# verified-googledocs-mcp MCP Server

MCP server for Google Docs with verified writes — every mutation returns before/after proof.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `verified-googledocs-mcp` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**27 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

### Markdown writes + tab diff

The highest-risk milestone: markdown writes with verification that can actually catch what excerpts cannot.

**Write direction (markdown → batchUpdate)**
- [ ] Fixed subset: headings, bold/italic, lists, tables, links. Anything else → UNSUPPORTED_MARKDOWN with the offending construct and position — loud rejection, never silent approximation
- [ ] Parser: markdown-it-py. No hand-rolled parsing

**Verification (range/markdown evidence family)**
- [ ] Post-write re-export of the affected range, can

[Read the thread](https://github.com/michaelrobertsutton/verified-googledocs-mcp/issues/5) · 2026-06-12 · closed · 4 comments

### Comments and suggestions: unified open-items list, verified resolve

Close the two comment-layer failures: false resolves and invisible suggested edits.

- [ ] `list_open_items(doc_id, tab_id?)` — one call returns open comments AND pending suggested edits with anchor text + quoted content. Comments are doc-level (Drive anchors are opaque; `tab_id` filters suggestions only) and labeled as such
- [ ] Suggested-edit extraction from raw doc JSON (`suggestedInsertionIds`/`suggestedDeletionIds`), per-tab
- [ ] `get_comment_thread(comment_id)` — full reply chain
- [ ] `

[Read the thread](https://github.com/michaelrobertsutton/verified-googledocs-mcp/issues/4) · 2026-06-12 · closed · 4 comments

### Verification kernel + verified replace_text

The core of the project: a verification layer every mutating tool passes through, proven first on `replace_text`.

**Kernel (`verify.py`)**
- [ ] Typed per-evidence-family helper: pre-read → guards → mutate → post-read → evidence → audit. Four families: text-edit, range/markdown, structural (image), comment-state
- [ ] Thin FastMCP middleware backstop: any mutating tool whose result lacks an evidence payload is rejected at the boundary (test: rogue tool with no evidence)
- [ ] Single `locate(nee

[Read the thread](https://github.com/michaelrobertsutton/verified-googledocs-mcp/issues/3) · 2026-06-12 · closed · 4 comments

### Secondary-tab writes report applied:true but write no content (false success)

## Summary

`append_markdown` and `replace_tab_markdown` targeting a **secondary** (non-first) tab return `applied: true` but write no content. The post-write structural check reports `post_blocks: 0` and a subsequent `read_document` of that tab returns empty. Writes to the first tab (`t.0`) work correctly.

This is a false success: `applied: true` while nothing was written is exactly the failure mode the verified-write contract is meant to eliminate.

## Reproduction

On a doc with two tabs (`t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/michaelrobertsutton/verified-googledocs-mcp/issues/48) · 2026-06-14 · closed · 2 comments

### Live acceptance pass: exercise all 14 tools and all 12 error codes against a real document (release gate)

The offline unit suite (364 tests) proves the logic against synthetic `documents.get` fixtures and an in-memory MCP client. It does **not** prove the verified-write contract holds against the real Google Docs and Drive APIs. Before anyone is told to install this, every tool and every guarantee needs to be exercised once, end to end, against a live document — and the result recorded.

This is the pre-release gate. It **blocks #6** and **depends on #1** (seeded scratch doc, captured fixtures, reso

[Read the thread](https://github.com/michaelrobertsutton/verified-googledocs-mcp/issues/23) · 2026-06-13 · closed · 2 comments

### Most recent

### replace_tab_markdown drops list nesting and ordered-list numbering: all sub-items write at level 0, and the doc is left mutated with no rollback

## Summary

`replace_tab_markdown` compiles nested list items correctly but writes them all at nesting level 0. Ordered lists are also written as unordered bullets. The structural verifier correctly detects the mismatch and returns `VERIFICATION_FAILED` with `applied: false`, but the document has already been mutated and there is no rollback, so the tab is left in a state the tool itself flags `needs_manual_restore: true`.

Two distinct defects, same call path:

1. **List structure is lost on wr

[Read the thread](https://github.com/michaelrobertsutton/verified-googledocs-mcp/issues/65) · 2026-08-13 · closed · 0 comments

### Add a verified `format_text` tool: apply character styling (bold/italic/underline) to a matched string, no content mutation

## Problem

The server currently has **no way to style text**. `replace_text` compiles every edit into `deleteContentRange` + `insertText` (visible in its own error surface: `"Invalid requests[1].insertText: Insert text requests must specify text to insert."`). The Docs API's `insertText` is plain characters only — styling is a separate `updateTextStyle` request the tool never issues — and the replacement string is not parsed as markdown.

**Empirically confirmed 2026-08-09** (live production do

[Read the thread](https://github.com/michaelrobertsutton/verified-googledocs-mcp/issues/63) · 2026-08-09 · closed · 0 comments

### main() / mcp.run() dispatch has zero test coverage

## Summary

`src/verified_googledocs_mcp/server.py:1002-1014` is the sole transport entry point:

```python
def main() -> None:
    if len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == "auth":
        from .auth import run_auth_flow
        run_auth_flow()
        return
    mcp.run()
```

It is reachable three ways — the `verified-googledocs-mcp` console script, `python -m verified_googledocs_mcp`, and `uv run verified-googledocs-mcp` in `.mcp.json` — and is exercised by no test. Grepping `tests/` for `main

[Read the thread](https://github.com/michaelrobertsutton/verified-googledocs-mcp/issues/59) · 2026-07-27 · closed · 0 comments

### test_tool_manifest asserts inputSchema but never outputSchema — the middleware's bare-dict evidence assumption is unguarded

## Summary

`EvidenceEnforcementMiddleware` decides whether a mutating tool returned real evidence by intersecting `_EVIDENCE_KEYS` against `result.structured_content.keys()` (`src/verified_googledocs_mcp/middleware.py:74-76`). That depends on `structured_content` being the **bare** tool dict, so `"applied"` sits at the top level. The assumption is stated in a comment at `middleware.py:79` but asserted nowhere.

`tests/unit/test_tool_manifest.py:63-67` checks that every tool has an `inputSchema`

[Read the thread](https://github.com/michaelrobertsutton/verified-googledocs-mcp/issues/58) · 2026-07-27 · closed · 0 comments

### Unbounded fastmcp>=3.0 dependency will break end-user installs when FastMCP 4 ships stable

## Summary

`pyproject.toml` declares `fastmcp>=3.0` with no upper bound. `uv.lock` pins 3.4.2 for this repo's CI and local dev, but the lock does **not** constrain end users installing from PyPI or via `uvx`. `server.json` advertises `"runtimeHint": "uvx"`, so the published install path resolves FastMCP fresh on every run.

FastMCP 4 is currently in alpha (`4.0.0a1` 2026-07-21, `4.0.0a2` 2026-07-24) and depends on `mcp==2.0.0b2` / `mcp-types==2.0.0b2`. Prereleases are excluded from default reso

[Read the thread](https://github.com/michaelrobertsutton/verified-googledocs-mcp/issues/57) · 2026-07-27 · closed · 0 comments

### Add verified table tools and PDF export

The server has no table tools, and no way to export a rendered PDF. The retired incumbent server (`@a-bonus/google-docs-mcp`) provided both, and the proposal workflow depends on them: prose syncs via `replace_range_markdown`, but tables currently require manual paste, and page-limit checks require rendering the doc to PDF.

Measured real usage across 321 session transcripts (actual `tool_use` invocations, not tool listings):

| Incumbent tool | Real calls | Need |
|---|---|---|
| `replaceTableRo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/michaelrobertsutton/verified-googledocs-mcp/issues/54) · 2026-07-17 · closed · 0 comments

### Release v0.1.0: PyPI publish + MCP registry listing (carved out of #6)

Carved out of #6 (which is otherwise complete and closed). These are the remaining release steps, blocked only on a one-time pypi.org action by the maintainer.

- [ ] Register the PyPI **pending publisher** (trusted publishing): project `verified-googledocs-mcp`, owner `michaelrobertsutton`, repo `verified-googledocs-mcp`, workflow `publish.yml`, environment `pypi`.
- [ ] Create a GitHub release tagged `v0.1.0` → triggers `.github/workflows/publish.yml` to publish to PyPI via OIDC.
- [ ] After t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/michaelrobertsutton/verified-googledocs-mcp/issues/51) · 2026-06-14 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 21 reports Pod holds for verified-googledocs-mcp](/mcp/verified-googledocs-mcp/issues) — of 27 qualified upstream.

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