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    {
      "Title": "[BUG] MCP Spec 2026-07-28 conformance failures in `server/discover` and `tools/list` result envelopes cause client initialization to fail",
      "Excerpt": "### 🐛 Bug Description\n\nWhen connecting `@sylphx/citra@5.0.0` (pure-Rust `citra-mcp-server`) to modern MCP clients (such as Gemini Antigravity CLI and MCP 2026 spec runners), the server fails to initialize and register tools.\n\nThis happens due to two related protocol issues in `crates/pdf-reader-mcp-server/src/discover_compat.rs`:\n\n1. **Schema Violations in `server/discover` (SEP-2575):**\nThe payload returned by `discover_result_value()` is missing required fields defined in the MCP 2026-07-28 sp",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/663",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-25T11:45:38.000Z",
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      "Title": "MCP spec conformance: 13 requirement(s) violated (via @hasmcp/mcp-spec-test) — spec 2026-07-28",
      "Excerpt": "When the MCP server published from this repo (`npx -y @sylphx/citra`) is tested against the newest MCP spec revision (2026-07-28) with `@hasmcp/mcp-spec-test`, 13 requirements are violated: `server/discover`'s response is missing required fields (`cacheScope`, `ttlMs`), `tools/list`/`tools/call` results are missing required envelope fields (`resultType`, `_meta.serverInfo`, cache hints), and a couple of version-negotiation edge cases cause the server process to exit rather than respond. Notably,",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/662",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-24T16:11:27.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "[pdf-reader-core 3.1.1] cff-parser panic at encoding.rs:150 on CFF fonts with Custom encoding (Adobe InDesign + iTextSharp PDF)",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\n`@sylphx/citra` v5.0.0 (native engine `pdf-reader-core` 3.1.1) **panics (explicit `panic!`)** while extracting text from a PDF that embeds CFF / Type 1C fonts with **Custom** encoding. The panic originates in the `cff-parser` Rust crate and kills the native engine, surfacing on the SDK/MCP side as a `timeout tools/call` error.\n\n## Environment\n\n- OS: macOS (darwin) arm64 — Apple Silicon\n- Node.js: v22.22.2\n- Package: `@sylphx/citra@5.0.0`\n- Native engine: `pdf-reader-core` 3.1.1 (bina",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/660",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-22T22:10:53.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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    {
      "Title": "Your MCP server is listed on DReview",
      "Excerpt": "Hi — just wanted to flag that PDF Reader MCP is listed on DReview (https://dreview.co/tools/pdf-reader-mcp), a free directory of MCP servers with per-client install configs. No action needed on your end — feel free to link to the listing from your README if useful, or let me know if anything about the listing needs a correction.\n\nThanks for building this — it's a genuinely useful server.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/622",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-06T01:08:13.000Z",
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      "Title": "[BUG] The pdf reader crashes on the file provided",
      "Excerpt": "## 🐛 Bug Description\n\n<!-- A clear and concise description of what the bug is -->\n\nWhen reading the file, the MCP crashes with `panicked at adobe-cmap-parser: bad length of hexstring`\n\n## 📋 Steps to Reproduce\n\n1. Run any mcp operation on the file provided.\n\n## ✅ Expected Behavior\n\n<!-- What you expected to happen -->\n\nThe tool will work.\n\n## ❌ Actual Behavior\n\n<!-- What actually happened -->\n\nThe tool crashes.\n\n## 📸 Screenshots / Logs\n\n<!-- If applicable, add screenshots or error logs -->\n\n```\np",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/608",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-02T15:42:39.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "[BUG] Crash on server/discover during Gemini Antigravity CLI MCP client initialization.",
      "Excerpt": "## 🐛 Bug Description\n\nThe `pdf-reader-mcp` server crashes immediately during initialization when connected to the Gemini MCP client. The crash happens because the Gemini client sends a custom `server/discover` request before completing the standard JSON-RPC handshake, causing an unhandled exception and a premature stream closure (`EOF`) on the server side.\n\n## 📋 Steps to Reproduce\n\n1. Install `pdf-reader-mcp` and add it to the Gemini Antigravity CLi MCP plugins (`\"~\\.gemini\\config\\mcp_config.jso",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/598",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-27T16:02:30.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "[BUG] OpenCode中配置后无法使用",
      "Excerpt": "## 🐛 Bug Description\n\nopencode配置mcp后请求报错：Invalid schema for function 'PDF____read_pdf': {\"type\":\"object\",\"properties\":{\"path\":{\"type\":\"string\",\"minLength\":1,\"description\":\"Relative path to the local PDF file.\"},\"url\":{\"type\":\"string\",\"format\":\"uri\",\"description\":\"URL of the PDF file.\"},\"pages\":{\"anyOf\":[{\"type\":\"array\",\"items\":{\"type\":\"integer\",\"exclusiveMinimum\":true,\"minimum\":0},\"minItems\":1},{\"type\":\"string\",\"minLength\":1}],\"description\":\"Extract text only from specific pages (1-based) or ran",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/562",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-23T07:17:47.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "read_pdf url source: SSRF and file:// local-file read bypass the path-confinement that protects the path source",
      "Excerpt": "reported on 5 June 2026 https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/security/advisories/GHSA-34gp-w56h-r2mv - no response so trying here:\n\n\n### Summary\nThe read_pdf tool accepts sources as either a project-relative path or a url. The path branch is correctly confined to the project root (absolute paths and ../ are rejected), but the url branch applies no validation beyond a URL-format check, so it can fetch internal/metadata HTTP endpoints (SSRF) and, via file:// URLs, read PDF files anywhere on ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/368",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-08T14:25:21.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "[BUG] Security Vulnerabilities Found",
      "Excerpt": "src/utils/pathUtils.ts\n\nSSS-03: Path Traversal and Symlink Escape — Critical\n\nLocation: lines 28-35\nFinding: resolvePath() uses path.resolve() and path.normalize() to process user-provided paths but never calls\nfs.realpathSync() to canonicalize symlinks. When --allow-dir restrictions are configured, a symlink inside an allowed directory can point outside it, bypassing the containment check in isPathAllowed().\npath.resolve('allowed/link/target') passes startsWith('allowed/') but the real path may",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/279",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-15T01:27:45.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "Ontheia listed as compatible client — works great with pdf-reader-mcp",
      "Excerpt": "> Hi,\n>\n> We've been testing your MCP server with [Ontheia](https://ontheia.ai) — a self-hosted, open-source AI agent platform — and it works great out of the box.\n>\n> We've added it to our [Compatible MCP Servers](https://docs.ontheia.ai/getting-started/03_compatible-mcp-servers/) page to help our users discover it.\n>\n> If you'd like to list Ontheia as a compatible client in your README, we'd be happy about that — but no obligation at all.\n>\n> Thanks for building this!\n> — Wolfgang, founder of ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/276",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-21T15:45:19.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "[FEATURE] limit gobal filesystem access and http download",
      "Excerpt": "## 💡 Feature Description\n\nIt seems by default pdf-reader-mcp supports reading files from absolute and relative filesystem paths and http URLs. This means it can access without explicit permission quite a lot of content, with the security implications this has.\n\nIt is understandable that some filesystem access is needed to get binary data in, but it would be great if this was possible to limit, like for the Filesystem reference MCP.\n\nSuggest having a command line option to opt out of general file",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/274",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-19T08:59:21.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "[BUG] Missing OpenJPEG WASM fallback file causing image decode failures",
      "Excerpt": "## 🐛 Bug Description\n\nWhen processing PDFs with images, the OpenJPEG WASM module fails to initialize due to a missing fallback file (named 'nullopenjpeg_nowasm_fallback.js'), causing image decode failures across all pages.\n\n## 📋 Steps to Reproduce\n\n1. Install pdf-reader-mcp via npx or npm\n2. Attempt to process a PDF containing images\n3. Observe the OpenJPEG errors in the logs\n\n## ✅ Expected Behavior\n\nImages within PDFs should decode correctly or gracefully fall back to non-WASM/Javascript implem",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/271",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-09T14:30:12.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "[FEATURE] Add support for HTTP transport",
      "Excerpt": "## 💡 Feature Description\n\nThanks for this awesome project! Since this MCP server is currently purely running locally, I would like to request adding support for HTTP transport (see https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/basic/transports#streamable-http). \n\n## 🎯 Problem Statement\n\nBy adding HTTP transport as an (configurable) alternative, one could host this MCP server somewhere on the public internet and make it accessible by all his/her workplaces.\n\n**Current Situation:**\n\nThi",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/255",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-12-28T21:24:35.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "[BUG] vscode gets unresponsive",
      "Excerpt": "First of all: very cool project! I really like the idea.\n\n## 🐛 Bug Description\n\n<!-- A clear and concise description of what the bug is -->\n\nWhen I try summarizing a larger PDF (20+ pages), it takes forever, and the VS Code window becomes unresponsive almost immediately, even though my CPU usage is only around 20%.\n\n## 📋 Steps to Reproduce\n\nIt would be great if you could test this behavior and let me know if my machine is simply too weak to handle it!\n\n1. Set up VS Code\n2. Try summarizing larger",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/254",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-12-26T22:58:56.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "Add CMap support for Japanese/CJK PDF text extraction",
      "Excerpt": "Japanese text extraction fails for certain PDFs (e.g., Adobe InDesign-generated corporate reports). Only a few English words are extracted while Japanese text is missing.\n\n## Test Case\n\n```\nURL: https://colopl.co.jp/assets/pdf/ir/library/reports/COLOPL_Report_2024_print.pdf\nPage: 2\n\nExpected: Full Japanese text (コロプラはGPSを活用した...)\nActual: Only \"GPS17Entertainment in Real LifeCOLOPL Report 202401\"\n```\n\n## Root Cause\n\nIn `src/pdf/loader.ts` line 77, `getDocument()` is called without CMap parameters",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/250",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-12-16T06:38:06.000Z",
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      "Title": "[DOCS] Modelscope page outdated",
      "Excerpt": "## 📚 Documentation Issue\n\nThe page published on Modelscope is severely outdated. The provided installation command incorrectly installs a seemingly similar legacy version instead. This makes it extra difficult for users to pinpoint the cause of problems after installation. If this page was published by your team, please consider updating it.\n\n## 📍 Location\n\n<img width=\"971\" height=\"340\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/518b5e9f-d446-4811-a169-253143191d03\" />\n\n<img wid",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/245",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-12-08T07:13:49.000Z",
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      "Title": "[BUG] Unable to start MCP server in VSCode",
      "Excerpt": "## 🐛 Bug Description\n\nMCP server is not getting start itself.\n\nError Logs:\n`\n2025-12-03 15:43:51.479 [warning] [server stderr] SyntaxError: The requested module '@sylphx/gust' does not provide an export named 'router'\n2025-12-03 15:43:51.479 [warning] [server stderr]     at ModuleJob._instantiate (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:228:21)\n2025-12-03 15:43:51.479 [warning] [server stderr]     at async ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:337:5)\n2025-12-03 15:43:51.479 [warning] ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/240",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-12-03T10:19:03.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "Struggling to access the PDF file multiple times before it suceeds",
      "Excerpt": "## 🐛 Bug Description\n\nMCP, struggling to access the PDF file multiple times before it succeeds\n\n## 📋 Steps to Reproduce\n\n1. Do this in Windows OS\n2. Have a PDF file with “space” inside the filename (e.g, “Test File Bug.pdf”)\n3. Open in VS Code, try to ask GitHub Copilot to read the file content\n4. The AI will fail a couple of times to access the file\n5. The file should be accessed, but it takes multiple tries to try to open the file.\n\n## ✅ Expected Behavior\n\nThe MCP immediately access the file, ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/235",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-11-28T16:27:04.000Z",
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      "Title": "no tools",
      "Excerpt": "After I installed，mcp server has no tools",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/186",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-10-14T03:29:24.000Z",
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      "Title": "Can it allow AI to read images in PDFs?",
      "Excerpt": "Can it extract pictures? It is not clearly mentioned in the readme.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/180",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-10-08T13:21:25.000Z",
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      "Title": "MCP error -32602: Absolute paths are not allowed",
      "Excerpt": "Hi! Would there be any way to make this work? It's easier for the AI to access the file and the user to point to it if the user can simply copy paste the file direct link.\n\n{\n  \"sources\": [\n    {\n      \"path\": \"C:\\\\Users\\\\SANDBOX\\\\Desktop\\\\sample-2.pdf\"\n    }\n  ],\n  \"include_full_text\": true,\n  \"include_metadata\": true,\n  \"include_page_count\": true\n}\n{\n  \"results\": [\n    {\n      \"source\": \"C:\\\\Users\\\\SANDBOX\\\\Desktop\\\\sample-2.pdf\",\n      \"success\": false,\n      \"error\": \"MCP error -32600: Faile",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/136",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-08-20T23:47:54.000Z",
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      "Title": "getAll() does not exist",
      "Excerpt": "Hi! I tried to build locally but I get following error on freshly cloned repository:\n\n\n> @sylphlab/pdf-reader-mcp@0.3.24 build\n> tsc\nsrc/handlers/readPdf.ts:256:40 - error TS2339: Property 'getAll' does not exist on type 'Metadata'.\n256       const metadataData = metadataObj.getAll() as PdfMetadata | undefined;\n                                           ~~~~~\nFound 1 error in src/handlers/readPdf.ts:256\n\n\nCan you fix it please?",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/64",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-05-23T14:13:26.000Z",
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      "Title": "Tool schema incompatible with Mistral API (400 error: \"Invalid tool schema\")",
      "Excerpt": "Hi,  \nThank you for developing this project!\n\nI’m encountering a problem when running `pdf-reader-mcp` alongside the Mistral API. When the PDF Reader MCP server is enabled, any API call to Mistral that includes the registered tool schema fails with the following error:\n\n```\nAPI error occurred: Status 400 Content-Type application/json Body \n{\"object\":\"error\",\"message\":\"Invalid tool schema: {'type': 'object', 'properties': {'path': {'type': 'string', 'minLength': 1, 'description': 'Relative path t",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/63",
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      "Title": "File not found error",
      "Excerpt": "Hi,\n\nMy agent is calling the tool with these args:\n\n```\n{\n  \"sources\": [\n    {\n      \"path\": \"FooBar.pdf\"\n    }\n  ],\n  \"include_full_text\": true,\n  \"include_metadata\": true,\n  \"include_page_count\": true\n}\n```\n\nAnd getting this response:\n\n```\n{\n  \"results\": [\n    {\n      \"source\": \"FooBar.pdf\",\n      \"success\": false,\n      \"error\": \"MCP error -32600: File not found at 'FooBar.pdf'.\"\n    }\n  ]\n}\n```\n\nAnd I can confirm that the PDF exists. If I run the server directly (without making a request), I",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/SylphxAI/pdf-reader-mcp/issues/21",
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