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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 Server, 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 SDK. 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 Services; for on-premise releases SAP points at RISE contract conditions. In VS Code it is the ADT MCP Server and predictive code completion inside ABAP Development Tools for VS Code.

Where it sits

Lives in
Provides
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.

Who is behind it

SAPSAPOrganisationMaintains this
In the atlas: maintains 137, wrote 14
@SAP
maintainer

Before choosing this

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

Every artifact

Type
Service
Origin
By SAP

As a service

Plans
1
Regions
26

Connections2

Learn more7

Readings
  1. Agentic Loop with Joule for Developers and ADT MCP ServerSAP Developers, YouTube — SAP Developers playlists
  2. News from Custom Code Migration: ECC to SAP S/4HANA Powered by Agentic AIolgadolinskaja, YouTube — SAP Developers playlists
  3. Joule for Developers with SAP BTP ABAP Environment-Setup GuideYASHLAL, SAP Community
4 more
  1. Level up app development: ABAP Cloud model innovations and Joule solutionCarine Tchoutouo Djomo, SAP TechEd — session catalogue
  2. Strategy for agent-led development in ABAPSAP TechEd — session catalogue
  3. Agent-led custom code migration: From planning to mass adaptationSAP TechEd — session catalogue
  4. Migrate and modernize your custom code using RISE with SAP and agentic AISAP TechEd — session catalogue
What changed
  1. 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.

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. ABAP Development Tools for VS CodeSAP's ABAP tools in VS Code for editing, debugging, ATC and transportsfrom 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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