Slide Review

Local MCP server for collecting visual review feedback from a live local HTTP preview target.

It starts or connects to a local preview, serves a browser Review UI, stores Region Annotations in the reviewed project's .review-mcp/ directory, and exposes the finalized Review Session back to agents through MCP tools.

Install From GitHub

git clone https://github.com/liangming99/slide-review-mcp.git
cd slide-review-mcp
npm install
npm run build

Configure your MCP client to run the built stdio server:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "slide-review": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/slide-review-mcp/dist/src/mcpServer.js"]
    }
  }
}

You can also run it directly from GitHub with npx:

npx -y github:liangming99/slide-review-mcp

Tools

• start_review_session: start a Review Session for a local preview URL or preview command.
• wait_for_review_submission: wait until the user finalizes the Review Session.
• stop_review_session: stop a preview process started by this service.
• list_review_sessions: list stored Review Sessions for a project.
• read_review_session: read Review Session metadata and annotation summaries.
• read_annotation_asset: read a saved annotation asset by id.
• export_review_session: export a Review Session as a ZIP archive.
• start_follow_up_review_session: open another feedback round from a finalized session.

Example

Start a local app first, or let the MCP tool start it:

{
  "projectDir": "D:\\project\\my-slide-deck",
  "previewUrl": "http://127.0.0.1:5173/slides.html#slide-1",
  "sessionName": "Design review"
}

The tool returns a reviewUrl. Open that URL, select regions, add comments, optional replacement text, or image Reference Assets, then finalize. The agent should then call wait_for_review_submission or read_review_session.

Scope

Supported in this MVP:

• Local HTTP/HTTPS Preview Targets on loopback hosts.
• Comment, Text Revision, and Visual Reference annotations.
• Image Reference Assets: PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF, SVG.
• Project-local Session Store under .review-mcp/sessions/.
• Open and finalized Review Session states.
• Same-origin HTTP proxy and best-effort WebSocket proxy.
• ZIP export with JSON data, summary markdown, and annotation assets.

Not supported:

• Remote production websites.
• file:// Preview Targets.
• Login-state reuse.
• Automatic source-code application.
• Multi-user collaboration or threaded comments.
• Non-image Reference Assets.

Current snapshot limitation: Annotation Snapshot assets are placeholder SVGs that preserve the normalized rectangle, frame size, and URL. They are not real page-pixel screenshots yet.

Development

npm run check
npm run demo

npm run check builds TypeScript and runs the Vitest integration suite.