<h1 align="center">Change8 MCP</h1> <strong>Breaking Change Alerts for AI Agents</strong> Know what broke before your code does.
Connect Change8 to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. Change8 MCP Breaking Change Alerts for AI Agents Know what broke before your code does. The change8 mcp server is what makes that connection.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
get_breaking_changes — Get breaking changes for a package. Use when you need to know what brokediff_versions — Get all changes between two versions. Use when upgrading from v1 to v2search_symbol — Find releases that affected a function/class. Use when you see deprecation warningsCursor — The Cursor tool exposed by this serverThe server ships on npm as @change8/mcp, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Change8's toolset — get_breaking_changes, diff_versions, search_symbol and 1 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by scotty-cam; 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We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| get_breaking_changes | Get breaking changes for a package. Use when you need to know what broke. |
| diff_versions | Get all changes between two versions. Use when upgrading from v1 to v2. |
| search_symbol | Find releases that affected a function/class. Use when you see deprecation warnings. |
| Cursor | The Cursor tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"change8": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@change8/mcp"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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