strava-mcp MCP Server
Remote MCP server for your Strava activities, segments, and routes
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Connect
Published as ghcr.io/ljcl/strava-mcp:3.0.0 on oci. Runs locally.
Known issues
145 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
spike: external tile fetch through host CSP and free tile-source choice
Summary
Determine whether an MCP App can fetch external map tiles through the host's sandbox/CSP, and choose the free tile source to standardize on.
Area
mcp-app
Motivation
MCP App iframes block external connections by default. The server can declare _meta.ui.csp (connectDomains / resourceDomains), but the host (Claude) must honor those allowlisted origins through its double-iframe sandbox. This is the gating unknown for any basemap. We also need to pick between OpenFreeMap's pu
Read the thread · 2026-06-08 · closed · 2 comments
feat: add Strava webhook (push subscription) support for real-time activity events
Problem
The server can only poll. Strava's Webhook Events API can push create / update / delete events for activities and athlete deauthorizations, enabling real-time reactions (cache invalidation, notifications) without polling and reducing rate-limit pressure.
Current behaviour
No subscription handling exists: no /push_subscriptions calls in apps/server/src/stravaClient.ts, and no webhook callback route in apps/server/src/index.ts.
Proposed approach
- Add a public callback
Read the thread · 2026-06-07 · closed · 2 comments
epic: Training analysis — prediction, splits, taper, and the fitness chart
Tracking issue. Four features over the same analysis primitives.
Why these belong together
They share fitnessTrend.ts, hillAnalysis.ts's grade-adjusted pace, and the getBestEfforts scan pattern. One of the pairs is explicit: #267's body already points at the companion view issue.
Ordered batches
1. Companion pair — order matters
- #267 — extend
get-fitness-trendwith a planned-load taper projection (keep all math infitnessTrend.ts) - #262 —
view-fitness-trendMCP App c
Read the thread · 2026-07-26 · closed · 1 comment
epic: Collapse the duplicated formatters
Tracking issue. Two issues filed as explicit companions — the same class of drift on either side of the server/app boundary.
Why these belong together
Each body names the other. They are the same inventory exercise done twice, and the inventory is the expensive part.
Members — either order
- #252 — hoist
formatClock, the short-date helper, and oneformatDurationShortinto@strava-mcp/data, then delete the per-app copies. MCP App packages cannot import each other, so `packages/dat
Read the thread · 2026-07-26 · closed · 1 comment
epic: MCP protocol surface — schemas, capabilities, end-to-end coverage
Tracking issue. Groups everything the server advertises to a host — input schemas, output schemas, capabilities, notifications — plus the one test that would catch a break in any of them.
Why these belong together
31 of 46 tools return text only, no capability beyond tools/resources/prompts is advertised, and the protocol layer is only partly tested — tools/list is exercised end-to-end but nothing else is. These issues share server.ts's registration surface, tools/outputs.ts, an
Read the thread · 2026-07-26 · closed · 1 comment
Most recent
epic: Release and container plumbing — gates that gate, manifests that match
Tracking issue. Groups five open issues across the release pipeline: what gates a merge, what builds the image, and what the registry is told afterwards.
Why these belong together
Four of the five edit .github/workflows/, scripts/setup-branch-protection.sh, or the release manifests, and three of them are the same failure in different places — a step that was designed to gate something and does not.
- #358:
docker.ymlengineers itschangesjob specifically so a required Docker statu
Read the thread · 2026-08-23 · open · 0 comments
epic: Tool surface consistency — arg names, error handling, output honesty
Tracking issue. Groups four open issues that all rewrite the same tool handler bodies in apps/server/src/tools/.
Why these belong together
The overlap is literal, not thematic. Seven of the eleven tools #354 migrates destructure an id argument that #352 renames:
| Tool | Today | #354 rewrites | #352 renames |
|---|---|---|---|
getSegment.ts |
execute: async ({ segmentId } |
catch block :75-88 | segmentId → segment_id |
getActivityLaps.ts |
execute: async ({ id } |
Read the thread · 2026-08-23 · open · 0 comments
epic: Request path round two — coalescing, immutability, cached token reads
Tracking issue. Groups three open issues that all finish the same story: one read path that caches instead of re-fetching.
Why these belong together
#355 and #357 rewrite the same five lines. fetchClient.ts:462-466 is the cache-lookup block, ending in return { data: cached as T } — #355 wraps that site in an in-flight promise map so concurrent identical GETs share one upstream call, #357 changes what that same return hands back so a consumer cannot mutate the cached object. Landed sep
Read the thread · 2026-08-23 · open · 0 comments
perf: stop get-activity-photos and get-activity-zones dumping raw JSON into text content
Summary
get-activity-photos and get-activity-zones append a pretty-printed dump of the entire raw Strava response to their text content, then also return the same data as structuredContent. Every successful call pays for both copies, and the raw one is the larger of the two.
Area
server
Motivation
structuredContent + outputSchema is the architecture invariant for tools returning data: the machine-readable copy is the structured payload, the text copy is for a human reading th
Read the thread · 2026-08-23 · open · 0 comments
chore: resolve the stale image identifier committed in server.json
Summary
Committed server.json reads "version": "2.13.2" but packages[0].identifier is still ghcr.io/ljcl/strava-mcp:2.3.0 — release-please only updates $.version, and the real tag is stamped transiently by publish-mcp.yml at publish time, so the committed file drifts ten minor versions behind.
Area
ci-release
Motivation
Anyone reading the repo (or copying the registry reference out of server.json) sees a long-stale image tag. It also makes release-PR diffs misleading — th
Read the thread · 2026-08-22 · open · 0 comments
feat: add a race-prep prompt chaining prediction and taper solving
Summary
prompts.ts ships three prompts (weekly-review, annotate-last-run, segment-hunt). The toolset's most distinctive capability — answering "am I on form for my goal race?" via get-race-prediction plus get-fitness-trend's solved taper — has no guided prompt packaging the sequence.
Area
server
Motivation
Prompts are the discoverability layer for multi-step workflows in Claude Desktop/Code hosts. The race-prep sequence needs real ordering (best efforts → Riegel prediction → fitn
Read the thread · 2026-08-22 · open · 0 comments
docs: correct get-activity-photos' output prose and drop the Output Format sections
Summary
get-activity-photos and get-activity-zones are the only two tools whose descriptions carry an Output Format: section, and both advertise a "complete raw JSON" text dump — get-activity-photos enumerating fields (Source, uploaded_at, "URLs for different sizes") that reach the text branch but are absent from its structuredContent. Their prose is also the wordiest on the surface: get-activity-photos spends 26 lines where comparable tools spend a paragraph.
Area
server
Mo
Read the thread · 2026-08-22 · open · 0 comments
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