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SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities
SAP's AI for ABAP development in ADT for Eclipse and VS Code: chat, code completion, explain, test and CDS generation, RAP logic prediction, and since June 2026 an agentic mode over the ADT MCP ServerADT MCP ServerSAP's own ADT MCP server, and not a package: a preference inside ABAP Development Tools for VS Code that starts a local HTTP MCP server on a port you choose.sap official, abap, metered in AI units through the ABAP AI Hub Service on BTP.
The assistant inside the ABAP editor, as opposed to a library the application calls, which is the ABAP AI SDKABAP AI SDKSAP's reuse library for calling a large language model from ABAP code, powered by Intelligent Scenario Lifecycle Management and reaching the models in the Generative AI Hub; delivered with SAP BTP ABAP environment, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public and Private Edition and SAP S/4HANA.sap official, abap. SAP's availability table lists the capabilities per product: chat, documentation chat, predictive code completion, explain, ABAP Unit and CDS test generation for SAP BTP ABAP environment, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and Private Edition from release 2021; OData UI service from scratch and RAP business logic prediction from Private Edition 2025; the custom code migration assistant for Private Edition only and the extensibility assistant for Public Edition only. The re-invented version, offered as a service since 2026-06-12, runs side by side in the ABAP AI Hub Service on BTP, is bought as AI units through SAP for Me and activated in Central Business Configuration, with developer access assigned in Cloud Identity ServicesCloud Identity ServicesIdentity Authentication and Identity Provisioning as one tenant: the login, the user store or the federation to a corporate identity provider, and the provisioning of users into whatever sits behind it.sap official, btp; for on-premise releases SAP points at RISE contract conditions. In VS Code it is the ADT MCP ServerADT MCP ServerSAP's own ADT MCP server, and not a package: a preference inside ABAP Development Tools for VS Code that starts a local HTTP MCP server on a port you choose.sap official, abap and predictive code completion inside ABAP Development Tools for VS CodeABAP Development Tools for VS CodeSAP's ABAP tools in VS Code: editing, debugging, ABAP Unit, ATC and transports for classes, CDS and RAP objects, over RFC to an on-premise or Private Cloud system and HTTP to a cloud one, with Joule's ADT MCP server and code completion behind an AI-unit licence.sap official, abap.
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Agent access to your codeABAPAgent access to your codeLetting a coding agent read the project or the system you actually have, reach its model, its objects and its checks, and act on it. In file-based environments that works out of the box; complex systems need dedicated access capabilities. Whatever the environment, the agent also needs project- and framework-specific context, so it understands the thing in front of it rather than guessing from what it remembers of its training data. The transport is incidental: an MCP server, a language server or a CLI answer the same question, and what differs between them is how much of the real thing the agent can see. Distinct from [MCP servers](capability:mcp-servers), which is a protocol adapter on your own running service, and from [agent guidance](capability:agent-guidance), which is knowledge handed over as files rather than read from the thing itself.
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In the atlas: maintains 137, wrote 14@SAPmaintainer
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Conditions
PolicySAP API Policy 4.2026a§ 1.1, 1.2, 2.2.2from Agent access to your codeAn MCP server calls ADT or another SAP API of a running system for an agent.
- § 1.1 Published APIs. Published APIs are made available for the documented purposes identified by SAP, including integration, extensions and data exchange.
- § 1.2 Non-Published APIs. Customer and third-party applications must not access non-published APIs except where documentation permits it or SAP otherwise authorizes it.
- § 2.2.2 AI call sequences and data extraction. Outside SAP-endorsed architectures, data services or expressly identified pathways, the policy prohibits specified agentic API use and systematic or large-scale extraction.
An agent that plans and executes ADT calls is the case section 2.2.2 names. Check that the endpoints are published for the intended use, and that the design runs within a pathway SAP identifies for it.
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Agent access to your codeAgent access to your codeLetting a coding agent read and act on your project or systemSAP and community, unassessed
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The agentic mode: an [ADT MCP server](artifact:sap-adt-mcp-server) and tools through which an agent in Eclipse or VS Code reads and changes the system, with each request metered in AI units.
“Agentic AI development: ADT Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and tools”“The re-invented SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities including agentic capabilities is now offered as a service across SAP BTP ABAP Environment, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition for releases 2021 and higher.”
Letting a coding agent read and act on your project or system
Technical
ABAP Development Tools for VS CodeABAP Development Tools for VS CodeSAP's ABAP tools in VS Code for editing, debugging, ATC and transportssap official, abap
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used by ABAP Development Tools for VS Code
the AI features only: the [ADT MCP server](artifact:sap-adt-mcp-server) and predictive code completion need its licence, the rest of the extension does not
“Certain features in SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities require purchasing an additional license.”
SAP's ABAP tools in VS Code for editing, debugging, ATC and transports
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Readings
- Agentic Loop with Joule for Developers and ADT MCP ServerAgentic Loop with Joule for Developers and ADT MCP ServerA Devtoberfest 2026 session from SAP's ABAP AI team that generates a RAP issue-tracker application by prompting a coding agent. It covers what SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities now ships as MCP tools and which assistants can reach an ABAP system's virtual filesystem, then does the setup twice: turning on the ADT MCP Server and pasting the Joule side-by-side tenant link in ABAP Development Tools for VS Code, and again in ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse, where the custom agent becomes custom instructions. The demo's subject is the guardrails around the loop — an agent.md of phases and human checkpoints, skill files cloned from a GitHub repository for naming, ATC compliance and UI annotations — run through GitHub Copilot until the generated objects are activated, unit-tested and in a transport.SAP Developers, published 2026-09-28SAP Developers, YouTube — SAP Developers playlists
- News from Custom Code Migration: ECC to SAP S/4HANA Powered by Agentic AINews from Custom Code Migration: ECC to SAP S/4HANA Powered by Agentic AIA Devtoberfest 2026 session (ABA-23) on what SAP has added to the ECC to SAP S/4HANA custom code migration tools, demonstrated across a live ECC and an S/4HANA system. The first half stays deterministic and explains static analysis in that process: the custom code migration app's scoping over ABAP test cockpit findings, an explain of a legacy report and of an S/4HANA simplification finding, and transferable quick fixes exported from the app and applied on the ECC system through the SAP GUI ATC transaction before conversion. The second half runs the S/4HANA custom code migration agent in ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse: GitHub Copilot drives the ADT MCP Server's ATC and quick-fix tools in a loop, SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities produces the AI code proposals behind it, and only the high-confidence ones are written into the code, the rest left as comments in one transport request.published 2026-09-28olgadolinskaja, YouTube — SAP Developers playlists
- Joule for Developers with SAP BTP ABAP Environment-Setup GuideJoule for Developers with SAP BTP ABAP Environment-Setup GuideA step-by-step setup guide for SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities under its Q2 2026 limited-promotion licence: creating a BTP subaccount, adding ABAP environment and HANA compute-unit entitlements, enabling Cloud Foundry, configuring trust to Cloud Identity Services, creating the ABAP environment instance and assigning the developer role, then pointing ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse at the new system. It walks through the resulting Joule chat, predictive code completion, explain, ABAP Unit and CDS test-generation features inside a newly created ABAP Cloud project.YASHLAL, published 2025-09-11YASHLAL, SAP Community
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- Level up app development: ABAP Cloud model innovations and Joule solutionLevel up app development: ABAP Cloud model innovations and Joule solutionThe ABAP RESTful application programming model, in SAP's abstract, generates multi-node business objects and adds event-driven side effects, collaborative draft, background processing and analytical tables, with the SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities add-on used to speed development up. The generated business objects are the transactional model concern; the abstract names each feature and says nothing about how it is used. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Anne Keller, Carine Tchoutouo Djomo, Frank Jentsch and Marina Blank, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Carine Tchoutouo Djomo, SAP TechEd — session catalogue
- Strategy for agent-led development in ABAPStrategy for agent-led development in ABAPSAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities moving ABAP development in ADT from AI-assisted to agent-led, across greenfield work and the migration and modernisation of existing solutions: SAP's strategy session for its ABAP AI add-on. The abstract states the direction and names no feature or release date. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin; also ST124V, virtual), presented by Alexander Rother and Sonja Lienard, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.SAP TechEd — session catalogue
- Agent-led custom code migration: From planning to mass adaptationAgent-led custom code migration: From planning to mass adaptationThe Custom Code Migration Agent in SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities, applied to moving custom code from SAP ERP Central Component to SAP Cloud ERP Private: the abstract describes a toolchain that starts with planning in SAP Cloud ALM and ends in mass remediation by the agent, with newer custom code management features shown alongside. Which findings the agent remediates, and how far it goes without a developer, the abstract does not say. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Marco Matha and Olga Dolinskaja, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.SAP TechEd — session catalogue
- Migrate and modernize your custom code using RISE with SAP and agentic AIMigrate and modernize your custom code using RISE with SAP and agentic AIThe Custom Code Migration Agent in SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities, shown on the RISE with SAP path that moves custom extensions from SAP ERP Central Component to SAP Cloud ERP Private: the abstract says the agent adapts the code through MCP tools and the AI for ABAP features in the custom code tools, and that the adapted code is then reworked along the clean core approach, the concern ABAP Cloud readiness covers. Which MCP tools, and what the clean core step changes in the code, the abstract leaves open. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Hitesh Bindal, Ingo Braeuninger, Jonas Helin of GitHub, Olga Dolinskaja and Thomas Fiedler, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.SAP TechEd — session catalogue
What changed
- vre-invented, with agentic capabilities, 2026-06-12
Before this the capabilities ran per system and per release, under a limited promotion licence. Since June 2026 they run side by side in the ABAP AI Hub Service on BTP, are bought as AI units and reach Private Edition releases from 2021, and an agentic mode over an ADT MCP server joined the assistant features.
Makes stale:Guidance that Joule for Developers is a free promotion tied to a system's own release, or that it has no agentic mode.
Others providing
Compare all 43 on the Agent access to ABAP code page →Agent access to ABAP codeAgent access to your codeLetting a coding agent read the project or the system you actually have, reach its model, its objects and its checks, and act on it. In file-based environments that works out of the box; complex systems need dedicated access capabilities. Whatever the environment, the agent also needs project- and framework-specific context, so it understands the thing in front of it rather than guessing from what it remembers of its training data. The transport is incidental: an MCP server, a language server or a CLI answer the same question, and what differs between them is how much of the real thing the agent can see. Distinct from MCP servers, which is a protocol adapter on your own running service, and from agent guidance, which is knowledge handed over as files rather than read from the thing itself.SAP and community, unassessed
- @abap2ui5/mcp-server@abap2ui5/mcp-serverAn MCP server that puts the abap2UI5 development loop on the machine an agent runs on: check the view the ABAP builds, photograph it, deploy the class into a sandbox, boot the app headless and read the errors.community org, abapMCP server for the abap2UI5 check, deploy and run loop
- arc-1-bopf-enharc-1-bopf-enhAn extension of four tools for arc-1, with an ABAP service behind it, that lets an agent read and maintain classic BOPF enhancements of SAP standard business objects.independent, abaparc-1 extension for reading and maintaining BOPF enhancements
- HammerHammerA native macOS code editor for ABAP and CDS, with an Object Navigator, Transport Organizer, Data Browser and Gateway Client in the same app as the editor.independent, abapNative macOS code editor for ABAP and CDS
- arc-1-lsparc-1-lspAn edition of ARC-1 that hands every ADT interaction to SAP's own embedded adt-ls language server instead of a hand-rolled HTTP client.independent, abapEdition of ARC-1 that runs ADT calls through adt-ls
- arc-1arc-1An MCP server in front of the ADT REST API that runs locally and on Cloud Foundry with twelve tools that read, search, write, activate, lint and transport ABAP objects.independent, abapMCP server over the ADT REST API for ABAP objects
- arc1-abap-bridgearc1-abap-bridgeA VS Code extension between arc-1 and ABAP Development Tools for VS Code, so GitHub Copilot can open an ABAP object by name, diff the inactive version and ask the system whether an edit would be accepted.independent, abapVS Code bridge between arc-1 and ADT for VS Code
- arc1-adt-abap-mcp-extarc1-adt-abap-mcp-extOne JAR in Eclipse's dropins that turns on SAP's own ADT MCP server and adds read-only repository tools beside it — so an AI client reads your system without leaving Eclipse.independent, abapEclipse add-on enabling the ADT MCP server with read-only tools
- ABAP Accelerator MCP ServerABAP Accelerator MCP ServerAWS's ABAP MCP server for Amazon Q Developer and Kiro, deployable locally, in Docker or centrally on ECS Fargate with OAuth principal propagation; its repository is no longer maintained.partner, abapAWS's ABAP MCP server for Amazon Q Developer and Kiro
- Modernization Agents for SAP on AWSModernization Agents for SAP on AWSAWS's suite of agents for SAP modernisation work: custom ABAP converted for S/4HANA, PI/PO interfaces moved to Integration Suite, BW objects moved to SAP Datasphere, deployed into a customer's own AWS account and reached only after registration.partner, abapAWS agents for ABAP, PI/PO and BW modernisation work
- @mcp-abap-adt/core@mcp-abap-adt/coreA descendant of the Andreschak and fr0ster servers rebuilt on its own architecture, published as an npm scope and a Claude Code plugin, with Korean and Japanese documentation beside the English.independent, abapABAP ADT MCP server published as an npm scope and plugin
- chandrashekhar-mahajan/abap-mcp-serverchandrashekhar-mahajan/abap-mcp-serverFifteen ADT tools behind five pluggable authentication strategies — Kerberos/SPNEGO, OAuth 2.0, X.509, browser SSO and basic — for systems where basic auth is not an option.independent, abapABAP MCP server with ADT tools and five authentication strategies
- dassian-adtdassian-adtA fork of mcp-abap-abap-adt-api hardened for use: 25 tools, input validation, error intelligence, MCP elicitation, session recovery and a test suite.independent, abapFork of mcp-abap-abap-adt-api with 25 tools and session recovery
- erpl-adterpl-adtOne C++ binary that speaks the ADT REST API as a CLI and as an MCP server — no Eclipse, no NetWeaver RFC SDK, no JVM — and reaches BW/4HANA modelling as well as ABAP.independent, abapC++ binary speaking the ADT REST API as a CLI and MCP server
- bw-modeling-mcpbw-modeling-mcpReads, creates and modifies BW/4HANA modelling objects through the same internal APIs Eclipse BWMT and the BW/4HANA Cockpit use — and can run centrally on BTP with each caller reaching BW as themselves.independent, btpMCP server for BW/4HANA modelling objects
- EPOD ADT MCP ServerEPOD ADT MCP ServerAn MCP server for ABAP that runs inside ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse on the ADT session of each connected project, with a standalone mode that runs with no IDE open.independent, abapMCP server for ABAP on the ADT session, in Eclipse or standalone
- ZARC1_EXTENSION_FORMSZARC1_EXTENSION_FORMSAn extension of four tools for arc-1, with an ABAP backend behind it, that reaches the classic form objects ADT has no API for: SAPscript layout sets, Smart Styles and the TADIR record of a Smart Form.independent, abaparc-1 extension for SAPscript and Smart Forms objects
- fgalastri/MCP_ABAPfgalastri/MCP_ABAPValidates an ABAP class before it is deployed by converting the global class to a local one and syntax-checking that — plus CDS DDL and table metadata retrieval.independent, abapValidates an ABAP class before it is deployed by converting the global class to a local one and syntax-checking that — plus CDS DDL and table metadata retrieval.
- fr0ster/mcp-abap-adtfr0ster/mcp-abap-adtFull CRUD across on-premise and ABAP Cloud systems, with five authentication methods and three transports: a library under Apache-2.0 and a standalone server under AGPL-3.0-only.independent, abapABAP MCP server with full CRUD on on-premise and ABAP Cloud
- abapsmithabapsmithAn MCP server that lets an LLM develop in ABAP on a live system over ADT, with writes off by default and every mutation recorded in a local journal that can undo it.independent, abapABAP MCP server over ADT with a local journal that can undo writes
- sap-ai-dev-toolkitsap-ai-dev-toolkitAn MCP proxy that pins an agent's ABAP tools to one SAP system: setup reads the BAS destinations or the local SAP GUI landscape and writes one stdio server per system, leaving the credentials in the destination or in the editor's own login prompts.independent, abapMCP proxy pinning an agent's ABAP tools to one SAP system
- aibap.mcpaibap.mcpA Go server that closes the loop: after create, write and activate it can run the class it just wrote through ADT's classrun and hand the console output back.independent, abapGo MCP server that writes, activates and runs ABAP classes via ADT
- BellaBellaAn Eclipse plugin that puts Claude into ABAP Development Tools: explain, generate, rework and implement from the editor's context menu, completion as ghost text, and a chat whose tools reach the system through the developer's existing ADT logon.independent, abapEclipse plugin bringing Claude into ABAP Development Tools
- Maherd18/sap-mcp-serverMaherd18/sap-mcp-serverAn MCP server for ABAP development over the ADT resources: eight tools, each checked against a JSON policy file before the call reaches the system, with activation and transport release held for a person to approve.independent, abapPolicy-checked MCP server for ABAP development over ADT
- sapdumpmcpsapdumpmcpAn MCP server for SAP dumps: it connects to an ABAP system over the ADT resources and lets an MCP client ask a dump for its description and call stack.independent, abapMCP server reading ABAP short dumps over ADT
- ABAP remote filesystemABAP remote filesystemA Visual Studio Code extension that opens an ABAP system over ADT as an editable filesystem and exposes system tools to GitHub Copilot and external MCP clients.independent, abapVS Code extension editing ABAP systems over ADT as a filesystem
- mcp-abap-abap-adt-apimcp-abap-abap-adt-apiThe write half of the same pair: a thin wrapper over Marcello Urbani's abap-adt-api, exposing lock, edit, activate, transport and syntax check for a full development loop.independent, abapWrite-oriented MCP server over abap-adt-api
- mcp-abap-adtmcp-abap-adtThe read-oriented half of a pair of ABAP MCP servers: high-level tools such as GetProgram, GetClass and GetTable that fetch from a system, aimed at understanding it rather than changing it.independent, abapRead-oriented MCP server fetching ABAP programs, classes, tables
- SAP MCP Connection ManagerSAP MCP Connection ManagerA Windows desktop manager that holds SAP connections and hands them to Claude Desktop or Codex through a local MCP server, each connection carrying a policy that decides what the assistant may change and what data it may read.independent, abapWindows desktop manager handing SAP connections to assistants over MCP
- ABAPilotABAPilotAn MIT-licensed MCP connector for ECC and on-premise S/4HANA that reads ABAP source and dictionary context, whose SAP-side half is a licensed product you install in the system.independent, abapMCP connector for ECC and on-premise S/4HANA with a licensed SAP side
- vibing-steampunkvibing-steampunkAn ADT-to-MCP bridge in Go that reaches past what ADT exposes — cluster tables decoded, spool and job logs read as tables, the IMG searched, selection texts written back.independent, abapADT-to-MCP bridge in Go reaching past what ADT exposes
- ADT MCP ServerADT MCP ServerSAP's own ADT MCP server, and not a package: a preference inside ABAP Development Tools for VS Code that starts a local HTTP MCP server on a port you choose.sap official, abapLocal HTTP MCP server started from ABAP Development Tools for VS Code
- ABAP Development Tools for VS CodeABAP Development Tools for VS CodeSAP's ABAP tools in VS Code: editing, debugging, ABAP Unit, ATC and transports for classes, CDS and RAP objects, over RFC to an on-premise or Private Cloud system and HTTP to a cloud one, with Joule's ADT MCP server and code completion behind an AI-unit licence.sap official, abapSAP's ABAP tools in VS Code for editing, debugging, ATC and transports
- ABAPDocMCPABAPDocMCPTurns a transport request into a WRICEF technical specification: reads the transport's objects and source over ADT and writes a structured Markdown document with an object-relationship diagram.independent, abapMCP server turning a transport request into a WRICEF specification
- claude-sap-kitclaude-sap-kitA Claude Code plugin of three skills that extends arc-1 with five Custom_* tools for an on-premise ABAP system: running a report and reading its ALV as JSON, previewing a NAST message as PDF, and reading, writing and replacing SmartForms as XML.independent, abapClaude Code plugin adding Custom_* tools to arc-1
- Skybuffer AI MCP serverSkybuffer AI MCP serverAn ABAP add-on that serves SAP business data, transactions and development context as MCP tools from an ICF node inside SAP ECC and S/4HANA, each call running as the signed-in user under PFCG authorization checks.independent, abapABAP add-on serving business data and transactions as MCP tools
- abap-adt-cliabap-adt-cliPulls an ABAP package to local files over the ADT REST API in parallel, and pushes edited objects back under a transport — bulk sync rather than one object at a time in SE80 or Eclipse.independent, abapCLI that pulls and pushes ABAP packages as local files over ADT
- workskong/mcp-abap-adtworkskong/mcp-abap-adtA deliberately light MCP adapter over ABAP ADT for object search, source, DDIC metadata, a data preview and runtime diagnostics, read-only in practice and documented in Korean.independent, abapLight MCP adapter for ABAP over ADT, documented in Korean
- KlystronKlystronAn MCP server written in ABAP that runs inside the application server behind an ICF service and exposes typed tools for ABAP development, quality, transports, customizing, roles, Basis operations and integration, with a client-side plugin of SAP skills.independent, abapMCP server in ABAP inside the application server, with agent skills
- pyrfc-mcppyrfc-mcpAn MCP server for calling an SAP system's RFC-enabled function modules from an agent, built so that discovering a function does not authorise calling it: a read or a write is denied unless the function name matches an allowlist the server is configured with.independent, abapMCP server calling RFC-enabled function modules behind an allowlist
- ABAP-AI-CODE-TOOLSABAP-AI-CODE-TOOLSAn optional abapGit package that adds create, modify and delete tools to ABAP AI Code, for ABAP programs and classes, with each diff block approved before it is saved.independent, abapabapGit package adding create, modify and delete tools to ABAP AI Code
- ABAP AI CodeABAP AI CodeAn agentic coding assistant written in ABAP that runs as a SAP GUI report and reads, explains and reviews repository objects inside the system, running an LLM's tool calls as ABAP.independent, abapAgentic coding assistant in ABAP that runs as an SAP GUI report
- VERTEXVERTEXAn extension for ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse and VS Code that shows Simple Data Explorer, AVE and ACE in the editor over the developer's ADT connection.independent, abapADT extension for Eclipse and VS Code showing three SAP GUI tools
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