Majorsilence.Reporting.Mcp 27.0.0-alpha.8

Majorsilence.Reporting.Mcp

An MCP server that lets an AI assistant work with Majorsilence Reporting RDL/RDLC reports: render them, inspect their structure, lint them for engine compatibility, and scaffold new ones — all in-process against the reporting engine, no GUI required.

It is a dotnet global tool that speaks MCP over stdin/stdout.

assistant  ──MCP/stdio──▶  majorsilence-report-mcp  ──▶  Majorsilence.Reporting engine

Install

dotnet tool install -g Majorsilence.Reporting.Mcp

Point a client at it

Claude Code:

claude mcp add majorsilence-report -- majorsilence-report-mcp

Any client that launches MCP servers itself (Claude Desktop, editors, agent frameworks) takes the same command in its own configuration format:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "majorsilence-report": { "command": "majorsilence-report-mcp" }
  }
}

The server takes no options. --help prints a summary.

Tools

A report is given either as a file path (subreports, images and shared data-source references resolve relative to its directory) or as inline xml.

report_scaffold spec

{
  "name": "Sales by region",
  "description": "optional",
  "author": "optional",
  "pageWidth": "8.5in",
  "pageHeight": "11in",
  "dataSource": { "name": "DS1", "provider": "Microsoft.Data.Sqlite", "connectionString": "Data Source=sales.db;" },
  "dataSet": {
    "name": "Data",
    "query": "SELECT Region, Total FROM Sales",
    "fields": [
      { "name": "Region", "type": "System.String" },
      { "name": "Total",  "type": "System.Decimal" }
    ]
  },
  "table": { "columns": [ { "field": "Region", "header": "Region" }, { "field": "Total", "header": "Total", "width": "1in" } ] },
  "textboxes": [ { "text": "Sales by region", "top": "0in", "left": "0in", "width": "6in", "height": "0.3in", "bold": true, "fontSize": "16pt" } ]
}

Every part except name is optional. With no dataSet/table you get a static report of just the textboxes.

Driving the visual designer

Designer-GUI automation is a separate concern and this server does not do it. ReportDesigner is a Majorsilence.Forms app, so drive its UI with Majorsilence.Forms.Mcp pointed at the designer's WebDriverServer endpoint, and register both servers with your client:

claude mcp add majorsilence-report   -- majorsilence-report-mcp
claude mcp add majorsilence-designer  -- majorsilence-mcp --port 4444

Notes

• No font installation is required. When a report asks for Arial / Times New Roman / Courier New / Calibri / Cambria and those aren't on the machine, the renderer substitutes the metric-compatible fonts bundled with Majorsilence.Forms.Drawing.Common (Liberation, Carlito, Caladea, plus Noto for wide Unicode coverage), so PDF/image output looks right on a bare Linux container. Installing the real fonts (ttf-mscorefonts-installer) only matters if you need those exact typefaces rather than close equivalents.
• report_render connects to the report's data source. Pass connectionStringOverride to point it somewhere else, or scaffold/inspect without ever connecting.

Part of Majorsilence Reporting.

License

Tri-licensed — take your pick:

• MIT License — see LICENSE-MIT
• Apache License 2.0 — see LICENSE-APACHE
• BSD 2-Clause License — see LICENSE-BSD