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mcp-server-fetch: on Windows, readabilipy 0.3.0 cannot find npm, so Readability.js is never used
## Problem With readabilipy 0.3.0 (what an unpinned install of `mcp-server-fetch` resolves, and what the lock moves to in #5311), `mcp-server-fetch` on Windows never uses Readability.js by default, even with Node.js and npm on `PATH`. It silently falls back to readabilipy's...
Docs: `fetch` installs npm packages during a tool call, which is worth stating for deployments
...deployment where egress is allowlisted, the first `fetch` of HTML fails in a way that is hard to attribute, because the failure appears inside an unrelated-looking conversion step. - The JavaScript executed is resolved at call time from unpinned ranges, so pinning...
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Posts that state a pain and match the "dependency-hell" rule about npm. First post Sep 19, 2026, latest Oct 27, 2026. Unverified: fewer than 3 posts, or one person or place only. Method
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