MCP server for Azure Cosmos DB using the Go SDK

This is a sample implementation of a MCP server for Cosmos DB built using its Go SDK. mcp-go project has been used as the MCP Go implementation.

This MCP server exposes the following tools for interacting with Azure Cosmos DB:

• List Databases: Retrieve a list of all databases in a Cosmos DB account.
• List Containers: Retrieve a list of all containers in a specific database.
• Read Container Metadata: Fetch metadata or configuration details of a specific container.
• Create Container: Create a new container in a specified database with a defined partition key.
• Add Item to Container: Add a new item to a specified container in a database.
• Read Item: Read a specific item from a container using its ID and partition key.
• Execute Query: Execute a SQL query on a Cosmos DB container with optional partition key scoping.

Here is a demo (recommend watching at 2x speed 😉) using VS Code Insiders in Agent mode:

How to run

git clone https://github.com/abhirockzz/mcp_cosmosdb_go
cd mcp_cosmosdb_go

go build -o mcp_azure_cosmosdb main.go

Configure the MCP server:

mkdir -p .vscode

# Define the content for mcp.json
MCP_JSON_CONTENT=$(cat <<EOF
{
  "servers": {
    "CosmosDB Golang MCP": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "$(pwd)/mcp_azure_cosmosdb"
    }
  }
}
EOF
)

# Write the content to mcp.json
echo "$MCP_JSON_CONTENT" > .vscode/mcp.json

Azure Cosmos DB RBAC permissions and authentication

• The user principal you will be using should have permissions (control and data plane) to execute CRUD operations on database, container, and items.

• Authentication

  • Local credentials - Just login locally using Azure CLI (az login) and the MCP server will use the DefaultAzureCredential implementation automatically.
  • Or, you can set the COSMOSDB_ACCOUNT_KEY environment variable in the MCP server configuration:

  {
    "servers": {
      "CosmosDB Golang MCP": {
        "type": "stdio",
        "command": "/Users/demo/mcp_azure_cosmosdb",
        "env": {
          "COSMOSDB_ACCOUNT_KEY": "enter the key"
        }
      }
    }
  }

You are good to go! Now spin up VS Code Insiders in Agent Mode, or any other MCP tool (like Claude Desktop) and try this out!

Local dev/testing

Start with MCP inspector - npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector ./mcp_azure_cosmosdb