Agentic integrations - Snyk MCP Server

Release status

Snyk MCP Server is in Early Access and available with all Snyk plans. You can access it through the Snyk CLI.

Agentic workflows

Agentic workflows are changing how we build software. AI assistants now help write code, automate tasks, and speed up development. While this boosts productivity, it is crucial to ensure the code generated by AI is secure. Snyk offers tools to provide these essential security guardrails in agentic workflows, letting you innovate quickly and safely.

The speed of AI development brings new security risks. Like human developers, AI models can generate code with vulnerabilities, use outdated libraries, or suggest insecure practices. Without proper checks, these flaws can slip into your applications, increasing your security risks, or consume unnecessary bandwidth from your developers to address. Snyk helps you prevent this by embedding security directly into your AI-assisted workflows.

Snyk integrates its security expertise into these AI workflows using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP is an open standard that lets AI tools communicate with platforms like Snyk to get necessary context and perform actions. Snyk's MCP server, part of the Snyk CLI, allows AI agents to use Snyk's scanning capabilities directly.

This integration means your AI assistants can autonomously run Snyk scans to identify security risk in your applications. As AI generates or suggests code, it can instantly check with Snyk for vulnerabilities. This brings security checks right into the early stages of AI-powered development, enabling you to catch and resolve issues before they become bigger problems. The Snyk MCP server also enables security-specific workflows, providing a mechanism to remediate existing security issues at scale.

Snyk's MCP support works hand-in-hand with the existing Snyk IDE plugins. While IDE plugins offer real-time feedback to developers as they code, the MCP server extends this security coverage to AI-generated code. This creates a powerful combination, ensuring both human-written and AI-generated code is checked, providing a secure foundation for your AI-driven development

The snyk mcp command is available in Early Access for the following reasons:

• MCP is a new and rapidly evolving standard.

• The snyk mcp command is an early implementation of integrating Snyk security scanning into the MCP-enabled environment.

• Snyk wants to gather feedback on the benefits of MCP as an integration pattern for Snyk security.

Because the snyk mcp command is an Early Access feature, the specific usage, parameters, and output related to this command may evolve as both MCP and this Snyk integration mature in advance of General Availability.

Snyk MCP tools

The Snyk MCP server supports integrating the following Snyk security tools into an AI system:

• snyk_sca_scan (Open Source scan)

• snyk_code_scan (Code scan)

• snyk_iac_scan (IaC scan)

• snyk_container_scan (IaC scan)

• snyk_sbom_scan (SBOM file scan)

• snyk_aibom (Create AIBOM)

• snyk_trust (Trust a given folder before running a scan)

• snyk_auth (authentication)

• snyk_logout (logout)

• snyk_auth_status (authentication status check)

• snyk_version (version information)

Running snyk_sca_scan may execute third-party ecosystem tools (for example, Gradle or Maven) on your machine to fetch the project's dependency tree.

For more details, see the Snyk MCP installation, configuration and startup and Troubleshooting for the Snyk MCP server pages.