mdk-mcp-server MCP Server
Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AI-assisted development of MDK applications.
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Connect
Published as @sap/mdk-mcp-server on npm. Runs locally.
Known issues
5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.
Most discussed
DXT extension crashes silently in Claude Desktop after initialize (Electron-bundled Node incompatibility)
Summary
When @sap/mdk-mcp-server is installed as a Claude Desktop .dxt extension, the server is spawned by Claude Desktop's built-in (Electron-embedded) Node runtime. It starts, accepts the JSON-RPC initialize message, then exits within ~700 ms with no stderr output. Claude Desktop logs:
Server transport closed unexpectedly, this is likely due to the process exiting early.
Running build/start.js against a real Node v25.8.2 (any nvm-installed Node ≥18) works perfectly: the se
Read the thread · 2026-04-28 · closed · external user · 1 comment
mdk-create tool non-functional: missing yo dependency + Node 22 incompatibility
Summary
The mdk-create tool fails on all installations because:
- It shells out to
yo(Yeoman CLI), which is not included in the package - Adding
yoas a dependency introduces transitive packages (cacache@15,@npmcli/map-workspaces@1) that are incompatible with Node.js 22 due to breaking changes inglob@11(already a direct dependency)
We verified this against @sap/mdk-mcp-server@0.3.3 with Node.js 22.21.1. The other 3 tools (mdk-docs, mdk-gen, mdk-manage) are unaffect
Read the thread · 2026-03-12 · closed · external user · 1 comment
FAILED: Repository Linter Issue: rl-reuse_tool
A violation against the SAP Open Source standards have been detected.
Rule: rl-reuse_tool
Message: Repository is not registered with the REUSE tool.
Description: This rule checks if the REUSE tool is used for licensing information.
Read the thread · 2025-10-14 · closed · external user · 1 comment
Recommendation: publish prebuilt MCPB bundles as GitHub release assets
Hi MDK team,
While packaging @sap/mdk-mcp-server 0.4.0 as an MCPB desktop-extension bundle for the Anthropic MCP Directory, we observed three packaging-level issues that are worth flagging because they affect anyone bundling the npm package rather than consuming a prebuilt artifact:
- Case-colliding archive entries. The dependency tree (via
yo→yeoman-doctor→twig) pulls inlocutus, which ships bothgolang/strings/Index.jsandgolang/strings/index.jsin the same directory.
Read the thread · 2026-08-13 · open · external user · 0 comments
Add MCP tool annotations to mdk-mcp-server
Summary
The @sap/mdk-mcp-server package is missing MCP tool annotations on its tool definitions. Tool annotations help AI assistants understand tool behavior and make better decisions about when and how to use them.
Current State
In src/index.ts, the tools are defined in the ListToolsRequestSchema handler without annotations:
server.setRequestHandler(ListToolsRequestSchema, async ()
[Read the thread](https://github.com/SAP/mdk-mcp-server/issues/22) · 2026-01-20 · closed · external user · 0 comments
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