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Microsoft NuGet MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for NuGet.

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Published as NuGet.Mcp.Server on nuget. Runs locally.

Known issues

74 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

[Bug]: Unexpected NU1008 errors

NuGet Product Used

Visual Studio Package Manager Console

Product Version

VS Internal Previews

Worked before?

17.2 Preview 3

Impact

It's more difficult to complete my work

Workaround

Restore from the command-line before building in Visual Studio

Repro Steps & Context

  1. Install internal preview of VS
  2. Clone our repo (not public, so can't link - I can provide directly if needed - but it is a solution with 5 SDK-style .NET Framework projects

Read the thread · 2022-04-14 · closed · external user · 9 comments

[Bug]: KeyNotFoundException in LockFileBuilder.CreateLockFile

NuGet Product Used

dotnet.exe

Product Version

5.0.301

Worked before?

No response

Impact

Other

Repro Steps & Context

I ran dotnet restore on my solution on CI after first installing .NET 5.0.301.

I saw a NullReferenceException and a KeyNotFoundException.

2021-07-14T00:34:23.5238067Z   Determining projects to restore...
2021-07-14T00:34:23.8636897Z C:\a\_tool\dotnet\sdk\5.0.301\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\targets\Microsoft.NET.EolTargetFrameworks.targets(28,5)

[Read the thread](https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/11028) · 2021-07-14 · closed · external user · 16 comments

### Command “dotnet restore -f --use-lock-file” created a lock file for every project when the solution have project reference

## Details about Problem
NuGet version: NuGet Client Dev\5.8.0.6783
VS Version: Master\30423.24
OS: Windows-10-Enterprise-RS5
## Detailed repro steps 
1. Create a solution with two projects [e.g. C# Class Library (.NET Core 5.0)] called “CL1” and “CL2” in VS.
2. Make the project graph structure: CL1 -> CL2 and **close the solution/VS**.
3. Open “Developer Command Prompt”, cd to CL1 project path and input command “dotnet restore -f --use-lock-file”.
4. Open the solution and check the Solu

[Read the thread](https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/9933) · 2020-08-24 · closed · external user · 15 comments

### How to copy non assembly files to output directory of application

Hello.

How is it possible to copy none assembly files, like .xml, .txt .cat, and so on to the output directory of the application which uses my nuget package.

This is how my projectfile of my nuget package in visual studio looks like

```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>net40</TargetFramework>
    <PackageId>SomeId</PackageId>
    <Version>1.0.0.0</Version>
    <Authors>booster</Authors>
    <Compa

[Read the thread](https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/8843) · 2019-11-20 · closed · external user · 22 comments

### Misleading message "NU3028: The certificate is revoked."

Using `nuget.exe sign -Timestamper http://tsa.starfieldtech.com` from the command line:

Timestamping package(s) with:
http://tsa.starfieldtech.com
NU3028: The certificate is revoked.
NU3028: Certificate chain validation failed.


It would seem like the next step would be to go to our certificate issuer who runs that timestamp server and as them why our tools are saying that their timestamp certificate is revoked, but that just sounded too 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/7979) · 2019-04-09 · closed · external user · 9 comments

### Most recent

### Review Supply Chain security with Copilot using a VS Error List fixer

Particularly for Supply Chain features, we'd like to use the NuGet MCP Server when available to assist the customer in resolving their issues.

For example, for [NU1507](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/reference/errors-and-warnings/nu1507) when CPM is enabled, and a customer enables Warnings as Errors, our MCP tool can possibly help them enable PackageSourceMapping for their repo, or let them know that it's safe to ignore this warning/error.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/15049) · 2026-08-15 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Skill to explore a NuGet package API (offline, from local cache)

_Transferred from https://github.com/dotnet/skills/issues/981 — originally filed by @verdie-g._

When using a NuGet package, it would be useful for an AI agent to explore its API (including XML docs) without relying solely on LSP. The proposal outlines a tiered approach:

1. **Locate the package/type** in the local NuGet cache (`~/.nuget/packages/`)
2. **Read shipped XML docs** next to the DLL
3. **Enumerate public surface** via reflection
4. **Resolve real source** files via Source Link embedde

[Read the thread](https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/15041) · 2026-08-12 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Review your Package Source Mapping & Supply Chain Security with GitHub Copilot

Introduce a Button (Command) to the Package Source Mapping VS Settings which attempts to prompt GitHub Copilot with "Review this repository's package source mappings.", invoking the NuGet MCP tool to review supply chain security.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/15021) · 2026-08-04 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### The NuGet Solver tool is still unavailable after the NuGet MCP Server is enabled from MCP Server Manager

### NuGet Product Used

Visual Studio Package Management UI

### Product Version

VS Main\11820.301 + NuGet Client Dev\7.8.0.39

### Worked before?

It's a regression since it doesn’t repro on VS Main\11813.22 + NuGet Client Dev\7.8.0.24.

### Impact

It's more difficult to complete my work

### Repro Steps & Context

#### Note:
1.	Repro rate: 100%.
#### Repro Steps:
1.	Create a C# Console App (.NET 10.0) in VS and open the project-level PM UI.
2.	Go back to the ‘Browse’ tab of PM UI, select the

[Read the thread](https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/14912) · 2026-05-21 · closed · external user · 5 comments

### Add minimum package age policy

Add minimum package release age policy for restore/install/update to mitigate supply-chain attacks.
Similar to pnpm/Renovate/+others minimumReleaseAge and Dependabot cooldown but as close to the development as possible.

This would protect developers machines and CI from picking up packages created before a set age enforced at the package manager level.

Need to decide where the policy can be set. Ideas are at least `Directory.Build.props` (and therefore also csprojs?), maybe `nuget.config` glob

[Read the thread](https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/14899) · 2026-05-06 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### [MCP Server]: MCP Server .exe is not code signed

### Issue Type

Bug

### MCP Server Package Version

1.2.3

### .NET Version

.NET 10.0

### Environment

- [ ] Visual Studio
- [x] VS Code
- [x] GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
- [ ] CLI
- [ ] Other (please specify below)

### If "Other", please specify

_No response_

### Prompt or Input

Starting the MCP server is not possible in high security environments where applications are whitelisted via AppLocker.

The root of the issue is that the following .exe is not code signed with any certificate.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/14861) · 2026-04-16 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### [MCP Server]: MCP Server .exe is not code signed

### Issue Type

Bug

### MCP Server Package Version

1.2.3

### .NET Version

.NET 10

### Environment

- [ ] Visual Studio
- [x] VS Code
- [x] GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
- [ ] CLI
- [ ] Other (please specify below)

### If "Other", please specify

_No response_

### Prompt or Input

Starting the MCP server is not possible in high security environments where applications are whitelisted via AppLocker.

The root of the issue is that the following .exe is not code signed with any certificate.

C:

[Read the thread](https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/14860) · 2026-04-16 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[See all 24 reports Pod holds for Microsoft NuGet](/mcp/microsoft-nuget/issues) — of 74 qualified upstream.

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