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Feature Request FR-4536
Product Area AI Features
Status CLOSED

4 Voters

MCP Protocol Support for AI Integration in Oracle APEX

oegidio2 Public · Jul 2 2025

Idea Summary
Since Oracle APEX already offers integration with AI services, it would be incredibly valuable to support MCP (Metadata Communication Protocol) features, enabling third-party AI systems to query the database via the MCP protocol. This would enhance interoperability and expand use cases for external AI-driven analytics or assistants.

Use Case
Allowing AI to dynamically explore metadata, query data structures, and interact securely with the APEX-managed database through MCP could significantly streamline development for external platforms or partner ecosystems.

Preferred Solution (Optional)
Oracle APEX could implement support for function-level exposure, allowing developers to explicitly define and expose methods for database access. These methods would be securely accessible through an MCP-compliant server connection, ensuring compatibility with third-party AI clients while maintaining strict control over data interaction.

We reviewed this idea carefully and came to the conclusion that it does not constitute an appropriate APEX feature request.

Known Duplicates

Known duplicates

FR-4767
FR-4767 Support APEX as client for MCP Server / OCI Agent

Comments

Comments

  • cloud OP 6 months ago

    Furthermore , APEX should expose an MCP server , for tools like claude code to be able to make changes to the UI directly via SQL

  • jayson hanes Admin OP 6 months ago

    @cloud this would not be a thing for APEX to expose. It would make sense however for, ORDS/SQLcl

    SQLcl 25.2 is out => https://www.oracle.com/database/sqldeveloper/technologies/sqlcl/download/

  • shibi.ns OP 3 days ago

    @cloud  @jayson hanes 

    Now there are problems sqlcl , I can’t ask an executive to install sqlcl to ask questions neither I can ask Claude (as Claude don’t support oci ai services )   plus etc tool . Now cline kind of support OCA but requires 

    The way i would intend  apex to handle 

    I have mcp server from my db , i may have mcp server  other tools  so using apex agent which is connected to these mcp server i can ask questions . I expose my own tools using chat boot but connecting these tools from other servers

  • jayson hanes Admin OP 3 days ago

    FYI https://blogs.oracle.com/machinelearning/announcing-the-oracle-autonomous-ai-database-mcp-server

    And on the APEX roadmap: https://APEX.oracle.com/sod AI tools will be a great help in this direction!