ids-le-mcp

ids-le-mcp

An MCP server that finds every identifier in a document — UUID at every version, ULID, NanoID, MongoDB ObjectId and Snowflake — with its line, column and key path, whether it is valid, and the time it was minted where it carries one: the extraction engine behind the IDs-LE editor extension, exposed as a tool an agent can call.

A run it cannot name honestly comes back as a row with the reason, never dropped. Thirty-two hex digits are an unhyphenated UUID and an MD5 digest in equal measure, so that run is returned with valid: false and ambiguous_kind, not guessed at. An ObjectId and a Snowflake have nothing in them to validate, so they are named only under a key that says the field holds an id.

No dependencies, no network calls, no filesystem access. Content goes in, structured results come out.

Use it

Point any MCP host at npx ids-le-mcp.

Claude Code

claude mcp add ids-le -- npx -y ids-le-mcp

Anything with a JSON config — Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Desktop:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ids-le": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "ids-le-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

VS Code needs nothing here. Install the extension instead — it carries this server and registers it for you: VS Code Marketplace · Open VSX

No Node? The same extract_ids tool ships in a static Rust binary: cargo install ids-le, then ids-le mcp (crates.io). The two servers answer identically — one corpus runs against both, and a differential test feeds both thousands of generated documents in every format and compares every answer. The binary additionally offers ids_le_scan, which walks a tree; this server reads no files.

Prefer a global install to npx on every launch:

npm install -g ids-le-mcp

No environment variables, no API key, no configuration of its own. To check it before wiring it into anything:

echo '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}' | npx -y ids-le-mcp

If that prints the tool name, the server works.

The tool

extract_ids

argument	type
content	string	required. The document text to scan.
format	string	json, yaml, csv, tsv, toml, ini, env or text. Optional — it decides only the key paths, never which runs are found.
filename	string	Used to infer the format when format is absent, e.g. config.toml.
kind	string	Return only uuid, ulid, nanoid, objectid or snowflake. A run that could not be assigned a kind is then not returned; omit it for the complete answer.
maxResults	number	Default 500, ceiling 5000.

Every row carries its raw text, a 1-based line and UTF-16 column, the key path where the format has one, and valid. A named row adds what was decoded; a refused row adds refused and a detail sentence:

{
  "ok": true,
  "data": {
    "ids": [
      {
        "kind": "uuid",
        "value": "019ff344-cc00-7abc-8def-0123456789ab",
        "line": 3,
        "column": 19,
        "key": "service.requestId",
        "valid": true,
        "version": 7,
        "variant": "rfc4122",
        "timestamp": "2026-08-12T00:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "kind": null,
        "value": "5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c592",
        "line": 5,
        "column": 14,
        "key": "digest",
        "valid": false,
        "refused": "ambiguous_kind",
        "detail": "32 hex digits are an unhyphenated UUID and an MD5 digest in equal measure; nothing in this document chooses between them"
      }
    ],
    "fileType": "json",
    "named": 1,
    "refused": 1
  },
  "diagnostics": [
    {
      "severity": "warning",
      "code": "refused",
      "message": "1 run(s) could not be named; each is returned with `valid: false` and a reason"
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "tool": "extract_ids",
    "count": 2,
    "truncated": false
  }
}

ok means the scan ran, not that every run was named.

Also in the MCP registry

io.github.nolindnaidoo/ids-le — registry.modelcontextprotocol.io

Twelve more like it

One tool each, same shape: content in, structured data out, no network and no filesystem. Every one is on npm as <name>-mcp and in the MCP registry as io.github.nolindnaidoo/<name>.

Package	Tool	Does
urls-le-mcp	extract_urls	URLs, with protocol and position
colors-le-mcp	extract_colors	colors from stylesheets and code
dates-le-mcp	extract_dates	dates and timestamps
numbers-le-mcp	extract_numbers	numeric values
paths-le-mcp	extract_paths	file and directory paths
string-le-mcp	extract_strings	string values
regex-le-mcp	extract_patterns	regexes, with a ReDoS verdict
secrets-le-mcp	detect_secrets	credentials, masked — never the value
envsync-le-mcp	compare_env_files	dotenv key drift, names only
scrape-le-mcp	analyze_robots_txt	whether a path may be crawled
unicode-le-mcp	detect_unicode_risks	Unicode that hides meaning, as codepoints
i18n-le-mcp	check_catalogues	translation catalogues, keys only

Every tool in the family, one page: letools.dev

Built by

Nolin Naidoo — Chief Engineer, AI/ML & Platform Architecture. nolindnaidoo.com · GitHub · LinkedIn

Also from the same workshop

Twelve Rust tools built the same way: small, single-purpose, and driven by a machine rather than a person. pixelcoords and pixelactions make up one loop — pixelcoords answers where, pixelactions acts there. The ten LE crates are the terminal half of the extensions they sit in: the same detection, held to the extension's own corpus, and an exit code instead of a results editor.

pixelcoords	Freeze your screen, mark regions, get pixel-exact coordinates and crops	site · crates.io · docs.rs
pixelactions	Consume human-verified coordinates, perform the interaction, confirm it landed	site · crates.io · docs.rs
paths-le	Find every path in a codebase and report whether it still points at anything	crates.io
secrets-le	Find hardcoded credentials, and never print one	crates.io
urls-le	Extract every URL from a codebase, with its protocol and exact position	crates.io
regex-le	Find every regex in a codebase and report which can be driven into catastrophic backtracking	crates.io
string-le	Get every string in a codebase out where a person can read them	crates.io
numbers-le	Find every hardcoded number in a codebase so a person can check them	crates.io
envsync-le	Compare the dotenv files in a tree and say which keys are missing from which	crates.io
colors-le	Find every colour in a codebase, and say which are not in your palette	crates.io
dates-le	Extract every date and timestamp, and the exact instant each one resolves to	crates.io
scrape-le	Check whether a page is scrapeable before the scraper is written	crates.io

Licence

MIT © Nolin Naidoo