Announcing the new DatoCMS Remote MCP Server

The DatoCMS MCP server is now hosted remotely! Log in once via OAuth and work across every project you have access to — in a single session, without restarting the server or swapping environment variables.

No npm install, no API token management! The server is always up to date, always available, and always secure.

This also means the MCP server is no longer a developer-only tool. With the local version, setting it up required terminal skills, npm, and manual token configuration — effectively limiting it to technical users. The remote server removes all of that: content editors, marketers, and anyone with a DatoCMS account can now use AI assistants to interact with their projects directly.

Quick links

• Get used to working with the new MCP via the docs

• If you're introducing your content team to working with the MCP in DatoCMS, here's a complete user guide aimed at editors

• Check out the blog post for a few more details

What's new

• Scoped OAuth authentication: No more explicit API tokens! During the authorization step, you can limit access to only the projects you choose. Every action is tied to your personal identity, giving teams clear visibility over who made which changes, when using an AI assistant.

• Multi-project support: The agent can discover which projects you have access to, and switch between them within the same conversation. You can also paste a DatoCMS editor URL into a prompt and the server resolves the right project automatically.

• Sandboxed script execution: Scripts execute in an isolated remote sandbox (not on your machine), plus your DatoCMS credentials are kept safe and cannot be read by the agent.

• Separate tools for safe/unsafe actions: You can configure your agent to ie. always execute safe (read-only) actions, and manually confirm writes/deletions.

Migration

Setup is simpler than ever! Follow the installation guide for your specific AI client — most of the times, this is the snippet that works:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "datocms": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.datocms.com"
    }
  }
}

Breaking changes

The old local MCP server has been deprecated in favor of the new, improved remote MCP server. The Github repository is archived and no longer maintained.