MCP Clients

The Nhost MCP server can be accessed through any client that supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

For CLI-based assistants, register the server with a single command. See Development Setup for the full walkthrough.

Claude Code

claude mcp add nhost nhost mcp start

Codex CLI

codex mcp add nhost -- nhost mcp start

Gemini CLI

gemini mcp add nhost nhost mcp start

Cursor

1. Go to “Cursor Settings”
2. Click on “MCP”
3. Click on “+ Add new global MCP server”
4. Add the following object inside "mcpServers":

    "mcp-nhost": {
      "command": "nhost",
      "args": [
        "mcp", "start",
      ],
    }