Manage your app’s translations directly from your AI coding assistant. Search keys, create translations, trigger machine translation. All without
Tolgee MCP server is a locally run integration for AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. Manage your app’s translations directly from your AI coding assistant. Search keys, create translations, trigger machine translation. All without leaving your editor.
Add this to your Cursor MCP settings (~/.cursor/mcp.json):
Once Tolgee is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
Ability — Toolsread — list/get collections, entries, assets, webhooks; webhook logscreate — create entries, upload assets, create webhooksupdate — update entries, publish/unpublish/discard draft, link_entry_translation, versions, update asset metadata, update webhooksdelete — delete entries, delete assets, delete webhooksadmin — create/update/reorder collections and fields; add/set default project locales (MCP does not expose locale removal)Project — Removing locales is intentionally not exposed here (use Project settings → Localization in the dashboard, or the REST/SDK APIs)Collections — The Collections tool exposed by this serverFields — The Fields tool exposed by this serverAssets — The Assets tool exposed by this serverWebhooks — The Webhooks tool exposed by this server@elmapicms/mcp-server on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
You will need 5 environment variables: ELMAPI_BASE_URL, ELMAPI_API_KEY, ELMAPI_PROJECT_ID, NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED, ELMAPI_API_URL. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
Among the monitoring and observability options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Tolgee's toolset — Ability, read, create and 8 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Ability | Tools |
| read | list/get collections, entries, assets, webhooks; webhook logs |
| create | create entries, upload assets, create webhooks |
| update | update entries, publish/unpublish/discard draft, **link_entry_translation**, versions, update asset metadata, update webhooks |
| delete | delete entries, delete assets, delete webhooks |
| admin | create/update/reorder collections and fields; add/set default **project locales** (MCP does not expose locale removal) |
| Project | Removing locales is intentionally **not** exposed here (use **Project settings → Localization** in the dashboard, or the REST/SDK APIs). |
| Collections | The Collections tool exposed by this server. |
| Fields | The Fields tool exposed by this server. |
| Assets | The Assets tool exposed by this server. |
| Webhooks | The Webhooks tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"elmapicms": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@elmapicms/mcp-server"],
"env": {
"ELMAPI_BASE_URL": "https://your-domain.com/api",
"ELMAPI_API_KEY": "your-project-api-token",
"ELMAPI_PROJECT_ID": "your-project-uuid"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| ELMAPI_BASE_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
| ELMAPI_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| ELMAPI_PROJECT_ID | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| ELMAPI_API_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
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