Maven Tools MCP Server offers robust dependency intelligence for AI assistants, leveraging live Maven Central data. With 11 tools, it covers version checks, upgrade comparisons, and POM-level analysis, making it valuable for developers and agents. It supports multiple image variants (standard, no-Context7, HTTP) and Docker deployment. As a non-official but high-quality open-source project, it provides clear benefits for dependency maintenance and automation.
Maven Tools MCP Server provides MCP-capable clients with practical inspection of JVM dependencies using live Maven Central data. It offers stability filtering, upgrade comparisons, dependency health signals, license data, CVE checks, and optional documentation lookups through Context7. It supports POM-level analysis, resolving effective versions across parent chains, dependency management, and BOM imports without building the project, and produces deterministic upgrade plans. Works for any JVM build tool that relies on Maven Central, including Maven, Gradle, SBT, and Mill.
Add to Claude Desktop config:
{
"mcpServers": {
"maven-tools": {
"command": "docker",
"args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "arvindand/maven-tools-mcp:latest"]
}
}
}
Or create .vscode/mcp.json in VS Code:
{
"servers": {
"maven-tools": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "docker",
"args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "arvindand/maven-tools-mcp:latest"]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"maven-tools": {
"command": "docker",
"args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "arvindand/maven-tools-mcp:latest"]
}
}
}