When using the Aha! MCP server integration (the one that connects Aha! to external AI tools like Claude, Copilot, and Cursor), you can search for epics and get their reference numbers back — but you can't fetch the full content of an epic by reference. Features and requirements work; epics throw an error.
Epics are often the starting point for AI-assisted work — writing stories, grooming scope, summarizing initiatives. Not being able to fetch an epic through the MCP integration means the workflow breaks at the top of the hierarchy, right where it matters most.
In the MCP server integration, allow epic references (e.g., CLAIMST-E-178) to be fetched the same way features and requirements already are. The capability exists in the underlying Aha! API — it just hasn't been wired up in the MCP layer yet. A working implementation was contributed to the community MCP repo at github.com/aha-develop/aha-mcp/pull/21 before it was deprecated, if that's useful reference.