fix(arxiv): skip ar5iv's failed-conversion page - #278
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When LaTeXML fails on a paper, ar5iv answers HTTP 200 with a page that says "Conversion to HTML had a Fatal error and exited abruptly" (for example hep-th/9711200, checked live on 2026-09-30). The bridge served that page as the paper and cached it, so download_paper and read_paper returned the error text instead of the paper, and kept returning it from the cache. The page is now treated as a miss, so the bridge falls through to the PDF path. A cached copy of the page is ignored by download_paper and refetched by read_paper. Adds one ar5iv test and two bridge tests with the cached page.
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Included review availability: This review used your included allowance. Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe arXiv retrieval code detects ar5iv conversion-failure pages. Direct retrieval skips these pages. The bridge removes failed pages from the cache and retries retrieval instead of returning them as paper content. ChangesarXiv Conversion-Failure Handling
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Bug fix Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to Failed ar5iv conversion pages are now treated as misses, so paper retrieval falls through to the PDF mirror or upstream instead of returning the error page. The reviewed change shows no remaining merge-blocking risk. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The change rejects failed paper conversions and reuses existing retrieval routes without adding permissions or external destinations. No material security risk was identified in the reviewed change. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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Review comments at @src/gpd/mcp/servers/arxiv_bridge.py:
- Around line 424-426: In `_intercept_download`, remove `cache_path` when
`_arxiv_ar5iv.is_conversion_failure(content)` identifies a rejected cached page,
before attempting fallback. Treat an already-missing file as harmless; if
unlinking fails for another reason, log the failure and return a tool error
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When the cached copy of a paper is ar5iv's failed-conversion page and both ar5iv and the PDF mirror miss, the call falls through to the upstream server, which serves any cached Markdown file as it is, so the rejected page could still come back. The bridge now deletes the rejected cache entry before any fallback, and returns an error instead of forwarding when the file cannot be removed. Adds download_paper and read_paper tests with both fetch paths failing; both fail before this change.
…ack (#14) When the cached copy of a paper is ar5iv's failed-conversion page and both ar5iv and the PDF mirror miss, the call falls through to the upstream arXiv server, which serves any cached Markdown file as it is. The bridge now deletes the rejected cache entry before any fallback and returns an error instead of forwarding when it cannot be removed. Found in review of psi-oss#278. New download_paper and read_paper tests fail before and pass after; full suite 13029 passed with the three known environment failures.
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ar5iv's failed-conversion page ("Conversion to HTML had a Fatal error and exited abruptly") is treated as a miss, so the bridge falls through to the PDF path. A cached copy of that page is ignored by
download_paperand refetched byread_paper.Why
When LaTeXML fails on a paper, ar5iv answers HTTP 200 with that page instead of the paper (for example hep-th/9711200, checked live on 2026-09-30). The bridge served the page as the paper and cached it, so
download_paperandread_paperkept returning the error text.Testing done
download_paperand forread_paper).tests/mcp: everything passes except the two live OpenAlex abstract tests, which fail on currentmainbecause of the abstract lookup 404 addressed in the related landing-page PR.mainlocally (Codex prompt parity, projection diagnostics budget, TeX template compile) and those two live tests.This is independent of the two related PRs (OpenAlex landing-page lookup, OpenAlex API key); the three merge cleanly in either order.
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