Open-source maintainer turns feature request into community-built package with zero code added

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A developer maintaining safari-mcp, an open-source MCP server that lets AI agents control Safari on macOS, received a detailed feature request from a power user seeking isolated tab lanes for concurrent agent sessions. Upon reviewing the codebase, the maintainer discovered three of the five requested features already existed but were buried in an unlinked design document, prompting an immediate README update. Further investigation uncovered a real bug in shared-daemon mode where multiple clients shared the same session ID, which the maintainer fixed the same day with the requester credited in release notes. The remaining gap — routing multiple agent sessions through a single connection via a laneId parameter — was technically straightforward to add but would have bloated all 97 tool schemas and set a problematic API precedent. Instead, the requester built the solution as a standalone package in his own layer, keeping the core project lean while making the fix available to others.

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