# screenpipe MCP Server

Search your local screen recordings, audio transcripts, and computer activity from screenpipe.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `screenpipe-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**29 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

### meta: 19 open PRs from chirag127 — batch review request + offer consolidated PR

Hi @louis030195 and @codenamejason,

Filed 19 PRs over two sessions (2026-07-03) covering CI, perf, a11y, docs, UX, security, and analytics opt-out. All branch off `upstream/main`, ≤5 files each, tests pass locally.

## PR list by category

**CI / build (3)**
- #4831 parameterize ONNXRUNTIME_VERSION
- #4853 concurrency group on sdk.yml
- #4857 tsconfig noFallthroughCasesInSwitch

**Onboarding / UX (4)**
- #4851 detect 401 on live-feed polls, show actionable copy
- #4852 SCREENPIPE_SKIP_ONBOARDIN

[Read the thread](https://github.com/screenpipe/screenpipe/issues/4893) · 2026-07-03 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

### Wrong pipe name recorded in execution database

## Description
When running a pipe via the UI, the execution record in the database is recorded with an incorrect pipe name. The chat title shows the correct pipe name, but the execution database record shows a different pipe's name.

## Steps to Reproduce
1. Run the `automation-roi` pipe from the UI (POST `/pipes/automation-roi/run`)
2. Check the execution details in the chat interface
3. The execution record shows `pipe_name = "action-item-reconciler-v2-full-improved"` instead of `"automation-

[Read the thread](https://github.com/screenpipe/screenpipe/issues/3893) · 2026-06-07 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### Add Custom MCP Connections When Creating Or Configuring A Pipe

### Description
Add an option to connect a custom MCP server from the connections list when creating or configuring a pipe.

### Reason
This would make pipes more flexible by allowing users to connect their own MCP tools, data sources, and workflows directly inside Screenpipe.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/screenpipe/screenpipe/issues/3628) · 2026-05-26 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Day Recap / Pi AI fails with all tested local Ollama models (mistral, qwen3, qwen3.5) — tool calling not reliable enough

## Summary
The Day Recap feature on the Home tab returns hallucinated or empty 
summaries when used with any local Ollama model I tested. The model 
seems to never actually call the Screenpipe tools (search-content, 
activity-summary, etc.) and instead reasons in circles before 
concluding "no data found" or inventing fake content.

The same query against the same data produces a perfect, accurate 
summary when used via Claude Desktop with the Screenpipe MCP server, 
which proves the data and th

[Read the thread](https://github.com/screenpipe/screenpipe/issues/3145) · 2026-04-29 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Search API returns near-duplicate OCR results, wasting LLM context

## Problem

When an LLM agent queries `GET /search?content_type=ocr&start_time=...&limit=N`, it receives many near-identical OCR text entries that differ only by minor rendering artifacts (cursor blink, anti-aliasing, slight scroll). This wastes LLM context window on redundant information.

Example: querying a 15-minute window while the user was in a terminal returned 81 OCR results. The top 5 were nearly identical:

```
frame 16225 | 23:16:00 | "copy OCR text fails on deduplicated frames" x Bas

[Read the thread](https://github.com/screenpipe/screenpipe/issues/2285) · 2026-02-22 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Most recent

### [feature] add new meeting provider - read.ai

**describe the feature**
Add new meeting  provider.

**why is this needed?**
This is a popular provider.

- https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/49381161088659-API-Reference
- https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/49379985941523-Read-AI-API-and-MCP-Overview
- https://www.read.ai/integrations

[Read the thread](https://github.com/screenpipe/screenpipe/issues/5791) · 2026-08-03 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### [feature] list Migma.ai under Communication connections

## What is Migma.ai?

Migma.ai is an email campaign platform for creating branded emails, managing opted-in audiences, sending or scheduling campaigns, and reading delivery and campaign results.

Could Migma.ai be listed in **Settings → Connections → Communication**?

```text
Communication
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Migma.ai                                                   │
│ Create, send, schedule, and track email campaigns.     [+] │
└───────────────────

[Read the thread](https://github.com/screenpipe/screenpipe/issues/5748) · 2026-08-01 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### security: SecretStore falls back to base64 (effectively plaintext) when encryptStore is off

## Context

`crates/screenpipe-secrets/src/store.rs::SecretStore::set` stores secrets as base64 with a zero nonce when no keychain-derived encryption key is available:

```rust
None => {
    // No encryption key — store as base64 with zero nonce
    let encoded = BASE64.encode(value).into_bytes();
    (encoded, vec![0u8; 12])
}
```

The gate is `is_encryption_requested` — reads `.encrypt-store` flag file OR `store.bin` magic OR `settings.encryptStore == true` in `store.bin` JSON (`crates/screenp

[Read the thread](https://github.com/screenpipe/screenpipe/issues/4886) · 2026-07-03 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### onboarding: streaming summary catch swallows network errors on corp-restricted networks

## Symptom
Onboarding streams a fetch summary from a model endpoint at `components/onboarding/engine-startup.tsx:529-549`. On corp-restricted networks (DLP, DNS filtering, cert pinning failure), the fetch fails and the block only logs `${resp.status}` — no user-visible message, and the onboarding screen keeps showing the "settling in…" pulse.

The fallback timer eventually flips the screen to the local prose, but between fetch failure and fallback expiry, the user has no signal that anything wen

[Read the thread](https://github.com/screenpipe/screenpipe/issues/4870) · 2026-07-03 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### MCP: track 2026-07-28 stateless-spec RC + migrate reads to Resources

## MCP spec 2026-07-28 RC is a breaking change

`packages/screenpipe-mcp/package.json:34` pins `@modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.27.1` which implements spec **2025-11-25** (stateful, `initialize/initialized` handshake, `Mcp-Session-Id` header).

The **2026-07-28 RC** ([blog.modelcontextprotocol.io 2026-05-21](https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-07-28-release-candidate/), verified 2026-06-03 in H1 state summary) is **stateless**:
- `initialize/initialized` removed
- `Mcp-Session-Id` heade

[Read the thread](https://github.com/screenpipe/screenpipe/issues/4863) · 2026-07-03 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### [feature] auto audio-device handling WITH a blocklist (skip bluetooth mic inputs to preserve A2DP)

**describe the feature**

keep screenpipe's automatic audio-device handling, but let me layer a **blocklist** on top of it. one mode: auto-discover and record inputs as they connect/disconnect, *minus* a small persistent set of devices to never open.

the specific need is **bluetooth microphone inputs**. A2DP (the high-quality listening profile) is output-only; the moment macOS opens a bluetooth headset's *mic* for capture, the OS downgrades the whole device from A2DP to HFP/SCO and audio qualit

[Read the thread](https://github.com/screenpipe/screenpipe/issues/3981) · 2026-06-10 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### [bug] pipes cannot authenticate to github — oauth connection exposes no token

**describe the bug**
the github connection is OAuth-connected and shows as "connected" in the app, but neither a pipe runtime nor the local API can retrieve a usable token, so pipes cannot create github issues/comments.

steps:
1. connect github via the OAuth flow (shows "connected").
2. from a pipe (or via the local API) try to read the connection: `GET http://localhost:3030/connections/github` returns `{"credentials":{}}` — no access token.
3. token endpoints like `/connections/github/token`, 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/screenpipe/screenpipe/issues/3972) · 2026-06-10 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

[See all 21 reports Pod holds for screenpipe](/mcp/screenpipe/issues) — of 29 qualified upstream.

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