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Error handlingSAP only
com.sap.cds:cds-services-bomcom.sap.cds:cds-services-bomThe Maven bill of materials for CAP Java, pinning every com.sap.cds module in a release, from the API and core runtime to the Spring Boot starters and the CQN engine, to the same version.sap official, cap
Maven bill of materials pinning CAP Java module versions
GraphQLUnmapped
September 15th: What's New on developers.sap.comSeptember 15th: What's New on developers.sap.comThomas Jung walks through a week of changes aimed at agentic consumption of developers.sap.com itself: the hosted MCP server gains a published .well-known/mcp.json manifest, curated tools (search_tutorials, get_tutorial_step with a Markdown format option, search_channels), and a listing in the ORD catalog beside its OData, REST and GraphQL APIs. It also documents the site's existing A2A endpoint for the first time and ships a way to turn a tutorial into an installable, cryptographically signed AI Skill with a generated verification script, both concrete instances of agent tooling; separately, five broken GraphQL example queries were fixed and the full SDL is now served, and new sitemap.md, llms.txt fixes and ORD entries round out the site's own metadata publishing.published 2026-09-15
Metadata publishingSAP only
com.sap.cds:cds-feature-ordcom.sap.cds:cds-feature-ordGenerates Open Resource Discovery (ORD) documents from a CAP Java application's model, a single entry point that a static metadata catalog or a runtime landscape inspection can read.sap official, cap
Generates Open Resource Discovery documents from a CAP Java model
September 15th: What's New on developers.sap.comSeptember 15th: What's New on developers.sap.comThomas Jung walks through a week of changes aimed at agentic consumption of developers.sap.com itself: the hosted MCP server gains a published .well-known/mcp.json manifest, curated tools (search_tutorials, get_tutorial_step with a Markdown format option, search_channels), and a listing in the ORD catalog beside its OData, REST and GraphQL APIs. It also documents the site's existing A2A endpoint for the first time and ships a way to turn a tutorial into an installable, cryptographically signed AI Skill with a generated verification script, both concrete instances of agent tooling; separately, five broken GraphQL example queries were fixed and the full SDL is now served, and new sitemap.md, llms.txt fixes and ORD entries round out the site's own metadata publishing.published 2026-09-15
ODataSAP and community
@root3287/cap-segw@root3287/cap-segwA CAP build tool that compiles a CDS service into the ABAP Model Provider and Data Provider classes a SAP Gateway SEGW project expects, for OData V4 by default or V2.independent, cap
Compiler from a CDS service to SEGW model and data provider classes
The generated files are copied or deployed into the ABAP system by hand, the fourth step of its own usage list, so nothing keeps an activated service in step with the model it was generated from. Its peer dependency is `@sap/cds` ^9.8, so it does not install into a project on an earlier CAP release.
com.sap.cds:cds-adapter-odata-v2com.sap.cds:cds-adapter-odata-v2The OData V2 protocol adapter for CAP Java, which the runtime serves natively once this beta module is on the classpath, so a V2 frontend keeps working without a change to the CDS model.sap official, cap
OData V2 protocol adapter built into the CAP Java runtime
com.sap.cds:cds-adapter-odata-v4com.sap.cds:cds-adapter-odata-v4The OData V4 protocol adapter for CAP Java, auto-exposing every Application Service in the model at /odata/v4/<Service> without protocol code of its own, active by default in the CDS Maven Archetype.sap official, cap
OData V4 protocol adapter for CAP Java Application Services
AI-assisted full stack development using model context protocol serversAI-assisted full stack development using model context protocol serversMCP servers in Visual Studio Code used to configure, query and change a full-stack application built with CAP, CDS and OData: the agent access to your code concern, a coding assistant reading and changing the project it works in. The abstract names no server, so neither @cap-js/mcp-server nor any other is attached, and it does not say which changes are made. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Sergio Guerrero, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Consume Remote Services in a Full-Stack CAP ApplicationConsume Remote Services in a Full-Stack CAP ApplicationExtending the Developer's Guide application with a remote S/4HANA service — connectivity, importing the Business Partner API, and running against it. SAP publishes this as four separate paths: mock server or real S/4HANA Cloud, times Cloud Foundry or Kyma. One entry covers all four, because the difference between them is which backend and which runtime, not what you learn.SAP
Extend SAP SuccessFactors on SAP BTP with the SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelExtend SAP SuccessFactors on SAP BTP with the SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelTwelve tutorials, about two hours, building a side-by-side extension of SuccessFactors on BTP. The spine is remote services: importing the SuccessFactors OData service definitions into a CAP model, then treating them as entities the extension reads and writes through, rather than as an API called from a handler. Indexed as one entry because the parts only make sense in order.SAP
Pagination and streamingSAP only
com.sap.cds:cds-services-bomcom.sap.cds:cds-services-bomThe Maven bill of materials for CAP Java, pinning every com.sap.cds module in a release, from the API and core runtime to the Spring Boot starters and the CQN engine, to the same version.sap official, cap
Maven bill of materials pinning CAP Java module versions
Serve your application over MCPSAP only
API ManagementAPI ManagementAPI proxies in front of backend services, with security and traffic management policies attached to them, and Developer Hub where consumers subscribe.sap official, btp
API proxies with security and traffic policies and Developer Hub
com.sap.cds:cds-adapter-mcpcom.sap.cds:cds-adapter-mcpThe MCP protocol adapter for CAP Java, serving an @mcp-annotated Application Service as an MCP server with three generated tools, describe, query and call, and data changes only through unbound actions.sap official, cap
MCP adapter turning a CAP Java service into an MCP server
SAP prohibits gateway/proxy use for SAP Application APIs; the Atlas separately excludes CAP wrappers around those APIs from its assessed scope. Data changes require application-defined unbound actions, and the adapter supplies no rate limiting, agent-action audit logging, approval workflows or policy enforcement.
Add MCP capabilities to a CAP serviceAdd MCP capabilities to a CAP serviceA fifteen-minute walkthrough of turning a plain CAP service into an MCP server: annotate the service with @mcp, install @cap-js/mcp, and it is served alongside OData at /mcp/<path>. The part worth reading it for is what happens next — cds watch writes the endpoint into the local agent's own configuration file, so OpenCode or Claude Code can call the service without anyone editing JSON by hand. It is built on the tiny-sample facet, so there is nothing to prepare, and it shows the protocol traffic rather than only the result. Written while the adapter was in beta, and it says so.published 2026-08-13
Agentic CAP: Build MCP servers and enterprise AI agentsAgentic CAP: Build MCP servers and enterprise AI agentsCAP applications become AI agents over the Model Context Protocol and the Agent2Agent protocol, which is the serve your application over MCP concern, and SAP AI Core is the LLM integration through which AI is embedded in a CAP app, with recommendations from the SAP-RPT-1 model as the abstract's example. The abstract names the two protocols and the one model and does not say which packages carry them. A two-hour TechEd 2026 session in a hands-on room (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Daniel Hutzel, Daniel Schlachter, Marc Huber and Sami Lechner, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
API Composition: Seamless Enterprise Data Access for Developers and AI AgentsAPI Composition: Seamless Enterprise Data Access for Developers and AI AgentsAPI Composition (formerly Graph, a capability of API Management) curates business data graphs from existing SAP and non-SAP API providers, so a query can navigate and expand relationships across systems through one composed API rather than hand-written integration code. Palak walks through combining SAP S/4HANA warehouse-stock data with Everstream Analytics risk data into one API, then exposing that composed API as an MCP server so an AI agent calls it with the same semantic context — the scenario behind API Management's MCP servers coverage.published 2026-07-27
CAP in the age of AICAP in the age of AISeven live episodes of Hands-on SAP Dev in which DJ Adams works through CAP's AI features with the people who build them, each one a screen-share against a sample project. The first three are @cap-js/mcp: the @mcp annotation on a service, the describe, query and call tools, CQL as the query format, and what authorisation takes out of the tool list. From episode three the run moves to A2A and @cap-js/agents — human approval of an action, agents.md and skills, session persistence, telemetry and sub-agents — and the last two episodes are vector embeddings in CDS, local on SQLite and native on SAP HANA Cloud.published 2026-08-07
CAP in the age of AI #1 - the MCP adapterCAP in the age of AI #1 - the MCP adapterThe episode that opens the series and the first pass over @cap-js/mcp, with four of the people building it on the call. Two of the adapter's tools are worked through: describe, the one an MCP client reaches for first to get the overview of what it may do, and query, which the panel establishes as read-only. It also writes the server entry into a local agent's own configuration file, which episode three comes back to as auto-wiring.published 2026-08-07
CAP in the age of AI #2 - more on the MCP adapterCAP in the age of AI #2 - more on the MCP adapterWhat the query tool costs in tokens, and the third tool @cap-js/mcp registers. Counted against a model running locally under llama.cpp, the same query is 26 tokens as CQL and 173 as CQN, and the tool definition sent with every system prompt drops from around 5,500 tokens to around 600 — the reason CQL became the default format. The call tool then exposes a service's unbound actions and functions, as one generic tool or, behind a flag, one tool per action with its own description and input schema; a question from the chat about extension points gets the answer that the adapter does the tools, which the panel calls a small subset of the protocol.published 2026-08-14
CAP in the age of AI #3 - from MCP to A2ACAP in the age of AI #3 - from MCP to A2AThe episode that finishes @cap-js/mcp with authorisation and then crosses to agents. @requires and @restrict are the same annotations CAP already has, and the plugin reads them to filter the tool list and the describe output per user and per request, so a model is not told about entities the caller cannot reach — where the OData metadata of the same service lists every exposed entity regardless. The second half annotates a service with @agent from @cap-js/agents, which serves it over A2A with an agent card and a chat preview, runs first against a mocked response and then against SAP AI Core bound with cds bind and a hybrid profile, and reuses the MCP adapter's tools rather than defining new ones.published 2026-08-21
CAP in the age of AI #7 - vector embeddings wrap-upCAP in the age of AI #7 - vector embeddings wrap-upThe same embeddings model taken from SQLite to SAP HANA Cloud, then handed to an agent. Locally it is @cap-js/ai that adds the vector functions SQLite lacks and downloads an all-MiniLM L6v2 ONNX model on first start; on HANA natural language processing has to be switched on, the model name is a mandatory argument, the vectors it returns are 768 dimensions, and dimensions must match on both sides of a comparison. HANA itself can be given SAP AI Core as a remote source for other embedding models, which a CDS.ql expression has to inject because the postfix notation only takes what the CDS model holds, and the hour ends with a search function over cosine similarity exposed over @cap-js/mcp, so an agent asked about low output from solar panels calls semantic search instead of writing the query itself.published 2026-10-16
CAP Node.js Expert Session #6 - The MCP AdapterCAP Node.js Expert Session #6 - The MCP AdapterDaniel Schlachter and DJ Adams add @cap-js/mcp to a bookshop service, inspect its describe, query and action tools, and query the catalogue through an AI agent. The session distinguishes this runtime adapter from the development-time MCP server and demonstrates automatic registration of the running service with a local agent. The recording describes the adapter as beta in July 2026, with read-only queries and writes through unbound actions.
CAP: The Road Ahead - Simplicity in an AI EraCAP: The Road Ahead - Simplicity in an AI EraDevtoberfest 2026 session CAP10, from the head of SAP's Cloud Application Programming Model: forty minutes of live building rather than slides, on the argument that the cheapest code in an AI project is code nobody has to generate. Claude Code builds an invoice-matching workspace from cds init onwards, and each step is one the framework answers rather than the agent: a 42-line domain model that @sap/cds serves as OData and Fiori elements with a status flow, data privacy and change-tracking annotations that produce audit log entries in the console and would reach the SAP Audit Log service once deployed, an imported S/4HANA supplier data product, and semantic matching from a local embedding model after @cap-js/ai is added. The last three steps are annotations: @mcp beside @odata turns the service into an MCP server that a second Claude session queries through @cap-js/mcp, an agent annotation adds the A2A protocol with an agent card and an audit log entry for the agent task, and a skill file gives the agent the matching policy.SAP Developers, published 2026-09-25
Examine the details of the Model Context Protocol on startupExamine the details of the Model Context Protocol on startupWhat the MCP adapter actually does when a CAP server boots, watched rather than described — the companion to the tutorial that switches it on.
Expose S/4HANA Cloud OData API as an MCP Server via CAP Node.jsExpose S/4HANA Cloud OData API as an MCP Server via CAP Node.jsA step-by-step walkthrough that wraps SAP S/4HANA Cloud's Outbound Delivery OData v2 API in a CAP Node.js service and exposes it through @cap-js/mcp, so an MCP client can list the generated tools, query the delivery entities and call a custom createDelivery action over JSON-RPC. The remote S/4HANA connection is configured two ways in package.json: direct Basic Authentication credentials for local hybrid testing, and a named BTP destination for the app once deployed to Cloud Foundry.Jacky_Liu1, published 2026-07-29
Expose S/4HANA Cloud OData API as an MCP Server via CAP Node.jsExpose S/4HANA Cloud OData API as an MCP Server via CAP Node.jsA CAP Node.js service imports the S/4HANA Cloud Outbound Delivery OData v2 API's EDMX metadata with cds import, proxies its reads and a custom createDelivery action against it, and annotates the service @protocol: ['odata-v4', 'mcp'] with @cap-js/mcp's per_action_tool setting on, so the custom action gets its own MCP tool rather than one generic call_action. It tests the result with raw JSON-RPC tools/list and tools/call requests before deploying to SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry Runtime.Jacky Liu, published 2026-07-29
From Dashboard to Conversational AI in Minutes: Adding MCP to an Existing CAP ApplicationFrom Dashboard to Conversational AI in Minutes: Adding MCP to an Existing CAP ApplicationA walkthrough of adding @cap-js/mcp to an existing CAP service behind the SuccessFactors Localization Dashboard: two annotations (@odata, @mcp) expose the service over MCP beside its existing OData endpoint, and doc comments added to the 18 entities and their fields are surfaced through the describe tool so a querying model gets business context instead of bare field names. During local development cds watch auto-registers the endpoint in ~/.claude.json, and the author connects the same endpoint to Joule Work Desktop as an MCP connector so users can ask coverage questions in natural language.i533678, published 2026-08-24
From SAP Sales and Service Cloud V2 APIs to AI: Building an MCP Server with CAP Node.jsFrom SAP Sales and Service Cloud V2 APIs to AI: Building an MCP Server with CAP Node.jsA step-by-step CAP Node.js walkthrough that wraps the SAP Sales Cloud V2 Case API as a remote service, then exposes the resulting service over both OData V4 and MCP through a single @protocol: ['odata-v4', 'mcp'] annotation together with @cap-js/mcp's per_action_tool setting. Each CDS action — listCases, getCaseById, createCase, patchCase — becomes its own MCP tool served at /mcp/caseservices, discoverable through tools/list and invoked from a natural-language request.pvsbprasad, published 2026-08-31
MCP Servers are the New Z-TablesMCP Servers are the New Z-TablesA single CAP service exposed as three overlapping MCP servers tools, queried by the same prompt nineteen times, returned the same tool every time — evidence, the author argues, that tool selection rests on the resemblance between a prompt and a tool's description rather than on any binding a where-used list could enumerate before retiring it. It contrasts that setup with @cap-js/mcp, which exposes a whole service as three generic tools instead of one per operation, and quotes the adapter's own beta documentation admitting no rate limiting, audit logging, input validation or approval workflow, and no use as a gateway to SAP Application APIs. From there it names four small Tool governance practices it has adopted: an owner recorded in the tool's own metadata, logging every invocation, deprecating inside the description, and exposing fewer tools.published 2026-08-21
Model Context Protocol Adapter — CAP guideModel Context Protocol Adapter — CAP guideDocuments @cap-js/mcp and com.sap.cds:cds-adapter-mcp, service annotations, generated describe/query/call tools and local client setup. The guide records Java doc-comment configuration, unbound-action-based data changes, incomplete XSUAA PKCE support and the adapter’s governance boundaries.
SAP Meets the Agentic Web: CAP MCP - UI5 WebMCPSAP Meets the Agentic Web: CAP MCP - UI5 WebMCPA Devtoberfest 2026 session (CAP-42) that puts MCP and WebMCP side by side: MCP exposes a backend to an agent, WebMCP exposes the tools of a web page to whatever agent arrives at it, and only Chrome behind a flag and Cloudflare's Kite browser support the second one today. The CAP half starts with two agents scraping a Fiori elements app with Playwright and browser dev tools, then annotates the catalogue service with the MCP protocol through @cap-js/mcp, after which the agent calls the generated describe tool instead of parsing pages. The UI5 half registers a search-authors tool on the browser's model context API inside the same app, with the cross-origin isolation header the API requires, and lists it through the WebMCP Chrome extension — the agent run against it ends on an exhausted Gemini key rather than a result.published 2026-10-16
Third-Party MCP Server Access to SAP Solutions on BTPThird-Party MCP Server Access to SAP Solutions on BTPDescribes external MCP servers and custom servers on BTP, assigning their operators responsibility for authentication, scoped identity, API limits, logging and lifecycle. The permitted use remains conditional on the SAP API Policy, while SAP Integration Suite and Joule Studio are described as SAP-provided paths. Hosting a server on BTP does not automatically supply its governance controls.Dhawal Joshi, Harut Ter-Minasyan, Mirko Günther
What's in Daniel Hutzel's brain?What's in Daniel Hutzel's brain?A Devtoberfest 2026 session in the building-apps track, in which Daniel Hutzel and DJ Adams work through what the CAP team is building for agents. A bookshop gets an MCP endpoint beside its OData one from a single annotation, with the plugin writing the coding agent's configuration itself; in the xt-travels sample five services that know nothing about each other are served over MCP and an agent does the orchestration the hand-built UI and its value helps used to do. Hutzel then annotates a service as an agent so the ReAct loop and the choice of model move into the CAP service, and finally drops MCP for a skill that teaches the agent CQL instead, which is where the edges to Serve your application over MCP, Agent tooling and Agent guidance come from. The mechanism under all of it, a plugin file in the package root and event handlers that can be added to any CAP service, is the edge to Plugin authoring.published 2026-10-02
WebSocketUnmapped
From Inbox to Quotation: An AI-Assisted Sales Workbench in React on SAP CAPFrom Inbox to Quotation: An AI-Assisted Sales Workbench in React on SAP CAPA Devtoberfest 2026 session walking live through a sales workbench that turns an incoming customer e-mail into a quotation in S/4HANA, built as a React UI on CAP. It shows the filterable request inbox, the extracted configuration properties with a confidence indicator per characteristic, the variant configurator rendered in React from a JSON schema the configuration service returns, and the link from a derived value back to the place in the e-mail it was read from; the stated reason for the stack is that CAP keeps authentication, destinations and deployment the same in every project, which is where frontend boundary holds. The inbox grows while a user works because a CAP WebSocket plugin pushes new requests into the list — WebSocket.SAP Developers, published 2026-10-09
AttachmentsSAP only
com.sap.cds:cds-feature-attachmentscom.sap.cds:cds-feature-attachmentsA CAP Java attachments package that adds an Attachments aspect and stores content in the database by default, or in AWS, Azure or Google Object Store through a separate module.sap official, cap
CAP Java attachments with database storage and an Object Store module
For deployed environments, the [README](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cap-java/cds-feature-attachments/302f61c8bb76a0f54f43482ad91d89bf7dc5540f/README.md) excludes the cds-feature-attachments-fs file-system target, which is intended only for local development and testing.
com.sap.cds:sdmcom.sap.cds:sdmA CAP Java plugin that stores attachments in an SAP Document Management repository through an Attachments aspect, with draft handling and direct creation on active entities; versioned repositories are excluded.sap official, cap
CAP Java plugin for attachments in SAP Document Management
If document versions are required, the [documented restrictions](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cap-java/sdm/673769f24ef66fd97daa6a6be41262d45065d3fe/README.md) exclude versioned repositories.
SAP Document Management service, integration optionSAP Document Management service, integration optionA BTP service of APIs and a reusable UI5 component for adding document management, with folders, versions and status, to a business application over SAP's repository or a CMIS-compliant one.sap official, btp
APIs and a UI5 component for document management in apps
CAP Foundry: Engineering SAP CAP Applications from Business Intent with Guardrailed AICAP Foundry: Engineering SAP CAP Applications from Business Intent with Guardrailed AICAP Foundry is a prototype that generates a CAP Node.js project with SAP Fiori elements from a written business requirement, discovering the actual data shape from a chosen source — SQLite, a configured SAP HANA HDI container, offline EDMX, live OData through the SAP Destination service, or approved SAP BTP ABAP objects — instead of inventing one. The generated application can carry a Fiori draft lifecycle with optimistic concurrency via ETags and annotation-driven Fiori elements list and object screens, localized independently of the underlying service contract. Attachments can be added with upload, download and delete, gated on a malware-scan status, and the generated project still has to compile, build and pass its generated tests before the run is accepted.Shahid, published 2026-08-20
CachingUnmapped
Redis on SAP BTP, hyperscaler optionRedis on SAP BTP, hyperscaler optionA managed Redis from the underlying hyperscaler, consumed through a BTP service binding rather than run yourself.sap official, btp
Managed Redis from the hyperscaler via a BTP service binding
Concurrency controlSAP only
com.sap.cds:cds-services-bomcom.sap.cds:cds-services-bomThe Maven bill of materials for CAP Java, pinning every com.sap.cds module in a release, from the API and core runtime to the Spring Boot starters and the CQN engine, to the same version.sap official, cap
Maven bill of materials pinning CAP Java module versions
Data federationUnmapped
CAP-level Data FederationCAP-level Data FederationA Devtoberfest 2026 session (CAP-31) on letting one CAP application read another's data as if it were local. The modelling half is the same for both answers, which is why the two technical edges hold: the provider defines an API service and exports it with CDS export as an npm package carrying the model, mock data and translated texts, the consumer imports it and puts consumption views on top, and only then is it wired either as service-level replication that copies the rows into local tables each time the server starts, or over the SAP HANA synonyms that cds-federation-synonyms generates, with HDI grants on the provider side and a service replacement that redirects each synonym from its mock table to the provider's container. It is worked through on xflights and xtravels, including the local run where CDS watch mocks the imported service from the CSV files inside the package.SAP Developers, published 2026-10-02
Data modellingSAP only
com.sap.cds:cds-services-bomcom.sap.cds:cds-services-bomThe Maven bill of materials for CAP Java, pinning every com.sap.cds module in a release, from the API and core runtime to the Spring Boot starters and the CQN engine, to the same version.sap official, cap
Maven bill of materials pinning CAP Java module versions
xflights-javaxflights-javaThe Java twin of capire/xflights: a CAP Java service managing Airlines, Airports and Flights master data, with its client package xflights-data pulled into a consuming app through Maven.sap official, cap
CAP Java reuse package for Airlines, Airports and Flights data
Analyze and optimize ABAP Cloud model apps built on core data servicesAnalyze and optimize ABAP Cloud model apps built on core data servicesPerformance anti-patterns in data models built with ABAP CDS under ABAP Cloud applications, and the tools that find them: the abstract names ABAP cross trace, the SQL analyzer (PlanViz) in Visual Studio Code and the SAP HANA database explorer as what the session uses to follow a bottleneck from the application to the database. The anti-patterns are taken from real business applications, which is where the data modelling edge holds; which ones are shown is not in the abstract. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Ingo Braeuninger, Robert Werlich, Steffen Siegmund and Thomas Fiedler, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Learn how to define constraints declaratively in your CDS modelLearn how to define constraints declaratively in your CDS modelConstraints expressed in the model rather than checked in a handler — the distinction the atlas draws between input validation the framework enforces and validation somebody writes.SAP
Database connectorsSAP only
@sap/hana-client@sap/hana-clientSAP's own Node.js driver for SAP HANA: connect, run SQL and prepared statements, synchronously, through callbacks or as promises, over native client libraries npm installs per platform.sap official, btp
SAP's Node.js driver for SAP HANA
com.sap.cds:cds-feature-hanacom.sap.cds:cds-feature-hanaThe CAP Java feature that wires a Maven application to SAP HANA Cloud, the production default among CAP's supported databases.sap official, cap
SAP HANA Cloud datasource for CAP Java applications
com.sap.cds:cds-feature-jdbccom.sap.cds:cds-feature-jdbcConnects the CAP Java runtime to JDBC databases through the CDS4j JDBC runtime: H2 and SQLite, which capire names for local development and CI tests rather than enterprise use.sap official, cap
JDBC runtime for H2 and SQLite in CAP Java
com.sap.cds:cds-feature-postgresqlcom.sap.cds:cds-feature-postgresqlThe CAP Java feature that wires a Maven application to PostgreSQL as its datasource beside SAP HANA, with limitations capire lists: schema evolution first, and no multitenancy or extensibility yet.sap official, cap
PostgreSQL datasource for CAP Java applications
com.sap.cds:cds-services-bomcom.sap.cds:cds-services-bomThe Maven bill of materials for CAP Java, pinning every com.sap.cds module in a release, from the API and core runtime to the Spring Boot starters and the CQN engine, to the same version.sap official, cap
Maven bill of materials pinning CAP Java module versions
PostgreSQL on SAP BTP, hyperscaler optionPostgreSQL on SAP BTP, hyperscaler optionA managed PostgreSQL from the underlying hyperscaler — AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or Alicloud — consumed through a BTP service binding.sap official, btp
Managed PostgreSQL from the hyperscaler via a BTP service binding
SAP HANASAP HANASAP’s relational database platform, which stores application data and executes SQL and SQLScript in the database, available on-premise and as the managed service SAP HANA Cloud.sap official, btp
SAP's relational database platform, on-premise and in HANA Cloud
For provisioning a managed database on BTP, see [SAP HANA Cloud](artifact:btp-hana-cloud). Features differ between HANA versions; an on-premise deployment and a cloud instance are not interchangeable without compatibility checks.
SAP HANA CloudSAP HANA CloudThe managed database under most of this: CAP's default target, the store Datasphere and Analytics Cloud sit on, and a service with plans and components.sap official, btp
Managed SAP HANA database service on BTP
Provisioned per plan and per component, so capacity and cost are decisions taken before any model exists. And it is the database, not a warehouse — modelling, loading and cataloguing are the products above it, and reaching it directly bypasses every semantic they add.
Agentic memory: Knowledge graph engine and recall in SAP HANA CloudAgentic memory: Knowledge graph engine and recall in SAP HANA CloudThe knowledge graph engine in SAP HANA Cloud as an agent's memory: what the engine, the graph side of graph, spatial and document data, does in an agentic workflow, how an agent keeps what it learns there, the state agent tooling holds between turns, and the SAP AI Core integration through which the database calls LLMs and tabular foundation models such as SAP-RPT-1. The abstract names the engine, the memory role and the AI Core link and does not say how the memory is written or read. DA263 on Wednesday 28 October is a two-hour hands-on on the same engine with a different cast. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Markus Fath and Shraddha Shetty, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Analyze and optimize ABAP Cloud model apps built on core data servicesAnalyze and optimize ABAP Cloud model apps built on core data servicesPerformance anti-patterns in data models built with ABAP CDS under ABAP Cloud applications, and the tools that find them: the abstract names ABAP cross trace, the SQL analyzer (PlanViz) in Visual Studio Code and the SAP HANA database explorer as what the session uses to follow a bottleneck from the application to the database. The anti-patterns are taken from real business applications, which is where the data modelling edge holds; which ones are shown is not in the abstract. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Ingo Braeuninger, Robert Werlich, Steffen Siegmund and Thomas Fiedler, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Bridging Python and SAP HANA: Inside the sqlalchemy-hana Open-Source DialectBridging Python and SAP HANA: Inside the sqlalchemy-hana Open-Source DialectA Devtoberfest 2026 data-track session (DAT-21) in which one of the maintainers of sqlalchemy-hana, the open-source SQLAlchemy dialect published in SAP's GitHub organisation, opens up what sits between Python and SAP HANA. It walks the five dialect classes that render statements, types, DDL, identifiers and sequences, and the HANA specifics they absorb: the FROM DUMMY a bare SELECT needs, a limit injected when only an offset is given, string compiled to NVARCHAR, and quoted case-sensitive identifiers against Python's lowercase. The rest covers schema migrations with Alembic on HANA's transactional DDL, the recently added async support and vector types, and that HANA Cloud and HANA 2 are supported while HANA 1 is not.SAP Developers, published 2026-09-29
Bring "developers.sap.com" Into Your Dev Environment: SAP Developer Context for AI Coding AgentsBring "developers.sap.com" Into Your Dev Environment: SAP Developer Context for AI Coding AgentsDevtoberfest 2026 session FA-11: a tour of the rebuilt developers.sap.com by the team that runs it, from the administration screens behind the home page to the agent interfaces in front of it. The site is a CAP application on SAP HANA Cloud and SAP BTP, open-sourced in full, and the half of the session that places it here is how its content reaches an agent: every tutorial is also served as markdown, a coding agent is detected and given that version instead of the HTML, a well-known agent card advertises what the site offers, and SAP Developers MCP answers questions about tutorials, news and a reader's own completion history in Claude Code and Joule Desktop, over OAuth or a personal access token. Behind the answers sit two things working together: a knowledge graph in the HANA database over 1400 tutorials and 11,000 concepts, and SAP AI Core for the Joule interactions and the embeddings, with the agent harness written for the site rather than taken off a shelf. Where neither MCP nor A2A is available, the same content is published as skills.SAP Developers, published 2026-09-25
Build AI agents and applications natively on SAP HANA CloudBuild AI agents and applications natively on SAP HANA CloudSAP HANA Cloud as the base for agentic applications on SAP Business AI Platform: the session goes through CAP, the SAP HANA Cloud vector engine and SAP AI Core, with architecture patterns and lessons learned from building AI-supported applications. SAP's abstract names the three parts of that stack and the vector engine as the database's feature in it, and describes none of the patterns. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin; also DA113V, virtual), presented by Christoph Morgen and Shraddha Shetty, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Build your custom knowledge layer with SAP HANA CloudBuild your custom knowledge layer with SAP HANA CloudSAP HANA Cloud's multi-model engines, the knowledge graph engine among them, as the base for a custom knowledge layer over the enterprise's data, with SAP Business Data Cloud as the product that includes the database. Graph, spatial and document data put to an AI use; the abstract names the graph engine and not the query language or the vector side. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin; also ST108V, virtual), presented by Niklas Siemer and Sebastian Schmidt, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Building agentic applications with SAP HANA CloudBuilding agentic applications with SAP HANA CloudA CAP application extended with semantic search and agent features on top of SAP HANA Cloud's vector engine and SAP AI Core, built in a hands-on workshop. The abstract names the parts, CAP, the vector engine and AI Core, and the two additions: semantic search, the retrieval half of retrieval-augmented generation, and LLM-supported agent capabilities inside the application, which is agent tooling. Which embedding model, which CAP runtime and how the agent calls its tools are not stated. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Hui Li, Ritty Joseph, Shraddha Shetty and Tanuja Jadhav, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Building an SAP BTP Agent Architecture from Scratch: Python + CAP + HANABuilding an SAP BTP Agent Architecture from Scratch: Python + CAP + HANAA first-person build log of a Flask orchestrator on Cloud Foundry that reduces a question to keywords, searches a Node.js service's Documents entity, and passes what it finds to Claude for a grounded answer. Getting there means learning that HANA's fuzzy .search() matches one word but not a full sentence, fixed by splitting the query into terms and merging the per-term hits, and that provisioning SAP HANA Cloud hits a database-level free-tier quota rather than an HDI-container one, with a stopped instance needing to be resumed first. It also covers @sap/cds-dk needing to sit in dependencies rather than devDependencies, since Cloud Foundry's buildpack skips the latter, before cds deploy --to hana can run as part of the push.neilaspin, published 2026-07-28
Building your knowledge graph on SAP HANA CloudBuilding your knowledge graph on SAP HANA CloudDevtoberfest 2026 session DAT-11, in which two enterprise architects explain what a knowledge graph is and then build one on SAP HANA Cloud. The first half sets the join across three relational tables against an ontology of classes and predicates, the subject-predicate-object triple written as a turtle file, and a SPARQL query over it, and argues that the chain of relationships is what makes a recommendation traceable back to its reasons. The demo, taken from a Discovery Center mission, curates the ontology and the RDF files for an accounts receivable scenario in VS Code, ingests the triples into HANA Cloud with SQL and walks the resulting graph outward from a customer; that is the graph, spatial and document data edge. It closes by separating three things that share the name: the HANA Cloud knowledge graph engine, SAP Knowledge Graph as the data, and the knowledge graph in SAP Business Data Cloud.SAP Developers, published 2026-09-22
CAP Foundry: Engineering SAP CAP Applications from Business Intent with Guardrailed AICAP Foundry: Engineering SAP CAP Applications from Business Intent with Guardrailed AICAP Foundry is a prototype that generates a CAP Node.js project with SAP Fiori elements from a written business requirement, discovering the actual data shape from a chosen source — SQLite, a configured SAP HANA HDI container, offline EDMX, live OData through the SAP Destination service, or approved SAP BTP ABAP objects — instead of inventing one. The generated application can carry a Fiori draft lifecycle with optimistic concurrency via ETags and annotation-driven Fiori elements list and object screens, localized independently of the underlying service contract. Attachments can be added with upload, download and delete, gated on a malware-scan status, and the generated project still has to compile, build and pass its generated tests before the run is accepted.Shahid, published 2026-08-20
CAP in the age of AI #6 - vector embeddingsCAP in the age of AI #6 - vector embeddingsVector embeddings put to work in the incident management sample, answering whether this problem has been seen before. An embedding element of type Vector is calculated and stored from the vector_embedding function, so the database refreshes it whenever the text behind it changes, and cosine_similarity compares it with a freshly embedded string; because a title says little, a scheduled action first summarises each incident's conversation through a model on SAP AI Core and the embedding is taken from that summary. The similar-incidents list is a view joining incidents to themselves, with order and limit set in a before handler on the expanded query, and the vector element excluded from the service, since OData knows nothing about vectors — on SAP HANA Cloud the function is native, while SQLite needs packages added to the project.published 2026-10-09
CAP in the age of AI #7 - vector embeddings wrap-upCAP in the age of AI #7 - vector embeddings wrap-upThe same embeddings model taken from SQLite to SAP HANA Cloud, then handed to an agent. Locally it is @cap-js/ai that adds the vector functions SQLite lacks and downloads an all-MiniLM L6v2 ONNX model on first start; on HANA natural language processing has to be switched on, the model name is a mandatory argument, the vectors it returns are 768 dimensions, and dimensions must match on both sides of a comparison. HANA itself can be given SAP AI Core as a remote source for other embedding models, which a CDS.ql expression has to inject because the postfix notation only takes what the CDS model holds, and the hour ends with a search function over cosine similarity exposed over @cap-js/mcp, so an agent asked about low output from solar panels calls semantic search instead of writing the query itself.published 2026-10-16
Combining AI Agents with the power of SAP HANA embedded ML (part 1)Combining AI Agents with the power of SAP HANA embedded ML (part 1)Devtoberfest 2026 session DAT-12, the first of two parts, in which Vitaliy Rudnytskiy does a data scientist's work against the embedded machine learning of SAP HANA Cloud by talking to an agent. The session first takes an agent apart into its LLM, its tools, its memory and the loop between them, then stacks the Predictive Analysis Library under the hana-ml Python wrapper and that under the HANA AI toolkit, whose tools an agent calls from plain English in a notebook to preview a sales refunds table, split it into train and predict tables, run a time-series check and train an AutoML forecast, keeping what it decided in Markdown memory files. That is the agent tooling edge; the same toolkit is then started as an MCP server over stdio and over streamable HTTP and reached from a coding agent and from Joule Work's desktop, which is where the live demo partly fails and the failure is shown.published 2026-09-22
Connect SAP CAP (Node.js) to On-Premise/Private PostgreSQL using SAP Cloud ConnectorConnect SAP CAP (Node.js) to On-Premise/Private PostgreSQL using SAP Cloud ConnectorAn end-to-end route from a CAP Node.js application on Cloud Foundry to a PostgreSQL database that is never made publicly reachable, over BTP Connectivity and the Cloud Connector using a TCP destination and SOCKS5. The part worth having is that it covers the deployer as well as the server: the generated PostgreSQL deployer has to reach the same private database to deploy the CDS model, and a guide that only connects the runtime leaves you with a schema you cannot install.Kalaikovan, published 2026-08-07
Connect SAP CAP (Node.js) to On-Premise/Private PostgreSQL using SAP Cloud Connector
Database connectors changed in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects A recipe.
Flexible analytics at speed: Calculation views in SAP Business Data CloudFlexible analytics at speed: Calculation views in SAP Business Data CloudCalculation views in SAP HANA Cloud, the reusable analytic modelling blocks built in its graphical modelling environment, with three newer parts the abstract names: AI-assisted modelling, refactoring, and advanced materialisation, and the way the views sit inside SAP Business Data Cloud. What a materialisation is chosen on, and what the AI assistance generates, is not stated. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Hansika Colomboge Dona, Jan Zwickel, Niklas Siemer and Thomas Hammer, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Get hands on with tabular AI and forecasting models in SAP HANA CloudGet hands on with tabular AI and forecasting models in SAP HANA CloudPrediction and forecasting as predictive models inside SAP HANA Cloud, worked through hands-on: tabular AI models such as SAP-RPT-1 for on-the-fly predictions, time series foundation models for ad hoc forecasts, and the AutoML in the predictive analysis library. The abstract names the model kinds and the library and does not say how a model is called from SQL or from an application. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Christoph Morgen, Markus Fath, Ritty Joseph and Tanuja Jadhav, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Knowledge graph and agent memory: Build an agent that remembersKnowledge graph and agent memory: Build an agent that remembersThe knowledge graph engine in SAP HANA Cloud as an agent's memory: what the engine, the graph side of graph, spatial and document data, does in an agentic workflow, how an agent keeps what it learns there, the state agent tooling holds between turns, and the SAP AI Core integration through which the database calls LLMs and tabular foundation models such as SAP-RPT-1. The abstract names the engine, the memory role and the AI Core link and does not say how the memory is written or read. DA205 on Tuesday 27 October is the 45-minute talk on the same engine, with a near-identical abstract and a different cast. A two-hour hands-on TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Christoph Morgen, Jan Zwickel, Markus Fath and Thomas Hammer, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Modernize your database landscape with SAP HANA CloudModernize your database landscape with SAP HANA CloudWhy to move a database estate to SAP HANA Cloud, and the migration tools and services for doing so, which is the platform migration concern. SAP's abstract is one sentence and names none of the tools. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Niklas Siemer and Roman Belosludtsev, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Road map for SAP HANA Cloud: What’s next for the AI databaseRoad map for SAP HANA Cloud: What’s next for the AI databaseSAP's road map for SAP HANA Cloud, which the abstract places as a core component of SAP Business AI Platform within SAP Business Data Cloud. The abstract promises a firsthand look at what is next for the database and names no feature, release or date, so the two edges rest on the products it names and nothing more. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Niklas Siemer and Thomas Hammer, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
SAP BDC in Business AI Platform: Contextualize and ReasonSAP BDC in Business AI Platform: Contextualize and ReasonA Devtoberfest 2026 session (DAT-31) that places SAP Business Data Cloud as the contextualise-and-reason pillar of the SAP Business AI Platform, between the build pillar of Joule Studio and Integration Suite and the govern pillar of AI Agent Hub. It covers data products described with open resource discovery and core schema notation metadata, a data product creation agent that assembles a derived data product for overdue billing documents from the billing document and customer products and shows its lineage and fields; the data products a line-of-business application brings being readable by Joule without a BDC subscription; and the SAP-managed knowledge graph that maps business entities and their relationships for agents, held as graph data in the SAP HANA Cloud knowledge graph engine as RDF triples queried with SPARQL. The closing demo has SAP Joule answer head-count and purchase-order questions, with the generated SQL passed through a data product query that adds the restriction policy defined for that user in cloud identity services, which is why the session stands for cataloguing and lineage as much as for the products it names.SAP Developers, published 2026-10-06
SAP HANA Cloud advisors and automationSAP HANA Cloud advisors and automationSAP HANA Cloud's advisors and the tasks they hand off: the elastic compute node, the partition, index and native storage extension advisors that produce recommendations for performance and efficiency, and SAP Automation Pilot as the service that runs the resulting tasks, which is operations automation on the database. The abstract lists the features and stops there, so what each advisor recommends and how a recommendation becomes an Automation Pilot command is not stated. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Hansika Colomboge Dona, Hui Li, Javier Martin and Roman Belosludtsev, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
SAP HANA Cloud as a self-managed database: Advisors and automationSAP HANA Cloud as a self-managed database: Advisors and automationSAP HANA Cloud advisors generate recommendations for database administration, aimed at system performance and efficiency, and SAP Automation Pilot runs the manual and administrative tasks around the database as automated processes, which is the operations automation concern on the database side. SAP's abstract names the two services and claims reduced operational overhead; which advisors exist and which tasks the automation covers are not said. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Javier Martin and Roman Belosludtsev, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
SAP HANA Cloud as the AI database for SAP Business Data CloudSAP HANA Cloud as the AI database for SAP Business Data CloudSAP HANA Cloud as the AI database at the centre of SAP Business Data Cloud: the strategy behind its AI-first direction, and a Carl Zeiss speaker on how it runs in production today. The abstract names the two products and the customer and no feature, workload or figure, so the edges rest on the products as its subject. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Kush Kashyap and Thomas Hammer, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
SAP HANA Cloud: The data foundation for contextualizing and reasoningSAP HANA Cloud: The data foundation for contextualizing and reasoningWhere SAP is taking SAP HANA Cloud, described in the abstract as the anchor of SAP's data strategy and a unified layer to store, contextualise and reason across a business, and what that means for a data platform decision. The abstract is a direction statement and names no feature, release or date, so the one edge rests on the product itself. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin; also ST106V, virtual), presented by Matthew Zenus and Stefan Baeuerle, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
SAP HANA Data Lake Files (HDLF) Basic FunctionalitiesSAP HANA Data Lake Files (HDLF) Basic FunctionalitiesA Devtoberfest 2026 data-track session on SAP HANA data lake files, the managed object store inside SAP HANA Cloud that is provisioned from HANA Cloud Central, priced per API call and per stored gigabyte, and reached with the same REST API whichever hyperscaler it runs on. Two product managers set up an instance with its IP allow list, client certificates and trusts, then upload, list, read and delete files over the WebHDFS REST API and the HDLFS command-line utility — the Object storage half — and cover file versions with snapshots, access policies per file, and chunked upload with a server-side merge. They then link the instance to a HANA database and query a CSV file as a virtual table: SQL on files now runs through a file adapter in the database, while the older path through the data lake relational engine is deprecated.SAP Developers
Stop guessing, start counting: How generative AI fixed an inventory messStop guessing, start counting: How generative AI fixed an inventory messAn inventory-counting application a business built on SAP Business AI Platform with SAP HANA Cloud and generative AI, to replace recount lists kept by gut feel across SAP ERP Central Component, SAP S/4HANA and Microsoft Excel; the talk promises the app, its architecture and what went wrong. The generative AI part is LLM integration from application code; the abstract names HANA Cloud and generative AI as the two building blocks and says nothing about how either is used. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Ranjeet Kumar, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Talking to your database: The new data exploration tools in SAP HANA CloudTalking to your database: The new data exploration tools in SAP HANA CloudSAP HANA Cloud's new data exploration tools take a business question in plain language, find the right database objects and run the query, with no data model and no SQL written beforehand, shown live on a standard business data set. SAP's abstract says the session covers how the tools work, what they need and where they hit their limits, and states none of the three. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Anna Hartmann, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Unlock predictive and generative AI with your data in SAP HANA CloudUnlock predictive and generative AI with your data in SAP HANA CloudThe AI features SAP lists for SAP HANA Cloud: the function libraries for tabular prediction and forecasting, where predictive models run inside the database, the vector engine, the knowledge graph engine, which is graph, spatial and document data put to generative use, and SQL to LLM calls. The abstract names the engines and the use cases they are meant for and gives no detail of any one of them. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin; also DA204V, virtual), presented by Christoph Morgen and Javier Martin, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Use SAP HANA as the Database for a CAP Java ApplicationUse SAP HANA as the Database for a CAP Java ApplicationMoving a CAP Java application off the development database onto HANA, which is the step where the persistence choice stops being invisible.SAP
Native SAP HANA artifactsUnmapped
SAP-samples/hana-developer-cli-tool-exampleSAP-samples/hana-developer-cli-tool-exampleA developer-centric command line for SAP HANA, built for local development outside SAP tooling and connecting to a local, cloud or remote HANA instance the same way.sap official, btp
Developer-centric command line for SAP HANA
SearchSAP only
com.sap.cds:cds-services-bomcom.sap.cds:cds-services-bomThe Maven bill of materials for CAP Java, pinning every com.sap.cds module in a release, from the API and core runtime to the Spring Boot starters and the CQN engine, to the same version.sap official, cap
Maven bill of materials pinning CAP Java module versions
Building an SAP BTP Agent Architecture from Scratch: Python + CAP + HANABuilding an SAP BTP Agent Architecture from Scratch: Python + CAP + HANAA first-person build log of a Flask orchestrator on Cloud Foundry that reduces a question to keywords, searches a Node.js service's Documents entity, and passes what it finds to Claude for a grounded answer. Getting there means learning that HANA's fuzzy .search() matches one word but not a full sentence, fixed by splitting the query into terms and merging the per-term hits, and that provisioning SAP HANA Cloud hits a database-level free-tier quota rather than an HDI-container one, with a stopped instance needing to be resumed first. It also covers @sap/cds-dk needing to sit in dependencies rather than devDependencies, since Cloud Foundry's buildpack skips the latter, before cds deploy --to hana can run as part of the push.neilaspin, published 2026-07-28
Understanding Fuzzy Search in SAP Fiori ApplicationsUnderstanding Fuzzy Search in SAP Fiori ApplicationsExplains SAP HANA Enterprise Search's fuzzy, relevance-ranked matching behind Fiori's global search bar, its exact-match Search Query Syntax operators, and how a CAP CDS project on @sap/cds tunes the gap between them with @cds.search and @Search.fuzzinessThreshold, shown on a Contracts entity's contractNumber field. Raising the threshold to 0.95 narrows that field to near-exact matches for structured identifiers such as contract numbers, while an unset field keeps HANA's default (~80%) fuzziness for broader free-text discovery.Ruchi5, published 2026-07-27
Transaction managementSAP only
com.sap.cds:cds-services-bomcom.sap.cds:cds-services-bomThe Maven bill of materials for CAP Java, pinning every com.sap.cds module in a release, from the API and core runtime to the Spring Boot starters and the CQN engine, to the same version.sap official, cap
Maven bill of materials pinning CAP Java module versions
Async processingSAP only
com.sap.cds:cds-services-bomcom.sap.cds:cds-services-bomThe Maven bill of materials for CAP Java, pinning every com.sap.cds module in a release, from the API and core runtime to the Spring Boot starters and the CQN engine, to the same version.sap official, cap
Maven bill of materials pinning CAP Java module versions
Event MeshEvent MeshManaged queues and topics over AMQP, MQTT and a REST gateway, and the bus SAP's own applications publish their business events to.sap official, btp
Managed queues and topics over AMQP, MQTT and REST
DestinationsSAP only
com.sap.cds:cds-feature-remote-odatacom.sap.cds:cds-feature-remote-odataA CAP Java feature for consuming remote OData V2 and V4 services as Remote Services, translating CQN queries into OData requests against a destination or a service binding.sap official, cap
Remote Services for consuming OData V2 and V4 APIs in CAP Java
com.sap.cds:cds-integration-cloud-sdkcom.sap.cds:cds-integration-cloud-sdkA CAP Java feature that integrates the SAP Cloud SDK, so features such as remote OData and enterprise messaging resolve a destination or service binding and reach a remote REST-based service.sap official, cap
SAP Cloud SDK integration for remote REST services in CAP Java
SAP Destination serviceSAP Destination serviceNamed, credentialed addresses of other systems, resolved at runtime — so an application holds no URL and no secret of its own, and the same code reaches a different system in every landscape.sap official, btp
Named, credentialed addresses of other systems resolved at runtime
cap-ams-a2acap-ams-a2aFour app-to-app configurations between CAP Java and CAP Node.js under AMS and IAS, each recording which destination setup makes user propagation and token validation hold.independent, cap
App-to-app setups between CAP Java and CAP Node.js under AMS and IAS
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
CAP Foundry: Engineering SAP CAP Applications from Business Intent with Guardrailed AICAP Foundry: Engineering SAP CAP Applications from Business Intent with Guardrailed AICAP Foundry is a prototype that generates a CAP Node.js project with SAP Fiori elements from a written business requirement, discovering the actual data shape from a chosen source — SQLite, a configured SAP HANA HDI container, offline EDMX, live OData through the SAP Destination service, or approved SAP BTP ABAP objects — instead of inventing one. The generated application can carry a Fiori draft lifecycle with optimistic concurrency via ETags and annotation-driven Fiori elements list and object screens, localized independently of the underlying service contract. Attachments can be added with upload, download and delete, gated on a malware-scan status, and the generated project still has to compile, build and pass its generated tests before the run is accepted.Shahid, published 2026-08-20
Connect SAP CAP (Node.js) to On-Premise/Private PostgreSQL using SAP Cloud ConnectorConnect SAP CAP (Node.js) to On-Premise/Private PostgreSQL using SAP Cloud ConnectorAn end-to-end route from a CAP Node.js application on Cloud Foundry to a PostgreSQL database that is never made publicly reachable, over BTP Connectivity and the Cloud Connector using a TCP destination and SOCKS5. The part worth having is that it covers the deployer as well as the server: the generated PostgreSQL deployer has to reach the same private database to deploy the CDS model, and a guide that only connects the runtime leaves you with a schema you cannot install.Kalaikovan, published 2026-08-07
Connect SAP CAP (Node.js) to On-Premise/Private PostgreSQL using SAP Cloud Connector
Database connectors changed in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects A recipe.
Consume Remote Services in a Full-Stack CAP ApplicationConsume Remote Services in a Full-Stack CAP ApplicationExtending the Developer's Guide application with a remote S/4HANA service — connectivity, importing the Business Partner API, and running against it. SAP publishes this as four separate paths: mock server or real S/4HANA Cloud, times Cloud Foundry or Kyma. One entry covers all four, because the difference between them is which backend and which runtime, not what you learn.SAP
Consume SOAP Web Services in SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelConsume SOAP Web Services in SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelCalling a SOAP service from CAP — the case the remote-service story does not cover, since CAP's own import path speaks OData and OpenAPI.SAP
Expose S/4HANA Cloud OData API as an MCP Server via CAP Node.jsExpose S/4HANA Cloud OData API as an MCP Server via CAP Node.jsA step-by-step walkthrough that wraps SAP S/4HANA Cloud's Outbound Delivery OData v2 API in a CAP Node.js service and exposes it through @cap-js/mcp, so an MCP client can list the generated tools, query the delivery entities and call a custom createDelivery action over JSON-RPC. The remote S/4HANA connection is configured two ways in package.json: direct Basic Authentication credentials for local hybrid testing, and a named BTP destination for the app once deployed to Cloud Foundry.Jacky_Liu1, published 2026-07-29
Extend SAP SuccessFactors on SAP BTP with the SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelExtend SAP SuccessFactors on SAP BTP with the SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelTwelve tutorials, about two hours, building a side-by-side extension of SuccessFactors on BTP. The spine is remote services: importing the SuccessFactors OData service definitions into a CAP model, then treating them as entities the extension reads and writes through, rather than as an API called from a handler. Indexed as one entry because the parts only make sense in order.SAP
The ECC-to-CAP Starter KitThe ECC-to-CAP Starter KitA Devtoberfest 2026 session that builds a CAP service and a Fiori elements list report over an SAP ECC gateway service, on the argument that the CAP project, its contract and its UI survive a later move to SAP S/4HANA while the APIs behind them change. The service integration edge is the body of the demo: the metadata of the ECC flight service is saved as an EDMX file, imported with cds import so the model holds the structure and none of the data, projected read-only into a flight service, and one line of handler code forwards each read to ECC, with filtering, sorting and paging translated down to the older OData version the system speaks. The SAP Destination service edge covers the on-premise destination and the additional properties the walkthrough insists on, and the SAP Business Application Studio edge covers the full-stack dev space, the CAP project wizard, the service center plugin for picking up another OData service, and cds watch run under the profile that uses those credentials.published 2026-10-09
Use the SAP Cloud SDK in the SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelUse the SAP Cloud SDK in the SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelReaching for the Cloud SDK from inside a CAP service, for the calls CAP's own remote services do not make.SAP
Event MeshSAP only
com.sap.cds:cds-feature-advanced-event-meshcom.sap.cds:cds-feature-advanced-event-meshA beta CAP Java plugin that adds SAP Integration Suite, advanced event mesh as a messaging broker, activated by setting a messaging service's kind to aem.sap official, cap
CAP Java plugin for SAP Integration Suite, advanced event mesh
com.sap.cds:cds-feature-enterprise-messagingcom.sap.cds:cds-feature-enterprise-messagingA CAP Java feature that connects a CAP messaging service to SAP Event Mesh, activated by setting the service's kind to enterprise-messaging, and looks up the bound instance.sap official, cap
Connects CAP Java messaging to SAP Event Mesh
com.sap.cds:cds-feature-event-hubcom.sap.cds:cds-feature-event-hubA CAP Java plugin that connects CAP's messaging service to SAP Cloud Application Event Hub, so an application sends and consumes business events without coding against its API.sap official, cap
Connects CAP Java messaging to SAP Cloud Application Event Hub
com.sap.cds:cds-feature-kafkacom.sap.cds:cds-feature-kafkaA CAP Java feature that connects a CAP messaging service to Apache Kafka for intra-application messaging, through the Apache Kafka client library rather than a managed SAP messaging service.sap official, cap
Connects CAP Java messaging to Apache Kafka
com.sap.cds:cds-feature-rediscom.sap.cds:cds-feature-redisA beta CAP Java feature that connects a CAP messaging service to Redis Pub/Sub, which broadcasts each event to every subscribed instance and does not guarantee delivery.sap official, cap
Beta connector from CAP Java messaging to Redis Pub/Sub
com.sap.cds:cds-services-bomcom.sap.cds:cds-services-bomThe Maven bill of materials for CAP Java, pinning every com.sap.cds module in a release, from the API and core runtime to the Spring Boot starters and the CQN engine, to the same version.sap official, cap
Maven bill of materials pinning CAP Java module versions
Event MeshEvent MeshManaged queues and topics over AMQP, MQTT and a REST gateway, and the bus SAP's own applications publish their business events to.sap official, btp
Managed queues and topics over AMQP, MQTT and REST
SAP Integration Suite, advanced event meshSAP Integration Suite, advanced event meshAn event streaming, event management and monitoring platform for event-driven architecture, offered within SAP Integration Suite.sap official, btp
Event streaming and management platform in Integration Suite
Build real-time event-driven integrations for your enterpriseBuild real-time event-driven integrations for your enterpriseEvent-driven integration with SAP Integration Suite, advanced event mesh inside SAP Integration Suite: where events beat request-response, how publish and subscribe decouple systems, and what a phased move to event-driven integration looks like. Event Mesh as architecture; the abstract names no broker protocol and no CDS mapping. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Daniel Dorst and Karsten Strothmann, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Build your own event-driven scenario with advanced event meshBuild your own event-driven scenario with advanced event meshAn event-driven scenario built on SAP Integration Suite, advanced event mesh: queues, topics and subscriptions first, then filtering and event replay, in two parallel tracks, a guided one for newcomers and a second for experienced practitioners. It covers the brokered side of Event Mesh; which systems publish and consume, and which protocol the clients speak, is not stated. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Claudia Carabineiro, Emily Mui, Karsten Strothmann and Tobias Griebe, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Event Add-On for ERP: All you need to know about the new Event StudioEvent Add-On for ERP: All you need to know about the new Event StudioA Devtoberfest 2026 integration-track session (INT-43) on Event Studio, the browser-based part of the Event Add-On for ERP that defines events in an S/4HANA or ECC backend without code and sends them to a broker. A custom sales-order event is built live — fields picked into a payload that is published as a CDS view entity, a trigger on a classic business object, a static topic — and arrives in a queue on SAP Integration Suite, advanced event mesh, which is where the Event Mesh edge holds. The rest of the demo covers health and exception monitoring in SAP Cloud ALM, the AsyncAPI definition replicated to Event Portal, and the AI assistant and MCP server now inside Event Studio.SAP Developers
IntegrAItion: Event-Driven IntelligenceIntegrAItion: Event-Driven IntelligenceA Devtoberfest 2026 session, INT-33, whose line is that agents fail because they are not informed enough rather than not clever enough, and that events are how they get informed: what an event is, the source-broker-consumer split, notification against data events, and topic filtering as the thing that decides which agents are woken at all and what that costs in tokens. It covers Event Mesh as the concern — topics, subscriptions, filters and queues — and SAP Integration Suite, advanced event mesh as the product, down to its event portal and catalogue, the mesh and cluster managers and distributed tracing. The closing demo sends an S/4HANA product-defect event through the mesh to wake an agent in Joule Studio, which fetches what it still needs over MCP and reports to a person the next morning.SAP Developers, published 2026-10-07
Unlock composable business using SAP Integration Suite, advanced event meshUnlock composable business using SAP Integration Suite, advanced event meshSAP Integration Suite, advanced event mesh as SAP's product for event-driven, real-time and loosely coupled integration between SAP and third-party systems, which the abstract ties to composable business architecture. The session is about that product and the Event Mesh concern it answers; the abstract states the positioning and no feature, topic or protocol, and a speaker from CCB Management Services is listed without a stated case. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin; also IN111V, virtual), presented by Goran D. Stevanovic and Karsten Strothmann, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
NotificationsSAP only
com.sap.cds:cds-feature-notificationscom.sap.cds:cds-feature-notificationsSends business notifications from a CAP Java application through SAP Alert Notification service, delivered to SAP Build Work Zone or email, or logged to the console in local mode.sap official, cap
Business notifications from CAP Java via SAP Alert Notification
RFC connectivityUnmapped
SAP Connectivity serviceSAP Connectivity serviceThe proxy through which a cloud application reaches an on-premise system behind a Cloud Connector — HTTP, RFC and raw sockets — without that system being exposed.sap official, btp
Proxy from cloud apps to on-premise systems via Cloud Connector
Introducing open-rfc: Calling SAP RFC from Node.js Without the SDKIntroducing open-rfc: Calling SAP RFC from Node.js Without the SDKopen-rfc is a TypeScript and JavaScript RFC client for Node.js with no runtime dependencies and no SAP NetWeaver RFC SDK, written after SAP archived node-rfc and PyRFC and while the connector below @sap/cds-rfc needs an S-user, an SAP Build Code licence and a private registry. The history of RFC connectivity from Node.js is the first half; the second shows the package on its own, as an npm alias for node-rfc, and through an npm override as the connector below an unchanged @sap/cds-rfc. The 0.2.3 beta stops at direct application-server connections with password authentication and classic Unicode RFC: no message-server load balancing, SNC, tRFC, qRFC, bgRFC or server mode.published 2026-08-10
Service compositionSAP only
com.sap.cds:cds-services-bomcom.sap.cds:cds-services-bomThe Maven bill of materials for CAP Java, pinning every com.sap.cds module in a release, from the API and core runtime to the Spring Boot starters and the CQN engine, to the same version.sap official, cap
Maven bill of materials pinning CAP Java module versions
Service integrationSAP only
com.sap.cds:cds-feature-remote-odatacom.sap.cds:cds-feature-remote-odataA CAP Java feature for consuming remote OData V2 and V4 services as Remote Services, translating CQN queries into OData requests against a destination or a service binding.sap official, cap
Remote Services for consuming OData V2 and V4 APIs in CAP Java
The ECC-to-CAP Starter KitThe ECC-to-CAP Starter KitA Devtoberfest 2026 session that builds a CAP service and a Fiori elements list report over an SAP ECC gateway service, on the argument that the CAP project, its contract and its UI survive a later move to SAP S/4HANA while the APIs behind them change. The service integration edge is the body of the demo: the metadata of the ECC flight service is saved as an EDMX file, imported with cds import so the model holds the structure and none of the data, projected read-only into a flight service, and one line of handler code forwards each read to ECC, with filtering, sorting and paging translated down to the older OData version the system speaks. The SAP Destination service edge covers the on-premise destination and the additional properties the walkthrough insists on, and the SAP Business Application Studio edge covers the full-stack dev space, the CAP project wizard, the service center plugin for picking up another OData service, and cds watch run under the profile that uses those credentials.published 2026-10-09
Agent access to your codeSAP and community
@sap-ux/fiori-mcp-server@sap-ux/fiori-mcp-serverSAP's Fiori MCP server, run as fiori-mcp, letting a coding assistant create and edit Fiori applications directly rather than describing the steps.sap official, ui5
MCP server for creating and editing Fiori applications
@ui5/mcp-server@ui5/mcp-serverSAP's MCP server for UI5 development: ten tools that scaffold an app or a card, read the project in front of the agent, and run the linter and the manifest validator against it.sap official, ui5
MCP server for UI5 development with ten tools
It reads a UI5 project and the framework's own documentation, not a running system or a backend: a question about the service behind the app is answered somewhere else. Node.js v20.17 or v22.9 and above.
Agentic Engineering for SAP BTP ExtensionsAgentic Engineering for SAP BTP ExtensionsAn agent harness coordinates code generation across isolated Git worktrees, using a skills registry, SAP CAP MCP Server, Fiori MCP Server and UI5 Web Components MCP Server for development context. The diagram shows LiteLLM as a model proxy in front of SAP AI Core, while automated checks and review gate the generated changes. The worked scenario is CAP-based extensions on BTP, with specifications written before generation and reusable skills governed across teams.
AI-assisted full stack development using model context protocol serversAI-assisted full stack development using model context protocol serversMCP servers in Visual Studio Code used to configure, query and change a full-stack application built with CAP, CDS and OData: the agent access to your code concern, a coding assistant reading and changing the project it works in. The abstract names no server, so neither @cap-js/mcp-server nor any other is attached, and it does not say which changes are made. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Sergio Guerrero, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
AI-assisted SAP development with MCPAI-assisted SAP development with MCPA Devtoberfest 2026 session (UI-41) that traces AI-assisted SAP development from pasting code into a chat window to coding agents with built-in connectors, and sorts the MCP servers around SAP development into SAP's own, the community's and the hosted ones, where the agent cannot change what the server allows. Four demos follow: GitHub Copilot alone explaining an ABAP report from a Git repository, @ui5/mcp-server reading an OpenUI5 sample app and converting it to TypeScript, mcp-sap-docs grounding Terraform files for a BTP subaccount the presenter had not written before, and arc-1 with Copilot in Eclipse tracing why a title longer than 40 characters is rejected and proposing the DDIC-allowed length instead. It ends on a skill that migrates an SAP Gateway project on an ECC system to RAP on S/4HANA step by step, and on a rule Marian Zeis gives for servers written for internal use: keep them read-only, because what the agent is short of is context.published 2026-10-16
Beyond copilots: Agentic development with SAPUI5Beyond copilots: Agentic development with SAPUI5Devtoberfest 2026 session UI-12, from the SAPUI5 team, on the year of work behind UI5/plugins-coding-agents: what a model produces for UI5 without help — outdated concepts, framework versions a decade old, generic JavaScript rules, code that does not run — and the two ways they chose to close that gap, an MCP server in September 2025 and skills packaged as plugins once agents began reading them. Three plugins are demonstrated live in Claude Code: the everyday one scaffolds an Oktoberfest tents application in about four minutes, the TypeScript conversion plugin rewrites an existing JavaScript project and reconfigures its build with the types and the transpile task, and the modernisation plugin takes a ten-year-old application through staged migrations, applying UI5 Linter's automatic fixes where they cannot break the app and the model where they can, then running the tests. @ui5/mcp-server is still the path for the parts that need a server, and the plugins are installed from the Claude Code and GitHub Copilot marketplaces rather than a UI5-hosted one.SAP Developers, published 2026-09-25
Intelligent App Development at Scale: SAP Fiori Elements + ABAP Development Tools for VS CodeIntelligent App Development at Scale: SAP Fiori Elements + ABAP Development Tools for VS CodeA Devtoberfest 2026 session (UI-33) that builds a RAP service and the SAP Fiori elements app over it from one VS Code workspace, with a coding agent driving two of SAP's MCP servers. The ABAP Development Tools for VS Code edges hold on the demo itself: its virtual file system keeps the ABAP package beside the Fiori project, the ADT MCP Server inside it creates, changes and activates the ABAP objects, and a version not yet released publishes the service binding from the agent instead of by hand. The @sap-ux/fiori-mcp-server edge covers its generators and the three-step workflow it uses for changes — list the functionality available for the application, ask for its JSON schema, then execute it — and the agent guidance edge rests on the skills the Fiori team publishes beside it, on the session's account of what a skill adds that a server does not, and on the analytical chart demo where a skill orchestrates both servers in one task.SAP Developers, published 2026-10-09
OData to outcomes—Build AI-enabled SAP Fiori apps using SAP Fiori elementsOData to outcomes—Build AI-enabled SAP Fiori apps using SAP Fiori elementsA Fiori elements app built through SAP's MCP servers: the OData V4 service comes from the MCP server for RAP, which the atlas holds as the ADT MCP Server, or from @cap-js/mcp-server for CAP, and the UI from @sap-ux/fiori-mcp-server, with annotations and actions added before the app is tied to SAP's AI features. Agent access to your code on both the service and the UI side; SAP's abstract names the servers and the steps and says nothing about which AI features or which agent host. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Benedikt Schoelch, Sebastian Steinhauer, Sebastian Werner and Stefan Engelhardt, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Agent access to your systemsUnmapped
SAP-samples/hana-developer-cli-tool-exampleSAP-samples/hana-developer-cli-tool-exampleA developer-centric command line for SAP HANA, built for local development outside SAP tooling and connecting to a local, cloud or remote HANA instance the same way.sap official, btp
Developer-centric command line for SAP HANA
Agent evalsSAP only
capire/skillscapire/skillsSAP's own skill set for coding agents working on CAP — cap-developer, cap-add-remote-service, cap-upgrade and cap-trivia, each a SKILL.md with references beside it.sap official, cap
Agent skills for CAP development, each a SKILL.md with references
Agent guidanceSAP and community
@patimweb/pi-cap-bestpractices@patimweb/pi-cap-bestpracticesA package for the pi coding agent that distributes SAP's capire/skills, carrying the upstream repository as a git submodule since version 2.0.0 replaced the author's own skill.independent, cap
SAP's capire/skills packaged for the pi coding agent
If your tool reads the open skill standard directly, install [capire/skills](artifact:capire-skills) and skip the wrapper.
CAP GuardianCAP GuardianA CAP review skill for coding agents with hard gates, red flags and prohibitions across nine reference modules, each rule citing the capire page behind it in an evidence ledger.independent, cap
CAP review skill for coding agents with gates and prohibitions
No license Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
Functional boundary There is no licence, so there is no grant to use or redistribute it. Everything else is secondary to that. Note too that its 'verified' claim means the skill text was checked against itself by an evaluation suite — not that the advice was run against a CAP version.
capire/skillscapire/skillsSAP's own skill set for coding agents working on CAP — cap-developer, cap-add-remote-service, cap-upgrade and cap-trivia, each a SKILL.md with references beside it.sap official, cap
Agent skills for CAP development, each a SKILL.md with references
SAP Developers MCPSAP Developers MCPThe hosted MCP server of developers.sap.com, over which an agent searches SAP's tutorials, reads missions and queries the site's knowledge graph of tutorials and concepts.sap official, umbrella
Hosted MCP server of developers.sap.com tutorials and missions
sap-cx-developer-companionsap-cx-developer-companionAn agent skill for SAP Customer Experience work that routes a request to one of three jobs: finding a Commerce Cloud, Sales Cloud or Service Cloud API, writing CDS for a CX extension, or explaining an error.independent, commerce
Agent skill for SAP Customer Experience APIs, CDS and errors
secondsky/sap-skillssecondsky/sap-skillsForty SAP development plugins installed through the skills command line or the Claude Code and Codex marketplaces, with a record per plugin of what its claims were checked against.independent, btp
Forty SAP development plugins for coding agents
GPL-3.0, which is a licence to read before vendoring any of it into something you ship. Forty plugins is also a lot of always-available surface — the ledger is there because breadth and verification pull in opposite directions, and it does not resolve that so much as report it.
WerkbankWerkbankA local desktop workspace for AI conversations, attached files and generated HTML Spaces, run by a goose agent and offering a catalog of SAP MCP connectors and ABAP, CAP and UI5 skills.independent, umbrella
Local desktop workspace for AI conversations with SAP connectors
Agentic Engineering for SAP BTP ExtensionsAgentic Engineering for SAP BTP ExtensionsAn agent harness coordinates code generation across isolated Git worktrees, using a skills registry, SAP CAP MCP Server, Fiori MCP Server and UI5 Web Components MCP Server for development context. The diagram shows LiteLLM as a model proxy in front of SAP AI Core, while automated checks and review gate the generated changes. The worked scenario is CAP-based extensions on BTP, with specifications written before generation and reusable skills governed across teams.
AI Assisted CAP DevelopmentAI Assisted CAP DevelopmentA Devtoberfest 2026 session (CAP-43) on building CAP applications with a coding agent, in two demos. The first asks the same question twice in a dev container, once with no MCP server configured and once with @cap-js/mcp-server registered: without it the agent answers CAP's semantic search with an outdated vector type and CQL, with its documentation search it writes the built-in vector embedding function and a working similarity query. The second installs the cap-developer plugin from capire/skills, from a Devtoberfest preview branch, and runs its guided-development skill stage by stage — domain model, sample data, services, constraints — each stage reviewed before the next.SAP Developers, published 2026-10-16
Bring "developers.sap.com" Into Your Dev Environment: SAP Developer Context for AI Coding AgentsBring "developers.sap.com" Into Your Dev Environment: SAP Developer Context for AI Coding AgentsDevtoberfest 2026 session FA-11: a tour of the rebuilt developers.sap.com by the team that runs it, from the administration screens behind the home page to the agent interfaces in front of it. The site is a CAP application on SAP HANA Cloud and SAP BTP, open-sourced in full, and the half of the session that places it here is how its content reaches an agent: every tutorial is also served as markdown, a coding agent is detected and given that version instead of the HTML, a well-known agent card advertises what the site offers, and SAP Developers MCP answers questions about tutorials, news and a reader's own completion history in Claude Code and Joule Desktop, over OAuth or a personal access token. Behind the answers sit two things working together: a knowledge graph in the HANA database over 1400 tutorials and 11,000 concepts, and SAP AI Core for the Joule interactions and the embeddings, with the agent harness written for the site rather than taken off a shelf. Where neither MCP nor A2A is available, the same content is published as skills.SAP Developers, published 2026-09-25
What's in Daniel Hutzel's brain?What's in Daniel Hutzel's brain?A Devtoberfest 2026 session in the building-apps track, in which Daniel Hutzel and DJ Adams work through what the CAP team is building for agents. A bookshop gets an MCP endpoint beside its OData one from a single annotation, with the plugin writing the coding agent's configuration itself; in the xt-travels sample five services that know nothing about each other are served over MCP and an agent does the orchestration the hand-built UI and its value helps used to do. Hutzel then annotates a service as an agent so the ReAct loop and the choice of model move into the CAP service, and finally drops MCP for a skill that teaches the agent CQL instead, which is where the edges to Serve your application over MCP, Agent tooling and Agent guidance come from. The mechanism under all of it, a plugin file in the package root and event handlers that can be added to any CAP service, is the edge to Plugin authoring.published 2026-10-02