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What

Adds dev-docs/SMOKE_TEST.md — a fast, copy-paste end-to-end smoke test for verifying a solr-mcp release JAR works across the three common MCP clients (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, MCP Inspector).

Why

There's currently no single tester-facing checklist for confirming a release candidate (or a fresh local build) actually serves tools over stdio. This gives release verifiers a self-contained script with expected outputs at each step, so a broken JAR is obvious without a separate "expected results" reference.

What's in it

  • Client registration for all three clients (claude mcp add, claude_desktop_config.json, npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector) — same java -jar + SOLR_URL recipe for each.
  • A list-collections sanity check as the first smoke signal.
  • A full build-and-query walkthrough (create-collectionadd-fieldsindex-json-documentsget-collection-statssearch) against a self-contained 61-document demo collection, with expected-output checkpoints (61 of 61 indexed, numDocs: 61, 20 hits).
  • Appendices with the schema, the 61-doc dataset (nulls pre-stripped so pint fields don't reject them), and seven sample search queries plus their natural-language equivalents.

Placed in dev-docs/ alongside the existing contributor/release-verification guides (e.g. ATR_TESTING_GUIDE.md).

Docs-only change — no source or build files touched.

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adityamparikh and others added 2 commits June 19, 2026 12:41
A fast end-to-end smoke test for verifying a solr-mcp release JAR across
Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and MCP Inspector. Covers client registration
for all three transports, a list-collections sanity check, and a full
build-and-query walkthrough against a self-contained 61-document demo
collection with expected-output checkpoints and sample queries.

Lives in dev-docs/ alongside the other contributor/release-verification
guides.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: adityamparikh <aditya.m.parikh@gmail.com>
The demo URL is a shared public Solr, so the 'shows' collection may already
exist from a prior tester's run. create-collection is not idempotent and
errors on an existing name. Add guidance to use a unique collection name
(keeping the doc-count checkpoints valid) with a reuse/delete fallback.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: adityamparikh <aditya.m.parikh@gmail.com>
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epugh commented Jun 20, 2026

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Thanks for this, I will be able tot eat this tomorrow

@epugh epugh mentioned this pull request Jun 21, 2026
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