Umbraco MCP Server — Setup Guide

This covers running @umbraco-cms/mcp-dev as a live MCP server connected to an AI client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, etc). For debugging the package directly on the command line (--list-tools, --call, --debug-config), see the umb-cms-dev-cli skill instead — the same env vars apply either way.

For install steps, verifying the connection, and troubleshooting, use the official docs rather than this skill — they're the source of truth and won't drift out of sync the way a duplicated copy here would:

Umbraco MCP Documentation

For per-client configuration, go straight to the guide for the client actually in use rather than the general page above:

• Claude Desktop
• Claude Code
• Cursor
• GitHub Copilot
• OpenAI Codex

Prerequisites