PDF Kit MCP Server

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PDF Kit runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 105 installs a week from npm.

AI-powered PDF tools: fill forms, merge, extract data, and split PDFs

Installs per day peak 33 · avg 11 · +44% w/w

a month agotoday

105

Installs / week

npm · pdfkit-mcp

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Stars

on GitHub

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Last commit

no releases in 90 days

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License

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Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check PDF Kit every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add pdfkit -- npx -y pdfkit-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdfkit": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "pdfkit-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.pdfkit]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "pdfkit-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdfkit": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "pdfkit-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "pdfkit": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "pdfkit-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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PDF Kit — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for PDF Kit?

PDF Kit runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package pdfkit-mcp was installed 105 times last week.

How do I connect PDF Kit?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls pdfkit-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use PDF Kit?

The npm package pdfkit-mcp was installed 105 times in the last week. Week over week that is +44%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.