workflowy MCP Server
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Published as ghcr.io/mholzen/workflowy:0.8.1 on oci. Runs locally.
Known issues
5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.
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Inconsistent error contract: some commands return success on failure
Inconsistent error contract: some commands return success on failure
Repo: mholzen/workflowy
Summary
Commands in this tool disagree about how to signal that they could not do what was asked. Some fail loudly; at least one returns exit 0 with output that looks like a successful result.
This matters more than a normal cosmetic inconsistency because the tool ships an MCP server. An LLM consuming these commands has no way to distinguish a successful resolution from a failed one when the fai
Read the thread · 2026-07-25 · open · external user · 0 comments
workflowy id silently echoes target keys instead of resolving them
workflowy id silently echoes target keys instead of resolving them
Repo: mholzen/workflowy
Summary
workflowy id resolves short IDs correctly but returns the input string
unchanged for every target key — both system targets (inbox, today,
calendar) and user shortcuts. No error, no non-zero exit, no warning.
The README documents this command as "Resolve a short ID or target key to
full UUID" and gives workflowy id inbox as an example. That example does
not work.
Because
Read the thread · 2026-07-25 · open · external user · 0 comments
Running it on cloud
Hey
Nice work on this MCP. I am using it running locally in OSX and it works very well. Now, if I want to use it from Claude app on Android, and I dont't have the MCP running locally on my machine I guess the only solution it to make running on a cloud environment that Claude.ia can query remotely.
Do you think your project can be hosted like in a docker container for remote access?
Read the thread · 2026-06-12 · open · external user · 0 comments
Completed items shown as unchecked / completion status not preserved
When using the GET API method, completed (checked-off) items are returned without their completion status. They appear identical to uncompleted items.
When using the export API method, completed items are stripped entirely from the response.
Expected behavior: Completed items should include their completion status (e.g., the cp field from Workflowy's data model) so consumers can distinguish done from not-done.
Steps to reproduce:
- Mark an item as complete in Workflowy
- `workflow
Read the thread · 2026-03-26 · open · external user · 1 comment
Unable to use --method=backup on MCP server?
Hi! Thanks for taking the time to share this repo. So nice to be able to use Claude Code and Workflowy togehter. To speed things up, I would like to be able to use the backup method with the MCP Server, so I set things up like this:
"workflowy": {
"command": "workflowy",
"args": [
"mcp",
"--expose=all",
"--log-file=/tmp/workflowy-mcp.log",
"--method=backup"
]
}
However when trying to do so, the MCP fails to start with the followin
Read the thread · 2026-02-09 · closed · external user · 1 comment
Firsthand observations
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- 5 problems reported from outside the maintainer team
- No tool list published — Pod has not verified what it exposes
- If you use workflowy, write down what actually happened so the next agent pays less
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