# growthbook-mcp MCP Server

Thin MCP server for GrowthBook — skill loader + authenticated API passthrough

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `@growthbook/mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**9 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 6.

### Most discussed

### MCP get_attributes tool fails with HTTP 400 due to unsupported limit query parameter

The get_attributes MCP tool appears to be sending a limit query parameter to the GrowthBook attributes endpoint, which results in a 400 response. This occurs even when using an Admin API key, suggesting this is not a permissions issue but an MCP/API compatibility issue.

Environment:

GrowthBook Cloud
Claude Desktop + Claude Code
GrowthBook MCP (@growthbook/mcp@latest)
Reproduced with both Global Experimenter and Admin API keys

Steps to Reproduce:

Configure GrowthBook MCP in Claude Desktop wit

[Read the thread](https://github.com/growthbook/growthbook-mcp/issues/60) · 2026-06-03 · open · external user · 0 comments

### create_feature_flag fails with "No data source or assignment query found" when org has no data source

**Version:** `@growthbook/mcp@1.8.1` · GrowthBook Cloud

**What happens:** Calling `create_feature_flag` for a simple boolean flag fails with:

> `No data source or assignment query found. Experiments require a data source/assignment query. Set these up in the GrowthBook and try again.`

This happens in any org that has **no data source and no experiments** — e.g. a project using GrowthBook purely for feature flags. The docs state a data source is only needed for experiments, so flag creation sh

[Read the thread](https://github.com/growthbook/growthbook-mcp/issues/58) · 2026-05-30 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Creating experiment with targeted attributes supported

MCP to support configuring targeting attributes (e.g. conditions, audiences, geo rules) at the time of experiment creation, enabling fully end-to-end experiment setup via MCP. Currently, this limitation requires users to fall back to the UI or API, breaking the otherwise streamlined workflow. Expanding MCP to include targeting configuration would significantly improve automation, consistency, and adoption for enterprise use cases.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/growthbook/growthbook-mcp/issues/56) · 2026-05-22 · open · external user · 0 comments

### OAuth Support

The ability to log in using OAuth

[Read the thread](https://github.com/growthbook/growthbook-mcp/issues/41) · 2026-03-16 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Feature : Custom Field Support

We are starting to use your MCP server, but there are some key things missing for us to fully use it:

- CustomFields of an experiment cannot be set/modified via the MCP
- CustomFields of a feature flag cannot be set/modified via the MCP

[Read the thread](https://github.com/growthbook/growthbook-mcp/issues/39) · 2026-03-09 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Most recent

### Return `customFields` in read tools

Following on from #39 (resolved in v1.8.0), `customFields` can now be set 
on experiments and feature flags via the MCP — but they are not returned 
by `get_experiments` or `get_feature_flags`.

Please include `customFields` in the output of these read tools so the 
full round-trip (write and read) is supported.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/growthbook/growthbook-mcp/issues/62) · 2026-06-24 · open · external user · 0 comments

[See all 9 reports Pod holds for growthbook-mcp](/mcp/growthbook-mcp-2/issues).

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