Connect PhpStorm to TYPO3

Before you start

• AI Foundation is installed and its MCP server is switched on. Our setup episode TYPO3 MCP setup (coming 14 Oct 2026) shows both.
• You have the server URL of your TYPO3: in the backend, open MCP Server > Connect. It ends in /mcp.
• You know which backend user the assistant should act as. It gets that user's rights, so choose one whose rights fit the job.
• JetBrains AI Assistant in PhpStorm, with its MCP support (JetBrains). Node.js on your machine, for the mcp-remote bridge.

Connect PhpStorm

1. PhpStorm connects through AI Foundation's token route for mcp-remote clients. In TYPO3, open MCP Server > Connect, choose Local Bridge, select Create mcp-remote Token and copy the token URL.

   

2. Treat the token URL like a password: it works without a sign-in. Keep it out of Git, screenshots and chats.
3. In PhpStorm, open AI Assistant's MCP settings (JetBrains' help page shows the current path), add a server and paste this JSON configuration, with your token URL in place of the placeholder:

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "typo3": {
         "command": "npx",
         "args": ["mcp-remote", "<your token URL>"]
       }
     }
   }

4. PhpStorm starts the bridge, and AI Assistant can use the tools. The token appears under MCP Server > OAuth Tokens in TYPO3, and Revoke ends it.
5. If JetBrains' help page shows an OAuth sign-in for MCP servers in your version, you can connect with the server URL and OAuth sign-in instead, as in the other guides.

Check the connection

1. Ask a first question that only reads, in your own words, for example: Give me a quick overview of the pages on our website and the languages they exist in.
2. In TYPO3, open MCP Server > OAuth Tokens. The connection is listed with its backend user and when it was last used. Revoke ends this one connection and leaves every other assistant connected.

   

Good to know

• There is no dry run and no undo tool. Ask the assistant to show the current value before a change, check the page after it, and have it write the old value back if needed.
• On Live, a change is live at once, because the assistant works as the backend user who approved it.
• What PhpStorm reads through MCP goes to its vendor, as with any chat.
• AI Foundation's core tools are free. AI Assistant, AI Accessibility, AI Chatbot and AI Search add tools of their own and need their licences.