# servicenow-nodejs MCP Server

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

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled servicenow-nodejs yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## 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

- happy-platform-mcp: observed on **3.2.3**; confirmed same code still

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Happy-Technologies-LLC/happy-platform-mcp/issues/58) · 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`:

```js
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](https://github.com/Happy-Technologies-LLC/happy-platform-mcp/issues/50) · 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](https://github.com/Happy-Technologies-LLC/happy-platform-mcp/issues/40) · 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](https://github.com/Happy-Technologies-LLC/happy-platform-mcp/issues/41) · 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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