document-operations

The canonical set of document-conversion, editing, inspection, and .odb operations documents.js exposes — one Zod input/output schema and one transport-agnostic run() function per operation, so document-mcp, document-rest, and document-cli can each expose the identical operation without redefining its shape or its behaviour a second time.

Before this package existed, document-mcp defined each MCP tool's Zod schema and dispatch logic directly in its own src/tools/*.ts, and document-cli described the same underlying operations again as hand-written commander flags — two independent definitions of "what does convert_document take" that could silently drift, with no shared source of truth a third surface could build against. document-operations is that source of truth: every operation from document-mcp's own tool set moved here unchanged in behaviour, decoupled from any one transport's own result-shaping, and document-rest is the first new consumer built directly against it rather than against a second copy.

graph TD
    schema("document-schema.js")
    documents("documents.js")
    outline("document-outline.js")
    compute("document-compute.js")
    operations("document-operations")
    mcp("document-mcp")
    rest("document-rest")

    schema --> documents
    schema --> outline
    schema --> compute
    documents --> operations
    outline --> operations
    compute --> operations
    operations --> mcp
    operations --> rest

    click schema "https://github.com/ExaDev/documents.js/tree/main/packages/document-schema.js" "document-schema.js"
    click documents "https://github.com/ExaDev/documents.js" "documents.js"
    click outline "https://github.com/ExaDev/documents.js/tree/main/packages/document-outline.js" "document-outline.js"
    click compute "https://github.com/ExaDev/documents.js/tree/main/packages/document-compute.js" "document-compute.js"
    click operations "https://github.com/ExaDev/documents.js/tree/main/packages/document-operations" "document-operations"
    click mcp "https://github.com/ExaDev/documents.js/tree/main/packages/document-mcp" "document-mcp"
    click rest "https://github.com/ExaDev/documents.js/tree/main/packages/document-rest" "document-rest"

    style operations fill:#f9a825,stroke:#333,stroke-width:3px

The DocumentOperation contract

Every operation this package exports has the same shape (src/operation.ts):

interface DocumentOperation<In, Out> {
  readonly name: string;
  readonly title: string;
  readonly description: string;
  readonly inputSchema: z.ZodType<In>;
  readonly outputSchema?: z.ZodType<Out>;
  run(input: In, context?: { readonly signal?: AbortSignal }): Promise<Out>;
}

inputSchema/outputSchema are the single source of truth for validation and description text; run() is the transport-agnostic implementation. A failure is always a thrown Error (a plain one, or one of documents.js's own typed errors, e.g. OdbReportNotSpecifiedError, OdmUnresolvedSectionError) — run() never shapes a transport-specific result. Each transport decides for itself how to present a thrown error: document-mcp wraps it as an isError tool result (with an optional mapError hook for the two operations whose errors carry data worth surfacing structurally), a REST route would map it to a 4xx JSON body, and a CLI command would print it to stderr with a non-zero exit code.

defineOperation()/defineOperationWithoutOutputSchema() build one of these from a plain object, inferring In/Out from the Zod schemas so a call site never repeats z.infer<typeof Schema> itself. Use the WithoutOutputSchema variant for the handful of operations whose original MCP tool registration declared no outputSchema at all (metadata_read's return shape varies per format; the .odb-reading operations return documents.js's own reader types directly) — adding a guessed schema there would risk introducing output validation that did not previously exist and could reject a genuine value the guess did not anticipate.

DOCUMENT_OPERATIONS (src/registry.ts) is every operation in one array — "the same registry as the MCP" a caller that wants to enumerate every operation, rather than import one by name, reaches for: an MCP server registers each entry as a tool, a REST server would add one route per entry, and a CLI would validate its own parsed flags against an entry's inputSchema before dispatching to run().

Operations

Every operation below was ported unchanged in behaviour from document-mcp's own src/tools/*.ts — see that package's README for the full description of what each one does; this table is the index.

| Export | Name | | ----------------------------------- | ---------------------------- | | convertDocumentOperation | convert_document | | listDocumentConversionsOperation | list_document_conversions | | metadataReadOperation | metadata_read | | metadataWriteOperation | metadata_write | | documentCreateOperation | document_create | | documentAppendParagraphsOperation | document_append_paragraphs | | fontsOperation | fonts | | describeFontFileOperation | describe_font_file | | docxExtrasOperation | docx_extras | | fromPackageOperation | from_package | | outlineDocumentOperation | outline_document | | pdfInspectOperation | pdf_inspect | | computeFormulaOperation | compute_formula | | odmToPdfOperation | odm_to_pdf | | odbTablesOperation | odb_tables | | odbFormsOperation | odb_forms | | odbReportsOperation | odb_reports | | odbQueryOperation | odb_query | | odbToCsvOperation | odb_to_csv | | odbToXlsxOperation | odb_to_xlsx | | odbRenderReportOperation | odb_render_report |

Getting started

pnpm install
pnpm build         # turbo -> tsdown -> dist/ (ESM + CJS + .d.ts)
pnpm typecheck     # turbo -> tsc --noEmit, plus attw --pack
pnpm lint          # turbo -> eslint . --fix --cache --max-warnings 0
pnpm test          # turbo -> vitest run
pnpm test:workers  # turbo -> vitest under the real Cloudflare Workers runtime (workerd) via @cloudflare/vitest-pool-workers, exercising every operation's bytesBase64 input path

Gotchas

• Not held to Worker isomorphism, unlike the foundation packages it depends on. resolveDocumentInput's path branch (src/io/document-input.ts) reads a file from disk via node:fs/promises, and odm_to_pdf's chapter-directory resolution (src/operations/odm.ts) uses node:fs's synchronous API — the same reason document-mcp and document-cli are excluded from the isomorphic-package list in the monorepo root README. pnpm test:workers still proves every operation's bytesBase64 input path runs correctly under workerd (no path/chaptersDir involved), matching document-mcp's own workers-test scope.
• document-mcp's own tests were left untouched, not moved here. They keep testing the full MCP registration (createServer() + a real client/server JSON-RPC round trip), which still exercises this package's own run() functions underneath — moving them would have meant re-verifying ~3000 lines of existing, passing test behaviour for no functional gain. This package's own tests are a separate, more direct unit-level check on each run() function in isolation.
• odb_render_report's OdbReportNotSpecifiedError and odm_to_pdf's OdmUnresolvedSectionError are not caught here. Both are thrown by the underlying documents.js functions and left to propagate — the MCP-specific enrichment (a remediation hint, structuredContent.availableReports/.hrefs) lives in document-mcp's own mapError hooks (src/tools/odb-render-report.ts, src/tools/odm.ts), since that shaping is presentation, not operation logic.

Contributing

Release, CI, and commit-message conventions are all workspace-wide, not package-local — see the monorepo root README for the release mechanism and CONTRIBUTING.md for the shared git hooks and history conventions. Work inside packages/document-operations/.

License

MIT