# firebase-mcp MCP Server

Gives AI development tools Firebase-specific capabilities and expertise.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `firebase-tools` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**98 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### [MCP] Firebase Crashlytics calls lead to 404 errors

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## Summary

My colleagues and I have started utilizing the firebase MCP server to get summaries of crashlytics issues in our project.

I have followed the [setup instructions](https://firebase.google.com/docs/ai-assistance/mcp-server?authuser=0#claude) for both Claude CLI and Cursor, but anytime the MCP server actually tries to fetch information from crashlytics, the tool receives a 404 error.

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools/issues/9876) · 2026-02-04 · closed · external user · 10 comments

### [MCP] Firebase MCP server hangs/crashes during tools/list initialization with large datasets

# [MCP] Firebase MCP server hangs/crashes during tools/list initialization with large datasets

## Description
The Firebase MCP server (`firebase-tools@latest mcp`) hangs, times out, or crashes with out-of-memory errors when Claude Code (or other MCP clients) attempts to list available tools via the `tools/list` MCP method. This issue occurs specifically when the Firebase project contains a large volume of Crashlytics data, making the MCP integration completely unusable for production applicatio

[Read the thread](https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools/issues/9663) · 2025-12-19 · closed · external user · 10 comments

### Storage hangs without completing or errors when uploading or getting files in parallel

Hi, @abhis3.
I'm still experiencing this issue, although, I should add it doesn't happen all that consistantly.
Here are the following specs:
Device: `MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)`
OS: `macOS Big Sur, 11.7.8`
Firebase tools: `firebase-tools@12.4.5`

**Additional context**
The error doesn't just happen when uploading many files but also when downloading many of them in parallel, for instance, in context of a messaging application this would be when downloading in-chat media, li

[Read the thread](https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools/issues/6194) · 2023-07-28 · closed · external user · 13 comments

### Calling functions.config() from JS broken on 9.19.0 when running functions emulator

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools/issues/3793) · 2021-09-30 · closed · external user · 12 comments

### Non-interactive version of firebase init

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Right now there is no way to do `firebase init --project=foo {product}` within a script.  Since hand-crafting a `firebase.json` file is a lot of guesswork it could be cool to make `firebase init --noninteractive` accept all defaults.

@mbleigh is that possible or reasonable?

[Read the thread](https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools/issues/2333) · 2020-06-05 · open · outside contributor · 15 comments

### Most recent

### [MCP] Enforce Session ID output for AI Agents during firebase_login for security verification

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools/issues/10942) · 2026-08-15 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### MCP firebase_login builds a malformed login URL (stray "}" in studio_prototyper param) → "Unable to verify client"

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### Version
  firebase-tools 15.25.1 (MCP server 0.3.0), Windows 11, Node v24.16.0

  ### Bug
  `loginPrototyper()` in src/auth.ts builds the login URL with a stray closing
  brace inside the template literal, so the emitted URL ends with
  `studio_prototyper=true}` instead of `studio_prototyper=true`:

  https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools/blob/master/src/auth.ts#L450

  ```js
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[Read the thread](https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools/issues/10888) · 2026-08-04 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### [MCP]

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- **Affected Tool(s):** <!-- Which specific tool(s) were you using when you encountered the issue? -->
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### Steps to Reproduce

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools/issues/10865) · 2026-07-30 · closed · external user · 1 comment

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools/issues/10718) · 2026-06-25 · closed · external user · 1 comment

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools/issues/10707) · 2026-06-24 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### [MCP] Firebase MCP reconnect succeeds but tool fetching fails with FetchError: Premature close

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## Summary

After selecting Reconnect for `plugin:firebase:firebase` in the `/mcp` menu, Claude Code reports a successful reconnect, but then fails to fetch tools from the Firebase MCP endpoint with a `FetchError: Invalid response body while trying to fetch https://developerknowledge.googleapis.com/mcp: Premature close`.

## Bug Info

* **Affected Tool(s):** Firebase MCP (`plugin:firebase:firebase`)
* **MC

[Read the thread](https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools/issues/10699) · 2026-06-23 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### [Apphosting] Support revoke Secret Manager secret CLI command

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### Description
Currently, the Firebase CLI provides the `firebase apphosting:secrets:grantaccess` command to easily grant the App Hosting service account access to a specific Secret Manager secret. However, there is no symmetrical command to revoke this access when a secret is no longer needed or removed from `apphosting.yaml`.

To follow the Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP), users should 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools/issues/10645) · 2026-06-13 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

[See all 24 reports Pod holds for firebase-mcp](/mcp/firebase-mcp/issues) — of 98 qualified upstream.

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