spring-nacos-mcp
Provides tools for managing and inspecting Nacos configurations and service discovery across Spring Cloud environments, enabling AI agents to list, get, search, and diff configs, as well as list services and instances.
spring-nacos-mcp
A project-aware, read-only Nacos MCP server for Spring Cloud repositories.
Point it at your Spring Cloud repo. It reads your own application-* / bootstrap-*
files, discovers every environment (dev / test / pre / prod / ...), and gives your AI
assistant read-only Nacos tools across all of them — no host, port, namespace or
token to configure.
You: "Is sso.server.productCode consistent between dev and test?"
Claude: → nacos_search_config(env=dev, keyword=sso.server.productCode)
→ nacos_diff_config(env_a=dev, env_b=test, data_id=sso.properties)
"Yes — the value is identical in both environments (`PC-1001`).
One related key differs though: sso.server.url points to
dev-sso.corp.com in dev and test-sso.corp.com in test."Why not the official nacos-mcp-server?
The official nacos-group/nacos-mcp-server
connects to one cluster that you configure by hand (--host, --port, --access_token).
That's the right tool for operating a Nacos cluster.
This project answers a different question: "what does my project's config look like across environments?"
official nacos-mcp-server | spring-nacos-mcp | |
Setup | manual host/port/token per cluster | zero-config: parsed from your repo |
Environments | one per server instance | all profiles, |
Cross-env diff | not possible (single cluster) | built-in |
Spring awareness | none | shared-configs, file-extension, app config |
Write operations | planned | never (read-only by design) |
Related MCP server: jewei-mcp-nacos
Quickstart
The easy way: let your AI agent install it
Paste this into Cursor / Claude Code / Codex / Trae:
Install the MCP server from https://github.com/kestiny18/spring-nacos-mcp into this project and verify it works.
The repo ships an llms-install.md with exact steps per client, so the agent can do the whole thing — download, config, verification — by itself.
Manual, option A: copy one file (no PyPI, no dependencies)
The whole server is a single, zero-dependency, standard-library-only Python file. Drop it into your repo:
curl -sfL -o tools/nacos_mcp.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kestiny18/spring-nacos-mcp/main/src/spring_nacos_mcp/server.py// .cursor/mcp.json or .mcp.json (Claude Code), at the repo root
{
"mcpServers": {
"spring-nacos-mcp": { "command": "python", "args": ["tools/nacos_mcp.py"] }
}
}Works on intranet machines too — copy the file over however you like.
Manual, option B: uv / pip straight from git
{
"mcpServers": {
"spring-nacos-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["--from", "git+https://github.com/kestiny18/spring-nacos-mcp", "spring-nacos-mcp"]
}
}
}Or pip install git+https://github.com/kestiny18/spring-nacos-mcp and use the
spring-nacos-mcp command.
The server auto-detects the repo root from its working directory (your editor's
workspace). For clients that don't launch servers in the workspace (e.g. Claude
Desktop), pin it: "args": [..., "--repo", "/path/to/repo"].
Verify your setup
python tools/nacos_mcp.py --check # or: spring-nacos-mcp --checkPrints every discovered environment, where it came from, and whether the Nacos
server is reachable. Exit codes: 0 all reachable · 1 nothing discovered ·
2 discovered but some unreachable (usually VPN/network, not setup).
Tools
Tool | What it does |
| List discovered environments with address/namespace/groups |
| Read one config's raw content by dataId |
| App config + the shared/extension configs your project declares |
| List dataIds in a namespace (optional fuzzy filter) |
| Full-text search across all config contents |
| Key-level diff of one config between two environments |
| List services in the discovery registry |
| List online instances (IP/port/health) of a service |
How discovery works
Find the repo root (
.git,pom.xml,build.gradle,mvnw,gradlew, ...).Scan every
*/src/main/resources/forapplication[-<profile>].{yml,yaml,properties}andbootstrap[-<profile>].{yml,yaml,properties}. Multi-document YAML withspring.config.activate.on-profile(or legacyspring.profiles) is supported.For each profile, merge sources in priority order:
bootstrap-<profile>→application-<profile>→ basebootstrap→ baseapplication.Extract
spring.cloud.nacos.*: server-addr, namespace, username/password, config group (also fromspring.config.import: nacos:...?group=X), discovery group,file-extension,shared-configs/extension-configs/ legacyshared-dataids. Relaxed binding (server-addr/serverAddr/server_addr) is handled.${...}placeholders are resolved from environment variables (${nacos.addr}also triesNACOS_ADDR);${name:default}uses the default. Environments with unresolved placeholders are skipped with a clear log line.
Overrides
Environment variables (highest precedence), <ENV> is the upper-cased profile name:
NACOS_DEV_SERVER_ADDR / NACOS_DEV_NAMESPACE / NACOS_DEV_USERNAME /
NACOS_DEV_PASSWORD / NACOS_DEV_GROUP / NACOS_DEV_CONTEXT_PATH
NACOS_USERNAME / NACOS_PASSWORD # global fallback credentialsOr a .spring-nacos-mcp.yml at the repo root — patch discovered environments or
define ones that aren't in the repo at all:
envs:
staging:
server-addr: nacos-staging.corp.com:8848
namespace: ns-staging
username: readonly
password: ${STAGING_NACOS_PASSWORD} # resolved from env varSecurity notes
Read-only by construction: the only endpoints ever called are config/service GET queries and the login endpoint. There is no code path that writes to Nacos.
Config content reaches the LLM. If your configs contain secrets, enable masking:
SPRING_NACOS_MCP_MASK=1masks values whose keys containpassword/secret/token/credential/..., or provide your own list:SPRING_NACOS_MCP_MASK=password,apikey. Masking is off by default.Prefer a read-only Nacos account (via
NACOS_USERNAME/NACOS_PASSWORD) over credentials committed in config files.
Compatibility
Python ≥ 3.9, zero runtime dependencies.
Nacos 1.x / 2.x via the v1 OpenAPI; auth via
/v1/auth/loginwith automatic fallback to/v3/auth/user/login(Nacos 3.x).https://server addresses and comma-separated cluster address lists are supported.Nacos 3.x keeps v1 OpenAPI compatibility in current releases; if your deployment disables it, please open an issue — a v3 API backend is on the roadmap.
Limitations
The built-in YAML parser covers the subset used by Spring config files (nested maps, lists, multi-document). Anchors and flow collections are ignored.
Placeholders that come from Maven profile filtering (
@...@) are not resolved; use the override file for those repos.
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