next-devtools-mcp MCP Server
Next.js development tools MCP server with stdio transport
Publisher claimed. No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.
Status
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Connect
Published as next-devtools-mcp on npm. Runs locally.
Known issues
26 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
nextjs_call fails with 'Expected object, received string' when MCP clients serialize args as JSON string
Bug Description
The nextjs_call tool fails with a Zod validation error when MCP clients pass the args parameter as a serialized JSON string instead of a parsed object. This is a known pattern across the MCP ecosystem where certain clients serialize object-typed parameters before sending them to the server.
Error:
Expected object, received string
The nextjs_index (action: discover_servers and list_tools) works correctly. Only nextjs_call (action: call_tool) fails b
Read the thread · 2026-04-14 · closed · external user · 2 comments
Issues with nextjs_docs and nextjs-docs://llms-index
I'm having issues where the model (in this case, GPT 5.2 Codex in OpenCode) complains it can't get the Next.js docs index or llms-index. Here's the output:
Details
Thinking: Attempting to access Next.js docs
I’m trying to read the required nextjs-docs://llms-index resource via the read tool to comply with documentation access requirements, but previous attempts failed; I’ll retry reading it directly to resolve this blocker before proceeding.
→ Read ne
Read the thread · 2026-01-29 · open · external user · 2 comments
Codex goes idle after next-devtools.init
I have this in my AGENTS.md:
**Next.js Initialization**: When starting work on a Next.js project, automatically
call the `init` tool from the next-devtools-mcp server FIRST. This establishes
proper context and ensures all Next.js queries use official documentation.
For every new session, Codex runs next-devtools.init then goes idle with the message "Initialization complete." – because that's what it's told to do – and I have to respond with "Continue" or something like that. Every. S
Read the thread · 2025-12-20 · closed · external user · 3 comments
Bun Runtime
Hi, Can you please add the bun runtime availability that will be helpful, thank you.
Read the thread · 2025-12-04 · closed · external user · 7 comments
[Bug] Auto-discovery fails on Windows - discover_servers returns 406 due to missing Accept header
Environment
Operating System:
- Windows 11 (MINGW64_NT-10.0-26200)
Versions:
- next-devtools-mcp: 0.3.3 (latest)
- Next.js: 16.0.3
- Node.js: v24.9.0
- Bun: 1.3.0 (used as package manager)
- React: 19.2.0
MCP Configuration (.mcp.json): { "servers": { "next-devtools": { "type": "stdio", "command": "bunx", "args": ["next-devtools-mcp@latest"], "env": {} } } }
Next.js Configuration: const nextConfig: NextConfig = {
Read the thread · 2025-11-18 · closed · external user · 5 comments
Most recent
browser_eval wrapper uses outdated field names: ref / startRef / endRef / selector — type, click, drag, evaluate, and fill_form all fail
Summary
The browser_eval action wrapper in dist/tools/browser-eval.js sends parameter names that no longer match @playwright/mcp's tool schemas. As a result, type, click, evaluate, drag, and fill_form all return InputValidationError. Only start, navigate, screenshot, console_messages, list_tools, and close work.
The bug is the same class as #94 / #98 (Playwright MCP renamed browser_screenshot to browser_take_screenshot), but for several other tools.
Versi
Read the thread · 2026-05-15 · closed · external user · 0 comments
Docs: warn that NEXT_DEVTOOLS_HOST env var can redirect MCP off localhost
NEXT_DEVTOOLS_HOST silently overrides the localhost default in src/_internal/nextjs-runtime-manager.ts:39:
const MCP_HOST = process.env.NEXT_DEVTOOLS_HOST ?? "localhost"
…and is used to construct the fetch target at lines 68 and 306. But the README (checked in v0.3.10 and at HEAD on the default branch) has zero mentions of NEXT_DEVTOOLS_HOST, so nothing warns a developer that
Read the thread · 2026-04-21 · closed · external user · 0 comments
Gives warning on Windows 11
When working in Windows 11 inside Git Bash this MCP server gives the following warning for Claude Code:
[Warning] [next-devtools] mcpServers.next-devtools: Windows requires 'cmd /c' wrapper to execute npx
The same seems to be the cause of Claude Code not being able to auto-discover other MCP servers.
Read the thread · 2026-04-04 · open · external user · 0 comments
MCP server failed on exit
- Claude Code v2.1.71
- No
statusLineconfigured
- No
- next-devtools-mcp 0.3.10
- next 16.1.6
- macOS Sequoia 15.7.4
- Apple M1 Pro
Everything works correctly. Claude reports (/mcp)
next-devtools · :heavy_check_mark: connected
After prompting to make sure, Claude reports
The ... dev server is running on port 4200, and the next-devtools MCP connected successfully.
However when exiting Claude (e.g. with /exit), it consistently reports
1 MCP server failed
With this being the only M
Read the thread · 2026-03-09 · closed · external user · 0 comments
Dependency security risk - Anthropic's MCP TypeScript SDK has a ReDoS vulnerability
Dependency security risk - Anthropic's MCP TypeScript SDK has a ReDoS vulnerability
@modelcontextprotocol/sdk < v1.25.2 affected patched version v1.25.2 and higher
Impact A ReDoS vulnerability in the UriTemplate class allows attackers to cause denial of service. The partToRegExp() function generates a regex pattern with nested quantifiers (([^/]+(?:,[^/]+))) for exploded template variables (e.g., {/id}, {?tags*}), causing catastrophic backtracking on malicious input.
Who is affected: MCP
Read the thread · 2026-02-18 · closed · external user · 1 comment
Chromium Support
If working on linux arm64, the only chrome browser build is chromium. Any plans on supporting chromium?
Read the thread · 2026-02-10 · closed · external user · 0 comments
Security: next-devtools-mcp pins vulnerable undici (GHSA-g9mf-h72j-4rw9)
Problem
next-devtools-mcp depends on a vulnerable version of undici flagged by npm audit.
Advisory: GHSA-g9mf-h72j-4rw9 Undici has an unbounded decompression chain in HTTP responses on Node.js Fetch API via Content-Encoding (resource exhaustion).
npm audit reports:
- undici 7.0.0 - 7.18.1: moderate severity
- next-devtools-mcp depends on vulnerable versions of undici
Current versions (from lockfile)
- next-devtools-mcp: 0.3.10
- undici: 7.16.0 (pinned as a direct dependency of n
Read the thread · 2026-02-06 · closed · external user · 0 comments
See all 20 reports Pod holds for next-devtools-mcp — of 26 qualified upstream.
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