The Firestore managed MCP extension allows users to interact with the Firestore API via natural language commands.
Google and Google Cloud managed MCP servers can be used in your AI applications with enterprise-ready governance, security, and access control.
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In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.
Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.
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Get your administrator to grant you the MCP Tool User role (
roles/mcp.toolUser) on the Google Cloud project. If you created a new project, then you already have the required permissions. -
Ensure your administrator has enabled the Firestore API on the Google Cloud project.
This extension uses Google Application Default Credentials (ADC) to perform authentication. To login with ADC, run the following command in your terminal:
gcloud auth application-default loginFor additional details, see the ADC documentation.
To install the extension, run the following command in your terminal:
gemini extensions install https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/firestoreTo see a complete list of available tools and their schemas, see the Firestore MCP reference.
The following are sample use cases and prompts for the Firestore MCP server:
- "What tools are available for the Firestore MCP server?"
- "Add a document with collection "book" under my Firestore database "my-database" with the Google Cloud project "my-project" with generated book info."
- "Get the information for the book with ID 3VyGFIAPRHUNeuH5h2eb from the book collection."
- "Update the year field of document 3VyGFIAPRHUNeuH5h2eb to 1995."
- "List all books under the book collection."
- "List all collections IDs under the root of the "my-database" Firestore database."
- "Delete the document 3VyGFIAPRHUNeuH5h2eb under the book collection."
- "Create a new Firestore database named 'my-database' in location 'us-central1' with project 'my-project'."
- "List all databases in project 'my-project'."
- "Get details for database 'my-database' in project 'my-project'."
- "Delete database 'my-database' in project 'my-project'."
- "Create a composite index on collection 'books' for fields 'author' and 'year' in project 'my-project' and database 'my-database'."
- "List all indexes in database 'my-database' for project 'my-project'."
- "Delete the index for collection 'books' with fields 'author' and 'year'."
MCP introduces new security risks and considerations due to the wide variety of actions that you can take with MCP tools. To minimize and manage these risks, Google Cloud offers defaults and customizable policies to control the use of MCP tools in your Google Cloud organization or project.
For more information about MCP security and governance, see AI security and safety.
The Firestore MCP server doesn't have its own quotas. There is no limit on the number of call that can be made to the MCP server. You are still subject to the quotas enforced by the APIs called by the MCP server tools.
- Explore the Firestore remote MCP server reference documentation, which includes a list of all available tools, and the full input and output schema for each tool.
- See the Firestore overview.
- Learn about MCP security and governance.