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Set up Neon MCP in VS Code

Manage Neon serverless Postgres projects, branches, databases, and run SQL queries and migrations directly from your AI editor.

1

Locate the config file

VS Code reads MCP server configuration from the following file:

.vscode/settings.json → mcp section

Create this file if it does not already exist. For VS Code, this is inside your workspace .vscode/settings.json file under the mcp section.

2

Add the configuration

Add the following to your VS Code config file:

json
{
  "servers": {
    "neon-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@neondatabase/mcp-server-neon"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NEON_API_KEY": "YOUR_NEON_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}
3

Set up environment variables

Neon MCP requires the following environment variables:

NEON_API_KEYRequired

Neon API key for authentication

4

Verify it works

Restart VS Code. Neon MCP should appear in your MCP server list with 18 tools available.

This server adds approximately 9,270 tokens to your context window for tool definitions.

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