Planetscale MCP Server
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The PlanetScale MCP server is a hosted MCP server that exposes your PlanetScale organizations, databases, branches, schema, and Insights data to MCP-compatible tools. It's authenticated via OAuth for configurable access to permissions and scopes, and it's accessible from any MCP
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Setting up with Highlight
This MCP is not yet compatible with Highlight’s one-click setup. However, you can still use it with Highlight by following these steps:
- Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
- Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
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Configure the plugin with the settings below
Plugin Name
Planetscale MCP ServerCommand (node, npx, python, etc.)Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
- Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches
From the repository
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Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.
{
"mcpServers": {
"planetscale mcp server": {
"planetscale": {
"command": "pscale",
"args": [
"mcp",
"server"
]
}
}
}
}
McpServers
{
"planetscale": {
"command": "pscale",
"args": [
"mcp",
"server"
]
}
}
PlanetScale CLI 
PlanetScale is more than a database and our CLI is more than a jumble of commands. The pscale command line tool brings branches, deploy requests, and other PlanetScale concepts to your fingertips.

Installation
macOS
pscale is available via a Homebrew Tap, and as downloadable binary from the releases page:
brew install planetscale/tap/pscale
Optional: pscale requires a MySQL 8 Client in your PATH for certain commands. You can install it by running:
brew install mysql-client@8.4
To upgrade to the latest version:
brew upgrade pscale
Linux
pscale is available as downloadable binaries from the releases page. Download the .deb or .rpm from the releases page and install with sudo dpkg -i and sudo rpm -i respectively.
Arch: pscale-cli-bin
Windows
pscale is available via scoop, and as a downloadable binary from the releases page:
scoop bucket add pscale https://github.com/planetscale/scoop-bucket.git
scoop install pscale mysql
To upgrade to the latest version:
scoop update pscale
Manually
Download the pre-compiled binaries from the releases page and copy to the desired location.
Alternatively, you can install bin which works on all macOS, Windows, and Linux platforms:
bin install https://github.com/planetscale/cli
To upgrade to the latest version
bin upgrade pscale
Container images
We provide ready to use Docker container images. To pull the latest image:
docker pull planetscale/pscale:latest
To pull a specific version:
docker pull planetscale/pscale:v0.63.0
If you like to have a shell alias that runs the latest version of pscale from docker whenever you type pscale:
mkdir -p $HOME/.config/planetscale
alias pscale="docker run -e HOME=/tmp -v $HOME/.config/planetscale:/tmp/.config/planetscale --user $(id -u):$(id -g) --rm -it -p 3306:3306/tcp planetscale/pscale:latest"
If you need a more advanced example that works with service tokens and differentiates between commands that need a pseudo terminal or non-interactive mode, have a look at this shell function.
MCP Server Integration
> Deprecated: The CLI-based MCP server (pscale mcp) is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Use the PlanetScale MCP server instead: https://planetscale.com/docs/connect/mcp
GitHub Actions Usage
Use the setup-pscale-action to install and usepscale in GitHub Actions.
- name: Setup pscale
uses: planetscale/setup-pscale-action@v1
- name: Use pscale
env:
PLANETSCALE_SERVICE_TOKEN_ID: ${{ secrets.PLANETSCALE_SERVICE_TOKEN_ID }}
PLANETSCALE_SERVICE_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PLANETSCALE_SERVICE_TOKEN }}
run: |
pscale deploy-request list my-db --org my-org
Local Development
To run a command:
go run cmd/pscale/main.go <command>
Alternatively, you can build pscale:
go build cmd/pscale/main.go
And then use the pscale binary built in cmd/pscale/ for testing:
./cmd/pscale/pscale <command>
Documentation
Please checkout our Documentation page: planetscale.com/docs
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