idea-reality-mcp v0.3.0: How We Built Chinese Language Support Into an MCP Server

TL;DR — idea-reality-mcp is an MCP server that checks if your project idea already exists. v0.3.0 adds a 3-stage keyword extraction pipeline and full Chinese/mixed-language support (150+ term mappings across 15+ domains). The Problem When users typed ideas in Chinese like LINE Bot 自動客服系統 , our v0.2 keyword extraction would either return raw Chinese characters or miss the intent entirely. Every search query was garbage. For a tool used by Taiwanese developers, this was unacceptable. The Solution: 3-Stage Pipeline Stage A: Clean & Map Map Chinese terms to English equivalents (150+ terms) Hard-filter boilerplate words ( ai , tool , platform , system ...) Normalize hyphens, extract compound terms Stage B: Intent Anchors Detect 1-2 intent signals from a curated set of 90+ anchors Covers: monitoring, evaluation, agents, RAG, scheduling, billing, scraping, deployment, and more Example: 排程任務管理工具 → anchor: scheduling Stage C: Synonym Expansion 80+ synonym groups generate 3-8 varied search queri