Lightdash Docs MCP

Connect your AI coding tool to the public Lightdash documentation endpoint to look up concepts, configuration, and troubleshooting guidance while you work. To query your project data instead, connect to the authenticated Lightdash MCP server.

What you can use it for

The Docs MCP helps AI agents:

Understand Lightdash concepts, configuration, and best practices
Generate accurate YAML configurations for metrics and dimensions
Troubleshoot issues using official documentation
Stay up-to-date with the latest Lightdash features

For the best experience building and maintaining your semantic layer, we recommend using agent skills instead. Skills provide more targeted context for AI coding agents and are optimized for code generation tasks.

Setup

The Docs MCP endpoint is available at https://docs.lightdash.com/mcp. Add it to your AI coding tool:

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Add to your .cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lightdash-docs": {
      "url": "https://docs.lightdash.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Run the following command:

claude mcp add --transport http lightdash-docs https://docs.lightdash.com/mcp

Add to your ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lightdash-docs": {
      "serverUrl": "https://docs.lightdash.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Availability

The Docs MCP is available to:

Open source users
Cloud Pro
Cloud Enterprise

No authentication required.

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