io.github.Antonytm/mcp-sitecore-server MCP Server
io.github.Antonytm/mcp-sitecore-server
AI-powered read/write access to Sitecore content, templates, media, and publishing—121 tools across authoring, management, and PowerShell APIs.
What is the io.github.Antonytm/mcp-sitecore-server MCP server?
The Sitecore Community MCP server is an open-source Model Context Protocol server that gives AI agents direct access to Sitecore XM, XP, and SitecoreAI instances for content management, item operations, media handling, and PowerShell execution. It exposes 121 tools across four API surfaces—Authoring and Management GraphQL, Item Service, GraphQL Edge, and Sitecore PowerShell Extensions—enabling agents to read, write, search, and manage Sitecore content without manual copy-pasting.
This MCP server bridges AI agents and Sitecore, eliminating manual workflows between your CMS and AI tools. It covers the full developer surface: items, templates, presentation, media, security, indexing, logs, publishing, and raw GraphQL/PowerShell access. Self-hosted via npm, Docker, or source, it keeps credentials in your infrastructure and supports all Sitecore versions from local Docker instances to cloud deployments.
How to install io.github.Antonytm/mcp-sitecore-server
Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.
Tools & capabilities
Tools this server exposes to the agent.
search-items— Search for items across Sitecore using queriesquery-items— Query items using GraphQL or Item Service APIscreate-item— Create new items in Sitecoreread-item— Read item properties and contentupdate-item— Update item fields and metadatadelete-item— Delete items from Sitecoreadd-rendering-to-placeholder— Add components to page renderings with placeholder validationmanage-media— Upload, read, and manage media assetsrun-powershell-script— Execute raw PowerShell scripts via SPE Remotingpublish-items— Publish items to target databasesmanage-security— Read and manage item security and user rolesquery-graphql-edge— Execute raw GraphQL queries against Edge GraphQLquery-graphql-authoring— Execute raw GraphQL queries against Authoring APImanage-templates— Create and modify Sitecore templatesmanage-indexes— Trigger and monitor search index operationsread-logs— Query Sitecore logs for diagnostics
Use cases
- Convert Figma designs to Sitecore pages with AI-guided component placement and content scaffolding
- Bulk update item fields, metadata, and publishing state across large content trees
- Diagnose Sitecore connection issues and API availability with guided troubleshooting
- Automate content migration, template creation, and security policy application
- Generate and manage media assets, renderings, and presentation layouts via natural language
io.github.Antonytm/mcp-sitecore-server MCP server FAQ
It's an open-source MCP server that gives AI agents (Claude, Cursor, etc.) direct read/write access to Sitecore XM, XP, and SitecoreAI instances. It exposes 121 tools across content management, templates, media, PowerShell, and GraphQL APIs.
Yes, it's open-source under the Apache 2.0 license. It's a community project not officially supported by Sitecore.
Add it to your MCP client's server configuration (mcpServers in Cursor/Claude) with npm command `npx @antonytm/mcp-sitecore-server@latest`, then set environment variables for your Sitecore endpoints and credentials.
It requires credentials for your Sitecore instance: GraphQL API keys, Item Service username/password, PowerShell Remoting credentials, and/or OAuth client ID/secret for the Authoring API, depending on which APIs you enable.
Yes, three ways: npm (recommended), Docker (Linux and Windows images provided), or from source. It works with local Docker Sitecore instances and cloud deployments.
Use the TOOL_PROFILE environment variable to hide tools for missing APIs (e.g., `no-spe`, `no-item-service`, `no-edge-graphql`). You can also trim tools with TOOL_GROUPS and DISABLED_TOOLS.
README (reference)
Source of truth, from the repository.
Sitecore Community MCP
This repository contains the source code for the Sitecore Community MCP server — an open-source Model Context Protocol server that gives AI agents direct read/write access to Sitecore, so you stop copy-pasting between your agent and the Content Editor.
- 121 tools across search, query, create, read, update, delete, media, PowerShell, logging, security and presentation
- Three guides —
guide://compose-page,guide://bulk-updateandguide://diagnose-connection— resources an agent can read mid-task: two common, complex workflows that you'd want to use this MCP for, plus a connection issue self diagnosis helper. - Covers four Sitecore API surfaces: the Authoring and Management GraphQL API, the Item Service, GraphQL Edge and Sitecore PowerShell Extensions
- Works with SitecoreAI and Sitecore XM/XP (all versions), from any MCP-compatible client
- Implements MCP protocol revision 2026-07-28, and answers the older
initializehandshake from the same tool registrations — negotiating down to any revision from2025-11-25to2024-10-07, so a client on either era sees the same tools - Reported impact: 5× faster Figma-to-Sitecore workflows and ~70% less manual scaffolding (case study)
- Three ways to run it: npm, Docker, or from source
Getting started with Sitecore Community MCP
To run the Sitecore Community MCP server, you need:
- Node — the latest long-term support (LTS) release.
- A Sitecore XM, XP or SitecoreAI instance. Which parts you enable decides which tools
work: the
authoring.*groups need only the Authoring and Management API (normally already on in the cloud) plus a token, while the Item Service and SPE Remoting are off by default and need a config patch. Preparing your Sitecore instance covers all three and how to verify each.
Adding the server to your MCP client
Add the entry below to your client's server map — mcpServers in Cursor, Claude Code and
most other clients, servers in VS Code — and fill in your own endpoints and credentials:
{
"mcpServers": {
"sitecore-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": ["@antonytm/mcp-sitecore-server@latest"],
"env": {
"TRANSPORT": "stdio",
"GRAPHQL_ENDPOINT": "https://xmcloudcm.localhost/sitecore/api/graph/",
"GRAPHQL_SCHEMAS": "edge",
"GRAPHQL_API_KEY": "{6D3F291E-66A5-4703-887A-D549AF83D859}",
"GRAPHQL_HEADERS": "",
"ITEM_SERVICE_DOMAIN": "sitecore",
"ITEM_SERVICE_USERNAME": "admin",
"ITEM_SERVICE_PASSWORD": "b",
"ITEM_SERVICE_SERVER_URL": "https://xmcloudcm.localhost/",
"POWERSHELL_DOMAIN": "sitecore",
"POWERSHELL_USERNAME": "admin",
"POWERSHELL_PASSWORD": "b",
"POWERSHELL_SERVER_URL": "https://xmcloudcm.localhost/",
"AUTHORING_CLIENT_ID": "",
"AUTHORING_CLIENT_SECRET": "",
"TOOL_PROFILE": ""
}
}
}
}
TOOL_PROFILE takes a comma-separated list of presets, and unions what each one hides.
Every preset names something absent or unwanted rather than a platform. Four name an API
surface your instance does not serve — no-spe, no-item-service,
no-edge-graphql and no-authoring-api — so an instance missing two of them can
say so. no-account-management is the one that is not about a missing surface: it
hides the twelve tools that create or edit an account on the CM, for a deployment that
would rather an agent could not do that at all (item security, and reading accounts and
roles, are untouched):
TOOL_PROFILE=no-spe,no-item-service
no-spe is the big one: without SPE installed and its remoting service enabled, roughly
three quarters of this server's tools cannot run, and hiding them is schema an agent no
longer pays for on every turn. An unknown name is reported on stderr and ignored, leaving
the rest of the list in force.
Every setting is documented in Configuration. Agents have a limit
on how many tools they can hold, so before you get far, read
Tool selection and trim the surface with TOOL_PROFILE,
TOOL_GROUPS and DISABLED_TOOLS.
To run the server in a container or from source instead, see Running the server.
How this compares to the Sitecore Marketer MCP
Sitecore's own Marketer MCP is a hosted service aimed at marketers on SitecoreAI. This server is the developer-grade counterpart, and on that ground it is the stronger tool:
| Sitecore Community MCP | Sitecore Marketer MCP | |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | SitecoreAI and XM/XP, all versions — including your local Docker CM | SitecoreAI only |
| Hosting | Self-hosted (npm, Docker, source); credentials never leave your infrastructure | Hosted by Sitecore; OAuth through the cloud |
| Surface | 121 tools across the full developer surface: items, templates, presentation, media, security, indexing, logs, publishing, GraphQL, raw PowerShell | Marketer operations: pages, components, briefs, brand kits, personalization, A/B tests |
| Escape hatch | run-powershell-script, raw Edge GraphQL and raw Authoring GraphQL — if a tool doesn't exist, the capability still does | Closed tool set |
| Layout safety | add-rendering-to-placeholder refuses components the placeholder settings forbid, naming the allow-list | Writes are not validated against placeholder settings |
| Tool gating | TOOL_GROUPS / DISABLED_TOOLS / TOOL_PROFILE trim the schema cost per turn | Fixed tool list |
They are complementary rather than exclusive: the Marketer MCP carries the cloud marketing features this server has no API for (briefs, brand kits, personalization variants, A/B tests), and nothing stops a client from connecting both. For building, migrating, auditing and operating Sitecore solutions, this server is the one with the depth.
Documentation and community resources
- Preparing your Sitecore instance — SPE Remoting, the Item Service, GraphQL keys, and the config patch that enables them
- Running the server — npm, Docker, from source, and the two transports
- Tool reference — every tool, grouped by API surface
- Configuration — environment variables, transports, timeouts and TLS
- Tool selection —
TOOL_GROUPS,DISABLED_TOOLSandTOOL_PROFILE - Guides — the
guide://compose-page,guide://bulk-updateandguide://diagnose-connectionresources, and when each is offered - Docker images — the published Linux and Windows images
- Changelog — what's new in 2.0 and its breaking changes
Community resources:
- Model Context Protocol specification
- Sitecore PowerShell Extensions documentation
- Sitecore Stack Exchange
- Sitecore Community Slack
- Sitecore Community Forum
Contributions
We are very grateful to the community for contributing bug fixes and improvements. We welcome all efforts to evolve and improve this server; read below to learn how to participate in those efforts.
Contributing Guide
Read our contributing guide to learn about our development process, how to propose bug fixes and improvements, and how to build, debug and test your changes.
License
Sitecore Community MCP is using the Apache 2.0 license.
Support
This is a community project and is not supported by Sitecore.
- Issues, bugs and feature requests: open an issue at Antonytm/mcp-sitecore-server/issues.
- Questions about Sitecore itself: Sitecore Stack Exchange or the Sitecore Community Slack will serve you better than a GitHub issue.
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