Creating a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server

You can create MCP servers that provide MCP tools, which allow AI agents to discover and invoke your IBM® App Connect integrations through a standardized protocol.

About this task

You can create two types of MCP servers: MCP servers that expose connector actions as MCP tools and MCP servers that expose REST API operations from a deployed integration runtime as MCP tools. An MCP server that exposes connector actions runs in a dedicated integration runtime that is automatically created with predefined configurations. An MCP server that exposes REST API operations runs in an existing integration runtime where the REST API integration is deployed.