Maven Tools MCP

Overview

Maven Tools MCP provides Maven Central dependency intelligence for AI assistants. It reads maven-metadata.xml files directly from Maven Central, providing fast and reliable version lookups.

Type

External (third-party)

Status

Available

Provider

arvindand/maven-tools-mcp

Features

  • Latest version lookups with stability preferences

  • Version existence verification

  • Bulk dependency version checking

  • Version comparison with upgrade recommendations

  • Dependency age analysis (fresh/current/aging/stale)

  • Release pattern analysis and predictions

  • Project health scoring

Available Tools

The Maven Tools MCP exposes tools prefixed with mcpmaven-tools:

get_latest_version

Get newest version of a dependency with stability preferences.

check_version_exists

Verify if a specific version exists.

check_multiple_dependencies

Check latest versions for multiple dependencies (bulk operation).

compare_dependency_versions

Compare current vs latest with upgrade recommendations.

analyze_dependency_age

Classify dependencies as fresh/current/aging/stale.

analyze_release_patterns

Analyze maintenance activity and predict releases.

get_version_timeline

Version timeline with temporal analysis.

analyze_project_health

Comprehensive health analysis for multiple dependencies.

Limitations

Class name search

This MCP does not support finding which artifacts contain a specific class. For class search, use the Maven Central REST API or the mcs CLI tool. See ADR-0007 for details.

Configuration

Maven Tools MCP runs as a Docker container. See Maven Tools MCP Setup for installation instructions.

For the upstream documentation, see the Maven Tools MCP repository.

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