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Airtable (Official)

Airtable (Official)MCP Server

by Airtable
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Databases & DataProductivity

Summary

Airtable's own hosted MCP server — read and write bases, records, tables and fields from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor over OAuth.

Features

  • Hosted remote server at https://mcp.airtable.com/mcp — nothing to install
  • OAuth authorisation, or a personal access token via an Authorization: Bearer header
  • Query records with formulas and filters
  • create_record, update_record and delete_record for row-level writes
  • list_tables and get_table_schema for inspecting base structure
  • Creates and configures new bases, not just rows in existing ones

Installation

Set up this MCP server in your favorite AI agent — copy a ready-made configuration below.

Any MCP-compatible agent

Most agents (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, and more) read a standard mcpServers configuration.

  1. Open your agent's MCP configuration file.
  2. Merge the snippet below into it.
  3. Restart the agent — the "Airtable (Official)" tools will be available.
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "airtable-official-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.airtable.com/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Description

This is Airtable's own hosted MCP server, distinct from the community airtable-mcp-server
package also listed here. It runs as a remote service at https://mcp.airtable.com/mcp, so there is nothing to
install locally and no token to paste into a config file if you connect through OAuth.

Its scope is wider than most database connectors. Beyond reading and writing rows, it can inspect and change
structure: list_tables and get_table_schema expose a base's shape, and the server can create and configure whole
new bases. That makes it usable for the "set this up for me" half of Airtable work, not only the "what is in this
table" half. Record operations cover querying with Airtable formulas and filters, plus create_record,
update_record and delete_record.

Authorisation is OAuth by default, which is the recommended path and what the major clients expect; passing a
personal access token as an Authorization: Bearer header is supported for custom setups. It works with any
MCP-capable client, including Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor.

Worth knowing which server you want: the official one is hosted, OAuth-based and can alter schema, while the
community stdio package runs locally against a personal access token. Teams that cannot send base data to a hosted
endpoint will want the local one; everyone else will find this the lower-friction option.

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