MCP access to registries in a monorepo

[erikpr1994]

I'm trying to configure the shadcn MCP server within a monorepo using cursor, and although I have configured the registries key in the components.json file correctly, the MCP has only access to the default shadcn registry.

I guess that the MCP is searching for a base components.json file in the root, but as it's a monorepo, the components.json file is within each workspace, and not the root.

Is there any way to solve it to have access to the registry without needing to open only the workspace folder and be able to maintain the entire monorepo opened in cursor?

[orlando]

I had this issue, you can use the workspaceFolder option in the MCP configuration to change the root where it will run the command. It will look the components.json file

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shadcn": {
      "command": "bash",
      "args": ["-c", "cd ${workspaceFolder} && npx -y shadcn@latest mcp"],
    }
}