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ABAP Development Tools for VS Code

SAP'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.

ADT for Eclipse in a second editor, for the ABAP Cloud development model. The extension edits classes, interfaces, dictionary objects, function groups, programs, the CDS object types and the RAP objects, with completion, navigation, hover and a formatter; it debugs across ABAP servers, runs ABAP Unit and ATC, searches and activates objects, works in the ABAP file format and manages transports. It connects over RFC to an on-premise or SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition system and over HTTP to SAP BTP ABAP environment or SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. The AI side is SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities: the ADT MCP Server and predictive code completion, which need an additional licence. Published by SAP SE under the SAP Developer License Agreement; 1.1.2 on the marketplace since 2026-05-29.

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LicenceSAP Developer License Agreement

Where it sits

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Provides
Editor supportABAPEditor supportcapabilityWorking in source code with the editor helping rather than treating it as text — completion, go-to-definition, inline errors, refactoring and preview.Agent access to your codeABAPAgent access to your codecapabilityLetting 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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SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilitiesSAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilitiesartifactthe AI features only: the ADT MCP server and predictive code completion need its licence, the rest of the extension does not

Who is behind it

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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.

SAP API Policy 4.2026a →

What it declares

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Tasks this contributes to1Beta

Agent access to your code1
Generate a RAP business object by prompting an agentA developer describes the travel application they want and an agent creates the RAP objects in the ABAP system, instead of printing source for the developer to paste into the editor.ABAP CloudCovers, under conditionseditor session the agent works inside
What it does

Holds the logged-on ABAP project the server runs against and mounts the system as a virtual workspace filesystem, which is how the agent reads and edits the ABAP files it is generating around. The MCP tools and that filesystem are two halves of one session.

Conditions

A coding agent extension that supports Visual Studio Code's virtual workspace filesystem, which is what lets it call the MCP tools and open the ABAP files at all.; SAP-samples names GitHub Copilot as the primary tested agent; what another agent does with the same filesystem is not stated there.

Remaining work

Adding the project, logging on and keeping the session open are the developer's, and they are the reason this answer exists on one machine rather than in a landscape.

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Parts and add-ons1

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MCP servers1
ADT MCP Serverby SAPSAP'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.
ConsiderationFunctional boundaryThere is nothing to install and nothing to deploy, and equally nothing to run headless: in VS Code it exists only while ADT for VS Code is running with a logged-on ABAP project, so it is a developer's local surface rather than anything a pipeline or a hosted agent can reach. No public repository, so what it exposes is what the documentation says it exposes.

Connections7

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ABAP Development Tools for VS Code connectionsABAP Development Toolsfor VS CodePROVIDES→ provides2provides stated Hosts the [ADT MCP server](artifact:sap-adt-mcp-server) and tools that Joule's agentic mode runs against the connected system, behind the AI-unit licence. ABAP Development Tools for VS Code — Visual Studio Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SAPSE.adt-vscodeAgent access to your codeprovides stated Editing, navigation, debugging, unit tests, ATC, activation and transports for ABAP, CDS and RAP objects in VS Code. ABAP Development Tools for VS Code — Visual Studio Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SAPSE.adt-vscode ABAP Development Tools for VS Code — Visual Studio Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SAPSE.adt-vscodeEditor supportUSED BY← needed by2needed by derived the `sapse.adt-vscode` extension, which ships the `adt-lsc` runtime the library discovers and starts; it is licensed to the installer rather than redistributed with the package Through: inverted from its requires edge arc-mcp/adt-ls — README: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arc-mcp/adt-ls/main/README.md arc-mcp/adt-ls — README: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arc-mcp/adt-ls/main/README.md@arc-mcp/adt-lsneeded by derived the `abap:` filesystem the extension edits in and the ADT session it is logged on with; every command works on objects that extension exposes Through: inverted from its requires edge arc-mcp/arc1-abap-bridge — README: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arc-mcp/arc1-abap-bridge/main/README.mdarc1-abap-bridge← optionally used by1optionally used by derived If: the standalone mode the runtime the server runs on when no IDE is open, and the SSO logon it uses there Through: inverted from its requires edge EPOD ADT MCP Server — README, Standalone mode: https://git.epod.dev/erhan/epod-adt-mcp-updatesiteEPOD ADT MCP ServerifNEEDS→ needs1needs stated 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 ABAP Development Tools for VS Code — Visual Studio Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SAPSE.adt-vscodeSAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AIcapabilitiesLINEAGE← has part1has part derived Through: inverted from its part_of edgeADT MCP Server

Learn more4

Readings
  1. Intelligent App Development at Scale: SAP Fiori Elements + ABAP Development Tools for VS CodeSAP Developers, YouTube — SAP Developers playlists
  2. ABAP Development Tools for VS CodeUenal Akkaya, YouTube — SAP Developers playlists
  3. Agentic Loop with Joule for Developers and ADT MCP ServerSAP Developers, YouTube — SAP Developers playlists
1 more
  1. The Future of ABAP is Here: VS Code ADT, Zero-Config MCP, and AI Co-pilotslpodile, SAP Community

Others providing75

Editor support
  1. abap-adt-apiJS/TS client for the ADT resources of an ABAP systemfrom ABAP
  2. abap2UI5 PlaygroundIn-browser ABAP editor beside the abap2UI5 app it buildsfrom ABAP
  3. abap2UI5 for VS CodeVS Code extension to preview, activate and lint abap2UI5 appsfrom ABAP
  4. vscode-tabl-ddicVS Code syntax highlighting for .tabl.ddic table definitionsfrom ABAP
  5. HammerNative macOS code editor for ABAP and CDSfrom ABAP
  6. cds-eclipse-pluginEclipse plugin for the CDS languagefrom CAP
  7. @arc-mcp/adt-lsTypeScript SDK over SAP's headless adt-ls language serverfrom ABAP
  8. abapthemesThree colour themes for ABAP source in ADT for Eclipsefrom ABAP
  9. SAP Build CodeDevelopment environment on BTP for UI5, Fiori, mobile and CAPfrom BTP/BAIP
  10. SAP Business Application StudioBrowser-based development environment with dev spacesfrom BTP/BAIP
  11. SAP Web IDE Full-StackIDE service on SAP BTP for SAPUI5, Fiori and full-stack appsfrom BTP/BAIP
  12. cds-intellijSAP CDS language support for IntelliJ IDEAfrom CAP
  13. Cloud ALM Link for ADTEclipse plugin linking ABAP transports to SAP Cloud ALM featuresfrom ABAP
  14. ABAP Call HierarchyEclipse plugin showing the call hierarchy of ABAP membersfrom ABAP
  15. abap-call-hierarchyADT backend for the ABAP Call Hierarchy Eclipse pluginfrom ABAP
  16. abap-tags-backendADT backend for the ABAP Tags Eclipse pluginfrom ABAP
  17. ABAP TagsEclipse plugin for tagging ABAP repository objectsfrom ABAP
  18. BellaEclipse plugin bringing Claude into ABAP Development Toolsfrom ABAP
  19. ABAP Syntax HighlightingVS Code syntax highlighting for .abap filesfrom ABAP
  20. abapfs_extensionsABAP objects enabling ADT updates on systems older than 7.51from ABAP
  21. ABAP remote filesystemVS Code extension editing ABAP systems over ADT as a filesystemfrom ABAP
  22. ABAP Development Tools for EclipseSAP's Eclipse plugins for ABAP development over ADTfrom ABAP
  23. @sap/cds-lspLanguage server for CDSfrom CAP
  24. cds-textmate-grammarTextMate grammar for the CDS languagefrom CAP
  25. @sap/ux-cds-odata-language-server-extensionOData annotation features for the @sap/vscode-cds extensionfrom CAP
  26. @sap/vscode-cdsCDS language support for VS Code and Business Application Studiofrom CAP
  27. vscode-ui5-language-assistantVS Code extension for SAPUI5 and OpenUI5 XML views and manifestfrom UI5
  28. @saptools/hana-lensWorkspace-wide CSN cache for querying CAP entities and columnsfrom CAP
  29. @saptools/sqltoolsSQLTools connection from a Cloud Foundry app's HANA bindingfrom BTP/BAIP
  30. zed-cds-extensionCDS language support for the Zed editorfrom CAP
  31. my-ide-actionsCollection of ABAP Development Tools IDE Actionsfrom ABAP
Agent access to your code
  1. @abap2ui5/mcp-serverMCP server for the abap2UI5 check, deploy and run loopfrom ABAP
  2. arc-1-bopf-enharc-1 extension for reading and maintaining BOPF enhancementsfrom ABAP
  3. HammerNative macOS code editor for ABAP and CDSfrom ABAP
  4. arc-1-lspEdition of ARC-1 that runs ADT calls through adt-lsfrom ABAP
  5. arc-1MCP server over the ADT REST API for ABAP objectsfrom ABAP
  6. arc1-abap-bridgeVS Code bridge between arc-1 and ADT for VS Codefrom ABAP
  7. arc1-adt-abap-mcp-extEclipse add-on enabling the ADT MCP server with read-only toolsfrom ABAP
  8. capforgeMCP server scaffolding CAP and CDS checked by cds compilefrom CAP
  9. ABAP Accelerator MCP ServerAWS's ABAP MCP server for Amazon Q Developer and Kirofrom ABAP
  10. Modernization Agents for SAP on AWSAWS agents for ABAP, PI/PO and BW modernisation workfrom ABAP
  11. @mcp-abap-adt/coreABAP ADT MCP server published as an npm scope and pluginfrom ABAP
  12. @cap-js/mcp-serverMCP server for CAP development: model and docs searchfrom CAP
  13. chandrashekhar-mahajan/abap-mcp-serverABAP MCP server with ADT tools and five authentication strategiesfrom ABAP
  14. dassian-adtFork of mcp-abap-abap-adt-api with 25 tools and session recoveryfrom ABAP
  15. erpl-adtC++ binary speaking the ADT REST API as a CLI and MCP serverfrom ABAP
  16. bw-modeling-mcpMCP server for BW/4HANA modelling objectsfrom BTP/BAIP
  17. EPOD ADT MCP ServerMCP server for ABAP on the ADT session, in Eclipse or standalonefrom ABAP
  18. ZARC1_EXTENSION_FORMSarc-1 extension for SAPscript and Smart Forms objectsfrom ABAP
  19. fgalastri/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.from ABAP
  20. fr0ster/mcp-abap-adtABAP MCP server with full CRUD on on-premise and ABAP Cloudfrom ABAP
  21. abapsmithABAP MCP server over ADT with a local journal that can undo writesfrom ABAP
  22. sap-ai-dev-toolkitMCP proxy pinning an agent's ABAP tools to one SAP systemfrom ABAP
  23. aibap.mcpGo MCP server that writes, activates and runs ABAP classes via ADTfrom ABAP
  24. BellaEclipse plugin bringing Claude into ABAP Development Toolsfrom ABAP
  25. Maherd18/sap-mcp-serverPolicy-checked MCP server for ABAP development over ADTfrom ABAP
  26. sapdumpmcpMCP server reading ABAP short dumps over ADTfrom ABAP
  27. ABAP remote filesystemVS Code extension editing ABAP systems over ADT as a filesystemfrom ABAP
  28. mcp-abap-abap-adt-apiWrite-oriented MCP server over abap-adt-apifrom ABAP
  29. mcp-abap-adtRead-oriented MCP server fetching ABAP programs, classes, tablesfrom ABAP
  30. SAP MCP Connection ManagerWindows desktop manager handing SAP connections to assistants over MCPfrom ABAP
  31. ABAPilotMCP connector for ECC and on-premise S/4HANA with a licensed SAP sidefrom ABAP
  32. vibing-steampunkADT-to-MCP bridge in Go reaching past what ADT exposesfrom ABAP
  33. ADT MCP ServerLocal HTTP MCP server started from ABAP Development Tools for VS Codefrom ABAP
  34. SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilitiesSAP's AI for ABAP development in ADT for Eclipse and VS Codefrom ABAP
  35. @sap/mdk-mcp-serverMCP server with five tools for Mobile Development Kit workfrom BTP/BAIP
  36. @sap-ux/fiori-mcp-serverMCP server for creating and editing Fiori applicationsfrom UI5
  37. ABAPDocMCPMCP server turning a transport request into a WRICEF specificationfrom ABAP
  38. claude-sap-kitClaude Code plugin adding Custom_* tools to arc-1from ABAP
  39. Skybuffer AI MCP serverABAP add-on serving business data and transactions as MCP toolsfrom ABAP
  40. @ui5/mcp-serverMCP server for UI5 development with ten toolsfrom UI5
  41. abap-adt-cliCLI that pulls and pushes ABAP packages as local files over ADTfrom ABAP
  42. workskong/mcp-abap-adtLight MCP adapter for ABAP over ADT, documented in Koreanfrom ABAP
  43. KlystronMCP server in ABAP inside the application server, with agent skillsfrom ABAP
  44. pyrfc-mcpMCP server calling RFC-enabled function modules behind an allowlistfrom ABAP
  45. ABAP-AI-CODE-TOOLSabapGit package adding create, modify and delete tools to ABAP AI Codefrom ABAP
  46. ABAP AI CodeAgentic coding assistant in ABAP that runs as an SAP GUI reportfrom ABAP
  47. VERTEXADT extension for Eclipse and VS Code showing three SAP GUI toolsfrom ABAP

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