Airtable Formula

Formula editor, MCP server, and AI skills for VS Code

Not affiliated with Airtable Inc. This is a community-maintained project.

Experimental — This project is under active development and not intended for production use. APIs, tools, and behavior may change without notice.

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What's In This Repo

This monorepo ships two products from one source tree:

	Product	Install
	Airtable Formula — VS Code extension	Marketplace
	airtable-user-mcp — Standalone MCP server	npx airtable-user-mcp

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Features

VS Code Extension

• Formula Editor — Syntax highlighting, IntelliSense, beautify / minify for .formula files
• MCP Server — One-click MCP registration for multiple IDEs
• AI Skills — Auto-install Airtable-specific skills, rules, and workflows for AI coding assistants
• Airtable Login — Credentials in OS keychain, browser-based auth with auto-refresh
• Dashboard — React webview with Overview, Setup, and Settings tabs

MCP Server (30 Tools)

Manage Airtable bases with capabilities not available through the official REST API:

Category	Tools	Highlights
Schema Read	5	Full schema inspection — bases, tables, fields, views
Field Management	8	Create formula / rollup / lookup / count fields, validate formulas
View Configuration	11	Filters, sorts, grouping, column visibility, row height
Field Metadata	1	Set or update field descriptions
Extension Management	5	Create, install, enable/disable, rename, remove extensions

See the full tool reference in packages/mcp-server/README.md.

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Supported IDEs

The extension auto-configures MCP for all major AI-enabled editors:

Claude Desktop	Claude Code	Cursor	Windsurf	Cline	Amp

Don't use VS Code? Use the standalone MCP server directly:

npx airtable-user-mcp

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Find Us

Registry	Link
VS Code Marketplace	Nskha.airtable-formula
npm	airtable-user-mcp
Open VSX	Nskha.airtable-formula
MCP Registry	io.github.automations-project/airtable-user-mcp
Smithery	smithery.ai
Glama	glama.ai/mcp/servers
PulseMCP	pulsemcp.com
MCP.so	mcp.so

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Requirements

• VS Code ^1.100.0 (or any fork exposing the McpServerDefinitionProvider API)
• Node.js — bundled via the VS Code runtime; no separate install needed
• Google Chrome (or Edge / Chromium) — the Airtable login flow uses Patchright in headless mode. Falls back to msedge on Windows and chromium on Linux. The extension shows an actionable warning if no supported browser is detected.

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Development

This is a pnpm monorepo.

Package	Description
packages/extension	VS Code extension host (TypeScript + tsup)
packages/webview	React dashboard webview (Vite + Tailwind v4)
packages/shared	Shared types and message protocol
packages/mcp-server	airtable-user-mcp — ESM Node MCP server
scripts/	Build tooling (esbuild bundler, dep vendoring)

pnpm install          # install all packages
pnpm build            # build shared → webview → mcp bundle → extension
pnpm package          # build + create airtable-formula-X.Y.Z.vsix
pnpm test             # run all unit tests
pnpm dev              # start webview dev server (browser preview)

How the MCP server is bundled: scripts/bundle-mcp.mjs esbuilds packages/mcp-server/src/ into packages/extension/dist/mcp/. Then scripts/prepare-package-deps.mjs vendors patchright, patchright-core, and otpauth into dist/node_modules/ before vsce package runs. The VSIX is fully self-contained.

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Support This Project

This project is built and maintained with the help of AI coding tools. If you find it useful and want to support continued development (new tools, updates, bug fixes), you can contribute by gifting Claude Code credits — the primary tool used to build this project.

Interested? Open an issue or reach out to discuss feature requests and sponsorship.

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License

MIT