Citra MCP Server

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Citra runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 690 installs a week from npm. Last commit 22 Sep 2026.

Local-first PDF evidence for agents: structure, tables, OCR, and citations. SDK · CLI · MCP.

Installs per day peak 388 · avg 57 · +271% w/w

a month agotoday

690

Installs / week

npm · @sylphx/citra

935

Stars

1 open issues

22 Sep 2026

Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

MIT

License

TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Citra 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 citra -- npx -y @sylphx/citra

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "citra": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@sylphx/citra"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.citra]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@sylphx/citra"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "citra": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@sylphx/citra"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "citra": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@sylphx/citra"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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Citra — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Citra?

Citra 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 @sylphx/citra was installed 690 times last week.

How do I connect Citra?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls @sylphx/citra straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Citra?

The npm package @sylphx/citra was installed 690 times in the last week. Week over week that is +271%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Citra open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript, 935 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.