Contentful MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides AI assistants with comprehensive tools to interact with Contentful APIs.

🚀 Example Use Cases

This MCP server provides a comprehensive set of tools for content management, allowing AI to help you create, edit, organize, and publish content directly within Contentful. Once configured, you can use natural language in your AI assistant of choice to manage and interact with your Contentful spaces, including:

• Content Creation: "Create a new blog post for our fall product launch"
• Content Management: "Update all product entries to include the new pricing structure"
• Asset Organization: "Upload and organize these marketing images by campaign"
• Workflow Automation: "Create an AI action that translates content to Spanish"
• Content Modeling: "Add a new field to the product content type for customer ratings"

📓 Table of Contents

• ⚙️ Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
  • Environment Variables
  • Configuration
• 🛠️ Available Tools
• 🔍 Development
  • Testing with MCP Inspector
• 📦 Releases
• 🤝 Contributing and development
• 📚 Documentation
• ❓ Help & Support
• 📄 License and Notices
• 🛡️ Code of Conduct

⚙️ Getting started

Prerequisites

• Node.js
• npm
• A Contentful account with a Space ID
• Contentful Management API personal access token

Installation

One-Click install

Note: This requires Cursor to be installed. If the link doesn't work, try the manual installation below.

Claude Desktop:

Download the .dxt configuration file here from the latest release and import it into Claude Desktop to automatically configure the MCP server with your environment variables.

Codex:

codex mcp add contentful --env CONTENTFUL_MANAGEMENT_ACCESS_TOKEN="your-CMA-token" --env SPACE_ID="your-space-id" --env ENVIRONMENT_ID="master" --env CONTENTFUL_HOST="api.contentful.com" -- npx -y @contentful/mcp-server

Install from source

git clone https://github.com/contentful/contentful-mcp-server.git
cd contentful-mcp-server
npm install
npm run build

Environment Variables

Environment Variable	Required	Default Value	Description
CONTENTFUL_MANAGEMENT_ACCESS_TOKEN	✅ Yes	-	Your Contentful Management API personal access token
SPACE_ID	✅ Yes	-	Your Contentful Space ID
ENVIRONMENT_ID	❌ No	master	Target environment within your space
CONTENTFUL_HOST	❌ No	api.contentful.com	Contentful API host
NODE_ENV	❌ No	production	Node Environment to run in

Configuration

Refer to the documentation for your AI tool of choice for how to configure MCP servers. For example, see the documentation for Codex, Cursor, VS Code, or Claude Desktop.

Below is a sample configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "contentful-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@contentful/mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "CONTENTFUL_MANAGEMENT_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your-CMA-token",
        "SPACE_ID": "your-space-id",
        "ENVIRONMENT_ID": "master",
        "CONTENTFUL_HOST": "api.contentful.com"
      }
    }
  }
}

🛠️ Available Tools

Category	Tool Name	Description
Context & Setup	get_initial_context	Initialize connection and get usage instructions
Content Types	list_content_types	List all content types
	get_content_type	Get detailed content type information
	create_content_type	Create new content types
	update_content_type	Modify existing content types
	publish_content_type	Publish content type changes
	unpublish_content_type	Unpublish content types
	delete_content_type	Remove content types
Entries	search_entries	Search and filter entries
	get_entry	Retrieve specific entries
	create_entry	Create new content entries
	update_entry	Modify existing entries
	publish_entry	Publish entries (single or bulk)
	unpublish_entry	Unpublish entries (single or bulk)
	delete_entry	Remove entries
Assets	upload_asset	Upload new assets
	list_assets	List and browse assets
	get_asset	Retrieve specific assets
	update_asset	Modify asset metadata
	publish_asset	Publish assets (single or bulk)
	unpublish_asset	Unpublish assets (single or bulk)
	delete_asset	Remove assets
Spaces & Environments	list_spaces	List available spaces
	get_space	Get space details
	list_environments	List environments
	create_environment	Create new environments
	delete_environment	Remove environments
Locales	list_locales	List all locales in your environment
	get_locale	Retrieve specific locale information
	create_locale	Create new locales for multi-language content
	update_locale	Modify existing locale settings
	delete_locale	Remove locales from environment
Tags	list_tags	List all tags
	create_tag	Create new tags
AI Actions	create_ai_action	Create custom AI-powered workflows
	invoke_ai_action	Invoke an AI action with variables
	get_ai_action_invocation	Get AI action invocation details
	get_ai_action	Retrieve AI action details and configuration
	list_ai_actions	List AI actions in a space
	update_ai_action	Update existing AI actions
	publish_ai_action	Publish AI actions for use
	unpublish_ai_action	Unpublish AI actions
	delete_ai_action	Remove AI actions

🤝 Contributing and Development

We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide for local development setup and contribution guidelines.

📦 Releases

This project uses Nx Release for automated versioning and publishing. Releases are automatically generated based on Conventional Commits. See Contributing Guide for more information on release process.

See github releases and npm

📚 Documentation

• Model Context Protocol Documentation
• Contentful Management API Documentation

❓ Help & Support

• Contentful support resources
• Report bugs or request features
• Contentful Community Discord

📄 License and Notices

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

It also includes open-source components licensed under MIT, BSD-2-Clause, and Apache-2.0. For details, see the NOTICE file.

This project includes an automated license management system that keeps track of all dependencies and their licenses. See the AUTOMATION-FOR-LICENSES file for more information.

🛡️ Code of Conduct

We want to provide a safe, inclusive, welcoming, and harassment-free space and experience for all participants, regardless of gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, socioeconomic status, body size, ethnicity, nationality, level of experience, age, religion (or lack thereof), or other identity markers.

Read our full Code of Conduct.

For AI Agents

If you are an AI coding agent working in this repository, read AGENTS.md first. It tells you where to find architectural context, development setup, decision records, and repo-specific rules.