MCP's don't work because require() is used instead of import

[theredwillow]

C:\Users\there\OneDrive\Documents\Scripts\- LM Studio\terminal-mcp-server>lms dev
Starting the development server for local/terminal-mcp-server...
[esbuild] build finished, watching for changes...
Error: [stderr] C:\Users\there\OneDrive\Documents\Scripts\- LM Studio\terminal-mcp-server\.lmstudio\entry.ts:1
import { LMStudioClient, type PluginContext } from "@lmstudio/sdk";
                                                   ^

ReferenceError: require is not defined in ES module scope, you can use import instead
This file is being treated as an ES module because it has a '.js' file extension and 'C:\Users\there\OneDrive\Documents\Scripts\- LM Studio\terminal-mcp-server\package.json' contains "type": "module". To treat it as a CommonJS script, rename it to use the '.cjs' file extension.
    at <anonymous> (C:\Users\there\OneDrive\Documents\Scripts\- LM Studio\terminal-mcp-server\.lmstudio\entry.ts:1:52)
    at ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:430:25)
    at async onImport.tracePromise.__proto__ (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:655:26)
    at async asyncRunEntryPointWithESMLoader (node:internal/modules/run_main:101:5)

Node.js v25.5.0

I'm not sure if this is even the right repo to report this in. But I can't get MCP's to work in LMStudio and I think it's because this generates .lmstudo/dev.js that uses require.

[theredwillow]

I was trying to use this https://github.com/dmatscheko/filesystem which lead to...

Plugin process exited unexpectedly with code 1.

which lead me into the console logs

2026-04-25 10:58:56 [ERROR]
 [Plugin(variablechange/terminal-mcp-server)] stderr: file:///C:/Users/there/.cache/lm-studio/extensions/plugins/variablechange/terminal-mcp-server/.lmstudio/production.js:627
var import_sdk = require("@lmstudio/sdk");
                 ^

ReferenceError: require is not defined in ES module scope, you can use import instead
This file is being treated as an ES module because it has a '.js' file extension and 'C:\Users\there\.cache\lm-studio\extensions\plugins\variablechange\terminal-mcp-server\package.json' contains "type": "module". To treat it as a CommonJS script, rename it to use the '.cjs' file extension.
    at file:///C:/Users/there/.cache/lm-studio/extensions/plugins/variablechange/terminal-mcp-server/.lmstudio/production.js:627:18
    at ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:430:25)
    at async onImport.tracePromise.__proto__ (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:655:26)
    at async asyncRunEntryPointWithESMLoader (node:internal/modules/run_main:101:5)

Node.js v25.5.0

Which led me to clone locally, which I still couldn't fix because it was an imported repo's code.