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Closes #33

User problem and decision

Natural version-specific queries for official Python release changes did not surface the matching What’s New page in the first 20 offline section-search results for the tested 3.12 deprecation and 3.13 asyncio tasks. Known anchors remained retrievable. This adds a bounded, read-only release-scoped navigator over already indexed official pages; it does not change the existing six tools or perform runtime network access. See the dated primary-source decision in #33 and the broker publication evidence.

Acceptance

  • Return nonempty official indexed sections in document order with canonical anchors and get_docs continuation.
  • Bound serialized output and paginate deterministically; handle an unindexed version explicitly.
  • Classify section kinds conservatively using actual heading ancestry; uncertain headings remain other.
  • Cover 3.12 C API id6, future pending removal, 3.13 asyncio, empty headings, pagination and offline behavior.
  • Preserve existing tool contracts and frozen retrieval/citation gate. Worker reported locked sync, ruff, pyright, 551 tests, stdio smoke, doctor, full-index 65-case gate and build exit 0. The independent prepublication reviewer approved the published exact content; exact-head PR verification and GitHub CI are still pending.

Why this approach

A dedicated release-scoped tool makes the indexed official release notes discoverable without guessing slugs. It is intentionally narrow; this is not a generated-answer accuracy or competitor-quality claim. The retained full index lacks independently attested exact CPython source/builder provenance.

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This is an intentional new MCP tool surface, approved by Vision’s explicit product decision in #33 and subject to separate exact-head verification. No schema, ingestion, dependency, workflow, license or existing test weakening is included. CodeRabbit findings, if any, will be triaged before merge; a skipped review is not independent verification.

Outcome review: 2026-10-17. Revise/remove if canonical sections or kind labels prove unreliable, frozen retrieval/citation results worsen, or user feedback shows the tool is redundant.

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  • New Features
    • Added a tool for browsing “What’s New” sections for a Python version, with optional category filtering and pagination.
    • Results include categorized sections with concise excerpts; longer content may be truncated with guidance for finding the full documentation.
    • Requests for versions without indexed release notes return an unavailable-page error.

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Walkthrough

The change adds a service that reads categorized sections from the indexed Python release notes. A new MCP tool returns those sections with optional category filtering, pagination, and bounded excerpts.

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What's New tool

Layer / File(s) Summary
Classify and retrieve indexed sections
src/mcp_server_python_docs/models.py, src/mcp_server_python_docs/services/whatsnew.py, tests/test_whatsnew.py
Adds result models and a service that classifies, filters, and paginates indexed sections. The service bounds excerpts and adds a get_docs hint when text is truncated. Tests cover classification, pagination, response limits, errors, and offline queries.
Wire the service into the MCP server
src/mcp_server_python_docs/app_context.py, src/mcp_server_python_docs/server.py, tests/test_retrieval_regression.py, tests/test_services.py, tests/test_whatsnew.py
Adds the service to application context and server lifespan. Registers whatsnew_for_version and tests its registration and stdio response.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client as MCP client
  participant Tool as whatsnew_for_version
  participant Service as WhatsNewService
  participant Index as SQLite index
  Client->>Tool: Request version, kind, and pagination parameters
  Tool->>Service: Call get with request parameters
  Service->>Index: Query indexed release-note sections
  Index-->>Service: Return sections for the requested version
  Service-->>Tool: Return filtered, paginated sections
  Tool-->>Client: Return structured result
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a4f77

An indexed release page with unusually long headings or anchors can produce an oversized tool response. The affected case is narrow, but the response limit should be enforced before merging or accepted as a known limitation.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to a4f77

The new operation stays within indexed documentation and adds no query-time network access or write authority. Risk is limited, but its whole-response size guarantee can fail when stored headings or anchors are unusually large.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · observed: The new whole-response budget does not contain oversized section metadata. Titles and anchors have no length constraint, and the service subtracts their serialized size before adjusting only bodies. If metadata alone exceeds 20,000 characters, the response remains oversized and bodies can be empty. This weakens the public operation's per-call output-containment guarantee; triggering it requires oversized indexed metadata, not merely ordinary pagination arguments.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new operation's direct exposure is the server's installed release-note index and its response consumers. It adds no network, credential-access, or index-write capability in the inspected call chain. Resource effects are bounded by the selected stored release page rather than arbitrary caller-supplied document content.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A conditional oversized-output path runs from long ingested headings or HTML identifiers, through unconstrained stored metadata, to a caller-selected release-note response. The new tool does not let callers submit that metadata. No affected production record or route granting an ordinary MCP caller ingestion authority was established, so this is a containment concern rather than a verified attacker-controlled exploit.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Caller-controlled version and pagination values are validated before retrieval, and SQL values are bound parameters. Read-only database mode supplies an enforcement boundary independent of descriptive MCP annotations. The python-docs and language predicates select labeled index records; they are not an attestation of upstream content provenance.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The new entrypoint converts expected documentation errors into tool errors and wraps unexpected exceptions with an exception-type message rather than returning the exception contents. It introduces no query-time external dependency or persistent recovery state.
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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 21 functions across 7 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Linked Issues check ❓ Inconclusive Issue #33’s main coding objectives are supported by the summary: the new tool reads indexed pages offline, returns paginated structured sections, classifies headings conservatively, caps bodies, and h… The evidence needed to decide is focused source or test evidence for the unindexed-version error and the 3.12 minimum section count.
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title names whatsnew_for_version(version), the main change: a new tool for navigating Python release notes.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The reported changes stay connected to issue #33. The edits to test_retrieval_regression.py adapt its fixture to the new AppContext dependency, and the test_services.py change checks registratio…
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Explanation

Issue #33’s main coding objectives are supported by the summary: the new tool reads indexed pages offline, returns paginated structured sections, classifies headings conservatively, caps bodies, and has tests for filtering, pagination, truncation, representative versions, and wire behavior. The available evidence does not establish that missing or unindexed versions use compare_versions’ actionable error naming available versions. It also does not establish that the 3.12 result includes at least 10 nonempty sections, as required by #33.

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- Around line 101-131: Update the result-budget allocation in the
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Comment on lines +101 to +131
remaining = _RESULT_CHARS - len(result.model_dump_json())
for index, (row, _) in enumerate(page):
section = sections[index]
body = row["content_text"].strip()
hint = (
"\n\n[Section truncated. Continue with "
f"get_docs(slug={slug!r}, version={version!r}, "
f"anchor={row['anchor']!r}).]"
)
share = remaining // (len(page) - index)
empty_length = len(section.model_dump_json())
# Binary-search the excerpt so escaped JSON plus the follow-up hint
# fits a fair share. Short sections leave more space for later ones.
low, high = 0, min(_BODY_CHARS, len(body))
chosen = ""
while low <= high:
middle = (low + high) // 2
excerpt, truncated, _ = apply_budget(body, middle)
candidate = excerpt + hint if truncated else excerpt
cost = (
len(section.model_copy(update={"body": candidate}).model_dump_json())
- empty_length
)
if cost <= share:
chosen = candidate
low = middle + 1
else:
high = middle - 1
section.body = chosen
remaining -= len(section.model_dump_json()) - empty_length
return result

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sed -n '70,135p' src/mcp_server_python_docs/services/whatsnew.py
sed -n '301,335p' src/mcp_server_python_docs/models.py
rg -n 'CREATE TABLE sections|title.*(limit|length)|anchor.*(limit|length)|insert_section' src/mcp_server_python_docs

Repository: ayhammouda/python-docs-mcp-server

Length of output: 3865


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printf '%s\\n' '--- service ---'
sed -n '1,145p' src/mcp_server_python_docs/services/whatsnew.py
printf '%s\\n' '--- relevant symbols ---'
rg -n '_RESULT_CHARS|_BODY_CHARS|WhatsNewService|whatsnew_for_version|content_text|anchor|heading|CREATE TABLE sections|INSERT INTO sections|sections \\(' src/mcp_server_python_docs README.md
printf '%s\\n' '--- tracked source files ---'
git ls-files src/mcp_server_python_docs

Repository: ayhammouda/python-docs-mcp-server

Length of output: 7661


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printf '%s\\n' '--- tool registration and call ---'
rg -n -F 'WhatsNewService' src/mcp_server_python_docs
rg -n -F 'whatsnew_for_version' src/mcp_server_python_docs
printf '%s\\n' '--- section storage and ingestion ---'
rg -n 'CREATE TABLE sections|INSERT INTO sections|content_text|heading|anchor' src/mcp_server_python_docs/storage src/mcp_server_python_docs/ingestion
printf '%s\\n' '--- relevant schema ---'
sed -n '1,220p' src/mcp_server_python_docs/storage/schema.sql
printf '%s\\n' '--- ingestion files and service tests ---'
git ls-files | rg 'test|whatsnew|sphinx_json|storage'
printf '%s\\n' '--- cap and bounds references ---'
rg -n '_RESULT_CHARS|_BODY_CHARS|20,000|20000|7,800|7800|WhatsNewSection|WhatsNewResult' src tests

Repository: ayhammouda/python-docs-mcp-server

Length of output: 17681


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printf '%s\\n' '--- registered tool ---'
sed -n '405,448p' src/mcp_server_python_docs/server.py
printf '%s\\n' '--- document/section ingestion ---'
sed -n '270,375p' src/mcp_server_python_docs/ingestion/sphinx_json.py
sed -n '470,525p' src/mcp_server_python_docs/ingestion/sphinx_json.py
printf '%s\\n' '--- whatsnew tests ---'
sed -n '1,260p' tests/test_whatsnew.py
printf '%s\\n' '--- relevant ingestion entrypoints ---'
rg -n 'parse.*json|ingest.*document|sections_from|extract_sections|sphinx_json|def ingest|html_body|body_html' src/mcp_server_python_docs/ingestion/sphinx_json.py src/mcp_server_python_docs/server.py

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Budget section metadata before allocating bodies.

If selected section titles and anchors serialize to more than 20,000 characters, body allocation cannot bring the result under the limit because it changes only body. The registered tool can return this oversized result: ingestion stores heading and anchor text without a length bound.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

Review comment at @src/mcp_server_python_docs/services/whatsnew.py around lines
101 - 131:
Update the result-budget allocation in the section-building flow around
`result.model_dump_json()` so serialized section metadata is checked against the
20,000-character limit before allocating bodies. If titles and anchors alone
exceed the limit, prevent returning an oversized result; retain the existing
body-allocation behavior when the metadata fits.

After applying the fix, consider running `coderabbit review --agent` for local
review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr

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