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PubNub MCP Server

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PubNub MCP Server runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 449 installs a week from npm. Last commit 22 Jul 2026.

PubNub Model Context Protocol MCP Server for Cursor and Claude

Installs per day peak 188 · avg 73 · +5% w/w
a month agotoday
449
Installs / week
npm · @pubnub/mcp
33
Stars
0 open issues
22 Jul 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
License
TypeScript

What the code does

We read the source, 20 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

Secret passed into the image build Dockerfile:2
ARG AMPLITUDE_API_KEY=""
Dumps the whole environment rollup.config.js:26
        "process.env.AMPLITUDE_API_KEY": JSON.stringify(process.env.AMPLITUDE_API_KEY || ""),

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This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp-server -- npx -y @pubnub/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pubnub/mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp-server]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@pubnub/mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pubnub/mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pubnub/mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: PUBNUB_API_KEY (Your PubNub API Key. Required for all operations related to your account/keyset), PUBNUB_PUBLISH_KEY (Optional PubNub publish key for real-time operations), PUBNUB_SUBSCRIBE_KEY (Optional PubNub subscribe key for real-time operations), PUBNUB_USER_ID (Optional variable that can be provided to change the User ID for the SDK (real-time) operations (default: pubnub-mcp)), PUBNUB_EMAIL ((Deprecated - use API Key instead) Your PubNub account email. Required for all operations related to your account/keyset), PUBNUB_PASSWORD ((Deprecated - use API Key instead) Your PubNub account password. Required for all operations related to your account/keyset). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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PubNub MCP Server — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for PubNub MCP Server?
PubNub MCP Server runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package @pubnub/mcp was installed 449 times last week.
How do I connect PubNub MCP Server?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls @pubnub/mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use PubNub MCP Server?
The npm package @pubnub/mcp was installed 449 times in the last week. Week over week that is +5%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is PubNub MCP Server open source?
We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 33 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.