Install Database Sqlite in Claude Code
What you need first
- Claude Code, installed.
- Node.js, which
gives the
npxcommand the server starts with. - Your own value for
YOUR_SQLITE_PATH.
Steps
- Run this in a terminal, in the project folder. It adds the server for you in that
project; put
--scope userafterclaude mcp addto have it in every project.
claude mcp add --env SQLITE_PATH=YOUR_SQLITE_PATH --transport stdio database-mcp-sqlite -- npx -y @database-mcp/[email protected] - Replace
YOUR_SQLITE_PATHwith your own value. - Start Claude Code and type
/mcp: the server is listed with its state.
Check it worked
Ask Claude Code: List the tools of database-mcp-sqlite.
If it does not start
- spawn npx ENOENT
- Node.js is not on the PATH that Claude Code sees. Install it, or write the
full path of
npxin the config. - The server starts, but its tools fail
- A
YOUR_…placeholder is still in the config, or its value is wrong.