Person
Dr. David A. Kunz
Capabilities
Contributes to
Agent access to your codeCAPAgent 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.Async processingCAPAsync processingDoing work outside the request that triggered it, with a guarantee that it eventually happens — deferred jobs, retries, and periodic work. Distinct from messaging, which is about telling other systems.AttachmentsCAPAttachmentsStoring a file somebody uploaded next to the record it belongs to, and getting it back out — where the bytes actually live, who may read them, and what the UI shows while they are being scanned.Audit loggingCAPAudit loggingRecording who touched personal or sensitive data, in a form an auditor accepts, without hand-writing it in every handler. It is often confused with application logging, which records what the code did rather than who accessed what.Database connectorsCAPDatabase connectorsConnecting an application’s data model and queries to a database, including the differences in supported queries, types and schema management between database implementations. Changing an existing schema belongs to [schema evolution](capability:schema-evolution).DocumentationCAPDocumentationFinding the answer in what has already been written, and writing it where it has not — first-party documentation made searchable by something other than a person scrolling it, including by an agent, and a document of custom code produced from the code itself.Event MeshCAPEvent MeshEmitting and consuming business events across systems through brokers, including subscriptions and mapping application events to broker topics. Work that must survive a request, including deferred processing and retries, belongs to [async processing](capability:async-processing).GraphQLCAPGraphQLServing the same model over GraphQL instead of OData — one endpoint, the client naming the fields it wants, for consumers who expect that shape rather than an OData one.Job schedulingCAPJob schedulingRunning something later, or on a cadence, without keeping a process alive to do it — a nightly job, a retry in an hour, a report on the first of the month — and knowing afterwards whether it ran.LoggingCAPLoggingSeeing what a running service did, in a form something can read afterwards — levels, a formatter that suits a laptop and one that suits a log service.
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@cap-js-community/event-queue@cap-js-community/event-queueTransactional processing of asynchronous and periodic events, with instant dispatch over Redis Pub/Sub and load spread across every application instance.community org, cap
If you need sub-second fan-out to external consumers this is the wrong layer — reach for [Event Mesh](artifact:btp-event-mesh) or Kafka. Without [Redis](external:redis), periodic processing still works but instant dispatch degrades to polling.
Transactional processing of asynchronous and periodic CAP events
@cap-js/advanced-event-mesh@cap-js/advanced-event-meshIntegrates CAP with SAP Integration Suite advanced event mesh.sap official, cap
CAP integration with SAP Integration Suite advanced event mesh
@cap-js/attachments@cap-js/attachmentsAn official CAP Node.js plugin for attachment handling, with local database storage and AWS S3, Azure Blob or GCP Object Store integration.sap official, cap
CAP Node.js attachments with database, S3, Azure or GCP storage
@cap-js/audit-logging@cap-js/audit-loggingIntegration with the SAP Audit Log service, so operations on personal data are recorded in the form an auditor expects without the application writing the entries.sap official, cap
CAP integration with the SAP Audit Log service
@cap-js/cds-dbs@cap-js/cds-dbsThe monorepo behind CAP's SQL database services — the base service, SQLite, PostgreSQL and HANA all live here, which is why they version together.sap official, cap
Monorepo of CAP's SQL database services
@cap-js/db-service@cap-js/db-serviceThe base every CAP database service is built on: the shared query translation and pooling that SQLite, PostgreSQL and HANA specialise rather than reimplement.sap official, cap
Base service shared by CAP's SQLite, PostgreSQL and HANA services
@cap-js/event-broker@cap-js/event-brokerConsumes events from SAP Cloud Application Event Hub.sap official, cap
Consumes events from SAP Cloud Application Event Hub in CAP
@cap-js/graphql@cap-js/graphqlA protocol adapter that generates a GraphQL schema from the model and serves it, so the same services answer GraphQL without a second definition of them.sap official, cap
GraphQL protocol adapter generated from the CDS model
@cap-js/hana@cap-js/hanaThe HANA database service — the production default, on the same streamlined architecture as the SQLite and PostgreSQL services.sap official, cap
SAP HANA database service for CAP
@cap-js/mcp-server@cap-js/mcp-serverSAP's MCP server for CAP development, run as cds-mcp: search_model searches the project's compiled CDS model, search_docs searches the CAP documentation indexed as embeddings on the developer's own machine.sap official, cap
The tools are documented as meant for AI models and not a stable API, so anything built to parse `cds-mcp` output rather than to feed a model can break between releases. Its corpus is the CAP documentation, so Fiori elements, BTP service or ABAP questions are not in what `search_docs` indexes.
MCP server for CAP development: model and docs search
@cap-js/postgres@cap-js/postgresThe PostgreSQL database service — the production option for running CAP off HANA, sharing the base service with the other three.sap official, cap
PostgreSQL database service for CAP
@cap-js/sqlite@cap-js/sqliteThe SQLite service, in memory during the inner loop — which is why a CAP project runs before anyone has provisioned a database.sap official, cap
SQLite database service for CAP, in memory during development
capire/docscapire/docsThe sources of capire itself, in the repository it is built from: the documentation every core_coverage claim in this graph is checked against, so a claim can be dated against a commit.sap official, cap
Sources of capire, the CAP documentation
SAP-samples/cap-service-integration-codejamSAP-samples/cap-service-integration-codejamA CodeJam on integrating and consuming external services from a CAP project over twelve exercises, from importing and mocking an OData service to the SAP Cloud SDK covering connectivity and destinations.sap official, cap
CodeJam on consuming external services from a CAP project
SAP-samples/cap-sflightSAP-samples/cap-sflightA travel-booking reference application built with CAP and SAP Fiori elements, whose same UIs run against a Node.js and a Java backend so the two stacks can be compared directly.sap official, cap
Travel-booking reference app on CAP Node.js and Java backends
SAP-samples/fiori-elements-feature-showcaseSAP-samples/fiori-elements-feature-showcaseA running showcase of SAP Fiori elements for OData V4 features on a CAP backend, each one searchable to the CDS annotation or configuration behind it.sap official, cap
Showcase of Fiori elements for OData V4 features on a CAP backend
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