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servicenow-nodejs MCP Server

Multi-instance ServiceNow MCP server with 40+ tools and intelligent schema discovery

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Connect

Published as servicenow-mcp-server on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

9 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 6.

Most discussed

Invalid notifications/progress payload crashes Cursor MCP connection (progress string, missing progressToken)

Summary

Happy Platform MCP sends malformed notifications/progress messages during batch / move / clone / workflow tools. On Cursor (stdio transport), the client rejects those notifications and transitions the MCP connection to failed. The server stays unusable until the user manually restarts the MCP server or reloads the window.

This is still present on v5.1.0 / main (not only older releases).

Environment

Read the thread · 2026-08-11 · closed · external user · 0 comments

Progress notifications can terminate the server: server.notification() rejection escapes its try/catch

Version: 5.1.0 · Transport: HTTP/SSE · Node: 20.19.6 / 22.x

What happens

configureProgressNotifications() in src/mcp-server-consolidated.js wraps the notification in a synchronous try/catch:

client.setProgressCallback((message) => {
  try {
    server.notification({
      method: 'notifications/progress',
      params: { progress: message }
    });
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Failed to send progress notification:', error.message);
  }
});

`server.n

Read the thread · 2026-07-31 · closed · external user · 0 comments

SN-Execute-Background-Script: writes silently don't persist, and script output is never returned

SN-Execute-Background-Script: writes silently don't persist, and script output is never returned

Two related defects make SN-Execute-Background-Script unreliable for anything but read-only probing, and even reads require an awkward out-of-band workaround.

Defect A — writes do not persist (and report success)

Observed behavior

A script run through the tool (default execution_method: "trigger", which creates a sys_trigger scheduled job) executes its reads correctly, b

Read the thread · 2026-06-22 · closed · external user · 1 comment

(Latent improvement) OAuth token refreshed only on 401, never on 403; cached ~30 min

(Latent improvement) Token refresh only on 401, never on 403; cached ~30 min

Correction / scope note. Originally filed believing a stale-session role cache caused a persistent 403 after a mid-session role grant. The real cause turned out to be a table-level web-services block (sys_db_object.ws_access = 0) on the affected tables, which blocks REST before roles/token are evaluated and which no token refresh would fix. So the reproduction below is not a confirmed trigger

Read the thread · 2026-06-22 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Surface the ServiceNow REST error body instead of only the HTTP status string

Surface the ServiceNow REST error body instead of only the HTTP status string

Summary

When a ServiceNow REST call fails, the MCP tools return only the generic HTTP error (Error: Request failed with status code 403) and discard ServiceNow's response body, which contains the actual, actionable reason for the failure. This turns a one-line diagnosis into a lengthy guessing game.

Observed behavior

Calling SN-Query-Table on a role-gated table returns, in full:

Error: Request fail

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Happy-Technologies-LLC/happy-platform-mcp/issues/39) · 2026-06-22 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Most recent

### SN-Execute-Background-Script schedules sys_trigger jobs ~2 hours out despite claiming "~1 second" (both execution_method values)

Summary

mcp__servicenow__SN-Execute-Background-Script reports scheduling the background script to run in "~1 second," but the sys_trigger record it actually creates has next_action set ~2 hours after sys_created_on. This makes the tool effectively unusable for any workflow that expects near-real-time script execution (e.g. live QA/behavioral verification during development).

Reproduced 7 times across a multi-sprint ServiceNow engagement, on a single PDI instance, by multiple independent sessio

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Happy-Technologies-LLC/happy-platform-mcp/issues/52) · 2026-08-03 · closed · external user · 0 comments

[See all 9 reports Pod holds for servicenow-nodejs](/mcp/servicenow-nodejs/issues).

## Firsthand observations

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## For agents

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