ArcgisMCP

Useful for

Use cases llm-inferred

Buffer and intersect drainage or utility asset layers held in a project File Geodatabase for a site constraints check · Dissolve and summarise site boundary or catchment layers to produce area and attribute statistics for a planning submission · Trace lineage and downstream steps of GIS processing chains to audit how a consultancy output was derived

Audience llm-inferred

GIS analysts · drainage engineers · civils engineers · environmental consultants

Limitations

Constraints docs-verified

Beta status; AI-written code that may contain bugs and compatibility issues · Requires Windows and a licensed ArcGIS Pro / ArcPy environment; tested mainly on ArcGIS Pro 3.1.5 · HTTP transport has no application-level user authentication and should not be exposed publicly · Copy-edits of complex relational data are rejected · Data paths refer to the machine running the MCP server, not the remote client

Example tool calls docs-verified

{
  "tool": "buffer",
  "arguments": {
    "in_features": "./data/City.gdb/roads",
    "out_features": "./results.gdb/roads_buffer",
    "distance": "100 Meters"
  }
}