Install Umbraco CMS Dev in Claude Code
What you need first
- Claude Code, installed.
- Node.js, which
gives the
npxcommand the server starts with. - Your own values for
YOUR_UMBRACO_CLIENT_ID,YOUR_UMBRACO_CLIENT_SECRET,YOUR_UMBRACO_BASE_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 UMBRACO_CLIENT_ID=YOUR_UMBRACO_CLIENT_ID --env UMBRACO_CLIENT_SECRET=YOUR_UMBRACO_CLIENT_SECRET --env UMBRACO_BASE_URL=YOUR_UMBRACO_BASE_URL --transport stdio umbraco-cms-mcp-dev -- npx -y @umbraco-cms/[email protected] - Replace
YOUR_UMBRACO_CLIENT_ID,YOUR_UMBRACO_CLIENT_SECRET,YOUR_UMBRACO_BASE_URLwith your own values. - Start Claude Code and type
/mcp: the server is listed with its state.
Check it worked
Ask Claude Code: List the tools of umbraco-cms-mcp-dev.
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.