Your team wants everyone working on one repository to get the same MCP server without each person configuring it. Which scope does that, and what makes it reach them?

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Project scope, but the sharing happens through the team account rather than through any committed file.
User scope, because a server registered to your account reaches teammates once they open the same repository.
Project scope, because it writes a file at the project root that you then commit to version control.Correct answer
Project scope, though the shared configuration is kept in the home directory and quietly synchronised between everyone's machines.

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Correct answer: C. Project scope, because it writes a file at the project root that you then commit to version control.

Explanation

The principle — Sharing a server is a version-control act, not an account setting.

Why the key is correct — Project-scoped servers enable team collaboration by storing configurations in a file at your project's root directory, and the documentation's advice is to check that file into version control so everyone on your team gets the same MCP tools and services. The repository is the distribution mechanism.

Why the others are wrong — User scope widens which of your projects see a server, not which people do. No team account distributes servers. And nothing lives in the home directory and synchronises; the file that matters is at the project root.

Remember this — If it is not committed, it is not shared.

Sources — Anthropic's Claude Code MCP reference.

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Primary sourceConnect Claude Code to tools via MCP — Anthropic · accessed 20 Aug 2026
“Project-scoped servers enable team collaboration by storing configurations in a .mcp.json file at your project's root directory.”
Primary sourceConnect Claude Code to tools via MCP — Anthropic · accessed 20 Aug 2026
“Check .mcp.json into version control so everyone on your team gets the same MCP tools and services.”

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Your team wants everyone working on one repository to get the same MCP server without each person configuring it. Which scope does that, and what makes it reach them?

Easyclaude-codemcpscopesteams

Last reviewed 21 Aug 2026

Project scope, but the sharing happens through the team account rather than through any committed file.
User scope, because a server registered to your account reaches teammates once they open the same repository.
Project scope, because it writes a file at the project root that you then commit to version control.Correct answer
Project scope, though the shared configuration is kept in the home directory and quietly synchronised between everyone's machines.

Show answer & explanation

Correct answer: C. Project scope, because it writes a file at the project root that you then commit to version control.

Explanation

The principle — Sharing a server is a version-control act, not an account setting.

Remember this — If it is not committed, it is not shared.

Sources — Anthropic's Claude Code MCP reference.

Sources

Primary sourceConnect Claude Code to tools via MCP — Anthropic · accessed 20 Aug 2026
“Project-scoped servers enable team collaboration by storing configurations in a .mcp.json file at your project's root directory.”
Primary sourceConnect Claude Code to tools via MCP — Anthropic · accessed 20 Aug 2026
“Check .mcp.json into version control so everyone on your team gets the same MCP tools and services.”

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