devkit-for-strapi-mcp

An MCP server that gives AI coding agents the truth about your Strapi project. It reads your real schema.json files and exposes the actual UIDs, schemas, and references — so the model stops guessing magic strings like api::article.article, service names, or field names.

Same engine as the DevKit for Strapi VS Code extension, exposed to agents instead of humans. Read-only. Works on Strapi v4 and v5, in JS and TS, with no codegen.

Tools

| Tool | What it answers | |---|---| | list_projects | Which Strapi projects are in the workspace (name, root, version). | | list_content_types | The real content-type UIDs of a project. | | list_components | The real component UIDs. | | list_artifacts | The real services / controllers / policies / middlewares. | | get_schema | A content-type or component's real attributes (fields, relations, components). | | resolve | Where a reference is defined (file + kind). | | validate_reference | Is this magic string real? → valid / unknown (+ did you mean) / external. | | find_references | Every call-site that uses a UID / service / handler. |

In a multi-project workspace, pass from (a path inside the project you're working in) or project (its name) to disambiguate — the server never guesses between two projects.

Use it

The server indexes the workspace root and discovers the Strapi project(s) inside it (a monorepo with several apps works). It takes the root from explicit path arguments, otherwise the current working directory.

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "devkit-for-strapi": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "devkit-for-strapi-mcp"] }
  }
}

Run the client from your project directory (or pass the path: "args": ["-y", "devkit-for-strapi-mcp", "/path/to/workspace"]).

VS Code

Install the DevKit for Strapi extension — it bundles this server and registers it automatically (no config). It also passes your workspace folders, so multi-root works out of the box.

License

MIT.