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MCP fail-fast abort + lint clean: riksdag-regering unavailability causes hard exit#453

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When the riksdag-regering MCP server is unreachable, the pipeline was silently continuing with empty data and generating hollow articles. Individual fetch calls swallowed errors via .catch(() => []), producing fabricated article structures around no real parliamentary content.

Fail-fast behaviour (scripts/generate-news-enhanced.ts)

  • --require-mcp flag (default true) — pass --require-mcp=false for local dev without a live server
  • getSharedClient() throws on warm-up failure when requireMcp=true; resets sharedClient=null so subsequent retries work cleanly. Existing 3-attempt exponential backoff in MCPClient.request() exhausts first.
  • Supplemental fetches in generateWeekAhead() propagate errors — the three .catch(() => []) patterns for searchDocuments, fetchWrittenQuestions, fetchInterpellations now conditionally rethrow:
const rawDocs = await client.searchDocuments({ ... })
  .catch((e: unknown) => { if (requireMcp) throw e; return [] as unknown[]; });
  • requireMcp exported for testability

Tests

  • New tests/generate-news-enhanced-mcp-abort.test.ts — 5 tests: warm-up failure → { success: false, error: /MCP server unavailable/i } across all generator types; verifies requireMcp defaults to true
  • tests/generate-news-enhanced-part1.test.tssearchDocuments, fetchWrittenQuestions, fetchInterpellations added to mock; 2 new tests for supplemental-call propagation and call coverage
  • tests/generate-news-enhanced-part2.test.ts — same mock additions for consistency

Lint fixes

File Rule Fix
scripts/data-transformers.ts:1446 no-useless-escape [...\-...][...-...]
scripts/generate-news-enhanced.ts:391 preserve-caught-error throw new Error('...', { cause: error })
eslint.config.js warning suppression Add docs/coverage/** to ignore list (auto-generated Istanbul files)
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<issue_title>MCP client: Add fail-fast abort when riksdag-regering MCP server is unavailable</issue_title>
<issue_description>## 📋 Issue Type
Bug Fix / Reliability

🎯 Objective

When the riksdag-regering MCP server is unavailable, the article generation pipeline should abort/fail instead of silently continuing with empty data. Currently, the system gracefully degrades by returning empty arrays when MCP calls fail, leading to articles being generated without real parliamentary data.

📊 Current State

In scripts/mcp-client.ts and scripts/generate-news-enhanced.ts:

  • getSharedClient() calls get_sync_status() but only warns on failure: console.warn('Continuing anyway — individual requests will retry with backoff')
  • Individual fetch methods (fetchMotions, fetchPropositions, etc.) catch errors and return [] as fallback
  • The pipeline continues generating articles from empty/partial data
  • This can lead to fabricated article structures around no real data

🚀 Desired State

  1. getSharedClient() should throw an error if MCP warm-up fails after all retries
  2. Add a --require-mcp flag (default: true) that causes process.exit(1) if MCP is unreachable
  3. Individual fetch methods should propagate errors when require-mcp is set
  4. The agentic workflow should detect the non-zero exit and use noop rather than committing empty content

🔧 Implementation Approach

Target file: scripts/mcp-client.ts (getSharedClient function around line 366)

  1. Change getSharedClient() to throw on warm-up failure when require-mcp is set
  2. In generate-news-enhanced.ts main function, catch the error and process.exit(1)
  3. Add CLI flag --require-mcp (default true) to control behavior
  4. Keep --require-mcp=false for local development/testing

✅ Acceptance Criteria

  • When MCP server is unreachable, generate-news-enhanced.ts exits with non-zero code
  • Error message clearly states MCP is unavailable
  • Existing retry logic (3 attempts with exponential backoff) still runs before aborting
  • --require-mcp=false allows degraded mode for testing
  • Unit tests cover MCP unavailability scenario

📚 References

  • scripts/mcp-client.ts lines 366-392 (getSharedClient)
  • scripts/generate-news-enhanced.ts lines 500-514 (empty array fallback)
  • Workflow runs that succeed but produce empty articles

🤖 Recommended Agent

Copilot coding agent — focused refactoring of error handling in mcp-client.ts and generate-news-enhanced.ts</issue_description>

<agent_instructions>Focus ONLY on scripts/mcp-client.ts and scripts/generate-news-enhanced.ts. Add a --require-mcp CLI flag (default true) that causes process.exit(1) when MCP warm-up fails after all retries. Do NOT modify any other files to avoid merge conflicts with other issues being worked on in parallel. Update existing tests in tests/ to cover MCP unavailability scenarios.</agent_instructions>

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Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Add fail-fast abort for MCP client on server unavailability MCP client: Add fail-fast abort when riksdag-regering MCP server is unavailable Feb 23, 2026
Copilot AI requested a review from pethers February 23, 2026 07:37
Copilot AI changed the title MCP client: Add fail-fast abort when riksdag-regering MCP server is unavailable MCP fail-fast: abort article generation when riksdag-regering MCP server is unavailable Feb 23, 2026
Copilot AI changed the title MCP fail-fast: abort article generation when riksdag-regering MCP server is unavailable MCP fail-fast abort + lint clean: riksdag-regering unavailability causes hard exit Feb 23, 2026
@pethers pethers requested a review from Copilot February 23, 2026 10:46
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Pull request overview

This PR implements fail-fast behavior when the riksdag-regering MCP server is unavailable, preventing the pipeline from generating hollow articles with empty data. The implementation adds a --require-mcp flag (default true) that causes hard exits when the MCP server is unreachable after exhausting retry attempts.

Changes:

  • Added --require-mcp CLI flag to control fail-fast behavior (defaults to true)
  • Modified getSharedClient() to throw an error and reset the shared client when MCP warm-up fails and requireMcp is true
  • Updated supplemental MCP fetch calls in generateWeekAhead() to conditionally rethrow errors based on the requireMcp flag
  • Added comprehensive test coverage for MCP unavailability scenarios
  • Fixed ESLint violations (no-useless-escape regex, improved error handling with cause)
  • Added docs/coverage to ESLint ignore list

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scripts/generate-news-enhanced.ts Implements requireMcp flag, fail-fast logic in getSharedClient(), and conditional error rethrow in generateWeekAhead() supplemental fetches
scripts/data-transformers.ts Fixed no-useless-escape ESLint warning in email regex pattern
eslint.config.js Added docs/coverage/** to ignore list for auto-generated coverage reports
tests/generate-news-enhanced-mcp-abort.test.ts New test file with dedicated coverage for MCP fail-fast scenarios across all generator types
tests/generate-news-enhanced-part1.test.ts Added mock methods for supplemental fetches and new tests for error propagation
tests/generate-news-enhanced-part2.test.ts Added mock methods for consistency with part1 test structure

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@pethers pethers marked this pull request as ready for review February 23, 2026 11:22
@pethers pethers merged commit 25b4e84 into main Feb 23, 2026
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Performance 85/100 🟡
Accessibility 95/100 🟢
Best Practices 90/100 🟢
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Budget Compliance: Performance budgets enforced via budget.json

Copilot AI added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 23, 2026
- Take origin/main as base for data-transformers.ts, types/content.ts and
  tests/data-transformers.test.ts (which had landed PRs #453, #457, etc.)
- Apply our PR changes on top:
  * extractPropRef: tighten regex to \d{4}\/\d{2}:\d+ (strict ID format)
  * groupMotionsByProposition: add export keyword; keep {grouped,independent}
    return type from main; replace inline lang-switches with L() labels
  * generateMotionsContent: use L(lang,'responsesToProp') and
    L(lang,'independentMotions') instead of 14-branch ternary chains
  * groupPropositionsByCommittee: new exported helper (Map<committeeKey,[...]>)
  * generatePropositionsContent: committee-grouped rendering (h3 per committee,
    h4 per prop when multi-committee; h3 per prop + Referred-to line otherwise)
    reuses byCommitteeGroup.size for policyImplicationsContext domainCount
  * ContentLabelSet: add responsesToProp and independentMotions fields
  * CONTENT_LABELS: add both new fields to all 14 language objects
- Tests: add unit tests for exported helpers ({grouped,independent} API),
  label presence tests (28 tests for 2 keys × 14 langs), proposition grouping
  rendering tests; all 1674 tests passing across 39 test files

Co-authored-by: pethers <[email protected]>
Copilot AI added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 23, 2026
… take-main + apply)

Take origin/main as clean base for data-transformers.ts, types/content.ts,
tests/data-transformers.test.ts and sitemap.xml (main had landed PRs #453,
#457, #469 etc.), then re-apply every PR-specific change on top:

data-transformers.ts:
  - svSpan(): fix data-translate direction per translation workflow
    (lang!='sv' → data-translate="true"; lang='sv' → no marker)
  - PROP_REFERENCE_REGEX: strict \d{4}\/\d{2}:\d+ (was \S+)
  - PROP_FULL_REF_REGEX: non-greedy [^<]+? with HTML-tag lookahead
  - export groupMotionsByProposition (was private)
  - generateMotionsContent: replace 14-branch ternaries with
    L(lang,'responsesToProp') / L(lang,'independentMotions')
  - use PROP_FULL_REF_REGEX + svSpan() for proposition group heading
  - export groupPropositionsByCommittee (new)
  - generatePropositionsContent: committee-grouped rendering
    (h3+h4 when multi-committee; h3+referredLine when single-committee)
  - Add responsesToProp + independentMotions to all 14 language objects

scripts/types/content.ts:
  - Add responsesToProp: string; independentMotions: string to ContentLabelSet

tests/data-transformers.test.ts:
  - Import groupMotionsByProposition and groupPropositionsByCommittee
  - Fix 8 existing svSpan tests: flip data-translate expectations to match
    corrected svSpan() semantics
  - Add 5 unit tests for groupMotionsByProposition (strict-ID regex, fallback
    to title field, empty input, total-count invariant)
  - Add 5 unit tests for groupPropositionsByCommittee (organ/committee fallback,
    empty-string key, empty input, total-count invariant)
  - Add 28 label-presence tests (2 keys × 14 langs)
  - Add 4 rendering tests (single-committee h3, multi-committee h4,
    referredLine shown/hidden)

All 1672 tests pass across 39 test files.

Co-authored-by: pethers <[email protected]>
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