Backstage
About
Enables AI systems to interact with Backstage developer portal for listing templates and instantiating new projects through Quarkus-based API communication.
Details
- Author
- iocanel
- Repository
- iocanel/backstage-mcp
- GitHub stars
- 12
- Downloads
- 321
- Categories
- Productivity, Design, Developer Tools, AI, Frontend, Security, API, Other
Jump to
- List available Backstage templates
- Instantiate a template from the command line
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
BackstageCommand (node, npx, python, etc.)jbangArguments-
Argument 1
--quiet -
Argument 2
/home/iocanel/demo/backstage-mcp/target/quarkus-app/quarkus-run.jar
Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
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Argument 1
- Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches
From the repository
You need a Backstage installation with service-to-service authentication enabled and a static token configured. The server is built with Quarkus and runs as a STDIO-based MCP server. Configure your MCP client (e.g., Goose) to execute the Quarkus application (e.g., quarkus-run.jar via jbang).
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Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.
{
"mcpServers": {
"backstage": {
"cwd": null,
"env": {},
"args": [
"--quiet",
"/home/iocanel/demo/backstage-mcp/target/quarkus-app/quarkus-run.jar"
],
"shell": false,
"command": "jbang"
}
}
}Linux
{
"cwd": null,
"env": [],
"args": [
"--quiet",
"/home/iocanel/demo/backstage-mcp/target/quarkus-app/quarkus-run.jar"
],
"shell": false,
"command": "jbang"
}Macos
{
"cwd": null,
"env": [],
"args": [
"--quiet",
"/home/iocanel/demo/backstage-mcp/target/quarkus-app/quarkus-run.jar"
],
"shell": false,
"command": "jbang"
}Windows
{
"cwd": null,
"env": [],
"args": [
"--quiet",
"/home/iocanel/demo/backstage-mcp/target/quarkus-app/quarkus-run.jar"
],
"shell": false,
"command": "jbang"
}Backstage MCP
This is an example of using Backstage with MCP via Quarkus Backstage.
The server has been tested with Goose. See below for details.
Features
- List available Backstage templates
- Instantiate a template from the command line
Requirements
A Backstage installation is required. The installation needs to have enabled Service to Service communication. Users need to have access of the token used for such communication. Theyaml snippet below shows where and how it's setup.
```yaml
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