tibuntu/renovate-mcp

renovate-mcp

An MCP server for designing Renovate configurations interactively. Point it at a local repo and let an LLM help you read, validate, preview, and save renovate.json.

Quick start

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tibuntu/renovate-mcp/main/install.sh | bash

Or add this entry manually to your client's mcpServers config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "renovate": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "renovate-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart your client and try the prompt: "List the namespaces available under renovate://presets." A response listing config, docker, npm, … confirms the server is reachable. Long-form install options are under Install below.

What you can do

• Read and explain configs — locate the active renovate.json*, expand every extends preset offline, and trace which preset set each field.
• Discover presets from intent — describe what you want ("automerge patches, group dev deps") and get ranked built-in (and your own local-repo) presets, plus a draft config skeleton when nothing fits.
• Preview custom managers before running Renovate — regex and JSONata, with Renovate's managerFilePatterns glob/regex file selection, file/line hits and extracted dep info.
• Validate and lint — schema validation plus a semantic lint pass for Renovate-specific footguns (unwrapped regexes, unknown manager names, deprecated keys).
• Dry-run against a local checkout or a remote GitHub/GitLab — see exactly which PR