edt-bridge-mcp 0.7.0

stdio MCP front-end for the edt-bridge 1C:EDT plugin: proxies to a running EDT, or auto-starts a headless one

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) → every request is forwarded to the live bridge;
• EDT closed → it auto-starts a headless EDT (1cedtcli with a keepalive pipe, the same recipe as scripts/run-headless.ps1) and forwards once the model is ready;
• plugin jar missing → 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 backend is starting, tools/list returns an empty list and a notifications/tools/list_changed follows when 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/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 auto-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; a file is the dependable route for non-ASCII arguments on Windows.

Exit codes: 0 fine, 1 the call could not be made (no bridge, bad usage, transport error), 2 the bridge ran the tool and the tool reported an error – so a script can 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 on the next auto-start.

--from installs the wrapper from a local checkout instead of PyPI – for trying 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 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 – which matters, because pipx 1.15 builds its venvs through uv and a uv-built venv contains no pip at all.

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.

Env	Flag	Meaning
EDT_BRIDGE_PORT	--port	bridge port (default 8770)
EDT_BRIDGE_TOKEN	–	write-tools token, forwarded as Authorization: Bearer and injected into the headless JVM
EDT_BRIDGE_WORKSPACE	--workspace	EDT workspace path – required for the headless auto-start
EDT_BRIDGE_EDT_DIR	--edt-dir	EDT install dir (.../1cedt); newest install auto-detected when omitted
EDT_BRIDGE_START_TIMEOUT	--start-timeout	seconds to wait for a starting backend (default 360)
EDT_BRIDGE_AUTOSTART	--no-autostart	set 0/pass the flag for proxy-only mode

Safety

• If a GUI EDT is running but the bridge port is dead (plugin missing there), the wrapper refuses to start a headless instance – 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.