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OmniFocus MCP Server

Full CRUD MCP server for OmniFocus via Omni Automation — tasks, projects, folders, tags, recurrence.

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

Status

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Published as @scardis/omnifocus-mcp 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

OmniFocus MCP Server — Candidate Replacement Report

Problem: Current server themotionmachine/OmniFocus-MCP (configured as omnifocus) has a confirmed date-writing bug — newDeferDate/newDueDate/newPlannedDate writes can land on the wrong date (e.g. 2026-11-01 read back as 2026-12-01; 2026-10-01 read back as 2026-09-30). Root cause: local-time-getter date reconstruction outside AppleScript tell blocks, likely affecting all three date fields.

Two candidates were trialled side by side, both left configured but inactive (`omnifoc

Read the thread · 2026-07-31 · closed · external user · 2 comments

createProject integration tests assume the tester's default-new-project-type preference is Parallel

Two tests in test/integration/createProject.int.test.ts create a project without specifying type, then assert it comes back "parallel":

  • creates a top-level project and returns stable id
  • creates project inside a folder and sets folderPath

Both fail if the OmniFocus user running the suite has their "default new project type" preference set to Sequential rather than Parallel — which is a real, per-user OmniFocus setting, not something the connector controls. create_project correct

Read the thread · 2026-07-17 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

dist/snippets isn't produced by npm run build, so a packaged .mcpb Desktop Extension fails every tool call with "snippet could not be loaded"

Summary

I packaged this server as a .mcpb Desktop Extension to use with the current Claude Desktop app (more on why below). Every tool call — list_folders, list_projects, etc. — failed with:

snippet could not be loaded

Root cause

src/runtime/snippetLoader.ts resolves each OmniJS snippet file relative to its own compiled location:

const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
const SNIPPETS_DIR = join(__dirname, "..", "snippets");
const filePath = joi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/steveardis/omnifocus-mcp/issues/1) · 2026-07-08 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Add batch variants of the mutating tools

Split out of #7, which found that every tool here is single-entity and noted the absence of batch operations as a gap against an alternative server that supports them.

## Current state

All 27 tools operate on one entity. Creating ten tasks means ten round trips, each spawning its own `osascript` process and its own `evaluateJavascript` call into OmniFocus. The cost is per-invocation process startup, not per-task work, so the overhead is close to linear in the number of items and dominates for 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/steveardis/omnifocus-mcp/issues/9) · 2026-08-29 · open · 0 comments

### Investigate whether OmniJS can read a perspective's contents

Split out of #7, which evaluated this server against alternatives and found perspective support to be the largest functional gap.

## Current state

`resolve_name` accepts `type: "perspective"` and maps a name to an id. That is the entire surface. There is no tool to list perspectives and no way to fetch what a perspective actually contains.

The `perspective-management` capability spec already reserves this ground — listing built-in and custom perspectives, reading perspective metadata, and act

[Read the thread](https://github.com/steveardis/omnifocus-mcp/issues/8) · 2026-08-29 · open · 0 comments

## Firsthand observations

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## For agents

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