MCP stdio: write NDJSON so Cursor can discover search_docs - #13
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Cursor live tool discovery expects newline-delimited JSON. Keep a dual-mode reader. Opt-in overlay MCP uses a workspace-relative launcher path for local Desktop. Co-authored-by: ale93.moro <ale93.moro@gmail.com>
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Summary
Cursor MCP stdio expects newline-delimited JSON. The docs server was writing LSP
Content-Lengthframes, which broke live tool discovery (search_docs)._write_messagenow emits one JSON object per line--selftestparses NDJSONoverlay/mcp.optional.jsonuses workspace-relative.cursor/mcp-diffusers-docs.py(not/workspace/...)Default overlay
mcp.jsonstays empty ({}).Convention gate
Tooling only.
examples/scaffolded_schedulerunchanged.Tests run
Handshake prints two bare JSON lines,
search_docsis listed, noContent-Length. 43 tests, 4 skipped. PyYAML imports on/usr/bin/python3.