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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.

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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 · 2026-05-06 · closed · external user · 2 comments

Unable to launch v0.7.0

Summary

Error launching 0.7.0

Steps to Reproduce

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 · 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 · 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:

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 · 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 · 2026-02-21 · closed · external user · 2 comments

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