{
  "checker": {
    "details": {
      "argv": [
        "<host-path>"
      ],
      "kind": "mcp",
      "scope": "product operation",
      "serverInfo": {
        "name": "DataGatherer",
        "version": "1.30.0"
      },
      "tools": [
        "process_url_mcp",
        "process_articles_mcp"
      ],
      "working": true
    },
    "status": "PASS"
  },
  "deviations": [
    "README.rst has no install/run section; used CI workflow pip install -e . and the pyproject console script data-gatherer-mcp.",
    "Guest lacked venv support: ran apt-get install python3.12-venv.",
    "Server import failed: No module named 'mcp'. mcp is listed in requirements.txt but not in pyproject dependencies; installed mcp.",
    "Unpinned mcp resolved to 2.x, which removed mcp.server.fastmcp (ModuleNotFoundError). Installed 'mcp<2' as the error message recommends. Source not edited.",
    "The server writes a fitz deprecation warning to stdout, so MCP clients must skip non-JSON lines. Not fixed in source."
  ],
  "main_blocker": null,
  "operation": "Start the data-gatherer-mcp stdio MCP server and list its tools (tools/list returns process_url_mcp and process_articles_mcp).",
  "operation_scope": "Only server start and tool listing were exercised. No article extraction was run: process_url_mcp needs an LLM API key (default extraction model gpt-4o-mini, Portkey enabled by default) and network access to publisher sites, neither of which was provided. The shared CDP browser endpoint was not used.",
  "outcome": "working",
  "steps": [
    "Read README.rst (no install or run section; points to docs/installation.rst: pip install git+https://github.com/VIDA-NYU/data-gatherer.git)",
    "python3 -m venv <host-path> (after apt-get install python3.12-venv)",
    "<host-path> install -e . (from .github/workflows/tests.yml; succeeded)",
    "<host-path> install 'mcp<2' (see deviations)",
    "Started <host-path> over stdio, sent initialize, notifications/initialized, tools/list; got 2 tools; stopped the process"
  ],
  "stuck_step": null,
  "suggested_fix": null
}