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DimensionOmniFocus MCP ServerLet AI assistants manage your OmniFocus tasks and projects in natural languageFirecrawl MCP ServerFirecrawl's official MCP server for web search, scraping, and structured extraction for AI agents
FMRS66 / 100 · C75 / 100 · B
Reliability11 / 2013 / 20
Security and permissions12 / 2012 / 20
Maintenance13 / 2016 / 20
Documentation16 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience14 / 2017 / 20
Best for
  • macOS users with OmniFocus who want to drive their task database in natural language
  • OmniFocus users who need an AI assistant to bulk-organize and reorganize tasks
  • Users comfortable granting macOS automation access and troubleshooting AppleEvent timeouts
  • Scenarios needing clean, structured web context fed to an AI assistant
  • Users already on the Firecrawl platform who want to call its scraping capability directly via MCP
Not for
  • Windows or Linux users, since the server depends on OmniFocus on macOS
  • Users whose environment cannot grant macOS automation permissions
  • Users expecting official Omni Group support, as this is a third-party open-source project
  • Simple static-page scraping where you don't want to depend on a third-party API and incur call costs
  • Sites that explicitly disallow automated access (robots.txt)
Required permissions
  • Requires macOS Automation (AppleEvents) access to control OmniFocus
  • Reads and writes the local OmniFocus database through osascript
  • The shared daemon listens on a 0700-permission Unix domain socket under ~/.omnifocus-mcp/; access is enforced by the filesystem, with no network port and no token
  • Requires a Firecrawl API key to call; cost and quota are governed by the Firecrawl account
  • firecrawl_agent/firecrawl_interact perform automated browser interaction, which may trigger login or form-submission flows on the target site
Risks and side effects
  • Once automation access is granted, the server can read and modify the local OmniFocus database, including removing tasks and projects; removals may warrant care.
  • Editing or removing completed past occurrences of repeating items cascades through the live repeat chain and is refused by default unless explicitly allowed.
  • If the shared daemon crashes or is killed, attached clients can be affected; newer versions reconnect and replay the initialize handshake.
  • Right after an upgrade two daemons may briefly coexist, with clients attached to the old one receiving an in-band upgrade notice in tool results.
  • Too many concurrent osascript calls can cause AppleEvent timeouts.
  • Bulk crawl/map tools can generate significant request volume against a target site — respect the site's rate limits and terms of service
  • firecrawl_agent's interactive action chain is longer — define task boundaries clearly before running it to avoid accidentally triggering actions on a sensitive site
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Claude CodeClaude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, Amp
Tools1211