Enables AI assistants to interact with Notion's API for reading, creating, and modifying content through natural language.
If you already use Notion, the notion mcp server is the piece that lets your assistant work with it directly. Enables AI assistants to interact with Notion's API for reading, creating, and modifying content through natural language.
Give your AI full read/write access to Notion with one token and one paste. This is an agent-first Notion MCP server: your AI client (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Cline, Zed — anything that speaks MCP) can create pages, query databases, append blocks, apply templates, comment, and upload files in natural language.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
Two — tool surface** — notion_execute (do it) + notion_describe (learn the shape). The whole API is one schema deepRate — limit + retry baked in** — token-bucket limiter (3 req/s default, NOTION_RATE_LIMIT to change) with exponential backoff on 429/5xx/timeouts, honoringSelf — healing validation errors** — failures return { schema, example, fix } so the model corrects bad payloads in one round-tripCapability — Official Notion MCP (open source)Idempotency — Not documentedMarkdown — Page-level markdown toolsTemplates — —Where — app.notion.com/developers/tokens → + New tokenScope — Everything you can seeFriction — NoneNOTION_TOKEN — ✅NOTION_PAGE_ID — —Because this one is hosted, setup is mostly authentication — you point your client at the endpoint and approve access. Nothing runs on your machine, so there is no runtime to keep patched.
Configuration is passed through the environment: NOTION_TOKEN, NOTION_ALLOWED_OPERATIONS, NOTION_BLOCKED_OPERATIONS, YOUR_NOTION_TOKEN, NOTION_PAGE_ID, NOTION_DAILY_LOG_PAGE_ID, MCP_AUTH_TOKEN. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
Plenty of planning and project tracking 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. Notion's toolset — Two, Rate, Self and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by awkoy; 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 |
|---|---|
| Two | tool surface** — notion_execute (do it) + notion_describe (learn the shape). The whole API is one schema deep. |
| Rate | limit + retry baked in** — token-bucket limiter (3 req/s default, NOTION_RATE_LIMIT to change) with exponential backoff on 429/5xx/timeouts, honoring Retry-After. |
| Self | healing validation errors** — failures return { schema, example, fix } so the model corrects bad payloads in one round-trip. |
| Capability | Official Notion MCP (open source) |
| Idempotency | Not documented |
| Markdown | Page-level markdown tools |
| Templates | — |
| Where | [app.notion.com/developers/tokens](https://app.notion.com/developers/tokens) → **+ New token** |
| Scope | Everything **you** can see |
| Friction | None |
| NOTION_TOKEN | ✅ |
| NOTION_PAGE_ID | — |
| NOTION_RATE_LIMIT | — |
| NOTION_READ_ONLY | — |
{
"mcpServers": {
"notion": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "notion-mcp-server"],
"env": {
"NOTION_TOKEN": "ntn_paste_your_token_here"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| NOTION_TOKEN | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| NOTION_ALLOWED_OPERATIONS | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| NOTION_BLOCKED_OPERATIONS | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| YOUR_NOTION_TOKEN | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| NOTION_PAGE_ID | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| NOTION_DAILY_LOG_PAGE_ID | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| MCP_AUTH_TOKEN | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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