dropins MCP server for storefront development

If you select the AEM Boilerplate Commerce starter kit, the AI coding tools additionally install the @dropins/mcp server and a set of storefront-specific agent skills, alongside the standard commerce-extensibility MCP server and App Builder skills. This applies whether you choose the starter kit through the automated setup (app-setup) or the manual setup (tools-setup) flow.

The dropins MCP server provides structured, authoritative data about every drop-in component extracted directly from the drop-in source repositories. Agent skills use this server as the primary reference for storefront customization tasks, and fallback to the TypeScript definitions in node_modules/@dropins/ when the server is unavailable.

When you select AEM Boilerplate Commerce, the setup process:

• Installs @dropins/mcp globally (npm install -g @dropins/mcp@latest), so the latest version is available immediately.
• Configures your coding agent to run the server with npx --yes @dropins/mcp, so it starts automatically without prompting.

For the list of storefront skills and the dropins MCP tools they use, see Storefront skills.

Updating the dropins MCP server

The server checks npm on startup and prints a warning to stderr if a newer stable version is available. To update manually run the following command:

npm update -g @dropins/mcp