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title: "MCP Servers"
sidebarTitle: "MCP Overview"
description: Connect AI assistants to Phoenix — your data and your docs — over the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
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Phoenix speaks [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/), so you can wire assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, and VS Code into Phoenix. There are two things you might want your assistant to do — pick the server that matches, or run both.

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  <Card title="Work with your Phoenix data" icon="database" href="/docs/phoenix/integrations/remote-mcp">
    **Remote MCP Server** — query and operate on your projects, traces, sessions, datasets, experiments, prompts, and annotations. Built into the Phoenix server at `/mcp`; nothing to install.

    **Recommended** · beta
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  <Card title="Search the Phoenix docs" icon="book" href="/docs/phoenix/integrations/docs-mcp">
    **Phoenix Docs MCP** — let your assistant answer questions from the Phoenix documentation in real time. A hosted URL you point your client at.
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The two are complementary. Run the **Docs MCP** alongside the **Remote MCP Server** to give your assistant both your live Phoenix data and the documentation.

<Note>
For most coding-agent workflows, the [`px` CLI](/docs/phoenix/sdk-api-reference/typescript/arizeai-phoenix-cli) is the recommended interface — fetching traces, debugging failures, inspecting experiments, and managing datasets and prompts. Use the MCP servers for ad-hoc data access from your IDE. See [Coding Agents](/docs/phoenix/integrations/developer-tools/coding-agents) for setting them up together.
</Note>

## Older Phoenix versions

If your Phoenix version doesn't yet serve the built-in `/mcp` endpoint, use the [`@arizeai/phoenix-mcp` npm package](/docs/phoenix/integrations/phoenix-mcp-server) — a local stdio server that connects to the same Phoenix data. It's in **maintenance mode**: it still receives bug fixes, but new capabilities land in the Remote MCP Server. Prefer the Remote MCP Server whenever your Phoenix version serves `/mcp`.
