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Developer finds unhandled credential errors in server scripts

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A developer discovered that two critical credential checks in their server.py script were not properly handling missing environment variables, leading to unhandled KeyErrors. This oversight meant that if the GITHUB_TOKEN or DEV_TO_API environment variables were not set, the script would crash without a clear error message. The developer found a similar, unlogged issue in the publish_devto.py script. The fix involved implementing explicit checks for these environment variables before attempting to access them, providing user-friendly error messages and ensuring cleaner exits. AI

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Developer finds unhandled credential errors in server scripts

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Enjoy Kumawat ·

    "My MCP Server's Two Credential Checks Were Flagged Missing Five Days Ago. Nobody Fixed Them."

    <p>I keep a work log for this repo — every bug I find and fix gets an entry in <code>docs/project_notes/issues.md</code>, with enough detail that a future session (or a future me) doesn't have to rediscover the same thing twice. Today I went back and actually reread one of those …

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