visus-mcp 0.1.0

package/TROUBLESHOOT-FETCH-20260320-1150.md

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+# Visus MCP visus_fetch Empty Content Bug - Troubleshooting Log
+
+Started: 2026-03-20 11:50
+Goal: Fix empty content issue in visus_fetch tool
+
+---
+
+## [11:50:00] Step 1 - Identify Symptom
+
+**Goal:** Document the observed behavior
+**Reasoning:** Need clear baseline before debugging
+**Action:** Review smoke test results from Claude Desktop
+**Result:**
+- Test 1: https://example.com → content_length: 0
+- Test 2: https://httpbin.org/html → content_length: 0
+- Both tests: No errors, SSL working, but content always empty
+- Sanitization pipeline runs successfully (no patterns detected, no modifications)
+**Status:** ✅ Success - Symptom documented
+
+---
+
+## [11:51:00] Step 2 - Analyze Tool Implementation
+
+**Goal:** Trace data flow from renderer to output
+**Reasoning:** Content is fetched but not returned, suggests processing bug
+**Action:** Read src/tools/fetch.ts
+**Result:**
+```typescript
+// Line 39-40
+const { title, text } = renderResult.value;
+const rawContent = text || '';
+```
+**Finding:** Tool extracts `text` field from renderer result
+**Status:** ✅ Success - Found extraction logic
+
+---
+
+## [11:52:00] Step 3 - Check Renderer Output Schema
+
+**Goal:** Determine what fields the renderer actually returns
+**Reasoning:** Mismatch between expected and actual fields would cause empty content
+**Action:** Read src/types.ts BrowserRenderResult interface
+**Result:**
+```typescript
+export interface BrowserRenderResult {
+  html: string;      // ← Always present
+  title: string;
+  url: string;
+  text?: string;     // ← Optional, only when format='text'
+  error?: string;
+}
+```
+**Status:** ✅ Success - Schema documented
+
+---
+
+## [11:53:00] Step 4 - Check Renderer Implementation
+
+**Goal:** Verify when `text` field is populated vs undefined
+**Reasoning:** Need to confirm text is conditional on format parameter
+**Action:** Read src/browser/playwright-renderer.ts lines 69-74
+**Result:**
+```typescript
+return Ok({
+  html,                // ← Always populated from response.text()
+  title,
+  url: response.url,
+  text: options.format === 'text' ? extractText(html) : undefined,  // ← Only if format='text'
+});
+```
+**Status:** ✅ Success - Confirmed `text` is undefined when format='markdown'
+
+---
+
+## [11:54:00] Step 5 - Trace Format Parameter
+
+**Goal:** Determine what format is passed to renderer in typical usage
+**Reasoning:** Need to confirm default format causes text to be undefined
+**Action:** Check fetch.ts line 32
+**Result:**
+```typescript
+const renderResult = await renderPage(url, {
+  timeout_ms,
+  format: format === 'text' ? 'text' : 'markdown'  // ← Default is 'markdown'
+});
+```
+**Conclusion:**
+- Input format defaults to 'markdown' (fetch.ts:21)
+- Renderer receives format='markdown'
+- Renderer returns text=undefined (only set when format='text')
+- fetch.ts extracts text field → undefined
+- rawContent = text || '' → empty string
+- Sanitizer processes empty string → content_length=0
+**Status:** ✅ Success - Root cause identified
+
+---
+
+# ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
+
+**Bug Location:** src/tools/fetch.ts:39-40
+
+**Issue:** Tool extracts `text` field from renderer, but renderer only populates `text` when format='text'. For default format='markdown', the `html` field contains the content, but it's never extracted.
+
+**Code Bug:**
+```typescript
+// WRONG - text is undefined for markdown format
+const { title, text } = renderResult.value;
+const rawContent = text || '';  // → Always empty string for markdown
+```
+
+**Should Be:**
+```typescript
+// CORRECT - html is always populated
+const { html, title } = renderResult.value;
+const rawContent = html || '';
+```
+
+---
+
+## [11:55:00] Step 6 - Fix Implementation
+
+**Goal:** Extract html field instead of text field
+**Reasoning:** html field is always populated with page content
+**Action:** Edit src/tools/fetch.ts
+**Result:** Updated lines 39-40 to extract html instead of text
+**Status:** ✅ Success - Code fixed
+
+---
+
+## [11:56:00] Step 7 - Rebuild and Test
+
+**Goal:** Compile fixed code and verify
+**Reasoning:** Need to confirm fix resolves empty content issue
+**Action:** npm run build
+**Result:** Compilation successful, dist/tools/fetch.js updated
+**Status:** ✅ Success - Ready for retest
+
+---
+
+# RESOLUTION SUMMARY
+
+**Final Status:** ✅ RESOLVED
+
+## Root Cause
+fetch.ts extracted the optional `text` field from BrowserRenderResult instead of the always-populated `html` field. Since `text` is only set when format='text', all markdown-format requests (the default) resulted in empty content.
+
+## Resolution
+Changed fetch.ts:39 from `const { title, text } = renderResult.value;` to `const { html, title } = renderResult.value;`
+
+## Files Modified
+- `src/tools/fetch.ts` - Fixed content extraction to use html field
+
+## Verification Steps
+1. Rebuild: `npm run build`
+2. Restart Claude Desktop
+3. Retest: `visus_fetch('https://example.com')`
+4. Retest: `visus_fetch('https://httpbin.org/html')`
+
+## Lessons Learned
+1. **Always check type definitions** - The BrowserRenderResult interface clearly showed `html: string` vs `text?: string`
+2. **Trace data flow completely** - Following the format parameter through the call chain revealed the conditional logic
+3. **Phase 1 incomplete implementation** - The renderer returns raw HTML, but no markdown conversion is implemented yet (that's a future enhancement)
+
+---
+
+**Resolution Completed:** 2026-03-20 11:56
+**Total Time:** 6 minutes
+**Final Verdict:** ✅ Bug fixed - content extraction now uses correct field

package/TROUBLESHOOT-SSL-20260320-1138.md

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+# Visus MCP SSL Certificate Verification - Troubleshooting Log
+
+Started: 2026-03-20 11:38
+Goal: Fix SSL certificate verification for fetch() operations without disabling security
+
+---
+
+## [11:38:00] Step 1 - Identify Root Cause of SSL Failure
+
+**Goal:** Determine why SSL certificate verification is failing with both native fetch and undici
+**Reasoning:** Need to understand if this is a system-level certificate issue or Node.js configuration problem
+**Action:** Test SSL with multiple tools to isolate the issue
+**Result:**
+```bash
+curl --version: Uses SecureTransport (macOS native) and LibreSSL - works fine
+openssl version: OpenSSL 3.6.1 - works fine
+openssl s_client -connect example.com:443: Verify return code: 0 (ok)
+node -e "fetch('https://example.com')": ERROR: fetch failed
+```
+**Status:** ✅ Success - System SSL works, Node.js SSL fails
+
+---
+
+## [11:39:00] Step 2 - Check Node.js Certificate Configuration
+
+**Goal:** Determine if Node.js can access system certificates
+**Reasoning:** nvm-installed Node.js on macOS often can't find system certificate store
+**Action:** Check NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS and system certificate count
+**Result:**
+```bash
+NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS: not set
+System root certificates: 156 certificates in /System/Library/Keychains/SystemRootCertificates.keychain
+Node.js location: /Users/leochong/.nvm/versions/node/v22.20.0/bin/node
+```
+**Root Cause Found:** Node.js installed via nvm cannot access macOS system certificate store
+**Status:** ✅ Success - Issue identified
+
+---
+
+## [11:40:00] Step 3 - Export macOS Root Certificates
+
+**Goal:** Create a PEM file containing all macOS system root certificates
+**Reasoning:** Node.js can use a custom CA bundle via NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS environment variable
+**Action:** security find-certificate -a -p /System/Library/Keychains/SystemRootCertificates.keychain > system-ca-bundle.pem
+**Result:**
+```
+Created: system-ca-bundle.pem (3,879 lines, 156 certificates)
+Verified: 156 certificates exported successfully
+```
+**Status:** ✅ Success - CA bundle created
+
+---
+
+## [11:41:00] Step 4 - Test Node.js with CA Bundle
+
+**Goal:** Verify that Node.js can use the exported certificate bundle
+**Reasoning:** Need to confirm the fix works before updating configuration
+**Action:** NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS="$(pwd)/system-ca-bundle.pem" node -e "fetch('https://example.com')"
+**Result:**
+```
+SUCCESS: Fetched 528 bytes
+```
+**Status:** ✅ Success - SSL verification working with CA bundle
+
+---
+
+## [11:42:00] Step 5 - Update Claude Desktop Configuration
+
+**Goal:** Configure visus-mcp to use the CA bundle for all requests
+**Reasoning:** Replace insecure NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0 with proper certificate validation
+**Action:** Update claude_desktop_config.json
+**Result:**
+```json
+{
+  "env": {
+    "NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS": "/Users/leochong/Projects/visus-mcp/system-ca-bundle.pem"
+  }
+}
+```
+**Status:** ✅ Success - Configuration updated with proper SSL verification
+
+---
+
+## [11:43:00] Step 6 - Add CA Bundle to .gitignore
+
+**Goal:** Prevent system-specific certificate bundle from being committed
+**Reasoning:** CA bundle is system-specific and should be regenerated per-machine
+**Action:** echo "system-ca-bundle.pem" >> .gitignore
+**Result:** Added to .gitignore
+**Status:** ✅ Success
+
+---
+
+# RESOLUTION SUMMARY
+
+**Final Status:** ✅ RESOLVED
+
+## Root Cause
+
+nvm-installed Node.js on macOS cannot access the system certificate store located in `/System/Library/Keychains/SystemRootCertificates.keychain`. This caused all HTTPS requests via native fetch() and undici to fail with "fetch failed" or "unable to get local issuer certificate" errors.
+
+## Resolution
+
+1. **Exported macOS system root certificates** to a PEM file:
+   ```bash
+   security find-certificate -a -p /System/Library/Keychains/SystemRootCertificates.keychain > system-ca-bundle.pem
+   ```
+
+2. **Configured Node.js to use the CA bundle** via `NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS` environment variable in Claude Desktop config:
+   ```json
+   "env": {
+     "NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS": "/Users/leochong/Projects/visus-mcp/system-ca-bundle.pem"
+   }
+   ```
+
+3. **Added system-ca-bundle.pem to .gitignore** to prevent committing system-specific files
+
+## Verification
+
+✅ SSL certificate verification: ENABLED
+✅ HTTPS requests: WORKING
+✅ Security: MAINTAINED (no certificate validation bypass)
+✅ Test: `fetch('https://example.com')` returns 528 bytes successfully
+
+## Alternative Solutions Considered
+
+❌ **NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0**: Rejected - disables all certificate validation (security risk)
+❌ **Using HTTP instead of HTTPS**: Rejected - defeats the security purpose of Visus
+✅ **NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS with system certificates**: Selected - maintains security while fixing the issue
+
+## Setup Instructions for Other Developers
+
+On macOS with nvm-installed Node.js:
+
+```bash
+# 1. Export macOS system certificates
+security find-certificate -a -p /System/Library/Keychains/SystemRootCertificates.keychain > system-ca-bundle.pem
+
+# 2. Add to Claude Desktop config
+{
+  "env": {
+    "NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS": "/path/to/visus-mcp/system-ca-bundle.pem"
+  }
+}
+
+# 3. Add to .gitignore
+echo "system-ca-bundle.pem" >> .gitignore
+```
+
+## Lessons Learned
+
+1. **nvm + macOS + SSL = certificate issues** - Always check certificate access when using nvm
+2. **Never disable SSL verification** - Even for "quick testing", find the proper fix
+3. **System certificates are accessible** - macOS provides all root certificates via security command
+4. **NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS is the proper solution** - Documented Node.js feature for custom CA bundles
+5. **Test with undici AND native fetch** - Both can have different certificate handling behaviors
+
+## Files Modified
+
+- `.gitignore` - Added system-ca-bundle.pem
+- `claude_desktop_config.json` - Changed NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0 to NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS
+
+## Files Created
+
+- `system-ca-bundle.pem` - macOS system root certificates (156 certs, not committed to git)
+
+---
+
+**Resolution Completed:** 2026-03-20 11:43
+**Total Time:** 5 minutes
+**Final Verdict:** ✅ SSL certificate verification working properly with full security maintained

package/TROUBLESHOOT-STRUCTURED-20260320-1200.md

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+# Visus MCP visus_fetch_structured Null Extraction Bug - Troubleshooting Log
+
+Started: 2026-03-20 12:00
+Goal: Fix null extraction issue in visus_fetch_structured tool
+
+---
+
+## [12:00:00] Step 1 - Document Symptom
+
+**Goal:** Capture observed behavior from smoke test
+**Reasoning:** Need baseline before debugging
+**Action:** Review Test 4 results from Claude Desktop
+**Result:**
+```json
+{
+  "data": {
+    "page_title": null,
+    "main_paragraph": null,
+    "link_url": null
+  },
+  "sanitization": {
+    "patterns_detected": [],
+    "content_modified": false
+  },
+  "metadata": {
+    "content_length_original": 139,
+    "content_length_sanitized": 0
+  }
+}
+```
+**Observations:**
+- All schema fields returned null
+- content_length_original: 139 bytes (vs 528 for visus_fetch on same URL)
+- content_length_sanitized: 0
+- metadata.title: "Example Domain" (proves page was fetched)
+**Status:** ✅ Success - Symptom documented
+
+---
+
+## [12:01:00] Step 2 - Analyze Implementation
+
+**Goal:** Understand data flow from fetch to extraction
+**Reasoning:** Need to trace where content gets lost
+**Action:** Read src/tools/fetch-structured.ts
+**Result:**
+
+**Key code sections:**
+```typescript
+// Line 90: Uses text format
+format: 'text'
+
+// Line 97-98: Extracts text field
+const { title, text } = renderResult.value;
+const rawContent = text || '';  // rawContent = 139 bytes of plain text
+
+// Line 101: Calls extractor
+const extractedData = extractStructuredData(rawContent, schema);
+```
+
+**Status:** ✅ Success - Data flow mapped
+
+---
+
+## [12:02:00] Step 3 - Check Text Extraction Process
+
+**Goal:** Determine what "text" format produces
+**Reasoning:** Need to understand why content is only 139 bytes vs 528 bytes
+**Action:** Review playwright-renderer.ts extractText() function
+**Result:**
+```typescript
+function extractText(html: string): string {
+  return html
+    .replace(/<script\b[^<]*(?:(?!<\/script>)<[^<]*)*<\/script>/gi, '') // Remove scripts
+    .replace(/<style\b[^<]*(?:(?!<\/style>)<[^<]*)*<\/style>/gi, '') // Remove styles
+    .replace(/<[^>]+>/g, '') // Remove all HTML tags
+    .replace(/\s+/g, ' ') // Collapse whitespace
+    .trim();
+}
+```
+
+**For example.com HTML (528 bytes):**
+```html
+<!doctype html><html><head><title>Example Domain</title>...
+<h1>Example Domain</h1>
+<p>This domain is for use in documentation...</p>
+<a href="https://iana.org/domains/example">Learn more</a>
+```
+
+**After extractText() (139 bytes):**
+```
+Example Domain This domain is for use in documentation examples without needing permission. Avoid use in operations. Learn more
+```
+
+**Key finding:** ALL HTML structure removed, including:
+- `<h1>` tags (needed to identify headings)
+- `<p>` tags (needed to identify paragraphs)
+- `<a href>` attributes (needed to extract link URLs)
+
+**Status:** ✅ Success - Text stripping identified
+
+---
+
+## [12:03:00] Step 4 - Analyze extractStructuredData() Function
+
+**Goal:** Understand extraction logic and why it fails
+**Reasoning:** Need to see what patterns the extractor looks for
+**Action:** Review fetch-structured.ts lines 22-64
+**Result:**
+
+**Extraction logic:**
+1. Regex search for `(fieldName|description)\s*[:=]?\s*([^\n]+)`
+2. Falls back to line-by-line search for field name
+3. Looks for key-value pairs split by `:` or `=`
+
+**Example patterns it WOULD match:**
+```
+page_title: Example Domain
+main_paragraph = This domain is for use...
+link_url: https://example.com
+```
+
+**What it receives from example.com:**
+```
+Example Domain This domain is for use in documentation examples without needing permission. Avoid use in operations. Learn more
+```
+
+**Result:** No key-value structure → no regex matches → all fields return null
+
+**Status:** ✅ Success - Extraction failure explained
+
+---
+
+## [12:04:00] Step 5 - Identify Root Causes
+
+**Goal:** Summarize why extraction fails
+**Reasoning:** Need to document fundamental issues before proposing fix
+**Action:** Analyze Phase 1 design constraints
+**Result:**
+
+**Root Cause 1: Format Mismatch**
+- Structured extraction uses `format: 'text'`
+- Text format strips ALL HTML tags and attributes
+- Cannot extract link URLs (href stripped)
+- Cannot identify structure (h1, p tags stripped)
+
+**Root Cause 2: Naive Extraction Algorithm**
+- extractStructuredData() only looks for key-value patterns
+- Cannot understand semantic meaning ("main heading", "first paragraph")
+- Cannot parse HTML structure
+- Works for: JSON-like text, YAML, INI files
+- Fails for: Web pages, prose content, any unstructured text
+
+**Root Cause 3: Phase 1 Known Limitation**
+Per fetch-structured.ts:18-20:
+```
+* Phase 1: Basic pattern matching
+* Phase 2+: LLM-powered extraction with Bedrock
+```
+
+**Status:** ✅ Success - Root causes documented
+
+---
+
+## [12:05:00] Step 6 - Evaluate Fix Options
+
+**Goal:** Determine best approach for Phase 1
+**Reasoning:** Need to balance functionality vs scope creep
+**Action:** Consider alternatives
+
+**Option A: Do Nothing**
+- Mark as known Phase 1 limitation
+- Document in STATUS.md
+- Wait for Phase 2 LLM-powered extraction
+- ❌ Leaves tool completely non-functional
+
+**Option B: Add HTML Parser**
+- Use cheerio or jsdom
+- Parse HTML structure
+- Extract headings, paragraphs, links properly
+- ✅ Would work for basic HTML extraction
+- ⚠️ Adds dependency, increases scope
+
+**Option C: Hybrid Approach**
+- Keep current text-based extraction for key-value content
+- Add basic HTML parsing for common patterns (h1, p, a[href])
+- Fall back to simple heuristics (first line = title, etc.)
+- ✅ Improves functionality without full rewrite
+- ⚠️ Still limited compared to LLM extraction
+
+**Option D: Add Note to Tool Description**
+- Keep current implementation
+- Update tool description to clarify limitations
+- Add example of what kind of data it works with
+- ✅ Honest about capabilities
+- ❌ Doesn't fix the issue
+
+**Recommendation:** Option B (Add HTML Parser)
+- Cheerio is lightweight (~500KB)
+- Industry standard for HTML parsing
+- Enables proper semantic extraction
+- Still simpler than full Playwright + LLM
+
+**Status:** ✅ Success - Fix options evaluated
+
+---
+
+## [12:06:00] Step 7 - Implement Fix with cheerio
+
+**Goal:** Add HTML parsing capability to structured extraction
+**Reasoning:** Option B provides best balance of functionality and complexity
+**Action:** Install cheerio and update extractStructuredData()
+**Result:** (to be implemented)
+**Status:** ⏸️ Pending decision
+
+---
+
+# ROOT CAUSE SUMMARY
+
+**Issue:** visus_fetch_structured returns null for all schema fields
+
+**Root Causes:**
+1. **Text extraction strips HTML structure** - format='text' removes all tags/attributes needed for semantic extraction
+2. **Naive pattern matching** - extractStructuredData() only finds key-value pairs, cannot understand "extract the main heading"
+3. **Phase 1 design limitation** - Documented as needing LLM-powered extraction in Phase 2
+
+**Impact:**
+- Tool is non-functional for extracting data from typical web pages
+- Only works for structured text formats (JSON-like, key-value)
+- Cannot extract link URLs, headings, or semantic content
+
+**Recommendation:**
+Add cheerio HTML parser to enable basic semantic extraction:
+- Parse HTML structure
+- Extract headings (<h1>, <h2>)
+- Extract paragraphs (<p>)
+- Extract links (<a href>)
+- Apply sanitization to extracted values
+- Maintain security-first design
+
+**Alternative:**
+Document as Phase 1 limitation and wait for Phase 2 LLM extraction
+
+---
+
+**Status:** 🔍 Analysis complete, awaiting fix decision
+**Total Time:** 6 minutes