Connect Claude, Cursor, and other AI assistants to your Lightdash analytics using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Lightdash Mcp is an MCP project maintained in the poddubnyoleg/lightdash_mcp repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “Connect Claude, Cursor, and other AI assistants to your Lightdash analytics using the Model Context Protocol (MCP)”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.
The documented pypi package is lightdash-mcp. The configuration below comes from the maintainer’s example; adapt its paths and account values to your environment.
The example declares LIGHTDASH_TOKEN, LIGHTDASH_URL, LIGHTDASH_PROJECT_UUID. Secret-looking values have been replaced with placeholders. Required and optional labels are shown only when the documentation states them.
Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.
Check the linked publisher documentation and your connected client's tool list. Names and availability can vary with the server version and account permissions.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| list-projects | List all available Lightdash projects |
| get-project | Get detailed information about a specific project |
| list-explores | List all available explores/tables in a project |
| get-explore-schema | Get detailed schema for a specific explore (dimensions, metrics, joins) |
| list-spaces | List all spaces (folders) in the project |
| get-custom-metrics | Get custom metrics defined in the project |
| list-charts | List all saved charts, optionally filtered by name |
| search-charts | Search for charts by name or description |
| get-chart-details | Get complete configuration of a specific chart |
| create-chart | Create a new saved chart with metric query and visualization config |
| update-chart | Update an existing chart's configuration (name, description, queries, visualization) |
| run-chart-query | Execute a saved chart's query and return data |
| delete-chart | Delete a saved chart |
| list-dashboards | List all dashboards in the project |
| create-dashboard | Create a new dashboard (empty or with tiles) |
| duplicate-dashboard | Clone an existing dashboard with a new name |
| get-dashboard-tiles | Get all tiles from a dashboard with optional full config |
| get-dashboard-tile-chart-config | Get complete chart configuration for a specific dashboard tile |
| get-dashboard-code | Get the complete dashboard configuration as code |
| create-dashboard-tile | Add a new tile (chart, markdown, or loom) to a dashboard |
| update-dashboard-tile | Update tile properties (position, size, content) |
| rename-dashboard-tile | Rename a dashboard tile |
| delete-dashboard-tile | Remove a tile from a dashboard |
| update-dashboard-filters | Update dashboard-level filters |
| run-dashboard-tiles | Run queries for dashboard tiles (supports bulk execution) |
| run-raw-query | Execute an ad-hoc metric query against any explore |
| create-space | Create a new space to organize charts and dashboards |
| delete-space | Delete an empty space |
{
"mcpServers": {
"lightdash": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"lightdash-mcp"
],
"env": {
"LIGHTDASH_TOKEN": "YOUR_LIGHTDASH_TOKEN",
"LIGHTDASH_URL": "https://app.lightdash.cloud",
"LIGHTDASH_PROJECT_UUID": "your-project-uuid"
}
}
}
}From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| LIGHTDASH_TOKEN | Declared in the maintainer’s client configuration. | Check documentation |
| LIGHTDASH_URL | Declared in the maintainer’s client configuration. | Check documentation |
| LIGHTDASH_PROJECT_UUID | Declared in the maintainer’s client configuration. | Check documentation |
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