MCP server overview

The Summand MCP server implements the Model Context Protocol and gives any MCP-aware client access to your Summand connectors, datasets, views, models and their computed-context layer. It’s hosted by Summand at https://mcp.summand.com/mcp and uses the streamable-HTTP transport with OAuth 2.1 authentication. There’s nothing to install — point your client at the URL, sign in, and start asking questions.

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What the server exposes

The server registers 50 tools in five groups: run_query accepts only read-only SELECT statements and returns at most 1,000 rows. Read, query and predict tools work for everyone who connects. The tools that change things or run jobs, except export_pdf, need the Member org role or higher, so members with the Chat role can’t use them. Every delete, share, visibility change, view edit, finding, context edit, training run and ingestion returns a preview first and only runs when you confirm it in the client. See the tools reference for parameters and example outputs.

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Authentication model

Authentication uses OAuth 2.1 bearer tokens issued by Summand’s identity provider. Standard MCP discovery is supported, so clients auto-discover the authorization server on a 401 and register themselves dynamically — no pre-registration required. You’ll typically only need to paste the endpoint URL into your client; everything else happens in the OAuth redirect.

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What’s next