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mcp-arr MCP Server

MCP server for *arr media suite - Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Readarr, Prowlarr

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

Status

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Published as mcp-arr-server on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

12 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 9.

Most discussed

Build & publish Docker image to GHCR via CI

A Dockerfile already exists, but no image is published — users have to docker build locally. This is the image-publishing gap noted in #5.

Proposal: add a CI job to build and push to GHCR (ghcr.io/aplaceforallmystuff/mcp-arr) on release/tag (latest + version tags), multi-arch (amd64/arm64), and add a docker run example to the README.

Related: #5, #10, #7

Read the thread · 2026-06-30 · closed · external user · 2 comments

Stateless HTTP transport deadlocks SDK clients (n8n): standalone GET SSE stream holds runSerialized() mutex, tools/list times out (-32001)

Summary

In HTTP (MCP_TRANSPORT=http) mode, stateful MCP SDK clients — e.g. n8n's MCP Client Tool node, which uses the official @modelcontextprotocol/sdk client — connect successfully (initialize returns) but then hang on the first tools/list and fail with -32001 Request timed out after the SDK's 60s timeout.

Single-shot curl POSTs work fine, which masks the bug. The difference is that a real SDK client opens the optional standalone GET /mcp SSE stream, and

Read the thread · 2026-06-14 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Upgrade MCP SDK: migrate to current API (server.tool(), per-session state, 2025-11-25 protocol)

Summary

The server has several structural issues rooted in the old setRequestHandler + TOOLS array + switch-dispatch pattern and a shared single-server HTTP model that serializes all requests through a mutex. These cause real operational problems: tool calls silently return no results after an mcp-arr container restart, and the server cannot handle concurrent MCP clients.

We hit a live outage where all 63 arr tools returned no results because a container restart dropped the shared

Read the thread · 2026-06-14 · closed · external user · 1 comment

http transport: single shared stateful session breaks behind a per-request MCP gateway

Summary

In src/index.ts, startHttpServer() constructs a single shared StreamableHTTPServerTransport with sessionIdGenerator: randomUUID and reuses that one instance for every request:

const transport = new StreamableHTTPServerTransport({
  sessionIdGenerator: randomUUID,
});
// ...
transport.handleRequest(req, res); // same instance, all requests

Because the transport is stateful (a sessionIdGenerator is set) and there is only one shared instance, the first `initial

Read the thread · 2026-06-12 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

Please provide instructions on how to run via Docker

Please provide instructions on how to run via Docker (or ideally a docker-compose.yaml.

Thanks!

Read the thread · 2026-04-04 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Most recent

Feature request: add Readarr support

Description

Readarr is not currently supported by mcp-arr — it is not mentioned in the README and no Readarr-specific MCP tools are exposed, even when READARR_URL and READARR_API_KEY environment variables are set.

Expected behavior

  • Readarr should be detected when READARR_URL and READARR_API_KEY are set and appear in the configured services list
  • Readarr-specific tools should be exposed (e.g. readarr_get_authors, readarr_search, readarr_get_books, readarr_add_author, e

Read the thread · 2026-05-15 · open · external user · 0 comments

Feature Request: Add docker container to unraid Community Apps

Unraid community apps: https://unraid.net/community/apps#community-apps-iframe

Include container variables like SONARR_URL, SONARR_API_KEY etc so we don't have to update the config file, which would essentially make it a turn key solution.

Read the thread · 2026-03-21 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Duplicated tools

Hi,

The MCP is giving me duplicated tools.

1.  arr_status
2.  sonarr_get_quality_profiles         ← DUPLICATE (also #25)
3.  sonarr_get_health
4.  sonarr_get_root_folders              ← DUPLICATE (also #24)
5.  sonarr_get_download_clients
6.  sonarr_get_naming
7.  sonarr_get_tags
8.  sonarr_review_setup
9.  radarr_get_quality_profiles          ← DUPLICATE (also #33)
10. radarr_get_health
11. radarr_get_root_folders              ← DUPLICATE (also #32)
12. radarr_get_download_clients
13. ra

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aplaceforallmystuff/mcp-arr/issues/6) · 2026-03-05 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND

When I try to run the server I get this error

❯ npx -y mcp-arr-server
node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:873
  throw new ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND(packageName, fileURLToPath(base), null);
        ^

Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find package '@modelcontextprotocol/sdk' imported from C:\Users\joshu\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_npx\de1fb1a3c49e17d8\node_modules\mcp-arr-server\dist\index.js
    at packageResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:873:9)
    at moduleResolve (node:internal/modules/esm

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aplaceforallmystuff/mcp-arr/issues/3) · 2026-02-26 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[See all 12 reports Pod holds for mcp-arr](/mcp/mcp-arr/issues).

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- No tool list published — Pod has not verified what it exposes
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