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FocusRelay MCP Server

Connect AI tools to OmniFocus on macOS to find, review, and safely update tasks and projects.

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Known issues

92 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

Research and add discoverable MCP workflow prompts for OmniFocus

Current bounded delivery (2026-08-14)

The active implementation slice is intentionally narrower than the original research program:

  • refine the already-shipped process_inbox workflow with GTD-informed clarification;
  • carry forward the conservative ambiguity and bounded batch-lookup rules from OpenCode UAT;
  • expose the exact same workflow definition through a compact CLI retrieval command;
  • preserve the nine-tool MCP catalog and add no additional prompts.

Validation impact: `server-wi

Read the thread · 2026-07-14 · closed · 12 comments

Date fields cause timeout/crash on tasks with repeat schedules

Description When requesting any date field (dueDate, completionDate, plannedDate) via list_tasks, the bridge crashes with a date parsing error if any task in the result set has a repeating schedule. Error message Bridge response timed out after 45.0s lastReadError=dataCorrupted: Expected date string to be ISO8601-formatted. The error consistently occurs at a specific array index (e.g. Index 2) corresponding to a repeating task in the result set. Steps to reproduce

Have at least one repeating ta

Read the thread · 2026-04-06 · closed · external user · 11 comments

Spike: revisit multi-host transport decision — TCC diagnosis and Developer ID signing feasibility

User outcome

A Claude Desktop (or other desktop-app-hosted MCP client) user gets either a documented, supported FocusRelay setup path, or a documented, evidence-backed "not supported yet" with a tracked follow-up — instead of a silent bridge timeout. The spike's deliverable is a decision, not code: an updated transport decision document and, if warranted, a follow-up implementation issue.

Validation impact

docs — the spike produces diagnostic evidence and an updated decision document

Read the thread · 2026-08-01 · open · 6 comments

Release FocusRelay v0.12.0-beta: reliable inbox workflows

Release outcome

Ship a beta that makes inbox processing noticeably more reliable: users can start a guided inbox workflow, receive clear bounded results, and avoid parallel Bridge failures or leftover FocusRelay processes when their MCP client restarts.

Version

v0.12.0-beta

This is a minor beta because it adds a public MCP prompt and parent-aware tag discovery, changes the supported macOS baseline, and introduces a new process-wide Bridge execution architecture.

Validation impact

Read the thread · 2026-07-28 · closed · 6 comments

P2: Repair or remove the stale checked-in Homebrew formula

Severity

P2 release blocker: installation/packaging correctness.

Confirmed failure mode

homebrew/focus-relay-mcp.rb currently points to:

  • release v0.9.0-beta
  • archive name focus-relay-mcp-0.9.0-beta.tar.gz
  • SHA256 e3b0c442..., the checksum of an empty file

The formula installs a focusrelay binary that does not match the referenced archive naming. If a user or maintainer treats this checked-in formula as authoritative, installation cannot be trusted.

The external `deverma

Read the thread · 2026-07-13 · closed · 4 comments

Most recent

Make benchmark timeout diagnostics passive before v0.13 retry

Outcome

Make benchmark timeout diagnostics passive before the v0.13 retry so observing a timeout cannot add Bridge requests during recovery.

Scope

  • Capture queue and process state immediately when a benchmark call fails.
  • Remove diagnostic Bridge health requests and the undocumented recovery-delay environment behavior.
  • Preserve the effective passive wait: 13,000 ms by default and for smoke/stress; 15,000 ms for release.
  • Do not change production transport, BridgeClient, plugin, MCP

Read the thread · 2026-08-18 · open · 1 comment

Guide MCP clients to serialize FocusRelay reads and triage bounded slices

Scheduling

Post-release backlog. Do not start this work or change the frozen release candidate until the current release verification is complete.

User outcome

When a supported MCP client asks FocusRelay to review a large due or flagged workload, it processes one bounded slice at a time instead of launching overlapping Bridge reads or falling back to another OmniFocus server.

Validation impact

server-wire — this changes the MCP Initialize instructions visible to clients, not quer

Read the thread · 2026-08-17 · open · 0 comments

Clarify the IPC spec's cross-process admission contract

User outcome

A maintainer reading the IPC specification can tell exactly which concurrency guarantees apply inside one FocusRelay process and which behavior remains unvalidated across several client-spawned server processes.

Validation impact

docs

User-facing acceptance journey

  1. A maintainer investigates several terminal MCP clients using FocusRelay on one Mac.
  2. They read IPC-SPEC.md and see that the Bridge FIFO is process-wide, not a machine-wide or cross-process loc

Read the thread · 2026-08-12 · closed · 0 comments

Measure cross-process Bridge admission across concurrent terminal MCP clients

Parent context

  • #170 / #179 established one process-wide FIFO Bridge lane: one request runs, six may queue, and excess or expired work receives a structured retryable error.
  • #176 / #177 added the direct MCP burst harness, but its contract deliberately launches one stdio server process.
  • #187 / #190 made one FocusRelay process exit when its client closes stdin.
  • #196 owns the separate Desktop-host/TCC transport decision.
  • #217 owns the docs-only correction to the current IPC contr

Read the thread · 2026-08-12 · open · 1 comment

Derive catalog cache keys from the filter instead of a hand-maintained list

User outcome

A query never receives another query's cached results. Adding a filter field cannot silently produce wrong answers, because the cache key is derived from the filter rather than maintained by hand alongside it.

Validation impact

query — changes how cached catalog results are keyed. No MCP wire change.

Current state: correct today, but only by coincidence of two hand-maintained lists

CacheKey enumerates its fields manually:

limit, cursor, fieldsKey, statusFilter

[Read the thread](https://github.com/deverman/FocusRelayMCP/issues/207) · 2026-08-02 · closed · 1 comment

### Installed plug-in is ignored when OmniFocus plug-in sync is enabled: README installs to the wrong directory

## User outcome

A user who follows the README install steps ends up running the plug-in they
just installed. Today, a user with OmniFocus plug-in sync enabled can follow
every documented step, see a healthy `bridge-health-check`, and still have
OmniFocus executing a completely different plug-in build — with no signal that
anything is wrong.

## Validation impact

`docs` for the README and troubleshooting corrections. A follow-up slice that
changes `scripts/install-plugin.sh` behavior or adds a 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/deverman/FocusRelayMCP/issues/200) · 2026-08-01 · closed · 1 comment

### Harden bridge IPC directory: retention, permissions, upgrade invalidation, fail-fast paths

## User outcome

After upgrading FocusRelay via Homebrew, I start my MCP client and run a few
queries. The IPC directory
(`~/Library/Containers/com.omnigroup.OmniFocus4/Data/Documents/FocusRelayIPC`)
contains only `requests/`, `responses/`, `locks/`, `dispatch/`, and
`bridge-version.json` — all owner-only; legacy `pid-*` folders, trace files,
and `logs/` are gone, and no artifacts from my successful calls remain. On a
Mac without OmniFocus 4 installed, a tool call returns a clear "install and
la

[Read the thread](https://github.com/deverman/FocusRelayMCP/issues/197) · 2026-08-01 · closed · 0 comments

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