AI assistant access to .NET SDK for projects, packages, building, testing, and development tools.
If you already use .NET, the .net mcp server is the piece that lets your assistant work with it directly. AI assistant access to .NET SDK for projects, packages, building, testing, and development tools.
Give your AI assistant superpowers for .NET development! This MCP server connects GitHub Copilot, Claude, and other AI assistants directly to the .NET SDK, enabling them to create projects, manage packages, run builds, and more—all through natural language.
The .NET MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects AI assistants to the .NET SDK using the Model Context Protocol. Think of it as giving your AI assistant a direct line to dotnet commands, but with intelligence and context.
Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
Requirements — The Requirements tool exposed by this serverThis 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. .NET's toolset — Requirements — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by jongalloway; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against .NET's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Requirements | The Requirements tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"dotnet": {
"command": "dnx",
"args": ["Community.Mcp.DotNet@1.*", "--yes"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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