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      "Title": "QueueBridge: shared response_queue misroutes responses under concurrent callers (Asked claude to write copy/paste bcz i'm a beginner)",
      "Excerpt": "<head></head><h1 id=\"github-issue-draft-E28094-response-routing-bug\" data-orig-id=\"github-issue-draft-%E2%80%94-response-routing-bug\" style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; li",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/21",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-07T00:33:26.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Installation problems",
      "Excerpt": "Following the README to install the MCP server via editing the json doesn't work. However, following the [online guide](https://ankimcp.ai/docs/installation/desktop/) does work. A word of caution is that following the online guide ends up nuking my json file for other mcp servers.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/13",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-02-08T21:53:44.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Vendored uvicorn incompatible with Anki's Python 3.9",
      "Excerpt": "Anki 25.02.5 ships Python 3.9.18. The vendored uvicorn/_types.py uses Python 3.10+ X | Y union syntax in runtime type aliases (not annotations), which\n  crashes on import.\n\n  File \".../vendor/shared/uvicorn/_types.py\", line 45\n      ExcInfo = tuple[type[BaseException], BaseException, types.TracebackType | None]\n  TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for |: 'type' and 'NoneType'\n\n  Fix: vendor a uvicorn version that supports Python 3.9, or patch the type aliases to use Union/Optional.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/8",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-02-06T04:12:30.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 5,
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    {
      "Title": "Accept distro versions of pydantic or force installation to another dir",
      "Excerpt": "Currently I have Anki installed via the official Arch repo. This addon will not work with the arch repo version of pydantic, but when I patch out the check, it will work without any problem. Please either don't make the check this strict (and accept the preinstalled version), or force using a different version you supply and import that in such a way that it doesn't interfere with the host system version.\n\n```\nAnki 25.09.2 (3890e12c) (ao)\nPython 3.14.4 Qt 6.11.0 PyQt 6.11.0\nPlatform: Linux-7.0.5",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/40",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-12T06:48:25.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "FR: Add secret-path option for MCP HTTP endpoint",
      "Excerpt": "Hi, thanks for the add-on; it’s been very useful\n\nCould you please consider adding support for a “secret path” mode for the HTTP, e.g. serving MCP under `http://localhost:3141/secret-string/` → `https://example.com/secret-string/`, so ChatGPT MCP can connect relatively securely without requiring full OAuth?\n\nThe goal isn’t strong security, but rather avoiding exposing a fully unauthenticated MCP endpoint\n\nBest regards\n\nP.S. The headless Anki container is quite promising. It would be incredibly u",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/9",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-02-07T11:33:08.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "rpds ModuleNotFoundError on Windows / Linux-aarch64 / macOS-Intel — vendored bundle ships wrong-platform binaries (exposed by Anki 26.05)",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nOn affected platforms the addon fails to load at startup with `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'rpds.rpds'`. The vendored `vendor/shared/rpds/` only contains binaries for **macOS-arm64** and **linux-x86_64**, and `rpds` (a compiled Rust extension) has no pure-Python fallback — so it can't be imported on other platforms.\n\nOriginally reported (in the wrong repo — that's the TypeScript CLI) at ankimcp/anki-mcp-server#35. Thanks to the reporter for the detailed write-up.\n\n## Affecte",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/54",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-19T16:22:08.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 3,
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      "Title": "RuntimeError: Vendored pydantic/version.py not found when loading add-on in Nix environment",
      "Excerpt": "## Environment\n\n- **Anki version:** 25.09.2 (3890e12c) (ao)\n- **Python:** 3.13.9\n- **Qt:** 6.10.1 / PyQt 6.9.0\n- **Platform:** Linux 6.17.9 (x86_64, glibc 2.40)\n- **Add-on version:** v0.12.0\n\n## Nix Configuration\n\nNix is a declarative package manager, and so it fetches the source directly from GitHub at build time rather than using a pre-built artifact:\n\n```nix\nanki-mcp-server = (\n  pkgs.anki-utils.buildAnkiAddon (finalAttrs: {\n    pname = \"anki-mcp-server\";\n    version = \"v0.12.0\";\n    src = pk",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/36",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-07T11:24:48.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "rate_card fails with 'not at top of queue' after skipping media cards",
      "Excerpt": "## Bug Report\n\nReported by LouisO on Discord.\n\n### Description\n\nWhen using `get_due_cards` with `skip_images=True` or `skip_audio=True`, the returned card may not be at the top of Anki's scheduler queue (because media cards were skipped over). When `rate_card` is then called on that card, Anki rejects it with **\"not at top of queue\"**.\n\n### Steps to Reproduce\n\n1. Have a deck with mixed cards (some with images/audio, some text-only)\n2. Call `get_due_cards(deck_name=\"...\", skip_images=True)` — thi",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/10",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-02-07T20:47:06.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 3,
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    {
      "Title": "All tools fail with \"invalid outputSchema... unsupported dialect\" (JSON Schema draft-07 vs 2020-12)",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\nEvery single tool call to this MCP server fails client-side with the same error,\neven simple read-only calls like `listDecks`. The connection/handshake succeeds\n(tool list loads fine), but every actual tool invocation is rejected when the\nclient tries to validate the response against the tool's declared output schema.\n\n## Exact error message\nError: Tool '<toolName>' has an invalid outputSchema: JSON Schema declares an\nunsupported dialect (\"$schema\": \"http://json-schema.org/draft-07/sc",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/69",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-12T22:18:41.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "FR: Tool to manage fields on an existing note type (add/remove/rename/reposition)",
      "Excerpt": "The addon can create a note type with fields (`create_model`) and read field names (`model_field_names`), but there is no tool to modify the fields of an existing note type. `update_model_templates` and `update_model_styling` only touch card templates/CSS not the field list.\n\n## Proposed solution\n\n A multi-action tool (e.g. `manage_model_fields`) with an `action` discriminator, supporting:\n- `add` — add a new field (optionally at a position)\n- `remove` — delete a field\n- `rename` — rename a fiel",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/57",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-25T21:44:55.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "update_model_templates: valid templates are mutated in the live model when the call fails on an unknown template name",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\n`update_model_templates` (new in v0.19.0 — thanks for shipping it!) validates template **keys** (`Front`/`Back`) in a true pre-pass before touching anything, but unknown card-template **names** are only detected *inside* the mutation loop. Because `col.models.by_name()` returns the live cached notetype dict, every valid entry in the call has already mutated the in-memory note type by the time the `Card template(s) not found` error is raised. `col.models.update_dict()` is never reache",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/47",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-11T21:59:37.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "Add opt-in mechanism for high-risk tools (disabled by default)",
      "Excerpt": "## Motivation\n\nAI clients — **including remote tunnel clients, which are in scope for this addon** — should not be able to invoke high-risk, destructive/structural operations (deck deletion, deck rename, etc.) by default. The operator should have to explicitly opt in to expose those tools.\n\nThis came up in the PR #45 review (deck-management group, deferred): letting an AI client mutate deck structure is high-stakes enough that it must ship **off by default**, with explicit opt-in. This issue is ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/46",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-11T14:58:48.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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    {
      "Title": "FR: Make FastMCP stateless mode configurable (clients without mcp-session-id support)",
      "Excerpt": "Originally reported in the AnkiWeb addon comments: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/124672614\n\n---\n\n> Hi, the addon uses `stateless_http=False` (default) for FastMCP, which requires clients to send `mcp-session-id` header on every request. However, not all MCP clients — including opencode's \"remote\" transport type — implement session ID management, so they get `\"Session not found\"` errors.\n>\n> The fix is to pass `stateless_http=True` when creating the FastMCP instance:\n>\n> ```python\n> mcp = FastM",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/42",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-18T20:08:26.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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    {
      "Title": "filtered_deck: Add get_info action to inspect search terms and configuration",
      "Excerpt": "## Use case\n\nThe `filtered_deck` tool supports create/update/rebuild/empty/delete, but there's no way to **read back** the configuration of existing filtered decks — specifically the search terms, limits, order, and reschedule setting.\n\nThis creates a write-only gap: agents can create filtered decks but can't programmatically verify or audit them afterward without opening the Anki GUI.\n\n### Real-world scenarios\n\n- **Auditing search terms across many filtered decks** — e.g., verifying 168 filtere",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/34",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-29T01:28:42.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Feature Request: `notes_info`: Add `exclude_fields` / `include_fields` parameter to control which fields are returned",
      "Excerpt": "### Context\n\nWhen running multi-agent workflows (as described in my #21 testing), the standard pattern for pulling card data is a 2-call pipeline:\n\n```\nCall 1: find_notes(\"tag:*Chapter*\", limit=500)  → note IDs\nCall 2: notes_info([all IDs])                   → full card content\n```\n\nThis is efficient for call count (2 calls instead of dozens), but `notes_info` returns ALL fields for every note with no way to filter. The problem is data volume.\n\nMy Lecture Notes field is heavily used — paragraphs",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/30",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-26T08:43:13.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "feat: Batch tag_management — multiple operations in one call",
      "Excerpt": "## Context\n\nRequested by @asdp132A3a in [#21 (comment)](https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/21#issuecomment-4084635307). Splitting into its own issue since it's a separate feature from the concurrency fix.\n\n## Problem\n\nUsers running mass tagging workflows make 100+ sequential `add_tags` calls — one per tag/note-set combination. Each call is a separate MCP round-trip, which adds up.\n\n## Current behavior\n\n`add_tags` accepts `note_ids: list[int]` + `tags: str` (space-separated).",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/28",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-19T21:15:14.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "Filtered tools",
      "Excerpt": "Hello, is it possible to add a configuration to filter available tools? To reduce the context the token consumption when there are unused tools",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/25",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-12T22:59:51.000Z",
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      "Title": "Batch feature request",
      "Excerpt": "Hello, is it possible to add batch requests? to add multiple notes or create multiple decks at the same time",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/24",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-12T22:57:48.000Z",
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      "Title": "Add:Tag, Modify:Tag, Remove:Tag, Replace:Tag Feature Request",
      "Excerpt": "Is it possible to add the Ankiconnect features of  adding tags, removing tags, modifying tags of Anki Notes with Claude Code into Anki MCP Server as well? \nI've pivoted almost my entire workflow over to Anki MCP Server and even incorpotated novel features that only Anki MCP Server has (create, modify, filtered decks).  The only thing I have to occassionally swap over to ankiconnect (sadly) is for adding, removing, modifying, replacing, tags on notes via Claude. Would it be possible to add this t",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/23",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-12T18:47:12.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "Add Reschedule / Set due date tool",
      "Excerpt": "I love this MCP server but its missing one key feature: the ability to reschedule cards and set their due date! It would really take this MCP server to the next level and differentiate it from all the other available ones, since as far as I could find, nobody else does this.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/22",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-10T14:47:31.000Z",
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