Umbraco-CMS-MCP-Dev MCP Server

A developer focused model context protocol (MCP) server for Umbraco CMS

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Published as @umbraco-cms/mcp-dev on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

53 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

Upgrade mcp Base and hosted mcp to beta.35 for v17 line

Problem

v17/dev's package.json pins @umbraco-cms/mcp-server-sdk and @umbraco-cms/mcp-hosted to ^17.0.0-beta.28 — a separate npm version line from the one dev is already on (^1.0.0-beta.35). That 17.0.0-beta.x line stopped publishing at beta.29 and never picked up the version-check hardening dev got via #358/#362: expectedUmbracoMajor is now a required argument to checkUmbracoVersion, configureVersionCheckHook() turns a mismatch into an actual warning instead of a si

Read the thread · 2026-08-07 · closed · outside contributor · 5 comments

create-media filePath uploads always rejected on Windows — SDK regex blocks documented UMBRACO_ALLOWED_MEDIA_PATHS allowlist

Summary

On Windows, every create-media call with sourceType: filePath is rejected with HTTP 400 "Field 'filePath' contains a path traversal or absolute path", regardless of UMBRACO_ALLOWED_MEDIA_PATHS configuration. The cause is a generic SDK input validator that runs before the tool's own allowlist code is reached. The allowlist code path appears to be unreachable on Windows.

Environment

Item	Value
OS	Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (build 26200)
Node	22.12.0 (Vol

Read the thread · 2026-05-05 · closed · external user · 4 comments

The MCP Tools Return Empty Data

Hi Dev Team,

i got an issue that GET tools like get-document-type-by-id, get-all-document-types, get-data-type, get-all-data-types...return empty data in the response. It caused the issue that AI Agent could not update a document type as i request. In fact AI Agent could create a new document type but could not update it later.

My Configuration:

Umbraco version: 17.2.1
Umbraco Developer MCP:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "umbraco-mcp": {
            "command": "npx",
            "a

[Read the thread](https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS-MCP-Dev/issues/122) · 2026-03-09 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### UMBRACO_EXCLUDE_TOOL_COLLECTIONS doesn't work

Hello, 

I am using VSCode. 

With or without this setting I get the same number of tools discovered when I start the MCP server. 

`"UMBRACO_EXCLUDE_TOOL_COLLECTIONS": "member,member-group,member-type,user-group,webhook"`

I have some doubts if `UMBRACO_EXCLUDE_TOOL_COLLECTIONS` setting was actually released because when I install the MCP server I don't see an empty setting for it in the `env `section of the `mcp.json` file. If that's the case, what is the way to track what is released? 

Also,

[Read the thread](https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS-MCP-Dev/issues/33) · 2025-10-06 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Documentation on Umbraco MCP specific rules

I think it would be useful to have a set of rules that would be useful specifically for working with the Umbraco MCP Server. This could be a basic guide with a few rules to get strted or something more complete with different rules for different scenarios/use cases.

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS-MCP-Dev/issues/28) · 2025-10-02 · closed · external user · 6 comments

### Most recent

### create-document-type hardcodes variesBySegment: false — can't create a segment-varying content type

## What should change

`create-document-type` hardcodes `variesBySegment: false` on both the document type and every property it creates:

```ts
// src/umbraco-api/tools/document-type/post/create-document-type.ts
variesByCulture: false,
variesBySegment: false,
container: containerId ? { id: containerId } : undefined,
...
variesByCulture: false,
variesBySegment: false,

There's no field on createDocumentTypeSchema to request segment (or culture) variation at all, so a caller building a docu

Read the thread · 2026-08-26 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment

Warn when the CLI major doesn't match the target site's Umbraco major

What should change

Tool schemas track the Management API of the CLI's own major, but nothing checks the server. Running @latest (18.x) against a 17.x site "works" until a shape mismatch fails confusingly mid-task. Since the CLI already authenticates against the server, it could fetch the server version once and print a warning (or refuse without --force) when majors differ. A docs note recommending @umbraco-cms/mcp-dev@<site major> over @latest would help too.

Provenance

2026-

Read the thread · 2026-08-22 · open · outside contributor · 2 comments

create-element-type / create-document-type silently drop description, mandatory, sortOrder on properties

What should change

The create tools' property input accepts only {name, alias, dataTypeId, tab, group}. Passing description, mandatory, or sortOrder neither errors nor applies — the fields are silently discarded, and the caller only finds out via a follow-up GET. Either support these fields on create (they're standard property metadata, and update-document-type accepts them) or reject unknown keys so the caller learns immediately.

Provenance

2026-07-24 — CLI 18.0.0 against U

Read the thread · 2026-08-22 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment

--call should not wait on stdin: programmatic invocation with piped stdin hangs as an MCP server

What should change

When the CLI is invoked programmatically (e.g. execFileSync(node, [cliPath, '--call', tool, ...])) with stdin left open/piped, it waits for MCP protocol input and hangs indefinitely instead of executing the --call. Callers must know to pass stdio: ['ignore', ...]. When --call (or any introspection flag) is present, the CLI should never enter server mode or read stdin.

Provenance

2026-07-24 — CLI 18.0.0, Windows 11 / Node 22: direct invocation hung until stdi

Read the thread · 2026-08-22 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment

--call-args needs a file/stdin input option: large or non-ASCII inline JSON fails silently on Windows

What should change

--call-args only accepts inline JSON on the command line. On Windows this fails in ways that are hard to detect:

Inline JSON over ~8 KB makes the mutation silently no-op — exit 0, no error output, nothing written (verified: a 2.6 KB payload applied, a 9.9 KB payload did nothing).
The npx.cmd shim mangles multiline JSON, non-ASCII, and shell-special characters ([b], smart quotes) — "Invalid JSON for --call-args" at best, silent corruption at worst.
Even bypassi

Read the thread · 2026-08-22 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

[from-learnings] MCP Registry publish has been silently failing since 18.1.0 — registry is 2 releases stale

What should change

The Azure DevOps release pipeline's Deploy_MCP_Registry stage has been silently failing for at least the last two releases (18.1.0 and 18.1.1) — the live MCP Registry listing has no entry past 18.0.1 for @umbraco-cms/mcp-dev. get_job_logs 404's for this job (logs unavailable via API), so this was confirmed by cross-checking the Azure DevOps build results page against the live registry listing directly. A "published" release currently only means npm + GitHub Release —

Read the thread · 2026-08-22 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

[from-learnings] sync-main-to-dev dev-sync PR gets stuck in action_required because the run is bot-triggered

What should change

sync-main-to-dev.yml's auto-opened dev-sync PR gets its required "Test Suite" check stuck in action_required (workflow run needs manual approval) because the run is triggered by github-actions[bot]. auto-release-loop has to notice this via list_workflow_runs and re-trigger the run under its own authenticated identity to clear the gate before the PR can merge — this happens on every release that goes through this path.

Consider whether the repo's Actions settings (

Read the thread · 2026-08-22 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

See all 23 reports Pod holds for Umbraco-CMS-MCP-Dev — of 53 qualified upstream.

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