# Shiori MCP MCP Server

MCP server for Shiori bookmark management and tag workflows.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `shiori-mcp` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**8 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 5.

### Most discussed

### Allow configure() to clear cached client credentials and session

## Finding
`client.configure(..., session_id=None)` does not clear the cached `_SESSION_ID` because `configure()` only assigns fields when the passed value is not `None`.

## Impact
Tests and programmatic users can accidentally leak authentication state between configurations. This is fragile for test ordering and makes it hard to intentionally reset credentials/session state.

## Suggested fix
Use an internal sentinel so omitted parameters mean "leave unchanged" while explicit `None` means "cle

[Read the thread](https://github.com/rusty4444/shiori-mcp/issues/10) · 2026-05-31 · closed · 0 comments

### Accept typed bookmark id arrays for bulk delete

## Finding
`shiori_delete_bookmarks` requires callers to pass bookmark ids as a JSON-encoded string such as `[1,2,3]` instead of a typed array.

## Impact
This is more brittle for MCP clients and LLM callers because they must construct JSON inside a string parameter, and malformed JSON is only caught at runtime.

## Suggested fix
Accept a typed `list[int]` parameter while keeping backward compatibility for existing JSON-string callers.

Found during release validation review.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/rusty4444/shiori-mcp/issues/9) · 2026-05-31 · closed · 0 comments

### Update optional Aeon validation skip target name

## Finding
`scripts/model_validate.py` renamed the optional Aeon target to `aeon_ultimate_xs`, but the optional-failure skip set still references the old `aeon_ultimate` name.

## Impact
If a local Aeon endpoint is configured but temporarily unavailable, the validation script will count it as a hard failure instead of skipping it as an optional model target.

## Suggested fix
Update the optional skip set to include `aeon_ultimate_xs`.

Found during `aeon-ultimate-xs` second-pass review of the fi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/rusty4444/shiori-mcp/issues/8) · 2026-05-31 · closed · 0 comments

### Keep health check lightweight after pagination fix

## Finding
After bookmark pagination was fixed, `shiori_health_check` still advertises a "small read-only request" but calls `health_check()`, which walks all bookmark pages via `list_bookmarks()`.

## Impact
On large Shiori instances, a health check can become unexpectedly expensive and slow.

## Suggested fix
Make `health_check()` use a lightweight endpoint such as `/api/tags`, or update the wording if a full bookmark walk is intentional.

Found during `aeon-ultimate-xs` second-pass review of 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/rusty4444/shiori-mcp/issues/7) · 2026-05-31 · closed · 0 comments

### Clarify tag filter is case-insensitive

## Finding
The `shiori_search_bookmarks` schema describes the `tag` filter as an "exact tag name", but the implementation lowercases both sides and matches case-insensitively.

## Impact
MCP clients and agents may infer stricter/case-sensitive semantics than the tool actually provides.

## Suggested fix
Update the schema description and docs to say the tag filter is case-insensitive.

Found during release code review; confirmed by second pass with `aeon-ultimate-xs`.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/rusty4444/shiori-mcp/issues/6) · 2026-05-31 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 8 reports Pod holds for Shiori MCP](/mcp/shiori-mcp/issues).

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