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AnkiMCP Server Desktop Extension MCP Server

Anki addon that exposes your flashcard collection to AI assistants via a local MCP server.

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31 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 12.

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QueueBridge: shared response_queue misroutes responses under concurrent callers (Asked claude to write copy/paste bcz i'm a beginner)

Read the thread · 2026-03-07 · closed · external user · 8 comments

Installation problems

Following the README to install the MCP server via editing the json doesn't work. However, following the online guide does work. A word of caution is that following the online guide ends up nuking my json file for other mcp servers.

Read the thread · 2026-02-08 · closed · external user · 6 comments

Vendored uvicorn incompatible with Anki's Python 3.9

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 crashes on import.

File ".../vendor/shared/uvicorn/_types.py", line 45 ExcInfo = tuple[type[BaseException], BaseException, types.TracebackType | None] TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for |: 'type' and 'NoneType'

Fix: vendor a uvicorn version that supports Python 3.9, or patch the type aliases to use Union/Optional.

Read the thread · 2026-02-06 · closed · external user · 5 comments

Accept distro versions of pydantic or force installation to another dir

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.

Anki 25.09.2 (3890e12c) (ao)
Python 3.14.4 Qt 6.11.0 PyQt 6.11.0
Platform: Linux-7.0.5

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/40) · 2026-05-12 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### FR: Add secret-path option for MCP HTTP endpoint

Hi, thanks for the add-on; it’s been very useful

Could 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?

The goal isn’t strong security, but rather avoiding exposing a fully unauthenticated MCP endpoint

Best regards

P.S. The headless Anki container is quite promising. It would be incredibly u

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/9) · 2026-02-07 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### Most recent

### All tools fail with "invalid outputSchema... unsupported dialect" (JSON Schema draft-07 vs 2020-12)

## Summary
Every single tool call to this MCP server fails client-side with the same error,
even simple read-only calls like `listDecks`. The connection/handshake succeeds
(tool list loads fine), but every actual tool invocation is rejected when the
client tries to validate the response against the tool's declared output schema.

## Exact error message
Error: Tool '<toolName>' has an invalid outputSchema: JSON Schema declares an
unsupported dialect ("$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/sc

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/69) · 2026-08-12 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### FR: Tool to manage fields on an existing note type (add/remove/rename/reposition)

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.

## Proposed solution

 A multi-action tool (e.g. `manage_model_fields`) with an `action` discriminator, supporting:
- `add` — add a new field (optionally at a position)
- `remove` — delete a field
- `rename` — rename a fiel

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/57) · 2026-06-25 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### update_model_templates: valid templates are mutated in the live model when the call fails on an unknown template name

## Summary

`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

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/47) · 2026-06-11 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Add opt-in mechanism for high-risk tools (disabled by default)

## Motivation

AI 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.

This 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 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/46) · 2026-06-11 · closed · 1 comment

### FR: Make FastMCP stateless mode configurable (clients without mcp-session-id support)

Originally reported in the AnkiWeb addon comments: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/124672614

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> 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.
>
> The fix is to pass `stateless_http=True` when creating the FastMCP instance:
>
> ```python
> mcp = FastM

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/42) · 2026-05-18 · closed · 1 comment

### filtered_deck: Add get_info action to inspect search terms and configuration

## Use case

The `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.

This creates a write-only gap: agents can create filtered decks but can't programmatically verify or audit them afterward without opening the Anki GUI.

### Real-world scenarios

- **Auditing search terms across many filtered decks** — e.g., verifying 168 filtere

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/34) · 2026-03-29 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### Feature Request: `notes_info`: Add `exclude_fields` / `include_fields` parameter to control which fields are returned

### Context

When running multi-agent workflows (as described in my #21 testing), the standard pattern for pulling card data is a 2-call pipeline:

Call 1: find_notes("tag:Chapter", limit=500) → note IDs Call 2: notes_info([all IDs]) → full card content


This 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.

My Lecture Notes field is heavily used — paragraphs

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/issues/30) · 2026-03-26 · closed · external user · 0 comments

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