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      "Title": "docs(readme): document versioned workflow filenames",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\nThe README's `workflow_create` section describes the permanent workflow path without the version segment, but the implementation writes versioned filenames so multiple versions can coexist. The docs should match the current storage behavior.\n\n### Proposed behavior\n\nUpdate the README bullet under `workflow_create` from:\n\n```text\ncategories/<slugified-category>/<slugified-name>-workflow.yaml\n```\n\nto the actual shape:\n\n```text\ncategories/<slugified-category>/<slugified-name>-<slugifie",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/workflows-mcp-server/issues/14",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-01T00:23:30.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(tool-defs): tighten client-facing workflow descriptions and empty-list context",
      "Excerpt": "The current tool catalog works, but several descriptions expose implementation details or coach the reader instead of describing the API surface. Tightening these strings would make `tools/list` easier for clients to use and reduce accidental coupling to local file layout.\n\n## Proposal\n\nRevise the tool descriptions, parameter descriptions, output descriptions, and empty-result text to be behavior-oriented and client-facing. Keep details that directly affect caller behavior, but avoid implementat",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/workflows-mcp-server/issues/13",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-01T00:23:20.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(seed): bundled research visualization workflow is missing category metadata",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.2\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.11\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\nThe bundled permanent workflow at `workflows-yaml/categories/research-visualization/pubmed-research-with-cosmograph-visualization-workflow.yaml` has no `category:` field. Startup logs a warning for it, and category-filtered `workflow_list` calls cannot match it by category even though it lives under a category directory.\n\n### St",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/workflows-mcp-server/issues/12",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-01T00:23:06.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(config): missing WORKFLOWS_DIR leaves watcher and snapshot disabled",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.2\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.11\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\nWhen `WORKFLOWS_DIR` points at a directory that does not exist yet, startup continues and the server reports ready, but the filesystem watcher exits immediately and `_index.json` cannot be written. This can happen on first-run installs where users have not created the workflow root before starting the server.\n\n#",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/workflows-mcp-server/issues/11",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-01T00:22:53.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(workflow_create): categories that slugify empty write into categories root",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.2\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.11\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`workflow_create` rejects whitespace-only categories, but it does not reject categories that contain no slug-safe characters. A category like `!!!` passes validation, slugifies to an empty string, and writes the workflow directly under `categories/` rather than under a category directory.\n\n### Steps to reproduce",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/workflows-mcp-server/issues/10",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-01T00:22:39.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(validation): invalid semver strings can crash latest workflow lookup",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.2\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.11\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\nThe version schema accepts strings that start with `x.y.z` but are not valid semver, such as `1.0.0junk`. Once an invalid version is indexed alongside a valid version of the same workflow, `workflow_get` without an explicit version calls `semver.rcompare` and returns an internal error instead of a workflow or va",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/workflows-mcp-server/issues/9",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-01T00:22:27.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(workflow_create): hand-written YAML can make created workflows disappear from the index",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.2\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.11\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`workflow_create` and `workflow_create_temp` build YAML by hand. Some valid string inputs are emitted as unquoted YAML scalars or unescaped mapping keys, so the tool reports `status: \"created\"` even though the next index rebuild rejects or cannot parse the file.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\nCase 1: scalar coercion\n\n",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/workflows-mcp-server/issues/8",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-01T00:22:13.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(workflow_create): duplicate name@version can overwrite index across categories",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.2\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.11\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`workflow_create` says it rejects an existing `name@version`, but the current duplicate guard only catches the same destination filename. Creating the same `name` and `version` under a different category writes a second file successfully, then the index collapses both files to one key with last-write-wins behavi",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/workflows-mcp-server/issues/7",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-01T00:21:56.000Z",
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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` sets `MCP_SESSION_MODE=auto` (uncommented). 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## Proposal\n\nMake stateless this server's single, explicit default across every surface, so the",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/workflows-mcp-server/issues/23",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-22T19:01:20.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(index): temporary entries shadow permanent workflows with the same key",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.2.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.10\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nA temporary and permanent workflow can share the same `name@version`. The rebuild scans permanent files first and temporary files second into one `Map`, so the temporary entry replaces the permanent entry. The permanent file remains on disk but disappears from `workflow_list`, `workflow_get` returns the temp copy, and `workflow_de",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/workflows-mcp-server/issues/19",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-16T05:33:27.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(validation): create tools accept whitespace-only workflow content",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.2.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.10\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`workflow_create`, `workflow_create_temp`, and the index schema use `z.string().min(1)` for several meaningful fields. Whitespace-only descriptions, authors, step server names, and step tool names therefore pass validation, are written to disk, and remain indexed. The permanent tool already applies a semantic whitespace check to `",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/workflows-mcp-server/issues/22",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-16T05:33:27.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(temp): temporary workflows persist across sessions with no expiry path",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.2.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.10\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nThe public surface describes temporary workflows as session-scoped, short-lived, and self-expiring, but `workflow_create_temp` writes ordinary YAML files and startup re-indexes every file under `temp/`. There is no expiry metadata, cleanup, or delete path, so temporary workflows persist indefinitely while `workflow_delete` refuses",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/workflows-mcp-server/issues/18",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-16T05:33:27.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(workflow_create_temp): report overwrite outcomes with output-path parity",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.2.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.10\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Use case\n\n`workflow_create_temp` documents overwrite semantics, but every call returns `status: \"created\"` even when it replaced an existing draft. Its `content[]` output also adds a temporary-workflow notice that is absent from `structuredContent`, so clients consuming the two MCP result paths do not receive the same complete result context.\n",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/workflows-mcp-server/issues/20",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-16T05:33:27.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(storage): slug-derived filenames collide for distinct workflow keys",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.2.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.10\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nWorkflow identity is `name@version`, but file identity is built from lossy slugs of both fields. Distinct valid keys can therefore map to one path. Permanent creation misreports the second distinct key as already existing; temporary creation silently overwrites the first file and removes that version from the index.\n\nRelated: #7, ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/workflows-mcp-server/issues/21",
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      "Title": "feat(workflow_delete): require explicit confirmation for destructive deletes",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\n`workflow_delete` is marked `destructiveHint: true`, but the handler deletes immediately without an elicitation/confirmation step. A call that omits `version` also deletes the highest available version immediately, which is documented behavior from #5 but still a high-blast-radius default for an irreversible operation. A confirmation gate protects any client (or agent-driven call) from an accidental or under-specified delete before the file is unlinked.\n\nRelated: #5\n\n## Proposal\n\nA",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/workflows-mcp-server/issues/17",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-03T18:10:52.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(validation): validate workflow_get and workflow_delete version inputs as semver",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.2.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.10\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.11\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`workflow_get` and `workflow_delete` describe `version` as a semver string, but their input schemas accept any string. Invalid versions like `not-semver` reach the service lookup path and return `not_found` / `version_not_found`, which misclassifies bad input as a missing workflow.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1. C",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/workflows-mcp-server/issues/16",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-03T18:10:37.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(workflow_list): trim filter values before matching",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.2.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.10\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.11\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`workflow_list` checks `query?.trim()` / `category?.trim()` to decide whether a filter is present, but then matches with the original untrimmed string. Accidental leading or trailing whitespace makes otherwise-valid query, category, and tag filters return zero results.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1. Start the serv",
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