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Glyphs MCP has two main configuration surfaces:

  1. In Glyphs: Edit → Glyphs MCP Server Status… (includes Tool Profile and Auto-start).
  2. Environment variables: for security, docs/resource behavior, and debugging.

Tool profiles (reduce tool/schema footprint)​

Some MCP clients include the server’s tools/list output (tool names + JSON Schemas) in the model’s prompt context. Selecting a narrower Tool Profile reduces what the client sees, which can reduce prompt footprint when tokens matter.

See: Settings & tool profiles.

Environment variables​

GLYPHS_MCP_AUTH_TOKEN​

Require a static token on every request.

  • Header: Authorization: Bearer <token>
  • Or: mcp-auth-token: <token>

GLYPHS_MCP_ALLOWED_ORIGINS​

Restrict requests by hostname allowlist when an Origin header is present (in addition to the defaults 127.0.0.1 and localhost).

GLYPHS_MCP_REGISTER_DOC_PAGES​

Controls documentation resources:

  • Default: off (to avoid flooding clients).
  • Set to 1 to register each doc page as its own resource.

Prefer using docs_search + docs_get (on-demand) instead of registering all pages.

GLYPHS_MCP_DOCS_URL​

Override the “Open Docs” URL shown in Glyphs MCP Server Status….

GLYPHS_MCP_EXTRA_SITEPACKAGES​

Colon-separated list of additional site-packages directories to add to sys.path (debugging/import fixes).

Example:

export GLYPHS_MCP_EXTRA_SITEPACKAGES="/path/to/site-packages:/another/site-packages"