MCP server

McpServer exposes the agent tools over the Model Context Protocol. Use it when an MCP-compatible client should read, comment, or redline a DOCX through your host process.

import { McpServer } from '@eigenpal/docx-editor-agents/mcp';
import { DocxReviewer, createReviewerBridge } from '@eigenpal/docx-editor-agents';

const reviewer = await DocxReviewer.fromBuffer(buffer, 'MCP Reviewer');
const server = new McpServer(createReviewerBridge(reviewer), {
  name: 'acme-docx-review',
  version: '1.0.0',
});

The server wraps any EditorBridge. In practice that is a reviewer bridge (file-backed, server-side); the same class would accept a live-editor bridge since the interface is identical.

Transport-agnostic handle()

The core is one synchronous method:

handle(message: JsonRpcMessage): JsonRpcResponse | null

• Accepts one JSON-RPC message; returns the response to send back, or null for notifications (which never get a reply).
• It does not throw for protocol or tool failures. Protocol-level problems come back as JSON-RPC errors; tool failures come back as successful responses with isError: true in the MCP content payload, per MCP convention.
• Implements initialize, tools/list, tools/call, and ping. Protocol version: 2025-06-18 (overridable via options).

tools/list advertises every built-in tool with its JSON-Schema inputs. tools/call dispatches through the same executeToolCall the other integration shapes use. Note the headless caveats: against a reviewer bridge, read_selection and the page tools fail with descriptive errors, since there is no user and no rendered pages.

Because handle() is sync and transport-free, you can put it behind anything: HTTP, SSE, WebSocket, a queue consumer.

Hosting over HTTP

The host owns everything around the protocol: authentication, loading the right document for the caller, and persisting the result. The server only translates JSON-RPC into bridge calls.

import express from 'express';
import { McpServer } from '@eigenpal/docx-editor-agents/mcp';
import { DocxReviewer, createReviewerBridge } from '@eigenpal/docx-editor-agents';

const app = express();
app.use(express.json());

app.post('/mcp/:docId', requireAuth, async (req, res) => {
  // You own storage: load the caller's document...
  const buffer = await loadDocxForUser(req.user, req.params.docId);
  const reviewer = await DocxReviewer.fromBuffer(buffer, req.user.name);
  const server = new McpServer(createReviewerBridge(reviewer), {
    name: 'acme-docx-review',
    version: '1.0.0',
  });

  const reply = server.handle(req.body); // sync; errors are returned as JSON-RPC/MCP payloads
  if (reply) res.json(reply);
  else res.status(204).end(); // notification: no reply by spec

  // ...and you own persistence: flush mutations back to storage.
  await saveDocxForUser(req.user, req.params.docId, await reviewer.toBuffer());
});

For high-traffic hosts, keep a reviewer per session instead of re-parsing per request; the server and bridge are plain objects with no global state.

Stdio transport

For local, single-document use there is a ready-made stdio loop (newline-delimited JSON-RPC on stdin/stdout):

import { readFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
import { runStdioServer } from '@eigenpal/docx-editor-agents/mcp';
import { DocxReviewer, createReviewerBridge } from '@eigenpal/docx-editor-agents';

const buffer = await readFile(process.argv[2]);
const reviewer = await DocxReviewer.fromBuffer(buffer, 'MCP Reviewer');

runStdioServer(createReviewerBridge(reviewer), { name: 'docx-review', version: '1.0.0' });

runStdioServer returns a handle with the underlying server, a feed() method (used by tests), and close(). It defaults to process.stdin / process.stdout but accepts any duck-typed streams, caps the frame buffer at 1 MiB, and answers malformed frames with JSON-RPC parse errors instead of crashing.

When to use MCP

Pick MCP when the agent side already exists and supports MCP: a desktop assistant, an agent platform, or an internal orchestrator. The MCP client discovers and invokes tools through the protocol; it does not import this library.

Pick the other shapes when you control both ends:

• Building a product UI: the live editor bridge gives you streaming, in-document feedback that MCP cannot.
• Building a server pipeline you also own: calling DocxReviewer directly is simpler than adding JSON-RPC framing.

Next steps

• DocxReviewer reference, the bridge these servers wrap
• Tools reference, what tools/list advertises
• AI redlining, the review semantics behind the tools
• API reference