# docling.rs (oci · ghcr.io/docling-project/docling-rs)

Documents to Markdown for agents: PDF layout, tables and OCR, Office, HTML, scans. docling in Rust.

- Trust score: 60/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- oci · `ghcr.io/docling-project/docling-rs`: 60/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/docling-project-docling-rs/ghcr-io-docling-project-docling-rs.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/docling-project-docling-rs/ghcr-io-docling-project-docling-rs)
- pypi · `docling-rs-mcp`: 35/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/docling-project-docling-rs/docling-rs-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/docling-project-docling-rs/docling-rs-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `oci`
- Package: `ghcr.io/docling-project/docling-rs`
- Version: `2.65.1`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 0/100
  - No malware scan is available for this kind of package: the supply-chain vendors we use do not cover it. This is a permanent gap in our coverage, not a finding about the package.
  - Known CVEs could not be checked: this artifact ships no SBOM or dependency manifest, so there is no dependency list to read.
  - Install-script risk not yet assessed.
  - Dependency health could not be checked: this artifact ships no SBOM or dependency manifest, so there is no dependency list to read.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 100/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to docling-project/docling.rs).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 1 days ago).
  - Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 66/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 868 tokens (~289/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 70/100
  - Stability observed for 21 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

**Unverified: 1 category.** A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: a data source with nothing on this package, evidence we could not reach, or a check we could not run. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### How do I install the docling.rs MCP server?

docling.rs runs locally as a container image, launched with docker run --rm -i ghcr.io/docling-project/docling-rs:2.65.1. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 3 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add docling-project-docling-rs -- docker run --rm -i ghcr.io/docling-project/docling-rs:2.65.1
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "docling-project-docling-rs": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--rm",
        "-i",
        "ghcr.io/docling-project/docling-rs:2.65.1"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "docling-project-docling-rs": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--rm",
        "-i",
        "ghcr.io/docling-project/docling-rs:2.65.1"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add docling-project-docling-rs -- docker run --rm -i ghcr.io/docling-project/docling-rs:2.65.1
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "docling-project-docling-rs": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "docker",
        "run",
        "--rm",
        "-i",
        "ghcr.io/docling-project/docling-rs:2.65.1"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  docling-project-docling-rs:
    command: "docker"
    args: ["run", "--rm", "-i", "ghcr.io/docling-project/docling-rs:2.65.1"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "docling-project-docling-rs": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "docker",
      "Arguments": [
        "run",
        "--rm",
        "-i",
        "ghcr.io/docling-project/docling-rs:2.65.1"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "docling-project-docling-rs": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--rm",
        "-i",
        "ghcr.io/docling-project/docling-rs:2.65.1"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 60, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 67 to 70. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 20 days of observed history at the previous scan, 21 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-03 (score 59, +1)

- [functional] Package version: 2.62.0 → 2.65.1

### 2026-11-01 (score 58, +1)

- [security regression] Stability: 0.53 → unverified
- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional] Package version: 2.55.4 → 2.62.0

### 2026-10-30 (score 57, +1)

- [functional] Package version: 2.53.3 → 2.55.4
- [functional] Package version: 2.24.0 → 2.55.4

### 2026-10-28 (score 56, +1)

- [security regression] Stability: 0.40 → unverified
- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional] Package version: 2.52.9 → 2.53.3
- [functional] Package version: 2.52.9 → 2.53.1

### 2026-10-27 (score 55, 0)

- [functional] Package version: 2.52.7 → 2.52.9

### 2026-10-26 (score 55, +1)

- [functional] Package version: 2.51.3 → 2.52.7
- [functional] Package version: 2.51.3 → 2.52.6

### 2026-10-24 (score 54, 0)

- [functional] Package version: 2.51.0 → 2.51.3
- [functional] Package version: 2.51.0 → 2.51.1

## MCP tools (3)

### `convert` (~463 tokens)

Convert a document to a chosen output format, with conversion
options, and return the result as text. `to` picks the format
(Markdown, docling JSON with structure and page provenance, HTML,
plain text, LaTeX, RAG chunks, WebVTT, Pandoc JSON); `images` embeds
pictures instead of placeholders; `options` sets page ranges, OCR
language and mode, text-layer-only PDFs, passwords and the rest.
For plain Markdown with default settings, `convert_to_markdown` is
the simpler call. Inputs and errors as for `convert_to_markdown`;
an unknown `to`, `images` value or option key is an error that says
what is accepted. Read-only.

Input parameters:

- `images` (string): Pictures in md, html or pandoc output: placeholder (the default, an `<!-- image -->` marker) or embedded (the image as a data: URI).
- `options` (object): Conversion options, docling.rs's shared set (docs/OPTIONS.md), e.g. {"pages": "1-5"}, {"text_layer_only": true} (digital PDFs, fastest; "auto" = the text layer when it has text, OCR when it has none)…
- `to` (string): Output format: md (Markdown, the default), json (docling's DoclingDocument: structure, tables and page provenance), html, text, latex, chunks (RAG-ready chunk records as JSON), vtt (WebVTT, for audio…
- `uri` (string, required): The document to read: an http: or https: URL (only when the server allows URL fetching — see list_input_formats), a file: URI, a data: URI, or a file path. Relative paths resolve against the server's…

### `convert_to_markdown` (~227 tokens)

Read a document as Markdown, with default settings, and return the
Markdown text. Handles PDF (layout analysis, tables, OCR for scans),
Word, PowerPoint, Excel, HTML, EPUB, e-mail, images, audio and more.
Use this whenever Markdown is all you need. Use `convert` instead for
another output format (docling JSON, HTML, RAG chunks, …), embedded
images, or options such as a page range, OCR language or password.
Fails with a message when the document is missing, outside the
server's root, of an unsupported type (see `list_input_formats`), or
a URL while URL fetching is off. Read-only. Same name and contract as
MarkItDown's MCP tool.

Input parameters:

- `uri` (string, required): The document to read: an http: or https: URL (only when the server allows URL fetching — see list_input_formats), a file: URI, a data: URI, or a file path. Relative paths resolve against the server's…

### `list_input_formats` (~75 tokens)

List the file extensions this server can convert, one per line, and
whether it accepts http(s) URLs. Takes no arguments and converts
nothing. Call it before `convert_to_markdown` or `convert` when
unsure whether a file type is supported, or to learn why a URL was
refused.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/docling-project-docling-rs/ghcr-io-docling-project-docling-rs#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 60
- 2026-11-04: 59
- 2026-11-03: 59
- 2026-11-02: 58
- 2026-11-01: 58
- 2026-10-31: 57
- 2026-10-30: 57
- 2026-10-29: 56
- 2026-10-28: 56
- 2026-10-27: 55
- 2026-10-26: 55
- 2026-10-25: 54
- 2026-10-24: 54
- 2026-10-23: 54
- 2026-10-22: 53
- 2026-10-21: 53
- 2026-10-20: 52
- 2026-10-19: 52
- 2026-10-18: 52
- 2026-10-17: 51
- 2026-10-16: 51
- 2026-10-15: 50
- 2026-10-14: 20

## Common questions

### What is the docling.rs MCP server?

docling.rs is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.docling-project/docling-rs. Documents to Markdown for agents: PDF layout, tables and OCR, Office, HTML, scans. docling in Rust. This page covers its container image (ghcr.io/docling-project/docling-rs).

### Is the docling.rs MCP server safe to use?

docling.rs scores 60 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. Its build provenance is signed and verified. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the docling.rs MCP server expose?

docling.rs exposes 3 tools: convert, convert_to_markdown, list_input_formats. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 765 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the docling.rs MCP server still maintained?

docling.rs is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What licence is the docling.rs MCP server under?

docling.rs declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- GitHub Container Registry: https://ghcr.io/docling-project/docling-rs
- Repository: https://github.com/docling-project/docling.rs
- Website: https://github.com/docling-project/docling.rs/blob/master/crates/docling-cli/README.md#mcp-server--docling-rs-mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/docling-project-docling-rs/ghcr-io-docling-project-docling-rs.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/docling-project-docling-rs/ghcr-io-docling-project-docling-rs.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/docling-project-docling-rs/ghcr-io-docling-project-docling-rs