# outlook-assistant MCP Server

Microsoft Outlook MCP server — 22 tools for email, calendar, contacts, and mailbox management.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `@littlebearapps/outlook-assistant` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**90 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

### v3.7.2 E2E test sweep — 48 findings across all 22 tools

## Summary

Manual E2E sweep of every tool/action permutation in v3.7.2 against a live **Personal Outlook.com** account, run on 2026-05-05.

- **Tools touched:** 22 / 22
- **Findings:** 48 (F-1 through F-48)
- **Account type:** Personal Outlook.com (M365-only features marked skipped)
- **Write safety:** Self-only sends + cleanup; sentinel naming (`e2e-test-2026-05-05`, `[E2E v3.7.2]`)
- **Cleanup status:** ✅ All sentinels removed, mailbox state restored

### Severity histogram

| Severity | Coun

[Read the thread](https://github.com/littlebearapps/outlook-assistant/issues/159) · 2026-05-05 · closed · 5 comments

### search-emails: searchAllFolders=true silently drops kqlQuery and returns wrong results

## Summary

The `search-emails` tool's `searchAllFolders=true` branch is unreliable in two ways:

1. **`kqlQuery` is silently ignored.** A KQL filter that should narrow results is dropped; the call returns a chronological dump of recent inbox messages with `_Search strategy: combined-search_` (a strategy line that lies about what was applied).
2. **`query` returns zero where without `searchAllFolders` it returns matches.** The cross-folder branch sometimes finds strictly fewer results than the i

[Read the thread](https://github.com/littlebearapps/outlook-assistant/issues/169) · 2026-05-05 · open · 3 comments

### Add JSDoc comments to exported functions in `utils/graph-api.js`

The `utils/graph-api.js` module is the core Graph API client used by every tool module, but its exported functions lack JSDoc documentation.

**What to do:**
- Add `@param` and `@returns` JSDoc comments to all exported functions in `utils/graph-api.js`
- Include brief descriptions of what each function does
- Document any important side effects (e.g., automatic token refresh)

**Why this matters:**
- Helps contributors understand the API surface without reading the full implementation
- Enables 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/littlebearapps/outlook-assistant/issues/70) · 2026-03-09 · closed · 3 comments

### v3.7.3 regression: F-24 fix incomplete — chokepoint misses JSON-stringified arrays from MCP transport

## Summary

The post-tag commit `9b4373a` ("fix(coerce): close v3.7.3 verification gaps (F-17, F-24)") claims to fix F-24 (array literals in string-typed params like `to`/`cc`/`bcc`), but the fix only catches the case where the value arrives as a real JS array. In practice, MCP clients (Claude Code's MCP harness, at minimum) JSON-stringify the array literal before transmission when the schema declares `type: "string"`, so the chokepoint receives a string like `'["nathanschram@live.com"]'` (liter

[Read the thread](https://github.com/littlebearapps/outlook-assistant/issues/168) · 2026-05-05 · closed · 2 comments

### Theme: tool outputs omit useful context (IDs, pagination, identity)

**Tracking issue:** #159
**Severity:** inefficiency
**Theme:** Tools return human-readable output but skip details that callers (especially AI agents) need to drive subsequent operations

## The pattern

A common failure mode: tool A creates a thing, tool B operates on it. If A doesn't return the ID, the caller has to make an extra \`list\` call (with potential ambiguity if names aren't unique). Or: a list returns 50 items with no pagination indicator, leaving the caller unsure whether more exis

[Read the thread](https://github.com/littlebearapps/outlook-assistant/issues/165) · 2026-05-05 · closed · 2 comments

### Most recent

### docs: folders delete is recoverable (moves to Deleted Items), not "no recycle-bin recovery"

## Summary

The `folders` tool's `delete` action is described as permanent:

> action=`delete` permanently removes a folder (by `folderName`/path or `folderId`) and its contents — **there is no recycle-bin recovery**.

But on **personal Outlook.com**, deleting a mail folder actually **moves it (and its contents) to Deleted Items**, where it is recoverable — it is *not* an unrecoverable hard delete.

Observed during the v3.9.0 live E2E sweep: after `folders delete folderName="e2e-v390-parent"`, t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/littlebearapps/outlook-assistant/issues/218) · 2026-07-22 · open · 0 comments

### docs: raw searchExpression field-scoped $search returns 0 on personal Outlook.com

## Summary

On **personal Outlook.com** accounts, a raw `searchExpression` (formerly `kqlQuery`) using field-scoped `$search` syntax — e.g. `subject:"LinkedIn"`, `from:github.com` — often returns **0 results**, even when matching messages clearly exist. The raw-`$search` branch intentionally does **not** fall back to the OData/client-side ladder (that's the #169 V37-F-1 fix that stopped it silently dropping the filter), so the user just sees "No emails found".

Surfaced during the v3.9.0 live E2

[Read the thread](https://github.com/littlebearapps/outlook-assistant/issues/217) · 2026-07-22 · open · 0 comments

### feat: nested folder addressing (path syntax + folder IDs) for folders tool

## Summary

The `folders` tool cannot address any **non-top-level (nested) folder** for `move`, `stats`, or `delete`. On work/school (Entra ID) accounts — where deep folder trees are the norm — this makes large parts of the mailbox unreachable.

Reported by @boz-tech on #159 (v3.8.1, Claude Desktop / Windows, work-school Entra ID account). Splitting into its own issue because #159 is the (now closed) v3.7.2 personal-account E2E sweep tracker; this is a distinct cross-cutting capability gap.

## 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/littlebearapps/outlook-assistant/issues/216) · 2026-07-22 · closed · 0 comments

### Security Audit: bump @modelcontextprotocol/sdk to clear transitive hono (high) + body-parser (low) advisories

## Context

The required `Security Audit` CI gate (`npm audit --omit=dev --audit-level=high`) fails on `main` due to **pre-existing, transitive** advisories, not any first-party code:

- **`hono` (high)** — via `@modelcontextprotocol/sdk` → `@hono/node-server` → `hono@4.12.7`. Advisories: serve-static path traversal on Windows (GHSA-wwfh-h76j-fc44), CORS wildcard-with-credentials (GHSA-88fw-hqm2-52qc), Lambda adapter cookie/header issues, body-limit bypass. All are **HTTP-server** issues; this s

[Read the thread](https://github.com/littlebearapps/outlook-assistant/issues/215) · 2026-07-21 · open · 0 comments

### Device-code auth returns empty output on failure (reported via LinkedIn)

## Report

A user ("Ben", Windows 11, Claude **Cowork** remote-connector session) reported that:

- `auth { action: "authenticate", method: "device-code" }` "completes successfully but returns **empty output**" — no device code, no verification URL.
- Follow-up `auth { action: "status" }` still shows "Not authenticated."

## Root cause

`handleDeviceCodeAuth()` called `initiateDeviceCodeFlow()` with **no try/catch**. When the HTTPS request to Microsoft throws (blocked outbound egress in a sandbo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/littlebearapps/outlook-assistant/issues/213) · 2026-07-21 · closed · 0 comments

### docs: add docs/faq/index.md for help-centre FAQPage schema

## Context

The littlebearapps.com help centre now emits Schema.org `FAQPage`
JSON-LD on any help article whose `category: faq` frontmatter is set,
*or* whose body contains ≥3 question-shaped H2s. The category exists in
the help collection schema, but **no tool currently has a dedicated
FAQ article** — synced or hand-written. This issue tracks creating
that scaffold for **Outlook Assistant**.

The marketing-site infrastructure (FAQPage extractor, author byline,
heading anchors, per-tool `llms.tx

[Read the thread](https://github.com/littlebearapps/outlook-assistant/issues/167) · 2026-05-05 · open · 1 comment

### Theme: schema-vs-docs param-name drift across tools

**Tracking issue:** #159
**Severity:** docs / inefficiency
**Theme:** Param names are inconsistent across tools and not always discoverable

## The pattern

Each tool was built with its own naming conventions. There's no shared vocabulary for:
- The **identifier** of the thing being managed (\`id\` vs \`eventId\` vs \`ruleId\` vs \`categoryId\` vs \`sharedMailbox\`)
- The **display name** (\`name\` vs \`displayName\`)
- The **email** of a contact / shared mailbox (\`email\` vs \`emails\` vs \`sh

[Read the thread](https://github.com/littlebearapps/outlook-assistant/issues/163) · 2026-05-05 · closed · 1 comment

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