Query vs q

[eavanvalkenburg]

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In the search functions below, there is still mention of q instead of query the docs say query and using q throws a api error

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server version v0.1.1 (7ab5d96) 2025-04-07T16:05:06Z

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[williammartin]

Hey @eavanvalkenburg,

So just to be clear, the issue is that the README should be updated to mention q instead of query?

In the search functions below, there is still mention of q instead of query the docs say query and using q throws a api error

I'm a bit confused by this, since the implementations use q, and that looks to be correctly passed through to the GitHub API. Did you mean that using query throws an API error?

[eavanvalkenburg]

I'm not sure anymore, all I do know is that either the documentation is wrong or the code is wrong... might be that I was getting an error because my PAT did not have access to do search...

[SamMorrowDrums]

I also think q is also a poor name, as making the LLM more certain of what the field means is more useful than copying the API - so I think we should ensure this is correct, but also converge on the best solution for the LLM and not the API.

[SamMorrowDrums]

I have also encountered an agent having this confusion, so it's definitely not imagined!