MCP Memgraph

🚀 Memgraph MCP Server

Memgraph MCP Server is a lightweight server implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) designed to connect Memgraph with LLMs.

Run Memgraph MCP server with Claude

1. Install uv
2. Install Claude for Desktop.
3. Add the Memgraph server to Claude config

You can do it in the UI, by opening your Claude desktop app navigate to Settings, under the Developer section, click on Edit Config and add the following content:

{
    "mcpServers": {
      "mpc-memgraph": {
        "command": "uv",
        "args": [
            "run",
            "--with",
            "mcp-memgraph",
            "--python",
            "3.13",
            "mcp-memgraph"
        ]
     }
   }
}

Or you can open the config file in your favorite text editor. The location of the config file depends on your operating system:

MacOS/Linux

~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Windows

%APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

> [!NOTE]
> You may need to put the full path to the uv executable in the command field. You can get this by running which uv on MacOS/Linux or where uv on Windows. Make sure you pass in the absolute path to your server.

Chat with the database

1. Run Memgraph MAGE:

   docker run -p 7687:7687 memgraph/memgraph-mage --schema-info-enabled=True
   

   The --schema-info-enabled configuration setting is set to True to allow LLM to run SHOW SCHEMA INFO query.
2. Open Claude Desktop and see the Memgraph tools and resources listed. Try it out! (You can load dummy data from Memgraph Lab Datasets)

🔧Tools

The Memgraph MCP Server exposes the following tools over MCP. Each tool runs a Memgraph‐toolbox operation and returns a list of records (dictionaries).

run_query(query: str)

Run any arbitrary Cypher query against the connected Memgraph database.
Parameters:

• query: A valid Cypher query string.

get_configuration()

Fetch the current Memgraph configuration settings.
Equivalent to running SHOW CONFIGURATION.

get_index()

Retrieve information about existing indexes.
Equivalent to running SHOW INDEX INFO.

get_constraint()

Retrieve information about existing constraints.
Equivalent to running SHOW CONSTRAINT INFO.

get_schema()

Fetch the graph schema (labels, relationships, property keys).
Equivalent to running SHOW SCHEMA INFO.

get_storage()

Retrieve storage usage metrics for nodes, relationships, and properties.
Equivalent to running SHOW STORAGE INFO.

get_triggers()

List all database triggers.
Equivalent to running SHOW TRIGGERS.

get_betweenness_centrality()

Compute betweenness centrality on the entire graph.
Uses BetweennessCentralityTool under the hood.

get_page_rank()

Compute PageRank scores for all nodes.
Uses PageRankTool under the hood.

🐳 Run Memgraph MCP server with Docker

Building Memgraph MCP image

To build the Docker image using your local memgraph-toolbox code, run from the root of the monorepo:

cd /path/to/ai-toolkit
docker build -f integrations/mcp-memgraph/Dockerfile -t mcp-memgraph:latest .

This will include your local memgraph-toolbox and install it inside the image.

Running the Docker image

1. Streamable HTTP mode (recommended for most users)

To connect to local Memgraph containers, by default the MCP server will be available at http://localhost:8000/mcp/:

docker run --rm mcp-memgraph:latest

2. Stdio mode (for integration with MCP stdio clients)

Configure your MCP host to run the docker command and utilize stdio:

docker run --rm -i -e MCP_TRANSPORT=stdio mcp-memgraph:latest

> 📄 Note: By default, the server will connect to a Memgraph instance running on localhost docker network bolt://host.docker.internal:7687. If you have a Memgraph instance running on a different host or port, you can specify it using environment variables.

3. Custom Memgraph connection (external instance, no host network)

To avoid using host networking, or to connect to an external Memgraph instance:

docker run --rm \
  -p 8000:8000 \
  -e MEMGRAPH_URL=bolt://memgraph:7687 \
  -e MEMGRAPH_USER=myuser \
  -e MEMGRAPH_PASSWORD=password \
  mcp-memgraph:latest

⚙️ Configuration

Environment Variables

The following environment variables can be used to configure the Memgraph MCP Server, whether running with Docker or directly (e.g., with uv or python).

• MEMGRAPH_URL: The Bolt URL of the Memgraph instance to connect to. Default: bolt://host.docker.internal:7687
  • The default value allows you to connect to a Memgraph instance running on your host machine from within the Docker container.
• MEMGRAPH_USER: The username for authentication. Default: memgraph
• MEMGRAPH_PASSWORD: The password for authentication. Default: empty
• MEMGRAPH_DATABASE: The database name to connect to. Default: memgraph
• MCP_TRANSPORT: The transport protocol to use. Options: http (default), stdio

You can set these environment variables in your shell, in your Docker run command, or in your deployment environment.

Connecting from VS Code (HTTP server)

If you are using VS Code MCP extension or similar, your configuration for an HTTP server would look like:

{
    "servers": {
        "mcp-memgraph-http": {
            "url": "http://localhost:8000/mcp/"
        }
    }
}

> Note: The URL must end with /mcp/.

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Running the Docker image in Visual Studio Code using stdio

You can also run the server using stdio for integration with MCP stdio clients:

1. Open Visual Studio Code, open Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P on Mac), and select MCP: Add server....
2. Choose Command (stdio)
3. Enter docker as the command to run.
4. For Server ID enter mcp-memgraph.
5. Choose "User" (adds to user-space settings.json) or "Workspace" (adds to .vscode/mcp.json).

When the settings open, enhance the args as follows:

{
    "servers": {
        "mcp-memgraph": {
            "type": "stdio",
            "command": "docker",
            "args": [
                "run",
                "--rm",
                "-i",
                "-e", "MCP_TRANSPORT=stdio",
                "mcp-memgraph:latest"
            ]
        }
    }
}

To connect to a remote Memgraph instance with authentication, add environment variables to the args list:

{
    "servers": {
        "mcp-memgraph": {
            "type": "stdio",
            "command": "docker",
            "args": [
                "run",
                "--rm",
                "-i",
                "-e", "MCP_TRANSPORT=stdio",
                "-e", "MEMGRAPH_URL=bolt://memgraph:7687",
                "-e", "MEMGRAPH_USER=myuser",
                "-e", "MEMGRAPH_PASSWORD=mypassword",
                "mcp-memgraph:latest"
            ]
        }
    }
}

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Open GitHub Copilot in Agent mode and you'll be able to interact with the Memgraph MCP server.