MCP Outline Server

A Model Context Protocol server for interacting with Outline document management.

- Document operations: Search, read, create, edit, archive documents
- Collections: List, create, manage document hierarchies
- Comments: Add and view threaded comments
- Backlinks: Find documents referencing a specific document
- MCP Resources: Direct content access via URIs (outline://document/{id}, outline://collection/{id}, etc.)
- Automatic rate limiting: Transparent handling of API limits with retry logic

Getting your API key: Log into Outline → Click your profile → Settings → API Keys → "New API Key". Copy the generated token.

Click a button to install with interactive API key prompt:

Install with uv (recommended), pip, or Docker:

uvx mcp-outline # using uv pip install mcp-outline # using pip

# using Docker docker run -e OUTLINE_API_KEY=<your-key> ghcr.io/vortiago/mcp-outline:latest

Then add to your MCP client config (works with VS Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and others):

- search_documents(query, collection_id?, limit?, offset?, statusFilter?)- Search documents by keywords with pagination. Defaults to published documents; passstatusFilterwithdraft,archived, and/orpublishedto include other states
- list_recently_updated_documents(date_filter?, collection_id?, status_filter?, limit?, offset?)- List documents by most recent change, newest first (e.g. "what changed this week").date_filterwindows by last change:day/week/month/year(defaultweek). Defaults to published documents
- list_collections()- List all collections
- get_collection_structure(collection_id)- Get document hierarchy within a collection
- get_document_id_from_title(query, collection_id?)- Find document ID by title search

- read_document(document_id, offset?, limit?)- Get document content with optional line-range pagination
- export_document(document_id)- Export document as markdown

- get_document_toc(document_id)- Get table of contents with heading structure and line numbers
- read_document_section(document_id, heading)- Read a specific section by heading match (case-insensitive substring)

- create_document(title, collection_id, text?, parent_document_id?, publish?)- Create new document
- update_document(document_id, title?, text?, append?)- Replace full document content (append mode available)

- edit_document(document_id, edits, save?)- String-match editing with batched replacements;save=Falsestages changes locally,save=Trueon the final call pushes all changes
- move_document(document_id, collection_id?, parent_document_id?)- Move document to different collection or parent

- archive_document(document_id)- Archive document
- unarchive_document(document_id)- Restore document from archive
- delete_document(document_id, permanent?)- Delete document (or move to trash)
- restore_document(document_id)- Restore document from trash
- list_archived_documents()- List all archived documents
- list_trash()- List all documents in trash

- add_comment(document_id, text, parent_comment_id?)- Add comment to document (supports threaded replies)
- list_document_comments(document_id, include_anchor_text?, limit?, offset?)- View document comments with pagination
- get_comment(comment_id, include_anchor_text?)- Get specific comment details
- get_document_backlinks(document_id)- Find documents that link to this document

- create_collection(name, description?, color?)- Create new collection
- update_collection(collection_id, name?, description?, color?)- Update collection properties
- delete_collection(collection_id)- Delete collection
- export_collection(collection_id, format?)- Export collection (default: outline-markdown)
- export_all_collections(format?)- Export all collections

- batch_create_documents(documents)- Create multiple documents at once
- batch_update_documents(updates)- Update multiple documents at once
- batch_move_documents(document_ids, collection_id?, parent_document_id?)- Move multiple documents
- batch_archive_documents(document_ids)- Archive multiple documents
- batch_delete_documents(document_ids, permanent?)- Delete multiple documents

- ask_ai_about_documents(question, collection_id?, document_id?)- Ask natural language questions about your documents

- outline://collection/{id}- Collection metadata (name, description, color, document count)
- outline://collection/{id}/tree- Hierarchical document tree structure
- outline://collection/{id}/documents- Flat list of documents in collection
- outline://document/{id}- Full document content (markdown)
- outline://document/{id}/backlinks- Documents that link to this document

git clone https://github.com/Vortiago/mcp-outline.git cd mcp-outline uv sync --group dev uv run poe test-unit # unit tests uv run poe test-integration # integration tests (starts MCP server via stdio) uv run poe test-e2e # E2E tests (requires Docker)

Server not connecting?Test your API key:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" YOUR_OUTLINE_URL/api/auth.info

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