MCP servers for software development

by Atlassian

Official remote MCP server (https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/mcp) connecting Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, Bitbucket and Compass to AI tools while respecting user permissions.

Capabilities: search/summarize Jira issues · create/update Jira issues · search/create/update Confluence pages · Compass components · Bitbucket and JSM access

Authentication

OAuth 2.1 or API tokens

Use cases

sprint and backlog management from AI clients, documentation summarization, cross-tool search

⚠ GA since February 2026. For Server/Data Center use community sooperset/mcp-atlassian instead.

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by Google (Chrome DevTools team)

Official Chrome DevTools MCP server that lets coding agents control and inspect a live Chrome browser: performance traces, network requests, console and screenshots.

Capabilities: performance tracing and insight analysis · list network requests · read console messages · screenshots · Puppeteer-based automation

Authentication

None (local, npm chrome-devtools-mcp)

Use cases

frontend performance debugging, runtime debugging of web apps by AI agents

⚠ Public preview since Sept 2025; officially supports only Google Chrome / Chrome for Testing.

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by CircleCI

Official CircleCI MCP server giving AI tools direct access to build logs, job metadata and failure context for CI debugging.

Capabilities: retrieve build logs · find failed pipelines · job metadata and failure context

Authentication

CircleCI API token (local stdio server, npm)

Use cases

fix failed builds from Cursor/Claude Code/Windsurf, CI pipeline debugging without UI

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by Figma

Figma's official MCP server (remote at https://mcp.figma.com/mcp or local via desktop app) that gives coding agents design context and can write native content back to the canvas.

Capabilities: extract design context for design-to-code · read frames/components/variables/auto layout · write-to-canvas: create and modify Figma content (remote only)

Authentication

Personal access token (file:read scope) / OAuth; works on all plans incl. free Starter

Use cases

design-to-code in VS Code/Cursor/Claude Code, keeping code consistent with design system

⚠ Write-to-canvas is beta (free during beta). Official Claude Code plugin available.

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by GitHub (Microsoft)

GitHub's official MCP server (remote at https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/ or local Docker) connecting AI agents to repositories, issues, pull requests and GitHub Actions.

Capabilities: read/search repositories and code · create and manage issues and pull requests · monitor GitHub Actions workflow runs and build failures · manage releases · modular toolsets

Authentication

OAuth 2.0 (remote) or Personal Access Token

Use cases

issue triage, PR review automation, CI failure debugging from Claude/Cursor/Copilot

⚠ Remote hosted server is the recommended path; separate enterprise configuration docs.

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by GitLab

GitLab's built-in MCP server (part of Duo Agent Platform) that lets AI tools securely access project data, issues and merge requests on a GitLab instance.

Capabilities: retrieve project information · read/update issues and merge requests · secure GitLab API access · AI Catalog MCP servers · glab CLI mcp command

Authentication

OAuth 2.0 with Dynamic Client Registration (HTTP transport recommended)

Use cases

issue and MR management from AI clients, DevSecOps workflow automation

⚠ Beta since GitLab 18.6; MCP spec 2025-03-26/2025-06-18 supported since 18.7. Community alternative: zereight/gitlab-mcp.

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by Linear

Linear's hosted MCP server (https://mcp.linear.app/mcp, Streamable HTTP + SSE) for finding, creating and updating issues, projects and comments.

Capabilities: find/create/update issues · manage projects · add comments

Authentication

OAuth interactive flow, or Bearer header with OAuth token/API key

Use cases

issue management from Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, v0

⚠ Older community servers (tacticlaunch/mcp-linear, jerhadf/linear-mcp-server) are superseded.

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by MongoDB

Official MongoDB MCP server to query and manage data and deployments on Atlas, Community Edition and Enterprise Advanced from AI clients.

Capabilities: query and update data in natural language · Atlas cluster management · database administration

Authentication

MongoDB connection string; Atlas API service-account credentials for Atlas management

Use cases

data exploration from AI clients, Atlas ops automation

⚠ Read-only flag available; works with all deployment types.

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by Neon

Official MCP server for Neon serverless Postgres: manage projects and branches, run SQL and migrations via the Neon Management API in natural language.

Capabilities: manage Neon projects and branches · run SQL · database migrations · Neon Management API operations

Authentication

OAuth (remote, no API key needed) or Neon API key (local)

Use cases

agent-driven Postgres provisioning, branch-based database workflows

⚠ Open source; also available on Docker MCP Catalog.

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by Microsoft

Microsoft's official browser-automation MCP server using structured accessibility snapshots instead of screenshots, so no vision model is needed.

Capabilities: navigate and interact with web pages · form filling and clicks · screenshots · test generation · accessibility-snapshot based control

Authentication

None (runs locally, drives a local browser)

Use cases

AI-driven E2E testing, web scraping/automation from coding agents, verifying UI changes

⚠ De-facto successor of the archived Anthropic puppeteer reference server.

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by Postman

Official Postman MCP server (remote at https://mcp.postman.com or npm) giving agents access to workspaces, collections, environments and API evaluation.

Capabilities: manage collections and environments · access workspaces · evaluate APIs · automate API workflows

Authentication

Postman API key

Use cases

API test automation, collection maintenance via natural language

⚠ Postman also curates a trusted list of third-party official MCP servers (postman.com/getmcp).

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by Redis

Official Redis MCP server: natural-language interface to manage and search Redis data structures (strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, streams, JSON, pub/sub).

Capabilities: manage all core Redis data structures · search and retrieval · pub/sub and streams · vector search

Authentication

Redis connection credentials; separate mcp-redis-cloud uses Redis Cloud API keys

Use cases

cache inspection by agents, agent memory/state management on Redis

⚠ Replaces older community reference server (GongRzhe/REDIS-MCP-Server).

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by Sentry

Official Sentry MCP server (remote at https://mcp.sentry.dev/mcp) exposing 16+ tools to query issues, errors, projects and teams from LLM clients.

Capabilities: query issues and errors · manage projects and teams · error root-cause analysis (Seer) · organization data access

Authentication

OAuth 2.0 only on remote endpoint; stdio with User Auth Token for self-hosted Sentry

Use cases

automated error analysis in coding agents, debugging production issues from Cursor/Claude Code

⚠ Remote endpoint does not support API-token auth (open issue #833); runs on Cloudflare Workers.

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by Supabase

Official Supabase MCP server for managing projects, database schema, queries, auth, storage and edge functions from AI agents; remote server with OAuth2 available.

Capabilities: create projects and design tables · run SQL queries · manage auth/storage/edge functions · configuration management

Authentication

OAuth2 (remote MCP auth) or personal access token (local)

Use cases

AI-assisted backend development, database schema iteration from Cursor/Claude

⚠ Write access to your database — use read-only mode and project scoping where possible.

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by crystaldba (open source)

Leading open-source Postgres MCP server with configurable read/write access, index tuning, explain plans and database health analysis for any PostgreSQL.

Capabilities: configurable read/write SQL access · index tuning · explain plans · database health checks · performance analysis

Authentication

Database connection string; restricted/unrestricted modes

Use cases

safe agent access to Postgres, performance tuning during development and production

⚠ No single official Postgres MCP server exists; Anthropic's reference postgres server is archived. Alternatives: pgEdge Postgres MCP, AWS Aurora Postgres MCP.

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