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  "works": "(1) Started: the hosted Streamable HTTP endpoint https://mcp.byteask.ai/mcp answered initialize with HTTP 200 in about 1 s and no key or account. It returned protocol 2025-06-18, serverInfo 'code-search-mcp' 1.28.0, an Mcp-Session-Id, and long instructions describing the corpus. notifications/initialized returned 202. (2) tools/list loaded 3 tools: search_docs(query, limit, effort), get_context(result_id, effort) and request_document(request), each with an outputSchema. (3) Real calls worked, about 3.3-3.7 s each. 'Modbus function code to write multiple holding registers' returned a verbatim MODBUS Application Protocol V1.1b3 snippet for 6.12 '16 (0x10) Write Multiple registers' with the request/response byte layout, p.30, plus the public function-code table on p.11. 'SCPI command to measure DC voltage' returned SCPI 1999 Vol 1 snippets with :MEASure:VOLTage:DC?. 'Cortex-M SYST_CSR register bit fields' returned Arm DUI 0553B section 4.4.1 with the reset value and bit layout. 'Modbus exception code 02' returned section 7, ILLEGAL DATA ADDRESS. get_context on the FC16 ref expanded it to the full section, including the FC16 text. Edge cases: two nonsense queries were labelled '_No confident match in the indexed corpus \u2014 treat as not found; do not fabricate_'. A made-up result_id gave a clean '_Not found: does-not-exist:0:0:0_'.",
  "breaks": "1) Wrong-family hit with no warning: 'STM32H7 ETH_DMACTXDLAR register offset' returned RM0090 (STM32F4) ETH_DMATDLAR/ETH_DMARDLAR at 0x1010/0x100C as top hits with no 'no confident match' note, so an agent could take an F4 offset for an H7 part. This is the exact register in the README demo. 2) Section labels in citations are often garbled: the FC16 hit (section 6.12) is labelled '\u00a75 Currently in Listen Only Mode', and others read '\u00a70.46 ns).' or '\u00a77 CXX-DRIZZ 25 SPZ-TDBZZ'. Page numbers looked right. 3) get_context for the FC16 hit returned the whole mislabelled 'section 5' block, pp.28-46: about 60 KB and 915 lines, a large token cost for one fact. 4) A no-match result still appends low-relevance hits under the warning, e.g. a Matplotlib donut 'recipe' and Cboe PITCH symbol rows for nonsense queries. 5) An empty query took 16 s and then returned isError with the raw backend embedding-provider error ('embedding failed: 400 INVALID_ARGUMENT ... EmbedContentRequest.content contains an empty Part'). Input isn't validated and backend internals leak. 6) limit=0 was ignored and returned 8 hits (the default). 7) The serverInfo name ('code-search-mcp' 1.28.0) doesn't match the repo/registry name or the repo's pyproject version 0.1.0, so the tested version can't be tied to a repo commit. Untested: the local OSS server with SampleBackend (uv), request_document (it writes a server-side request, so I avoided it), bearer auth and DNS-rebinding protection in local HTTP mode, and behaviour inside Claude Code/Cursor.",
  "last_tested": "2026-10-19T10:24:00-07:00",
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  "test_method": "scripts/prescreen github ByteAsk/ByteAsk-Embedded-MCP gave clean, and I read the README, server.py and obs.py from raw.githubusercontent with curl. A small Python urllib Streamable-HTTP JSON-RPC client ran inside 'sandbox-run testbuilder3'. It sent only standard MCP traffic over 2 sessions: initialize, notifications/initialized, tools/list, and 10 tools/call. That was 8 search_docs calls (Modbus FC16, STM32H7 ETH_DMACTXDLAR, SCPI DC voltage, SYST_CSR, Modbus exception 02, two nonsense queries, one empty query, one with limit 0) and 2 get_context calls (a real ref and a fake id). request_document was not called. No account, no key, no local install. The raw client scripts and JSON responses are in our internal notes.",
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  "tool_version_tested": "Hosted https://mcp.byteask.ai/mcp, serverInfo code-search-mcp 1.28.0 (2026-10-19); repo main e7103ad (pyproject 0.1.0) not run locally",
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    "claim": "Hosted endpoint needs no install, no key, no signup",
    "status": "verified",
    "source": "SDK connect to https://mcp.byteask.ai/mcp without auth"
   },
   {
    "claim": "Returns verbatim snippets with section + page citations",
    "status": "partially_verified",
    "source": "Snippets look verbatim with page numbers; \u00a7 labels often wrong"
   },
   {
    "claim": "On a miss it returns an honest 'no confident match' rather than fabricate",
    "status": "partially_verified",
    "source": "Nonsense/nRF/ATmega flagged; STM32G0 ADC returned F4 RM0090 without the flag"
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   {
    "claim": "get_context expands a hit to its full source section",
    "status": "verified",
    "source": "get_context returned large section text (~140 KB)"
   },
   {
    "claim": "Bundled SampleBackend runs locally with no API keys (uv sync && uv run byteask-embedded-mcp)",
    "status": "unverified",
    "source": "Local mode not run; tested hosted only"
   },
   {
    "claim": "Bundled SampleBackend runs locally with no API keys",
    "status": "unverified",
    "source": "Local mode not run"
   },
   {
    "claim": "HTTP without MCP_HTTP_AUTH_TOKEN is unauthenticated (dev only)",
    "status": "verified",
    "source": "src/byteask_embedded_mcp/http_auth.py + .env.example (source review; local HTTP not started)"
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  "scoring_note": "Quality 3: no-account hosted MCP; all three MCP steps worked, and on-topic Modbus/SCPI/Cortex-M queries got useful verbatim page-cited text. Held at 3 because the core 'cited or no match' promise slipped on the wrong-MCU-family hit, section labels were garbled, get_context output was huge, the empty query leaked an error, and limit was ignored.",
  "security_flags": [
   "Hosted mode sends every query to a third party. The OSS server logs each tool call as JSONL (obs.py), so assume the hosted endpoint logs queries too. Don't send proprietary code or part details.",
   "The server instructions and tool descriptions tell agents to call search_docs 'before any web search' and 'the moment you see' many triggers. That is aggressive self-promotion of the tool in agent context.",
   "An empty query returns raw backend embedding-provider error text (backend internals leak).",
   "README says the bundled HTTP bearer check is a shared-secret stub; self-hosted HTTP without MCP_HTTP_AUTH_TOKEN is unauthenticated.",
   "Hosted mode sends every query to a third party; OSS obs.py logs tool calls as JSONL \u2014 assume hosted logs queries too",
   "Empty query returns raw backend embedding-provider error text (internals leak) \u2014 confirmed",
   "Self-hosted HTTP: http_auth.py / .env.example \u2014 MCP_HTTP_AUTH_TOKEN empty \u2192 UNAUTHENTICATED with loud warning; bearer is a shared-secret stub",
   "Server/tool copy pushes agents to call search_docs early (aggressive self-promotion in agent context)"
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  "danger": null,
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   "outcome": "confirmed",
   "by": "checker2",
   "tested": "2026-10-19T11:09:20-07:00",
   "note": "Confirmed full / 3. Different method: official MCP Python SDK streamable_http_client (not hand urllib JSON-RPC) with different queries (CAN/I2C/SPI/UART/J1939, STM32G0 ADC, nRF52840, ESP32 GPIO, ATmega, LPC1768, STM32H743 ETH_MACMDIOAR) and edges (empty, whitespace, limit=0, long aaaa). Wrong-family miss without warning reproduced on STM32G0\u2192RM0090 F4; empty query still leaks EmbedContentRequest empty Part; section labels still garbled; limit=0 still ignored."
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