Install Sonatype Nexus in Claude Code
What you need first
- Claude Code, installed.
- Docker, which
gives the
dockercommand the server starts with. - Your own value for
YOUR_NEXUS_URL.
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 NEXUS_URL=YOUR_NEXUS_URL --transport stdio nexus-mcp-server -- docker run -i --rm -e NEXUS_URL ghcr.io/oomchiller/nexus-mcp-server:0.2.1 - Replace
YOUR_NEXUS_URLwith 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 nexus-mcp-server.
If it does not start
- Cannot connect to the Docker daemon
- Docker is not running. Start it, then restart Claude Code.
- The server starts, but its tools fail
- A
YOUR_…placeholder is still in the config, or its value is wrong.