Install Neo4j Canary in Continue
What you need first
- Continue, installed.
- uv, which
gives the
uvxcommand the server starts with. - Your own values for
YOUR_NEO4J_URI,YOUR_NEO4J_USERNAME,YOUR_NEO4J_PASSWORD,YOUR_NEO4J_DATABASE.
Steps
- Open
~/.continue/config.yaml. On Windows it is%USERPROFILE%\.continue\config.yaml. - Add this entry. If the file already has
mcpServers, add only the item from- nameon.
mcpServers:
- name: "neo4j-mcp-canary"
type: stdio
command: "uvx"
args:
- "neo4j-mcp-canary==0.2.3"
env:
"NEO4J_URI": "YOUR_NEO4J_URI"
"NEO4J_USERNAME": "YOUR_NEO4J_USERNAME"
"NEO4J_PASSWORD": "YOUR_NEO4J_PASSWORD"
"NEO4J_DATABASE": "YOUR_NEO4J_DATABASE" - Replace
YOUR_NEO4J_URI,YOUR_NEO4J_USERNAME,YOUR_NEO4J_PASSWORD,YOUR_NEO4J_DATABASEwith your own values. - Save the file and restart Continue.
Check it worked
Ask Continue: List the tools of neo4j-mcp-canary.
If it does not start
- spawn uvx ENOENT
- uv is not on the PATH that Continue sees. Install it, or write the
full path of
uvxin the config. - The server starts, but its tools fail
- A
YOUR_…placeholder is still in the config, or its value is wrong. - Nothing changes after a restart
- The file is not valid YAML any more. Check that the entry is indented like the lines around it.