Redis MCP

Redis MCP suits fast operational data: keys, hashes, lists, sets, streams, sorted sets and vector search. The incremental value is structure-aware operations from an agent, but the current official server does not promise Streamable HTTP, so deployment is local or bridged.

Connection / transport

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Authentication

Redis URL, ACL credentials or Entra ID for Azure Managed Redis

Run with a Redis URL through uvx, ideally pinned to a tagged release. Example: `uvx --from redis-mcp-server@latest redis-mcp-server --url redis://localhost:6379/0`. Configure a least-privileged Redis ACL user.

Documented setup example. Review the source and credentials before running; this command was not executed for this article.

{"mcpServers":{"RedisMCPServer":{"command":"uvx","args":["--from","redis-mcp-server@latest","redis-mcp-server","--url","redis://localhost:6379/0"]}}}

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Proposed workflow: inspect a session cache

Suggested evaluation, not an observed test result.

1. Connect a read-only ACL user to a non-production database or key namespace.
2. Ask the agent to summarize key types, TTLs and recent stream entries.
3. Review any proposed cache writes or deletes before switching to a write-capable user.

What to inspect: A bounded cache report with no mutation. No Redis connection or performance test was run.

A bounded cache report with no mutation. No Redis connection or performance test was run.

Keep the task inputs, tool calls, output and any errors together when you evaluate. The trial above is a proposal, not a recorded result.