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Identify a file, find which open tools read, write and convert its format (14,000+ formats).
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Identify a file, find which open tools read, write and convert its format (14,000+ formats).
Security Report
Valid MCP server (2 strong, 3 medium validity signals). 1 code issue detected. No known CVEs in dependencies. ⚠️ Package registry links to a different repository than scanned source. Imported from the Official MCP Registry. 2 finding(s) downgraded by scanner intelligence.
12 files analyzed · 2 issues found
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How to Install
Add this to your MCP configuration file:
{
"mcpServers": {
"org-openformatdb-openformatdb": {
"args": [
"-y",
"@openformatdb/mcp"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}Documentation
View on GitHubFrom the project's GitHub README.
OpenFormatDB
An open directory of file formats: how to recognise each one, which open tools read, write and convert it, how far its structure is documented or reverse engineered, and what a conversion loses — so that nobody, human or AI agent, redoes work that already exists.
- Humans: browse the directory and format pages, identify a file and find a conversion on
openformatdb.org (
site/). - Agents: query it through the MCP server (
packages/mcp) before opening, converting or reverse engineering a file:identify_file,lookup_format,search_formats,find_conversion,claim_format,publish_findings. - Existing sources (PRONOM, Wikidata, Archive Team's File Formats Wiki, Library of
Congress FDD, Kaitai Struct, MIME databases, converter format lists…) are aggregated by
importers (
packages/importers; PRONOM, Wikidata and converters (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice) today), with a link back to each source.
Sister project of OpenDeviceDB.
See SPEC.md for the design and POLICY.md for what we accept. The record format is schema/format.schema.json.
npm install
npm test # unit tests of every package
npm run validate # check every record against schema/format.schema.json
npm run import -- all # refresh data/imported/ snapshots (PRONOM_DIR, WIKIDATA_DIR: import from local copies)
npm run mcp # MCP server on stdio
npm run build # static site and JSON API in site/dist (npm run dev: localhost)
Code: AGPL-3.0-or-later (see LICENSE). Data: CC BY-SA 4.0 (see LICENSE-DATA.md).
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