Netlify

Netlify MCP Server

The Netlify MCP Server acts as a bridge, providing API access, CLI tools, prompts, and more for your agents through the Model Context Protocol. Built on Anthropic's open source Model Context Protocol, our MCP Server gives agents direct access to the Netlify API and CLI. Agents can now create projects, deploy applications, and manage your infrastructure using natural language prompts.

This powerful server transforms AI assistants from simple code generators into full-stack deployment partners capable of managing the complete development lifecycle on Netlify's platform.

Key Capabilities & Value Proposition

Core Tools Available

The Netlify MCP server provides 6 essential tools for comprehensive site management:

1. get-netlify-coding-context - Essential for all code-related operations
2. netlify-user-services - User account management and information retrieval
3. netlify-deploy-services - Deploy management, site deployment, and deployment information
4. netlify-team-services - Team operations and collaborative workspace management
5. netlify-project-services - Complete project lifecycle management including environment variables, forms, and visitor access controls
6. netlify-extension-services - Extension management and database initialization

Unique Value Proposition

What if your coding agent could go from generating code to deploying that code in the same conversation? Most AI development tools stop at codegen. They write your application, suggest improvements, even explain how deployment works, but they can't actually deploy your code. You're left to manually bridge the gap between agent-generated code and production. The Netlify MCP Server changes this, drastically improving the experience for you and your agents.

Primary Use Cases & Target Audience

Ideal User Personas

Full-Stack Developers: Streamline the entire development-to-deployment workflow through AI agents, eliminating context switching between code generation and deployment tasks.

DevOps Engineers: Automate infrastructure management, deployment pipelines, and site configuration through natural language commands.

Solo Entrepreneurs & Indie Hackers: Rapidly prototype and deploy web applications without deep DevOps knowledge, letting AI handle the deployment complexity.

Development Teams: Enable collaborative deployment management where team members can deploy and manage sites through AI assistants without requiring deep Netlify expertise.

AI Tool Developers: Build sophisticated development workflows that span from code generation to production deployment in popular AI coding assistants.

Common Use Cases

• Deploying a new website to Netlify. Managing DNS records for a domain. Deploying serverless functions for backend processing. Handling form submissions from a website. Configuring environment variables for different deployment environments
• Automated CI/CD pipeline management through AI agents
• Real-time deployment status monitoring and troubleshooting
• Team collaboration and access control management
• Extension and database configuration for enhanced site functionality

Comprehensive Functionality

Unlike basic deployment scripts, this MCP server provides complete infrastructure management including:

• User and team management
• Advanced deployment configuration
• Extension and database management
• Form handling and environment variable management

Best Practices

• Carefully review Claude's requests to invoke tools, especially for tools that may send data to or take action in external applications. Only enable the specific tools that are most relevant to your conversation, especially before invoking Research.
• Use the get-netlify-coding-context tool before any code-related operations
• Regularly review and manage team access and deployment permissions