report-issue-local

report-issue-local is a skill for Claude Code from cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server. It costs 44 tokens per session (2,955 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of report-issue-local, Apache-2.0.

A procedure for filing bugs or feature requests against an MCP server's own code. An MCP server is a program that gives an AI agent access to tools or data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify the correct repository, search existing issues, prepare a minimal reproduction, and report tool, integration, configuration, or domain-logic defects.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish server-specific problems from framework problems and avoids filing duplicate or unsupported reports.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the openalex-mcp-server plugin — 32 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to identify the correct repository, search existing issues, prepare a minimal reproduction, and report tool, integration, configuration, or domain-logic defects.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server/report-issue-local
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server --skill report-issue-local
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install openalex-mcp-server, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,955 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00044 $0.02955
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01477
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00591
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00296

Measured 10d ago against content hash 424389e230d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

report-issue-local scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to report-issue-local — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/report-issue-local/SKILL.md · 310 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 310 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to Use

The bug is in this server's code, not in @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core. Typical triggers:

  • A tool handler returns wrong results or throws on valid input
  • A service integration (external API, database, third-party SDK) fails or misbehaves
  • Server-specific config (server-config.ts) rejects valid env vars or has wrong defaults
  • Resource handlers return stale, incomplete, or incorrect data
  • Domain logic errors — wrong calculations, missing edge cases, bad state transitions
  • Missing or incorrect .describe() on schema fields causing poor LLM tool use

If the issue is in the framework itself (builders, Context, utilities, type exports, linter), use report-issue-framework instead.

For general gh CLI workflows outside issue filing (PRs, workflows, API access), see the github-cli skill.

Before Filing

  1. Identify the repo:
gh repo view --json nameWithOwner -q '.nameWithOwner'
  1. Search existing issues — if a close match exists (same symptom, different tool; same tool, different symptom; closed issue that might cover the new case), add a comment on that issue instead of filing a new one — unless the symptom or scope is distinct enough to warrant separate tracking:
gh issue list --search "your error message or keyword" --state all

# Assess a close match before commenting — is it already linked to a fix or referenced elsewhere?
gh issue view <number> --comments
gh api 'repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/<number>/timeline' --paginate \
  --jq '.[] | select(.event=="cross-referenced") | .source.issue | "\(.repository.full_name)#\(.number) — \(.title)"'
  1. Reproduce the issue — confirm it's reproducible. Note the exact input, transport mode, and any relevant env vars.

  2. Check logs — review ctx.log output and any framework telemetry for clues. If running HTTP, check the response body for structured error details.

Writing Well-Structured Issues

Good issues are scannable, concrete, and self-contained — terse and fact-dense. Default to one or two sentences per bullet; if a bullet runs long, split it or cut it. These patterns apply to both bugs and features — the guidance targets any prose block (Description, Additional context, feature proposals).

Read the full file on GitHub · 310 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 310 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 424389e230d2

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report-issue-local is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server (14 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 2,955 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to report-issue-local, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.