Aem MCP Server

AEM MCP server. Chat with your AEM instance for content, component, and asset operations.

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What is the Aem MCP server?

AEM MCP server. Chat with your AEM instance for content, component, and asset operations. The aem mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it through 2 defined tools rather than through you.

What it actually does

AEM MCP Server is a full-featured Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). It provides a simple integration with any AI Agent. This project is designed for non-technical persons who want to manage AEM via natural language.

  • 57 MCP Tools — covering pages, components, assets, workflows, content fragments, and experience fragments
  • MCP Resources — — agents discover components, sites, templates, and workflow models upfront via resources/list, eliminating discovery roundtrips
  • Tool Annotations — — every tool tagged with group, readOnly, and complexity so agents can make smarter tool selection decisions
  • Response Verbosity — — verbosity parameter (summary/standard/full) on content-reading tools strips JCR internals and truncates long text
  • Actionable Errors — — error responses include suggestion and alternatives fields for self-healing agent workflows
  • Component Operations — Update, scan, add, convert, and bulk-manage AEM components (including Experience Fragments)

Adding it to your client

Being a remote server, there is no local install. You register the endpoint with your client, authorise it once, and the tools appear.

Its toolset

Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:

  • Prerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server
  • Configuration — The Configuration tool exposed by this server

Configuration

  • Node.js 20.19.0+ || 22.12.0+ || 23+ - Access to an AEM instance (local or remote)

Caveats

  • Your data travels to the provider's service, so the usual questions apply about what you send and what they retain.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the aem mcp server does with a few real requests.

When to reach for it

This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Aem's toolset — Prerequisites, Configuration — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by easingthemes; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
PrerequisitesThe Prerequisites tool exposed by this server.
ConfigurationThe Configuration tool exposed by this server.

How to install the Aem MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "AEM": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "aem-mcp-server", "-t", "stdio", "-H", "http://localhost:4502", "-u", "admin", "-p", "admin"]
    }
  }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Configuration

  • Node.js 20.19.0+ || 22.12.0+ || 23+ - Access to an AEM instance (local or remote)

Example prompts to try

  • Use Aem to Prerequisites.
  • Use Aem to Configuration.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Aem to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 2 tools (Prerequisites, Configuration) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Aem directly.