Condense MCP is in beta.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standard way for an AI tool to discover and use the tools that another service offers. Condense MCP is the Condense side of that standard. You may also see an AI tool called an AI assistant or an MCP client.
At a glance
What you can do
See what is running
Get the pipeline in a workspace: its connectors, the connections between them and their resource usage.
Read connector configurations
See how a deployed connector is configured.
Read connector logs
Collect the logs of a deployed connector for a time window you choose.
Deploy connectors
Find out which fields a prebuilt or custom connector needs, then deploy it with the configuration you give.
Check utilization and workloads
Read CPU and node utilization, the status and resource metrics of a deployment, and the details of a job.
Read metrics and alerts
List the metrics available in Prometheus, run a PromQL query, and get the latest Grafana alert.
Ask the documentation
Ask how something works in Condense and get the answer from the Condense documentation.
Find your environments and workspaces
List the environments you connected and the workspaces you can reach in one.
What it does not do
- It cannot change much. Deploying a connector is the only change it can make. It has no tools to restart, scale or delete anything, so do those in Condense Core or Console.
- It has no tools for Kafka topics. Ask about the pipeline, its connectors and their logs instead.
- One connection reads one environment. To use another environment, connect again and choose it.
- It cannot give you more access than you have. Your Condense permissions still apply to everything it does.
Before you connect
You need:- An active Condense account in the organization you want to use.
- Membership of the environment and workspace you want to work with, with the permissions you need there.
- An AI tool that supports remote MCP servers and the OAuth sign-in that Condense uses.
- A browser that can complete the sign-in and the approval.
- To deploy a connector, the connector’s configuration values and a role that lets you deploy in that workspace.
How access is decided
Three things decide what your AI tool can do, and the narrowest one wins.- What you approve. When you connect, you choose one environment and which tools the AI tool may use. You can change this later from the AI Tools page.
- What your administrator allows. An Organization Admin sets the allowed permissions and the operating mode for each environment in AI Governance.
- What your Condense role allows. The AI tool inherits your permissions. It can do nothing in Condense that you could not do yourself.
Next steps
Quickstart
Connect and ask your first question in a few minutes.
Connect your AI tool
Setup for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex and more.
Tool reference
The 17 tools and what each one needs.