get_signal_evidence

Returns paginated real developer quotes and post metadata backing a pain signal. Use for citations in landing pages, blog posts, and validation briefs.

Default mode is summary: excerpts are truncated to approximately 300 characters at a word boundary. This saves context budget. Pass mode: "full" when you need the complete text for a piece of writing.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`id`	string (UUID)	yes	Pain signal UUID
`page`	integer	no	Page number, 0-based (default: 0)
`size`	integer	no	Items per page (1-20, default: 10, capped at 10 in output)
`mode`	enum	no	`summary` (default): excerpts truncated to ~300 chars. `full`: full excerpts up to 2000 chars.

Example call: summary mode

{
  "name": "get_signal_evidence",
  "arguments": {
    "id": "3f9a1c2d-8b4e-4f1a-9c2d-1e5a3b7f9c2e",
    "size": 10,
    "mode": "summary"
  }
}

Example call: full text for citations

{
  "name": "get_signal_evidence",
  "arguments": {
    "id": "3f9a1c2d-8b4e-4f1a-9c2d-1e5a3b7f9c2e",
    "size": 5,
    "mode": "full"
  }
}

Response shape

Evidence for signal 3f9a1c2d-... (32 total, showing 10)

1. [GitHub] awesome-mcp-servers (user: john_dev)
   https://github.com/awesome-mcp-servers
   "We keep seeing auth token refresh failures after exactly 1 hour. The SDK
   does not surface the underlying 401 cleanly; you just get a generic..."
   [truncated; call with mode:"full" for complete text]

2. [Stack Overflow] "OAuth 2 silent refresh broken in Safari" (user: s_engineer)
   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78123456
   "This has been reported for three major OAuth libraries. The issue is..."

...
Excerpts are truncated to ~300 chars. Call again with mode: "full" for complete text.

Fields per item

Field	Description
`provider`	Source platform: `github`, `stackoverflow`, `hackernews`
`postTitle`	Post or issue title (if available)
`authorHandle`	Author username
`permalink`	Direct link to the original post
`content`	Excerpt (truncated in summary mode)

Notes

Permalinks are constructed from the source platform and the original external ID. Not all items have a permalink.
Output is capped at 10 items per call regardless of the size parameter.
Page through results with page to retrieve more evidence.