scribus-mcp

Item: scribus-mcp
Rating: 69
Author: M8ven

Enables AI assistants like Claude to control the Scribus desktop publishing app for document creation, editing, and export via its Python Scripter API, supporting both headless and interactive modes with ~125 tools.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configSCRIBUS_MCP_DEMO_DIR

configSCRIBUS_MCP_APPIMAGE_URL— appimage-url SourceForge URL for the pinned default version

configSCRIBUS_MCP_APPIMAGE_VERSION— appimage-version 1.7.3

configSCRIBUS_BIN— "env": { "": "C:\\Program Files\\Scribus 1.7.3\\scribus.exe" }

configSCRIBUS_MCP_RUN_SCRIPT— 1 scribus-mcp # or env var

configSCRIBUS_MCP_APPIMAGE_INSTALL_DIR— appimage-install-dir ~/Applications/

configSCRIBUS_MCP_APPIMAGE_SHA256— appimage-sha256 (no pin — TLS only)

configXDG_RUNTIME_DIR— Linux/macOS: cat $/scribus-mcp/bridge.log

configSCRIBUS_MCP_EXTRA_FONT_PATHS

configSCRIBUS_MCP_LOG_LEVEL— INFO Python log level

configSCRIBUS_MCP_USE_XVFB— 0 Set to 1 to wrap Scribus invocations in xvfb-run -a

configSCRIBUS_MCP_AUTO_APPIMAGE— 1 scribus-mcp

configXDG_CONFIG_HOME

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commit: 6347b12105345dedd367183a107d9e2d2dfd4e62

code hash: 0909017de690cdf905aed2a9ef1f07f1f64c3b7a3423f66349c2c167b9adff69

verified: 7/20/2026, 9:24:22 AM

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