# ZulipChat MCP Server MCP Server

ZulipChat MCP: Connect AI to Zulip with 60+ tools for messaging, streams, events, and analytics

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

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## Connect

Published as `zulipchat-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

### v0.7.0 fails to start: missing pydocket dep + sync `teleport_chat` decorated with `task=True`

## Summary

`zulipchat-mcp@0.7.0` (released 2026-05-01, current latest on PyPI) fails to register tools at startup, blocking the MCP server from accepting any client. Two compounding issues, both originating in the new `task=True` usage introduced for the v0.7.0 "agent control plane" feature. v0.6.2 works cleanly.

## Environment

- `zulipchat-mcp` 0.7.0 (PyPI, installed via `uvx`)
- `fastmcp` 3.2.4 (current latest)
- Python 3.13
- macOS 25.3.0 (Darwin), but the failure is environment-independen

[Read the thread](https://github.com/akougkas/zulipchat-mcp/issues/12) · 2026-05-06 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Unable to launch v0.7.0

## Summary

Error launching 0.7.0

## Steps to Reproduce

```bash
env ZULIP_EMAIL=email ZULIP_API_KEY=key ZULIP_SITE=site uvx --from "git+https://github.com/jessealama/zulipchat-mcp.git" zulipchat-mcp
```

(with valid values for the environment variables, not the invalid stub values above) exits uncleanly.

## Expected Result

The MCP server loads without error.

## Environment

- `zulipchat-mcp` version: 0.7.0
- MCP client (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, Cursor, etc.): working directly from th

[Read the thread](https://github.com/akougkas/zulipchat-mcp/issues/10) · 2026-05-04 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### DuckDB lock file prevents server startup after unclean shutdown

## Description

When a `zulipchat-mcp` process exits uncleanly (e.g., the parent MCP host terminates without gracefully stopping the server), the DuckDB database file (`.mcp/zulipchat/zulipchat.duckdb`) remains locked by the stale process. Subsequent attempts to start the server fail with a database lock error, and the MCP host reports the server as failed.

## Steps to Reproduce

1. Start `zulipchat-mcp` as an MCP server (e.g., via Claude Code)
2. Kill the parent process or let it exit without 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/akougkas/zulipchat-mcp/issues/7) · 2026-02-24 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### FastMCP API breakage: on_duplicate_tools no longer accepted

When installing via `uvx --from "git+https://github.com/akougkas/zulipchat-mcp.git" zulipchat-mcp`, the server crashes on startup:

```
TypeError: FastMCP() no longer accepts `on_duplicate_tools`. Use `on_duplicate=` instead.
```

The issue is in `server.py:129-137`:

```python
mcp = FastMCP(
    "ZulipChat MCP",
    on_duplicate_tools="warn",
    on_duplicate_resources="error",
    on_duplicate_prompts="replace",
    ...
)
```

Newer versions of FastMCP consolidated the per-type `on_duplicate_t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/akougkas/zulipchat-mcp/issues/4) · 2026-02-21 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### manage_files download fails: 'Request URL is missing http/https protocol'

## Bug Report

### Summary
The `manage_files` tool's `download` operation fails with `"Request URL is missing an 'http://' or 'https://' protocol."` regardless of whether a relative or absolute URL is provided for `file_id`.

### Steps to Reproduce

1. A user uploads a file to Zulip (e.g., via DM)
2. The file URL from Zulip is `/user_uploads/43617/x_MeXHKl3MwcvKanu8TKC6L6/GPU_Programming_Syllabus_v3.md`
3. Attempt to download using `manage_files`:

**Attempt 1 — relative path (as returned by Zul

[Read the thread](https://github.com/akougkas/zulipchat-mcp/issues/3) · 2026-02-21 · closed · external user · 2 comments

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