Snyk MCP Server (io.snyk/mcp)

Snyk MCP is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that helps applications find and fix security issues by leveraging capabilities from the Snyk platform. It can integrate Snyk security context into MCP-supporting tools so an AI system has additional information for more accurate responses when it lacks required context.

🛠️ Key Features

Provides Snyk security context for MCP-enabled agentic tools
Based on MCP, an open protocol for sharing context with large language models
Introduced as part of the Snyk CLI

🚀 Use Cases

Integrate Snyk into MCP-supporting tools to support security-focused AI answers
Provide additional context for AI responses when the AI system does not have the necessary background

⚡ Developer Benefits

Uses standardized MCP integration to connect AI tools with Snyk platform capabilities
Helps ensure generated responses are grounded in Snyk-provided context

⚠️ Limitations

Details such as specific tools, endpoints, or tool count are not provided in the source data

Snyk Studio MCP

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open protocol that standardizes how applications share context with large language models.

MCP can provide AI systems with additional information needed to generate accurate and relevant responses for use cases where the AI systems do not have the context, by integrating the AI systems with tools and platforms that have specific capabilities.

You can integrate Snyk MCP into MCP-supporting tools to provide Snyk security context.

Snyk is introducing an MCP server as part of the Snyk CLI. This allows MCP-enabled agentic tools to integrate Snyk security scanning capabilities directly, thus bridging the gap between security scanning and AI-assisted workflows.

In environments or applications that use MCP, you can use the snyk mcp CLI command to:

Invoke Snyk scans:
Trigger CLI security scans for code, dependencies, or configurations in your codebase in your current MCP context.

Retrieve results:
Obtain Snyk security findings directly in your MCP-enabled tool or environment.

The Snyk MCP server supports integrating the following Snyk security tools into an AI system:

snyk_sca_scan (Open Source scan)

snyk_code_scan (Code scan)

snyk_iac_scan (IaC scan)

snyk_container_scan (Container scan)

snyk_sbom_scan (SBOM file scan)

snyk_secret_scan (Secret detection scan)

snyk_aibom (Create AIBOM)

snyk_package_health_check (Package health and security assessment)

snyk_trust (Trust a given folder before running a scan)

snyk_auth (authentication)

snyk_logout (logout)

snyk_auth_status (authentication status check)

snyk_version (version information)

Running snyk_sca_scan may execute third-party ecosystem tools (for example, Gradle or Maven) on your machine to fetch the project's dependency tree.

This repository is closed to public contributions.

Install

Configuration

Arguments

-tdefault stdio

Add to VS Code Add to Cursor

claude_desktop_config.json

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "snyk@1.1304.2",
        "mcp",
        "-t",
        "stdio"
      ]
    }
  }
}