# Safe Docx MCP Server

AI-native surgical editing of Word .docx and OpenDocument .odt files with formatting preservation

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## Connect

Published as `@usejunior/safe-docx` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**60 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

### Submit SafeDocX to Cline MCP Marketplace

## Task

Submit SafeDocX (`@usejunior/docx-mcp`) to the Cline MCP Marketplace for discovery by Cline/VS Code users.

## Steps

1. Prepare a 400x400 logo image
2. Open an issue at [cline/mcp-marketplace](https://github.com/cline/mcp-marketplace) with:
   - Repo URL: `https://github.com/UseJunior/safe-docx`
   - Package: `@usejunior/docx-mcp`
   - Description: MCP server for reading, editing, and comparing Word documents with tracked changes. For Claude, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and any MCP client. MIT

[Read the thread](https://github.com/UseJunior/safe-docx/issues/146) · 2026-05-04 · closed · 3 comments

### CLI compare aborts with OpaquePassthroughError (w:sdt placement) on a document compare_documents handles fine

## Summary

On one real document (a ~430 KB, ~1,000-paragraph form package),
`safe-docx compare` aborts with an uncaught `OpaquePassthroughError`, while
`compare_documents` compares **the same pair** successfully and writes a redline
Word opens.

```
OpaquePassthroughError: Opaque passthrough: w:sdt placement is outside inline-run and direct body-block support
    at validateSdtNamespaceOwnership (packages/docx-compare/dist/baselines/atomizer/opaquePassthrough.js:482:19)
    at atomizeTree (pack

[Read the thread](https://github.com/UseJunior/safe-docx/issues/650) · 2026-07-26 · closed · 2 comments

### Add opt-in include_footnotes to read_file for single-call body + footnotes retrieval

# Add opt-in `include_footnotes` to `read_file` for single-call body + footnotes retrieval

## Problem

Today `read_file` returns the contents of `word/document.xml` — body paragraphs with inline footnote-reference markers `[^N]`. Footnotes themselves live in `word/footnotes.xml` and require a separate `get_footnotes` call. To fully reconstruct a document an agent must:

1. Call `read_file(format="json")` to get body paragraphs with `[^N]` markers.
2. Call `get_footnotes()` to get footnote bodie

[Read the thread](https://github.com/UseJunior/safe-docx/issues/207) · 2026-05-15 · closed · 2 comments

### Make tracked changes the canonical representation for the supported surface

## Context

Core edit primitives in `packages/docx-core/src/primitives/document.ts` are direct DOM mutations today; tracked-change output is reconstructed later by `compareDocuments(...)` in `packages/docx-mcp/src/tools/save.ts`. That reconstruction wraps deltas in fresh `w:ins`/`w:del` with the session's author/date, **destroying any pre-existing reviewer metadata**.

The reframe: SafeDocX today is *re-authoring* tracked changes. After this issue lands, it *co-authors*.

## Proposal

For every 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/UseJunior/safe-docx/issues/120) · 2026-05-03 · closed · 2 comments

### compare_documents: wire the optional Lean integrity certificate through MCP and CLI

## Summary

`docs/trust-and-conformance.md` says `compare_documents` accepts `verify_document_integrity=true`, but the MCP tool schema and implementation do not expose or forward that option. The library-level comparator supports `leanXmlVerifier`, while normal MCP and CLI comparison paths cannot request a certificate.

This is both a documentation defect and a missing production integration.

## Current behavior

- `CompareOptions.leanXmlVerifier` exists and defaults to disabled.
- `compareDocu

[Read the thread](https://github.com/UseJunior/safe-docx/issues/715) · 2026-07-29 · closed · 1 comment

### Most recent

### Introduce a shared typed InlineSpan representation for rich text

## Problem

`safe-docx` currently represents inline formatting in several overlapping forms:

- `formatting_tags.ts` emits an HTML-shaped `tagged_text` string.
- `serialize_markdown.ts` and `serialize_html.ts` independently translate that representation.
- `tag_parser.ts` parses an allowlisted tag syntax into `ReplacementPart[]` for edits.
- `AddRunProps` and `ReplacementPart` are the typed structures that ultimately drive OOXML changes.

The string representations duplicate tokenization and for

[Read the thread](https://github.com/UseJunior/safe-docx/issues/958) · 2026-08-29 · open · 0 comments

### replace_text: surface a warning when an embedded object is preserved outside the replaced range

## Problem

PR #869 (fixes #739) makes `replaceParagraphTextRange()` preserve embedded objects (`w:drawing`/`w:pict`/`w:object`) caught in a replaced text range as live runs instead of silently destroying them. The preservation can reposition an object (a mixed text+object run is split so the object lands before the tracked deletion / replacement text), and the caller currently gets **no signal** that an embedded object was touched at all.

`replace_text` responses do carry a runtime `warnings` 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/UseJunior/safe-docx/issues/870) · 2026-08-16 · open · 0 comments

### docx-core: extract_revisions never visits w:trPr — row-level revisions invisible to pre-operation inspection

A caller who wants to know whether a document carries table-row revisions before running `acceptChanges`/`rejectChanges` has no way to find out: `extractRevisions` never visits `w:trPr`, so row-level revision markers and row-level property changes are invisible to the one inspection surface the library offers.

## Behavior

`packages/docx-core/src/primitives/extract_revisions.ts` scans paragraph-scoped content. `REVISION_WRAPPER_LOCALS` (`ins`, `del`, `moveFrom`, `moveTo`) is matched against par

[Read the thread](https://github.com/UseJunior/safe-docx/issues/868) · 2026-08-16 · open · 0 comments

### docx-release-verifier: comment integrity passes when IDs are duplicated identically across all four collections

## Summary

`commentIntegrity` in `packages/docx-release-verifier/src/archive.ts` compares comment ID lists by membership and total length, not by multiplicity. A tracked DOCX whose comment IDs are duplicated *identically* across all four sides — `commentRangeStart`, `commentRangeEnd`, `commentReference`, and the `w:comment` definitions — satisfies every consistency check and returns a required `pass`.

This is the sibling of #858. That issue fixed the empty-set vacuous pass; this is the same he

[Read the thread](https://github.com/UseJunior/safe-docx/issues/863) · 2026-08-15 · closed · 0 comments

### Bench note: Word-oracle redline results for compareDocuments at 7bd35c8 (PR 854) — and thank you

Thank you for shipping a real headless `compareDocuments` path, and for [PR 854](https://github.com/UseJunior/safe-docx/pull/854). We benchmarked **the merge commit** `7bd35c876493f2725b095f0190c28d2644962c78`, not published `@usejunior/docx-compare@0.19.1` (that tarball is 2026-07-24 and predates the field-husk retraction).

We called the library once per pair:

```ts
compareDocuments(original, revised, { engine: "atomizer", author: "safe-docx" })
```

No reconstruction of fields, no accept/rej

[Read the thread](https://github.com/UseJunior/safe-docx/issues/857) · 2026-08-15 · open · external user · 0 comments

### docx-compare: DOCX_COMPARISON_DEBUG diagnostics corrupt MCP stdio, and the #809 stdio test does not pin the console.log race

Follow-up from the post-merge Codex peer review of PR #812 (squash `2faf570`), which removed the obsolete process-global `console.log` suppression around `compare_documents` (issue #809). The review landed after the merge and found two real gaps, both re-verified by execution in a fresh worktree off `origin/main` @ `e511bbe`.

## Finding 1 (P1): `DOCX_COMPARISON_DEBUG` still corrupts the MCP stdio protocol

`packages/docx-compare/src/baselines/atomizer/debug.ts` emits enabled diagnostics via `co

[Read the thread](https://github.com/UseJunior/safe-docx/issues/820) · 2026-08-12 · closed · 0 comments

### fix(docx-mcp): remove obsolete process-global console.log suppression that can permanently silence stdout under concurrent compares

## Summary

`packages/docx-mcp/src/tools/compare_documents.ts` still carries `runWithoutConsoleLog` (lines 19–28), a workaround that swapped the process-global `console.log` for a no-op around each `compareDocuments` call to keep library debug output off the stdio JSON-RPC stream. The output it suppressed — the unconditional `[DEBUG] atomizeTree: …` emit in `packages/docx-compare/src/atomizer.ts` — was removed by #785 (issue #783, merged as `8035dce`). The workaround is now obsolete, and it was 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/UseJunior/safe-docx/issues/809) · 2026-08-11 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 21 reports Pod holds for Safe Docx](/mcp/safe-docx/issues) — of 60 qualified upstream.

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