IDE/CLI quickstart guides

Quickstart guides for setting up the SonarQube MCP Server with your favorite IDE or CLI.

These guides set up a self-hosted MCP server. You run and manage it yourself, locally or in your agent environment. To connect to a hosted server instead, with no infrastructure to manage, see the SonarQube Cloud-hosted or SonarQube Server-hosted pages.

Choose your IDE or CLI for step-by-step setup and workflow instructions:

• Antigravity (Google's multi-surface AI coding platform)
• Claude Code
• Codex CLI
• Cursor
• VS Code
• GitHub Copilot CLI
• GitHub Copilot Cloud Agent
• Kiro
• Devin Desktop
• Zed

Configuration guide

Before you start, review the Prerequisites.

Use the official SonarQube MCP Server configuration generator to get a configuration code snippet for your setup:

1. Identify the target MCP Client.
2. Find your #common-variables.
3. Choose a hosting method.
4. Enter the information into the configuration generator.
5. Paste the generated configuration into your configuration file.

For client-specific manual setup steps, open the guide for your IDE or CLI from the list above.