n\nLinux (Docker)\n\n### Description\n\n`sort` on `usaspending_search_awards` defaults to `Award Amount` for every award type, but `/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/` checks the sort against a per-group field mapping and answers 400 outside it. Loans (`07`/`08`) have no `Award Amount`, `Total Outlays`, `Start Date`, or `End Date`, so a loan search…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server/issues/60",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-22T04:21:25.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(date-filters): date format is prose-only, and the upstream 4xx detail never reaches the error text",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.4.2\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.12.3\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNot recorded\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nThe ten date inputs — `usaspending_search_awards` `time_period.start_date` / `end_date` and `filters.time_period_start` / `time_period_end`, plus `filters.time_period_start` / `time_period_end` on the three `usaspending_spending_*` tools — are bare `z.string()` fields with `YYYY-MM-DD` only in `.describe()`, so the advertised…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server/issues/58",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-18T07:00:42.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(spending-filters): expose program, PSC, and emergency funding filters",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\nA water-program analyst can discover Assistance Listing `15.507`, PSC `Y1NE`, and DEF code `Z` through the current tools, but cannot reuse those codes to ask where or when the corresponding funding was spent. `usaspending_search_awards` supports Assistance Listings only; the three general analytics tools support none of these filters.\n\n### Proposed behavior\n\nExtend the existing award-search and shared analytics filters with the relevant `assistance_listings`, `psc_codes`, and…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server/issues/77",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-30T08:08:40.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(pagination): exact-cap results are falsely labeled truncated",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.4.4\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.4.2\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nExact-cap results are reported as definitely truncated even when the complete set was returned. Related: #30 and #54. Conservative continuation can be useful, but it is different from known truncation.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\nCall `usaspending_autocomplete_filters` with `{\"type\":\"naics\",\"search_text\":\"Water\",\"limit\":10}`; repeat at…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server/issues/76",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-30T08:08:38.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(usaspending_get_agency): conflicting identifiers silently ignore agency_slug",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.4.4\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.4.2\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`usaspending_get_agency` says to provide either `toptier_code` or `agency_slug`, never both, but accepts conflicting identifiers and silently ignores the slug.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\nCall with `{\"toptier_code\":\"014\",\"agency_slug\":\"department-of-defense\"}`.\n\n### Actual behavior\n\nSuccessful Department of the Interior profile with no…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server/issues/75",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-30T08:08:36.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(filters): unsupported nested keys become unfiltered successful queries",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.4.4\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.4.2\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nUnsupported nested filter keys are silently stripped by the definitions' non-strict Zod objects. The tools then succeed with a broader query; top-level strict validation does not protect these objects.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\nCall `usaspending_search_awards` with…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server/issues/74",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-30T08:08:33.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(usaspending_disaster_spending): geography ignores limits and returns unbounded rows",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.4.4\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.4.2\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`usaspending_disaster_spending` ignores `limit` and `page` on its geography branch and returns an unbounded county table. Unlike #19, this branch requires client-side adaptation because the provider geography endpoint is not paginated.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\nCall with…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server/issues/73",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-30T08:08:31.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(usaspending_spending_by_geography): capped counties have no complete retrieval route",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.4.4\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.4.2\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`usaspending_spending_by_geography` discloses its cap but cannot retrieve the omitted counties for the same query. The cap introduced in #48 works; its filter-down guidance cannot select an omitted geographic area.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\nCall with `scope: \"place_of_performance\"`, `geo_layer: \"county\"`, `limit: 500`, and filters for…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server/issues/72",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-30T08:08:29.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(usaspending_autocomplete_filters): replaces matched sub-agency with parent",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.4.4\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.4.2\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`usaspending_autocomplete_filters` replaces matched sub-agencies with their top-tier parent's name and discards the tier and chainable code. This differs from #2's empty-result-field fix.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\nCall with `{\"type\":\"awarding_agency\",\"search_text\":\"Geological\",\"limit\":5}`; compare [the provider…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server/issues/71",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-30T08:08:27.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(usaspending_search_awards): county guidance contradicts provider location format",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.4.4\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.4.2\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`usaspending_search_awards.location_filter.county` recommends a five-digit FIPS code, but [USAspending location filters](https://github.com/fedspendingtransparency/usaspending-api/blob/master/usaspending_api/api_contracts/search_filters.md#standard-location-object) require the three-digit county component with a state and country. The…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server/issues/70",
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      "Title": "bug(usaspending_get_agency): suppresses failed budget and sub-agency requests",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.4.4\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.4.2\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP); fault injection into built handler\n\n### Description\n\n`usaspending_get_agency` converts budgetary-resource and sub-agency request failures into empty successful data without a partial-result notice. A missing breakdown is reported as `has_more_sub_agencies: false`.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\nKeep `getAgency` successful; inject `ServiceUnavailable` into…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server/issues/69",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-30T08:08:22.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(usaspending_get_award): drops assistance listings and recipient identity fields",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.4.4\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.4.2\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`usaspending_get_award` drops populated Assistance Listing, recipient UEI, business-category, and country fields from [USAspending award detail](https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/awards/ASST_NON_R24AP00702_014/). These are different mappings from the financial/PSC fields fixed in #36.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\nCall with…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server/issues/68",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-30T08:08:20.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(usaspending_get_recipient): fiscal-year and award-type filters are ignored",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.4.4\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.4.2\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`usaspending_get_recipient` advertises fiscal-year and award-type scoping, but sends unsupported `fiscal_year` and `award_type` query parameters. [USAspending](https://github.com/fedspendingtransparency/usaspending-api/blob/master/usaspending_api/api_contracts/contracts/v2/recipient/recipient_id.md) accepts `year`, defaults to the…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server/issues/67",
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