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snowfakery-mcp MCP Server

MCP server for authoring, analyzing, debugging, and running Snowfakery recipes

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Published as snowfakery-mcp on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.

Most discussed

Tighten GitHub Actions workflow permissions

See: https://github.com/composable-delivery/snowfakery-mcp/security/code-scanning/5 https://github.com/composable-delivery/snowfakery-mcp/security/code-scanning/7

The workflows should specify the exact permissions they need for the github token.

Read the thread · 2026-07-04 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Bug: .mcpb bundle fails to install in Claude Desktop — invalid manifest (mcpName unrecognized, server field required)

Question

Bug: .mcpb bundle cannot be installed in Claude Desktop due to invalid manifest

Environment

Describe the bug

When attempting to install the .mcpb bundle in Claude Desktop (by dragging it to the MCP install window), the following error is shown:

Failed to preview extension: Invalid manifest: server: Required; Unrecognized key(s) in obj

Read the thread · 2026-02-25 · open · external user · 0 comments

Bug: Server crashes on startup in Claude Desktop due to read-only filesystem (/.snowfakery-mcp)

Question

Root cause

In snowfakery_mcp/core/paths.py, WorkspacePaths.detect() falls back to Path.cwd() when SNOWFAKERY_MCP_WORKSPACE_ROOT is not set:

root = Path(configured).expanduser().resolve() if configured else Path.cwd().resolve()

Claude Desktop (and likely other GUI MCP hosts) launches server processes with a working directory of /, which is read-only on macOS due to System Integrity Protection. This causes runs_root() to attempt to create `/.snowfakery

Read the thread · 2026-02-25 · open · external user · 0 comments

Add MCP Registry publishing to release workflow

Question

Docs....

title: "Quickstart: Publish an MCP Server to the MCP Registry" sidebarTitle: "Quickstart: Publish a Server"

This tutorial will show you how to publish an MCP server written in TypeScript to the MCP Registry using the official mcp-publisher CLI tool.

Prerequisites

Read the thread · 2026-01-15 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

.mcpb release file does not work

Question

Image from Claude Desktop when trying to open the downloaded file

Read the thread · 2026-01-14 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

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