scribus-mcp (caewa/scribus-mcp) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. It scores 69 out of 100, grade C. It declares 173 tools. No publisher has claimed this listing.

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scribus-mcp

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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The grade above is for the source repository. Registries can serve a different version, so we mark the ones we were not able to read.

// key findings
✅
No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation
Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.
✅
Open source with a license and README
Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.
// environment variables
To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.
configSCRIBUS_MCP_DEMO_DIR
configSCRIBUS_MCP_APPIMAGE_URLappimage-url SourceForge URL for the pinned default version
configSCRIBUS_MCP_APPIMAGE_VERSIONappimage-version 1.7.3
configSCRIBUS_BIN"env": { "": "C:\\Program Files\\Scribus 1.7.3\\scribus.exe" }
configSCRIBUS_MCP_RUN_SCRIPT1 scribus-mcp # or env var
configSCRIBUS_MCP_APPIMAGE_INSTALL_DIRappimage-install-dir ~/Applications/
configSCRIBUS_MCP_APPIMAGE_SHA256appimage-sha256 (no pin — TLS only)
configXDG_RUNTIME_DIRLinux/macOS: cat $/scribus-mcp/bridge.log
configSCRIBUS_MCP_EXTRA_FONT_PATHS
configSCRIBUS_MCP_LOG_LEVELINFO Python log level
configSCRIBUS_MCP_USE_XVFB0 Set to 1 to wrap Scribus invocations in xvfb-run -a
configSCRIBUS_MCP_AUTO_APPIMAGE1 scribus-mcp
configXDG_CONFIG_HOME
// quality suggestions

Tool annotations

No tools have read-only/destructive annotations

Add readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations to every tool so hosts can warn users before invoking.

All four hints declared on every tool

173/173 tools missing one or more hints — define_color_cmyk (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); define_color_rgb (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); list_colors (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +170 more. OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.

For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.

Tool inputs are validated

171/173 tool handlers declare input schemas (99%)

Declare an inputSchema with zod/joi/yup on every tool definition.

Tool handlers catch errors

Only 3/173 tool handlers wrap calls in try/catch (2%)

Wrap each tool handler body in try/catch and return a structured error response.

Tests exist

No test files found

Add tests that exercise each declared tool.

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commit: 6347b12105345dedd367183a107d9e2d2dfd4e62
code hash: 0909017de690cdf905aed2a9ef1f07f1f64c3b7a3423f66349c2c167b9adff69
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