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ABAP development tools MCP server: Major update available!

SAP's announcement of the 1.2 release of the ADT MCP Server, which ships in ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse and ABAP Development Tools for VS Code, exposes the IDEs' own Java tooling over MCP, and reaches systems back to SAP NetWeaver 7.31 SP04 over RFC or HTTP. The release adds the object read, edit, check, search and symbol tools, the AFF file tools, object actions, ATC exemptions and the ABAP feed query, so a CLI such as Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex or GitHub Copilot CLI works from the server's own tools; every tool takes its object as an ADT URI, a name with its type or an AFF file name, which is how it meets community servers that know one form. It states the safety policy, the server off, a system allow list, the edit tool off and no package allow-listed until a user opens each, and the on-boarding SAP recommends: start in ADT for VS Code, then attach a CLI beside the IDE to the server the IDE runs.

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ADT MCP ServerABAPADT MCP Servermcp-serverSAP's own MCP server for ABAP development, shipped in [ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse](artifact:sap-adt-eclipse) and [ABAP Development Tools for VS Code](artifact:sap-adt-vscode); in VS Code a preference starts it as a local HTTP server on a port you choose.ABAP Development Tools for VS CodeABAPABAP Development Tools for VS Codeide-extensionSAP's ABAP tools in VS Code: editing and debugging against a connected system, ABAP Unit and ATC runs, transport management in the Transport Organizer, over RFC to an on-premise system or HTTP to a cloud one, with the [ADT MCP Server](artifact:sap-adt-mcp-server) behind an AI-unit licence.ABAP Development Tools for EclipseABAPABAP Development Tools for EclipsepackageSAP's Eclipse plugins for ABAP: source, dictionary and CDS editors, Project Explorer, Outline and ABAP Unit, calling [ADT resources](artifact:sap-adt) on the connected system.Agent access to your codeABAPAgent access to your codecapabilityLetting a coding agent read the project or the system you actually have, reach its model, its objects and its checks, and act on it. In file-based environments that works out of the box; complex systems need dedicated access capabilities. Whatever the environment, the agent also needs project- and framework-specific context, so it understands the thing in front of it rather than guessing from what it remembers of its training data. The transport is incidental: an MCP server, a language server or a CLI answer the same question, and what differs between them is how much of the real thing the agent can see. Distinct from [MCP servers](capability:mcp-servers), which is a protocol adapter on your own running service, and from [agent guidance](capability:agent-guidance), which is knowledge handed over as files rather than read from the thing itself.Tool governanceABAPTool governancecapabilityControlling what an agent may call, with which authorisations, and leaving an audit trail of what it did. The authorisation question that MCP exposure raises but does not answer.

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Describes the server as the IDEs' own Java tooling exposed over MCP, its compatibility layer back to SAP NetWeaver 7.31 SP04, the safety policy with everything off until switched on, the full tool table with the tools the 1.2 release added, the object identifier every tool accepts, and the tools SAP plans next.

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Names ADT for VS Code as the place SAP tells a developer new to agentic ABAP development to start, since its server is switched on with one click and configured in the settings UI, and states that its system connections are ABAP destinations over RFC or HTTP.

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