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MCP Confluent

MCP Confluent is an MCP server that enables AI assistants to interact with Confluent Cloud, Confluent Platform, and standalone Apache Kafka deployments through natural language. It has 168 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y @confluentinc/mcp-confluent.

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Install MCP Confluent

Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-confluent": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@confluentinc/mcp-confluent"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio mcp-confluent -- npx -y @confluentinc/mcp-confluent

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-confluent": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@confluentinc/mcp-confluent"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-confluent": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@confluentinc/mcp-confluent"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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).

About MCP Confluent

An open-source MCP server that enables AI assistants to interact with Confluent Cloud, Confluent Platform, and standalone Apache Kafka deployments through natural language. It provides 50+ tools across Kafka, Flink SQL, Schema Registry, Connectors, Tableflow, and more -- usable from any MCP-compatible client including Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Goose, and Gemini CLI.

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How do I install the MCP Confluent MCP server?

Add the command npx -y @confluentinc/mcp-confluent 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 MCP Confluent free?

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

Is MCP Confluent actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 23, 2026. The latest release is v1.6.0, published Sep 23, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.