edt-bridge-mcp

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stdio MCP front-end for the edt-bridge 1C:EDT plugin.

The Java plugin serves MCP as plain JSON-RPC over HTTP on 127.0.0.1:8770, which means an MCP client configured with that URL loses the server whenever EDT is not running. This wrapper is what the client talks to instead:

• EDT open, GUI or headless, and every request is forwarded to the live bridge;
• EDT closed, and it starts a headless EDT – 1cedtcli with a keepalive pipe, the same recipe as scripts/run-headless.ps1 – then forwards once the model is ready;
• plugin jar missing, and it delivers the jar itself from the latest GitHub release, checksum verified, into EDT's dropins/ before starting. A bare pipx install edt-bridge-mcp is enough to get a working bridge;
• a client session never hangs on startup. While the bridge is starting, tools/list returns an empty list, and a notifications/tools/list_changed follows when it is ready.

Install

pipx install edt-bridge-mcp        # or: pipx install ./python  from a checkout

Register in an MCP client

claude mcp add edt-bridge -- edt-bridge-mcp --workspace "D:\\path\\to\\edt-workspace"

From a shell

The default mode speaks JSON-RPC over stdin and stdout, for an MCP client to drive. To reach the same bridge by hand or from a script, use the sub-commands. Same port scan, same token, same headless start:

edt-bridge-mcp tools                    # what the running bridge serves
edt-bridge-mcp call edt_projects        # call a tool, print what it returned
edt-bridge-mcp call edt_metadata_details --json '{"projectName": "SM", "fqn": "CommonModule.Foo"}'
edt-bridge-mcp call edt_create_extension --json-file args.json   # arguments from a UTF-8 file
edt-bridge-mcp status                   # is a bridge up? (never starts one)

--raw prints the JSON result instead of the text a tool returned. Arguments come from --json, --json-file or --stdin, and a file is the dependable route for non-ASCII arguments on Windows.

Exit codes: 0 is fine, 1 means the call could not be made at all (no bridge, bad usage, transport error), and 2 means the bridge ran the tool and the tool reported an error. That lets a script tell "it failed" from "it never ran".

Self-update

edt-bridge-mcp self-update             # refresh the plugin jar (GitHub Releases) + the wrapper (PyPI)
edt-bridge-mcp self-update --jar-only  # only the jar
edt-bridge-mcp self-update --pip-only  # only the wrapper
edt-bridge-mcp self-update --pip-only --from <repo>/python   # from a checkout

A running EDT, GUI or headless, keeps the old jar loaded until it restarts. The wrapper restarts its own headless instance the next time it starts one.

--from installs the wrapper from a local checkout instead of PyPI. Use it to try a build that is not released yet, without a full pipx install --force, which rebuilds the venv and replaces the exe the running client holds.

The exit code separates the bridge from its add-ons. 0 means every step asked for succeeded. 1 means the bridge itself did not update, neither the jar nor the wrapper, or that nothing did. 2 means the bridge is current and only a wrapper plugin is not: a plugin installs from its own source, and that source being unreachable is not the bridge failing to update.

The wrapper updates itself by unpacking, not through an installer. It downloads the wheel from PyPI, or copies the package out of the checkout given to --from, and replaces the package inside site-packages using the standard library alone. No pip, no pipx, no build backend, and that matters: pipx 1.15 builds its venvs through uv, and a uv-built venv contains no pip at all.

Plugins

External packages installed into the wrapper's environment can add MCP tools of their own. This is the home for what a public repository cannot carry: reference material under somebody's license, tools wired to an internal service. The wrapper finds them through the edt_bridge.tools entry-point group, lists their tools next to the bridge's and dispatches them itself, so they answer even while no EDT is running.

pipx inject edt-bridge-mcp <package>   # install a plugin
edt-bridge-mcp plugins                 # what is plugged in, or why a plugin refused to load

EDT_BRIDGE_NO_PLUGINS=1 turns the discovery off. The declaration contract for plugin authors is on the installation page.

The exes in Scripts are never touched. They are what a running client holds open, Windows will not let them be replaced, and they do not need to be: the stub launches whatever code is in site-packages the next time it starts. pipx_metadata.json is corrected, so pipx list does not go on reporting the old version. An editable install is refused rather than overwritten.

Configuration

CLI flags override the environment.

The rarely touched ones (EDT_BRIDGE_PORT_SCAN, EDT_BRIDGE_WINDOW_WAIT, EDT_BRIDGE_LANG) and the plugin's own variables are in Environment variables.

Safety

• If a GUI EDT is running but the bridge port is dead, which means the plugin is missing there, the wrapper refuses to start a headless instance, because the GUI holds the workspace lock. It still delivers the jar into dropins/ when missing, so restarting that EDT activates the bridge.
• If a headless 1cedtcli is already starting, the wrapper waits for it instead of spawning a second one.