Airtable runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 4 086 installs a week from npm. Last commit 25 Oct 2026.
Read and write access to Airtable database schemas, tables, and records.
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check Airtable every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
Connect this server
This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.
claude mcp add airtable-mcp-server -e 'AIRTABLE_API_KEY=<AIRTABLE_API_KEY>' -- npx -y airtable-mcp-server{
"mcpServers": {
"airtable-mcp-server": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"airtable-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"AIRTABLE_API_KEY": "<AIRTABLE_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.airtable-mcp-server]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "airtable-mcp-server"]
env = { AIRTABLE_API_KEY = "<AIRTABLE_API_KEY>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"airtable-mcp-server": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"airtable-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"AIRTABLE_API_KEY": "<AIRTABLE_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"airtable-mcp-server": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"airtable-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"AIRTABLE_API_KEY": "<AIRTABLE_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Put your own value in place of
<AIRTABLE_API_KEY> (Airtable personal access token (e.g., pat123.abc123). Create at https://airtable.com/create/tokens/new with scopes: schema.bases:read, data.records:read, and optionally schema.bases:write and data.records:write).
The author’s registry entry marks it as required.
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