# Tidewave Phoenix Desktop Extension MCP Server

Runtime-level MCP server for Phoenix development: run code, read logs, query the DB, read docs.

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## Reviewed GitHub reports

**89 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review.** This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### Windows/Claude Desktop

Hello,

Trying to run Tidewave on Windows with Claude desktop and Elixir mcp proxy , keep getting the errors in the attached file and the below on the command line : 

19:30:54.329 [error] Failed to parse SSE event!

19:30:54.336 [info] SSE connection closed. Trying to reconnect in 1s.

[mcp-server-tidewave.log](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/20002085/mcp-server-tidewave.log)

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_phoenix/issues/44) · 2025-05-01 · closed · external user · 21 comments

### claude code can't authorize

### Which editor/MCP client are you using?

claude code

### Are you using a MCP proxy?

no

### Is your web application working correctly?

yes

### What is your operating system?

arch

### What is your Tidewave version?

~> 0.4

### Current behavior

tidewave is working in my browser and i have a few messages with it so far.

claude code can't do much other than detect the MCP.

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_phoenix/issues/173) · 2025-09-02 · closed · external user · 17 comments

### Can't register Tidewave in Claude Code (requests end up in application router)

### Which editor/MCP client are you using?

Claude Code 1.0.55 (via the bun-based installer, see below)

### Are you using a MCP proxy?

No

### Is your web application working correctly?

```bash
$ curl -v http://localhost:4011/tidewave/mcp

*   Trying 127.0.0.1:4011...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 4011 (#0)
> GET /tidewave/mcp HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:4011
> User-Agent: curl/7.88.1
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< cache-control: no-cache
< connection: keep-alive
< content-typ

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_phoenix/issues/128) · 2025-07-18 · closed · external user · 12 comments

### Unknown registry: Tidewave.MCP.Registry

### Which editor/MCP client are you using?

Claude Code

### Are you using a MCP proxy?

No

### Is your web application working correctly?

* Host localhost:4000 was resolved. * IPv6: ::1 * IPv4: 127.0.0.1 *   Trying [::1]:4000... * connect to ::1 port 4000 from ::1 port 60158 failed: Connection refused *   Trying 127.0.0.1:4000... * Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 4000 * using HTTP/1.x > GET /tidewave/mcp HTTP/1.1 > Host: localhost:4000 > User-Agent: curl/8.13.0 > Accept: */* > * Reque

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_phoenix/issues/101) · 2025-06-18 · closed · external user · 12 comments

### Bug: SSE error when using Cursor

Using Cursor's latest (I'm on the nightly branch)

Installed Tidewave, set up MCP as described in the Tidewave docs

Getting the following SSE error - screenshots below:

To recreate: 

1) Start Phoenix with Tidewave installed
2) Navigate to `https://localhost:4000/tidewave/mcp`
3) Navigate to the data endpoint URL displayed (`http://localhost:4000/tidewave/mcp/message?sessionId=8e6a5e81-833d62f4-3305d87c`)

If I cycle the MCP server (toggle on/off) the error disappears

Error: 

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_phoenix/issues/19) · 2025-04-29 · closed · external user · 11 comments

### Most recent

### Support opt-in staging releases without Mix and server-side tool selection

## Use case

We use Tidewave in an authenticated internal staging environment where non-developer teammates use Claude Code and Vision mode to record UI tutorials.

The desired environment split is:

- `dev`: full Tidewave tool set
- `staging`: a limited server-side tool set, such as browser tools only
- `prod`: no Tidewave dependency or plug

A consumer can already scope the dependency with `only: [:dev, :staging]`. However, `Tidewave.Application` currently starts the MCP supervisor only when t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_phoenix/issues/275) · 2026-08-28 · open · external user · 1 comment

### project_eval never reloads code in non-Phoenix projects (v0.9.0)

`Tidewave.MCP.Tools.Eval.eval_code/5` reloads before every evaluation, but only when a Phoenix endpoint is present:

```elixir
# lib/tidewave/mcp/tools/eval.ex
if endpoint = assigns[:phoenix_endpoint] do
  Phoenix.CodeReloader.reload(endpoint)
end
```

`Tidewave.call/2` sets `phoenix_endpoint: conn.private[:phoenix_endpoint]`, which is `nil` for the non-Phoenix setup the README documents under "In non-Phoenix applications" (bandit + a `mix tidewave` alias). So that branch never runs, and the nod

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_phoenix/issues/273) · 2026-08-23 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Plug.Conn.register_before_send/2 crashes on diagnostic GET with Plug 1.20

### Which editor/MCP client are you using?

Codex, using MCP.

### Are you using a MCP proxy?

No

### Is your web application working correctly?

  The MCP endpoint is reachable. A GET request returns:    HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed   Method Not Allowed    Command:    curl -v http://localhost:4000/tidewave/mcp

### What is your operating system?

Linux, Fedora Silverblue.

### What is your Tidewave version?

 0.8.3.

### Current behavior

 With Tidewave 0.8.3 and Plug 1.20.3, a same-origin 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_phoenix/issues/269) · 2026-08-14 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Tidewave Web: with local_port discovery the client rewrites the MCP target to localhost keeping the https scheme, breaking TLS-terminating dev proxies

### What is your operating system?

macOS (Apple Silicon)

### What is your Elixir version?

1.15.7 (Erlang/OTP 26)

### What is your Phoenix version?

1.7.10

### What is your Tidewave version?

0.6.1 (hex package) / 0.4.5 (CLI)

### Current behavior

Setup: Phoenix dev server on plain HTTP (`localhost:4000`), with a local TLS-terminating reverse proxy (Caddy) in front of it:

- `https://app.example.com` → `localhost:4000` (Phoenix)
- `https://tidewave.example.com` → Tidewave CLI (`tidewave --a

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_phoenix/issues/249) · 2026-07-01 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### before_send callback crashes with AlreadySentError on WebSocket upgrades

## Description

When `plug Tidewave` is enabled and a request is upgraded to a WebSocket (via `WebSockAdapter.upgrade/4` / `Plug.Conn.upgrade_adapter/3`), the `before_send` callback registered in `Tidewave.call/2` crashes with `Plug.Conn.AlreadySentError`.

## Root cause

In `call/2`, Tidewave registers a `before_send` that mutates response headers:

```elixir
def call(conn, _opts) do
  conn
  |> validate!()
  |> Plug.Conn.register_before_send(fn conn ->
    conn
    |> maybe_rewrite_csp()
    |

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_phoenix/issues/247) · 2026-06-30 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### (RuntimeError) get_sock_data not supported by Plug.Cowboy.Conn

### Which editor/MCP client are you using?

Tidewave web

### Are you using a MCP proxy?

No

### Is your web application working correctly?

* Host localhost:55110 was resolved. * IPv6: ::1 * IPv4: 127.0.0.1 *   Trying [::1]:55110... * connect to ::1 port 55110 from ::1 port 52189 failed: Connection refused *   Trying 127.0.0.1:55110... * Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 55110 > GET /tidewave/mcp HTTP/1.1 > Host: localhost:55110 > User-Agent: curl/8.7.1 > Accept: */* > * Request complete

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_phoenix/issues/246) · 2026-06-25 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Support system HTTP/HTTPS proxy environment variables

### Which editor/MCP client are you using?

vscode

### Are you using a MCP proxy?

_No response_

### Is your web application working correctly?

_No response_

### What is your operating system?

windows

### What is your Tidewave version?

0.5

### Current behavior

Tidewave currently does not appear to use the system-configured proxy settings or standard proxy environment variables such as:

- HTTP_PROXY
- HTTPS_PROXY
- http_proxy
- https_proxy

This can cause connection issues in environmen

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_phoenix/issues/243) · 2026-05-18 · closed · external user · 3 comments

[See all 23 reports Pod holds for Tidewave Phoenix Desktop Extension](/mcp/tidewave-phoenix-desktop-extension/issues) — of 89 qualified upstream.

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