PDF Triage runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 28 installs a week from npm. Last commit 3 Aug 2026.
Read local PDFs without uploading. Classifies first, flags untrustworthy text, bounds output.
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check PDF Triage every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
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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 mcp add pdf-triage-mcp -- npx -y pdf-triage-mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"pdf-triage-mcp": {
"args": [
"-y",
"pdf-triage-mcp"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}[mcp_servers.pdf-triage-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "pdf-triage-mcp"]{
"mcpServers": {
"pdf-triage-mcp": {
"args": [
"-y",
"pdf-triage-mcp"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"pdf-triage-mcp": {
"args": [
"-y",
"pdf-triage-mcp"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}This one needs environment variables set before it will start:
PDF_TRIAGE_LOG_LEVEL (Minimum severity written to stderr. Defaults to info.), PDF_TRIAGE_MAX_CHARS (Default truncation ceiling for tool responses, in characters. Guards the caller's context window. Defaults to 40000.), PDF_TRIAGE_MAX_FILE_BYTES (Largest PDF the server will read, in bytes. The parser buffers whole files rather than streaming. Defaults to 104857600 (100 MB).).
The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.
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