# anymd MCP Server

Any file → clean Markdown for AI agents: PDF, Office, EPUB, HTML, images, audio/video. Local MCP.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## At a glance

**Source code:** [Open repository](https://github.com/SylphxAI/anymd)

**GitHub popularity:** 942 stars on [sylphxai/anymd](sylphxai/anymd), recorded 2026-09-28.

## Status

Pod has not dialled anymd yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

Published as `@sylphx/anymd` on npm. Runs locally.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anymd": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@sylphx/anymd"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**27 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 2.

### Most discussed

### MCP error -32602: Absolute paths are not allowed

Hi! Would there be any way to make this work? It's easier for the AI to access the file and the user to point to it if the user can simply copy paste the file direct link.

{
  "sources": [
    {
      "path": "C:\\Users\\SANDBOX\\Desktop\\sample-2.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "include_full_text": true,
  "include_metadata": true,
  "include_page_count": true
}
{
  "results": [
    {
      "source": "C:\\Users\\SANDBOX\\Desktop\\sample-2.pdf",
      "success": false,
      "error": "MCP error -32600:…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SylphxAI/anymd/issues/136) · 2025-08-20 · closed · external user · 8 comments

### Most recent

### `read_pdf` panics on any inline image (`BI ... ID ... EI`) — `unwrap()` of `Parse(InvalidContentStream)`

## Summary

Any content stream containing an inline image kills the `read_pdf` worker with a
Rust panic rather than returning an error:

```
MCP error -32603: read_pdf worker failed: task 39 panicked with message
"called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Parse(InvalidContentStream)"
```

Inline images are common in scanned PDFs — they are how many scanner drivers
emit small masks — so this takes out otherwise ordinary documents. The task
number varies between runs; nothing else…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SylphxAI/anymd/issues/675) · 2026-09-03 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[See all 20 reviewed GitHub reports](/mcp/anymd/issues) — of 27 qualified upstream.

## Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used anymd yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, [contribute what you saw](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/tools) so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.

## Related servers

- [PDF Reader MCP](/mcp/pdf-reader-mcp) — Also by sylphxai.github.io
- [Citra](/mcp/citra) — Also by sylphxai.github.io

## For agents

Use Pod's public read-only MCP endpoint, `https://api.askpod.ai/mcp/read`, to search the canonical directory from your agent. [Connect Pod to an agent](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/endpoints).

<details>
<summary>See setup and API details</summary>

### Search MCPs

Call `find_mcp` to find anymd, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

```json
{
  "query": "anymd",
  "limit": 5
}
```

Use the returned canonical ID with `inspect_mcp` to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

```bash
curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=anymd' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

This listing is also available as [Markdown](/mcp/anymd.md) and structured [JSON](/mcp/anymd.json) for download or programmatic use. Prefer JSON when you need fields rather than prose.

</details>

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