Contentful MCP Server

Contentful mcp server connects Contentful to AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. Interact with your content on the Contentful platform.

What Contentful does

This is a community driven server! Contentful has released an official server which you can find here

Key capabilities

• Content Management — Full CRUD operations for entries and assets
• Comment Management — Create, retrieve, and manage comments on entries with support for both plain-text and rich-text formats, including threaded conversations
• Space Management — Create, update, and manage spaces and environments
• Content Types — Manage content type definitions
• Localization — Support for multiple locales
• Publishing — Control content publishing workflow
• Bulk Operations — Execute bulk publishing, unpublishing, and validation across multiple entries and assets
• Smart Pagination — List operations return maximum 3 items per request to prevent context window overflow, with built-in pagination support

Tools it exposes

Once connected, the assistant can call this tool directly:

• Prerequisites — 1. Create a Contentful account at Contentful 2. Generate a Content Management API token from your account settings

Installing the contentful mcp server

The server is distributed via npm as @smithery/cli, so most clients can run it without a manual build step. Add it to your MCP client's configuration and restart the client to pick it up — the copy-paste configs for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are on this page.

Configuration

Before the server will start you need to supply 6 environment variables: CONTENTFUL_MANAGEMENT_ACCESS_TOKEN, CONTENTFUL_HOST, HTTP_HOST, SPACE_ID, ENVIRONMENT_ID, YOUR_TOKEN. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than committing them.

Requirements

1. Create a Contentful account at Contentful 2. Generate a Content Management API token from your account settings

Where it fits

Developer-tool servers are usually the first ones people connect, because they turn "help me with this code" into an assistant that can actually read the repo and act on it. Contentful sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — Prerequisites — tells you what it is really for. Worth comparing against the other developer tools servers in this directory before you commit to one, since several overlap in scope but differ sharply in setup cost and permissions.

Practical notes

• This server runs locally, so it operates with whatever access your machine and its credentials already have. Scope that deliberately rather than by default.
• It will not start until its required credentials are present, so set those before wondering why the tools never appear.
• MCP clients ask for confirmation before each tool call by default. Keep that on while you learn what the contentful mcp server actually does with your data.
• Every entry in this directory is reviewed by hand before it goes live, and details are checked against the project's own documentation.