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Airtable User MCP

Airtable User MCP is an MCP server that adds productivity tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Manage Airtable bases: schema, field CRUD, views, formula validation, extensions. It has 32 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y airtable-user-mcp.

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Install Airtable User MCP

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "airtable-user-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "airtable-user-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AIRTABLE_HEADLESS_ONLY": "your-value",
        "AIRTABLE_NO_BROWSER": "your-value",
        "AIRTABLE_USER_MCP_HOME": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env AIRTABLE_HEADLESS_ONLY=your-value --env AIRTABLE_NO_BROWSER=your-value --env AIRTABLE_USER_MCP_HOME=your-value --transport stdio airtable-user-mcp -- npx -y airtable-user-mcp

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "airtable-user-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "airtable-user-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AIRTABLE_HEADLESS_ONLY": "your-value",
        "AIRTABLE_NO_BROWSER": "your-value",
        "AIRTABLE_USER_MCP_HOME": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "airtable-user-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "airtable-user-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AIRTABLE_HEADLESS_ONLY": "your-value",
        "AIRTABLE_NO_BROWSER": "your-value",
        "AIRTABLE_USER_MCP_HOME": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
AIRTABLE_HEADLESS_ONLYNoHeadless auth (no browser UI)
AIRTABLE_NO_BROWSERNoForce manual session mode
AIRTABLE_USER_MCP_HOMENoOverride config directory

About Airtable User MCP

Formula, script & automation editor · MCP server (72 tools + managetools) · Language server · AI skills Not affiliated with Airtable Inc. This is a community-maintained project. Active development — Breaking changes may land between minor versions. Pin to a version if you need stability.

  • ai-coding
  • airtable
  • airtable-api
  • airtable-block
  • airtable-setup
  • automation
  • claude
  • claude-code
  • developer-tools
  • formula-editor

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How do I install the Airtable User MCP MCP server?

Add the command npx -y airtable-user-mcp to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Airtable User MCP free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Airtable User MCP actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Jul 31, 2026. The latest release is extension/v2.2.1, published Jul 31, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.