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SAP Datasphere Integration Patterns: Lessons Learned from Two Years of ImplementationsSAP Datasphere Integration Patterns: Lessons Learned from Two Years of ImplementationsTwo years of production SAP Datasphere integrations across SAP and non-SAP sources, settling on Replication Flows over remote access for high-volume Finance analytics because remote queries added latency at query time, then tuning the copy with Datasphere-side partitioning, source-side CDS view optimisation and Cloud Connector sizing. For file-based and Kafka sources, SAP Integration Suite iFlows did work a direct connection could not — flattening nested JSON, PGP decryption and orchestrating the SAP Ariba extraction built on SAP's own BTP Procurement Data Extractor content.saikrishna_kalivarapu2, published 2026-08-17
A method to create an Adobe form attachment for a work item using the class concept.A method to create an Adobe form attachment for a work item using the class concept.Walks through an ABAP workflow class, ZCL_WF_PDF, whose methods call an Adobe form through a Form-Builder-generated function module, convert the returned PDF between hexadecimal string and binary with SCMS_XSTRING_TO_BINARY and SCMS_BINARY_TO_XSTRING, and attach it to a work item via SAP_WAPI_ATTACHMENT_ADD and SAP_WAPI_WRITE_CONTAINER, with the class, background-task and SWDD workflow steps shown in full. It explains document output's ABAP route, rendering a PDF through the Form Builder and getting it back into the program, and a route into attachments's ABAP side distinct from Generic Object Services: a file attached to an SAP Business Workflow work item instead.Mithun_Sharma1, published 2026-08-21
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
Media Handling in SAP CAPM – Backend and Frontend ImplementationMedia Handling in SAP CAPM – Backend and Frontend ImplementationFiles against a record with the front end included, which most of the attachments writing here leaves out — the entity that stores the content, the custom logic around it, and then the UI5 side that uploads and retrieves. End to end rather than one half.published 2026-03-02
Handling Concurrent Updates in SAP CAP JavaHandling Concurrent Updates in SAP CAP JavaAlice and Bob open the same employee record; Bob saves last and quietly erases Alice's change. The lost-update problem stated concretely and then answered in CAP Java, which is the only entry here on the subject — hence the capability.Anjali_Pathak, published 2026-05-26
Federating, Replicating, and Caching Remote Data in CAP — Part 2Federating, Replicating, and Caching Remote Data in CAP — Part 2The practical half of the pair. Where Part 1 sets out the terminology, what CAP does out of the box and where the gaps are, this one builds a small application that federates, replicates and caches remote data, one step at a time, with the finished project published as sales-cockpit so a reader can either follow along or start from the end. It began as a twenty-minute reCAP talk, which the author says was only room for the intro.published 2026-07-17
Beyond READ_TEXT: Decoding SAPscript Long Texts (STXL) with SQLScript in CDS/AMDPBeyond READ_TEXT: Decoding SAPscript Long Texts (STXL) with SQLScript in CDS/AMDPSTXL stores a SAPscript long text as a compressed ABAP cluster container — LZ77 plus canonical Huffman — so the only official reads are READ_TEXT, one call per text, and its mass variant READ_TEXT_TABLE, both of which ship every decompressed line to the application server and stay invisible to ABAP CDS. The author reverse-engineered that on-disk format and ported the decoder into SQLScript, wrapped in an AMDP procedure and exposed through CDS table functions, turning long texts into a joinable, filterable column read directly in the database. On ABAP 7.56 a table function needs the driver-and-filter pattern shown because a parameter cannot bind to a calling column; on ABAP 7.58/S/4HANA 2023 the same result becomes a parameter-less CDS scalar function with true filter push-down.aamelin1, published 2026-08-20
Calculating IBP Technical Week "Key Figure Date" in S/4HANA Using CDS ViewCalculating IBP Technical Week "Key Figure Date" in S/4HANA Using CDS ViewA custom ABAP CDS view entity, selecting from the standard I_CalendarDate view, to derive the first date of an SAP IBP "technical week" — the split IBP applies when a calendar week crosses a month boundary, a date S/4HANA does not expose natively. The calculated field is built with a case/when expression over dats_add_days, giving any calendar date's technical-week key figure date.bharatbajaj, published 2026-02-18
Deep Insert in SAP CAPM Using Composition and Fiori ElementsDeep Insert in SAP CAPM Using Composition and Fiori ElementsParent and children created in one transaction, which composition already gives you in the model — the post is about what Fiori elements does with it, and what the payload looks like when the UI sends both at once.published 2026-05-22
From SEGW to @OData.publish: Expose Your CDS View as OData in S/4HANAFrom SEGW to @OData.publish: Expose Your CDS View as OData in S/4HANAWalks through exposing an ABAP CDS view as an OData service in an on-premise S/4HANA system by adding the @OData.publish: true annotation, then registering and activating the generated service in SAP Gateway (transaction /IWFND/MAINT_SERVICE) before testing it with $filter, $top and $count. It sets this against the manual route through transaction SEGW, since the annotation generates the service, its navigation properties and its OData properties straight from the CDS view without a Service Builder project.rupalipunekar1234, published 2026-07-09
A Use Case for HANA Cloud Knowledge Graph: AI‑Driven Tender AnalysisA Use Case for HANA Cloud Knowledge Graph: AI‑Driven Tender AnalysisMatching unstructured text against internal data, using both HANA engines at once — the Knowledge Graph for the relationships and the Vector Engine for similarity — with CAP holding the application and its data. Notes that the Knowledge Graph Engine is off by default and has to be enabled when the instance is created, which is the kind of thing that stops a weekend.giacomo_dantonio, published 2026-03-19
Automate Recurring Data Updates in SAP HANA CloudAutomate Recurring Data Updates in SAP HANA CloudA walkthrough for marking inventory rows stale after 30 days using SAP HANA Cloud's own scheduler: a SQLScript procedure, a CREATE SCHEDULER JOB statement with its 7-field cron pattern, the M_SCHEDULER_JOBS monitoring view, and the matching DROP statements to remove both. It then names where that approach stops and lists the alternatives for scheduling outside the database: SAP Integration Suite's Timer Event, the SAP Job Scheduling service, SAP Automation Pilot for infrastructure commands, and a custom approach for triggering scheduled REST calls from an application.Joni, published 2026-06-11
Building a CAP App with Fiori Integration – Part 1: Environment & HANA Cloud SetupBuilding a CAP App with Fiori Integration – Part 1: Environment & HANA Cloud SetupA trial account taken from nothing to a CAPM project with a HANA Cloud instance behind it. Everything here is prerequisites, which the author says outright — the application is in the parts that follow.SuryaRamesh, published 2026-04-08
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
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.
Fullstack CAP Application with HANA Cloud (Decoupled Architecture) [Part-1]Fullstack CAP Application with HANA Cloud (Decoupled Architecture) [Part-1]The first of six, and it does the thing the later parts depend on: build the Incident Management application against SQLite on a laptop, with no cloud database in sight. The series is called decoupled because the front end and the back end are deployed separately, and this part is entirely the back end.sanjucs, published 2026-05-06
Fullstack CAP Application with HANA Cloud (Decoupled Architecture) [Part-1]
Database connectors changed in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Fullstack CAP Application with HANA Cloud (Decoupled Architecture) [Part-3]Fullstack CAP Application with HANA Cloud (Decoupled Architecture) [Part-3]The cloud database appears: a HANA Cloud instance created on BTP and mapped to a Cloud Foundry space. No application code — this is the part where the platform has to be right before the next part can connect to it.sanjucs, published 2026-05-08
Fullstack CAP Application with HANA Cloud (Decoupled Architecture) [Part-4]Fullstack CAP Application with HANA Cloud (Decoupled Architecture) [Part-4]The switch from SQLite to HANA and the first deploy of the back end to Cloud Foundry — the point in the series where the persistence stops being a file and the build starts producing HDI artifacts.sanjucs, published 2026-05-12
Fullstack CAP Application with HANA Cloud (Decoupled Architecture) [Part-4]
Database connectors changed in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects A recipe.
Part 1: Creating and Deploying a SAP CAP Application with SAP HANA on SAP BTP (Cloud Foundry)Part 1: Creating and Deploying a SAP CAP Application with SAP HANA on SAP BTP (Cloud Foundry)Opens with the observation the whole series rests on — CAP is usually demonstrated locally, and the interesting part starts when it is deployed. Part one of the run that continues into PostgreSQL and Work Zone.yashbhosle789, published 2026-02-25
Part 1: Creating and Deploying a SAP CAP Application with SAP HANA on SAP BTP (Cloud Foundry)
Database connectors changed in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects A recipe.
Part 2: Creating and Deploying a CAP Application with PostgreSQL, Hyperscaler OptionPart 2: Creating and Deploying a CAP Application with PostgreSQL, Hyperscaler OptionThe middle of a series that runs from database to Work Zone: the CAP application from part one pointed at PostgreSQL on the hyperscaler option, and deployed. The service binding and the build are where it spends its time.yashbhosle789, published 2026-03-04
Part 2: Creating and Deploying a CAP Application with PostgreSQL, Hyperscaler Option
Database connectors changed in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects A recipe.
SAP CAP on HANA XSA: Scaling Industrial Data Applications Beyond the CloudSAP CAP on HANA XSA: Scaling Industrial Data Applications Beyond the CloudCAP on HANA 2.0 XSA rather than on BTP — on-premise, and chosen for throughput. Mass ingestion through native stored procedures, which is the point at which CDS stops being the right tool and the post says so.rgadirov, published 2026-03-09
SAP CAP on HANA XSA: Scaling Industrial Data Applications Beyond the Cloud
Database connectors changed in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects Runnable code.
Setting Up PostgreSQL for SAP BTP Development: A Practical GuideSetting Up PostgreSQL for SAP BTP Development: A Practical GuideOpens with the premise the rest of this bucket mostly assumes away — not every BTP application needs HANA Cloud — and then sets up PostgreSQL on the hyperscaler option. Part one of a series that continues into XSUAA.michal_majer, published 2026-01-20
SAP Datasphere Integration Patterns: Lessons Learned from Two Years of ImplementationsSAP Datasphere Integration Patterns: Lessons Learned from Two Years of ImplementationsTwo years of production SAP Datasphere integrations across SAP and non-SAP sources, settling on Replication Flows over remote access for high-volume Finance analytics because remote queries added latency at query time, then tuning the copy with Datasphere-side partitioning, source-side CDS view optimisation and Cloud Connector sizing. For file-based and Kafka sources, SAP Integration Suite iFlows did work a direct connection could not — flattening nested JSON, PGP decryption and orchestrating the SAP Ariba extraction built on SAP's own BTP Procurement Data Extractor content.saikrishna_kalivarapu2, published 2026-08-17
Connecting Two SAP CAP Projects Without Duplicating Your DataConnecting Two SAP CAP Projects Without Duplicating Your DataCross-container HDI synonyms, argued from the alternatives rather than presented as a recipe: copying the table, standing up an API, or hard-coding the values are the three things the author reports seeing teams do, and each is named as working but unclean. With synonyms in place the consuming project queries the owner's HANA tables through ordinary SQL and ordinary CAP service code, with no replication and nothing to drift between environments. Covers the same ground as Mio Yasutake's 2021 post from a different angle — that one enumerates four topologies, this one argues for one of them.Inderpreet, published 2026-07-08
Integrating Using Google Cloud Storage Adapter (GCP Authentication & adapter config)Integrating Using Google Cloud Storage Adapter (GCP Authentication & adapter config)Walks through connecting SAP Integration Suite's Google Cloud Storage adapter to a bucket: creating a GCP service account with the Storage Object Admin role, generating its JSON or P12 key, converting it into a key-pair alias, and using that alias and the service account email in the adapter's authentication. It covers configuring the receiver adapter's upload operation (directory, object name, content type, and override, ignore or fail handling for an existing file) and the sender adapter's read, including post-processing to archive, delete or keep the object after an iFlow fetches it.MirunaliniV, published 2026-02-20
SAP Developer New, July 3rd 2026SAP Developer New, July 3rd 2026A "Did You Know" segment in this SAP Developer News video walks through schema evolution: CAP's ability to add a new field to an entity, or make a compatible change to an existing one, then redeploy the model with no data loss or manual migration. The rest of the July 2026 episode covers that month's Developer Challenge, a SAP HANA Cloud Q2 release announcement and a UI5 survey call, none explained in substance here.published 2026-07-02
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
Creating Material Master Data in SAP S/4HANA Using RAP and EML .Creating Material Master Data in SAP S/4HANA Using RAP and EML .Builds an unmanaged Transactional model RAP business object for Article (Material) master data on top of the standard interface views I_Product, I_ProductDescription and I_ProductPlant, replacing BAPI_MATERIAL_SAVEDATA with EML operations in the create, update and custom extendplant behaviour methods. A CDS metadata extension adds the Fiori annotations — headerInfo, facets, line items and value helps — that drive the generated Fiori elements UI.Sudhanshu07, published 2026-01-08
Mastering Internal Actions in SAP RAP: Automatic Header Calculation in ABAP CloudMastering Internal Actions in SAP RAP: Automatic Header Calculation in ABAP CloudWalks through a sales-order BDEF where an item-level determination triggers a header-only internal action by EML in local mode, so a quantity or price change recalculates the order total and applies a 10% discount above $10,000 without a UI button or external OData call reaching the logic directly. Argues for an internal action over inline determination code on reusability and separation of concerns: a determination decides when logic runs, the action decides what runs, and marking it internal keeps Fiori Elements and external OData clients from invoking it.sharathtm, published 2026-08-06
ABAP + MCP: Let AI Do Real Development in Your SAP SystemABAP + MCP: Let AI Do Real Development in Your SAP Systemabap-adt-mcp is an open-source MCP server that gives an AI agent full ABAP development capability over ADT: it searches, reads, edits, activates and unit-tests objects, and runs ATC checks, on a connected S/4HANA Cloud or on-premise system, acting as the signed-in developer. It runs on abap-adt-api, the same REST client Eclipse's own ADT tooling uses, and sits beside SAP's own ADT MCP Server, shipped with ADT for VS Code and Eclipse under a different server key, and marianfoo's abap-docs, a read-only server over the ABAP Keyword Documentation and Clean ABAP. Each destination carries a policy — read-only, allowed packages, denied tables and tools — the server checks before every call, and an optional audit file logs each tool call with its outcome and policy gate.Willian_Saez, published 2026-09-03
ABAP development tools for Visual Studio Code: Version 1.1 releasedABAP development tools for Visual Studio Code: Version 1.1 releasedVersion 1.1 of ABAP development tools for Visual Studio Code adds two tools to the extension's local ADT MCP Server: a unified, git-like diff for a transport request, and a runner for ABAP Test Cockpit checks, both meant for an agent to call rather than a person to click through. Both are new instances of what agent access to your code already covers for ABAP — reading and acting on a real system through ADT — reaching now into a transport's changes and a check run rather than only source and objects.thomasalexander_ritter, published 2026-07-21
Claude Code via MCP: Poor man's Joule, or a practical tool?Claude Code via MCP: Poor man's Joule, or a practical tool?The author drives Claude Code against a live ABAP system through vibing-steampunk, an ADT-to-MCP bridge that locks and unlocks objects on the agent's behalf so the model can concentrate on the change: extending an ALV report, turning its SELECT into a CDS view, and answering ad-hoc questions over the report's own data. Where Claude got it wrong — a RAP scaffold missing the fields RAP's locking mechanism needs, ORDER as a reserved word — the piece asks where that knowledge would go as a Skill, and concludes Skills' filesystem basis has no home in a system reached only through MCP.k1000, published 2026-03-08
Claude ported ABAP functions to new APIClaude ported ABAP functions to new APIA first-person account of using Claude Code, driven through the sapcli command line, to install and repair RFC function modules that let a CI pipeline control abapGit and gCTS remotely, rather than treating git as a way to read ABAP source. Instead of trusting a local checkout, Claude read the abapGit login manager class and queried the target system's own type catalogue through sapcli, then used what it found to update a renamed API method and swap a TABLES parameter's structure for the table type BAPIRET2_T.jakub_filak, published 2026-03-16
How to Connect Claude Code to ABAP with Zero-Config MCPHow to Connect Claude Code to ABAP with Zero-Config MCPWalks through wiring Claude Code, via its VS Code extension, to a live SAP system through an ABAP remote-filesystem extension built by Marcello Urbani and its built-in MCP server — a single toggle rather than a hand-rolled Node.js setup — so the agent searches, reads, writes, activates and assigns transports for ABAP objects over the same ADT REST API Eclipse uses, instead of guessing at tables and function modules it has never seen. The demo carries one plain-English prompt through to a real, activated ABAP program on a live S/4HANA system, including a transport-request dialog Claude worked through on its own.Nibedita, published 2026-07-05
SAP's API Policy on AI Agents: What It Prohibits, Allows, and Leaves OpenSAP's API Policy on AI Agents: What It Prohibits, Allows, and Leaves OpenReading SAP's API Policy v.4.2026a and its FAQ against the reference architectures, the piece narrows the widely repeated claim that SAP bans AI to what Section 2.2.2 actually restricts: an agent planning and chaining API calls outside an SAP-endorsed route, closed off further by Section 3's block on bypassing API Controls through custom code. It compares the endorsed and allowed paths — the MCP Gateway on SAP Integration Suite reaching S/4HANA and ECC through RFC-based back ends under a 15-tool, 200,000-token limit, SAP-provided MCP servers through Joule Studio, the A2A protocol, customer-operated MCP servers allowed under FAQ Question 56, and the ADT MCP Server, whose 18 tools work only on development artifacts and are documented as not intended for productive use. It leaves open whether Section 2.2.2 covers ABAP code that calls a model from inside the system, since enforcement is defined at the API-traffic level rather than by a list of tools.published 2026-08-31
The Future of ABAP is Here: VS Code ADT, Zero-Config MCP, and AI Co-pilotsThe Future of ABAP is Here: VS Code ADT, Zero-Config MCP, and AI Co-pilotsA walkthrough of ABAP Development Tools for VS Code's general-availability release: connecting to an on-premise or BTP ABAP system, editing classes, CDS and RAP objects, and turning on the extension's built-in ADT MCP Server. Enabled, it lets a co-pilot such as GitHub Copilot or SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities read code, trace dependencies, and run ABAP Unit and ATC checks against the real system rather than guessing from training data.lpodile, published 2026-06-01
UI5 MCP Server Got Extended for UI Integration Cards GenerationUI5 MCP Server Got Extended for UI Integration Cards GenerationVersion 0.2.1 of the UI5 MCP Server adds three tools for UI Integration Cards: get_integration_cards_guidelines feeds an agent current best practices and API versions, create_integration_card scaffolds a new card project, and run_manifest_validation checks the generated manifest against the schema. The post frames these as closing the same gaps as the server's existing tools — an LLM's outdated or wrong card API knowledge — this time for scaffolding and validating a card rather than a full app.daniel_vladinov, published 2026-01-22
Using Claude for SAP ABAP development on RFC-only / SAProuter systems (even ECC R/3)Using Claude for SAP ABAP development on RFC-only / SAProuter systems (even ECC R/3)vibing-steampunk gives Claude read, search, edit and check access to ABAP source over ADT's REST API, but some SAProuters permit only SAP's native RFC and DIAG routes and block raw HTTP to the ICM, so that link can't reach them even though Eclipse ADT can. Eclipse gets through because it tunnels ADT over RFC through the standard SADT_REST_RFC_ENDPOINT function module instead of HTTP, a path the post traces by capturing a live Eclipse session. adt-rfc-bridge reproduces that tunnel as a local HTTP-to-RFC proxy built on PyRFC, put in front of vsp, and the author reports it working on both S/4HANA and classic ECC/R/3 systems where Eclipse ADT already connects.enrico_andreoli, published 2026-06-09
What’s new in Mobile development kit client 26.9What’s new in Mobile development kit client 26.9This Mobile development kit client 26.9 release note explains that @sap/mdk-mcp-server is now reachable from SAP Business Application Studio's AI chat, giving an assistant real knowledge of the MDK metadata schema rather than generic code generation. With it an assistant can scaffold an MDK project, generate pages, actions, rules, i18n, services and styles into it, iterate on it conversationally, and answer schema and client-API questions inline through mdk-docs.published 2026-09-27
BTP Audit Log MCP Server: Security Monitoring with AI AssistantsBTP Audit Log MCP Server: Security Monitoring with AI AssistantsWouter Lemaire builds an MCP server over SAP BTP's Audit Log Retrieval API using odata-mcp-proxy, with a single entity set and zero custom code, so an AI assistant can answer natural-language questions like "Were there any configuration changes yesterday?" by calling AuditLogRecords_list against a BTP destination authenticated with the Audit Log service's service key. It covers the destination setup, the entity-set configuration that maps the PascalCase entity name to a lowercase auditlogrecords path, and handling the API's 500-record pagination limit.published 2026-03-13
ABAP development tools for Visual Studio Code is now available on the VS Code marketplace!ABAP development tools for Visual Studio Code is now available on the VS Code marketplace!Announces the marketplace release of ABAP development tools for Visual Studio Code, an extension that works against any ABAP system already reachable from ADT for Eclipse and is focused on RAP UI service development, so the Fiori/SAPUI5 frontend and the ABAP backend can be built in the same tool. It ships a built-in ADT MCP Server, disabled by default and switched on from the extension settings, and points readers to a documentation template for capturing ABAP-specific rules in a project's AGENTS.md file for chat agents such as Microsoft Copilot.thomasalexander_ritter, published 2026-06-01
ABAP development tools for Visual Studio Code: Patch 1.0.1 releasedABAP development tools for Visual Studio Code: Patch 1.0.1 releasedA patch to SAP's ABAP development tools for Visual Studio Code, released after two weeks of user feedback: RFC destinations with password logon return, undoing what the first release had dropped, and the extension now ships the AGENTS.md template its documentation already carried, so a project gets agent guidance built in rather than copied by hand. The author still recommends duplicating the template and adding project-specific instructions, since the time spent on that onboarding is what the agent's results depend on.thomasalexander_ritter, published 2026-06-12
Claude Code via MCP: Poor man's Joule, or a practical tool?Claude Code via MCP: Poor man's Joule, or a practical tool?The author drives Claude Code against a live ABAP system through vibing-steampunk, an ADT-to-MCP bridge that locks and unlocks objects on the agent's behalf so the model can concentrate on the change: extending an ALV report, turning its SELECT into a CDS view, and answering ad-hoc questions over the report's own data. Where Claude got it wrong — a RAP scaffold missing the fields RAP's locking mechanism needs, ORDER as a reserved word — the piece asks where that knowledge would go as a Skill, and concludes Skills' filesystem basis has no home in a system reached only through MCP.k1000, published 2026-03-08
From Strategy Doc to Runtime Rule: Embedding SAP AI Standards into Claude CodeFrom Strategy Doc to Runtime Rule: Embedding SAP AI Standards into Claude CodeAn experiment in treating published engineering standards as machine-readable instructions an agent follows while it works, rather than as documents somebody is supposed to have read — hooks and skills wired so the rule applies at the moment code is written. The disclaimer is emphatic and worth carrying: a personal exploration, not an SAP product, not an endorsed approach, and readers are told to verify applicability through official channels. Read as a shape for the idea, not as a standard to adopt.ZYT, published 2026-06-25
Github Copilot VSCode - My Own SAP Development RulesGithub Copilot VSCode - My Own SAP Development RulesOne developer's rule files for Copilot, split by concern rather than kept as one prompt: CAP backend rules, UI5 frontend rules, Jest testing rules and Bruno collection rules, each with a scope narrow enough that an agent cannot read it two ways. The CAP file covers reusable types, managed data, soft-delete behaviour and service conventions; the UI5 file covers naming, view constraints and where annotations may live. It is the rule-file half of agent guidance rather than the skill half — nothing is packaged or published, and the value on offer is the shape of the split.radu_simen, published 2026-02-05
Major New Version of the hana-cli: How It Was Built with the Help of AI (and a Lot of Human Review)Major New Version of the hana-cli: How It Was Built with the Help of AI (and a Lot of Human Review)More features in two months than the previous two years — and the sentence after that is the reason to keep it: quality still needed the human review, and the post is about the rough edges rather than the headline. A maintainer reporting on their own process.thomas_jung, published 2026-03-11
Setting the right expectations around AI for code generation and getting past the inherent limitsSetting the right expectations around AI for code generation and getting past the inherent limitsWritten by somebody who has worked on AI since a thesis on multi-layer perceptrons, and it is about the limits rather than the promise — what transformer-based coding agents can and cannot be expected to do. An argument, not a walkthrough.dirk_roeckmann, published 2026-02-17
Teaching AI Agents Best Practices: A Skills Workspace for CAP DevelopmentTeaching AI Agents Best Practices: A Skills Workspace for CAP DevelopmentStates the gap this capability exists for more precisely than most: an agent already knows CAP well enough to generate models, handlers and deployments, but knowing a framework and following its current practice reliably are different things, because a model defaults to whatever it saw most of during training — which may be outdated, subtly wrong, or simply not how a given team works. Skills are offered as the closing mechanism, and the post describes a workspace pattern rather than a single file, with the architecture claimed to be framework-agnostic.daniel_schlachter, published 2026-06-09
UI5 Plugins for Coding Agents: Now Supporting GitHub CopilotUI5 Plugins for Coding Agents: Now Supporting GitHub CopilotUI5/plugins-coding-agents renames itself from "UI5 Plugins for Claude", since the plugin concept — skills, MCP server, guidelines — was always agent-agnostic, and with v0.1.3 adds GitHub Copilot support alongside Claude Code through Awesome GitHub Copilot. Three skills join the ui5 plugin: ui5-best-practices-integration-cards for UI Integration Card manifest and binding rules, ui5-best-practices-opa5, which uses a TestRecorder to inspect the running app's control tree and generate waitFor snippets, and ui5-best-practices-tables, a selection guide across UI5's table controls. Installing the skills alone, for an agent that reads neither marketplace, still leaves @ui5/mcp-server to be set up by hand.published 2026-06-25
What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – September 2026What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – September 2026The September 2026 release turns CAP services into A2A-callable agents through the new @cap-js/agents plugin, which generates MCP tools from a service's entities and actions, adds an @agent.hitl approval gate and can read an AGENTS.md/SKILL.md pair for custom behaviour. The @cap-js/mcp plugin for Node.js and com.sap.cds:cds-adapter-mcp for Java reach general availability, serving describe, query and call tools over existing CAP authentication and authorisation. It also names capire/skills, SAP's curated skill library that teaches coding agents current CAP practice.published 2026-09-24
Adapting SAP Joule for Purchase Order Creation from an Existing Purchase RequisitionAdapting SAP Joule for Purchase Order Creation from an Existing Purchase RequisitionA custom Joule Agent and Joule Skill, built in Joule Studio, classic edition to extend SAP Joule past its built-in Purchase Order display and change features: a buyer's single sentence naming a Purchase Requisition number becomes a created Purchase Order, with the skill wrapping the Purchase Requisition and Purchase Order OData V4 APIs as Action Packages reached through two destinations. The author anchors the agent's success condition to a PurchaseOrderNumber in the skill's output rather than an HTTP status code, and reports that the Purchase Requisition item structure does not map one-to-one onto the Purchase Order creation payload.jonathanvi59, published 2026-08-19
Agentic AI on BTP: a Multi‑Agent App with Pydantic AIAgentic AI on BTP: a Multi‑Agent App with Pydantic AISplits a single CAP/TypeScript agent that had grown to juggle five BTP MCP servers behind one bloated tool list into btp-multiagent-app, a Python and Pydantic AI rewrite where the Cloud Foundry and BTP Core MCP servers each get a dedicated specialist agent, with an audit log specialist scaffolded but left disabled, behind an orchestrator whose only tools are delegation calls to those specialists, which is the agent-tooling pattern the piece works through. Each specialist authenticates to its MCP server over Streamable HTTP with OAuth 2.1, and a shared module centralises the SAP AI Core GenAI Hub model setup behind two credential layouts, one for local runs and one for the Cloud Foundry service binding, the LLM integration side of the rewrite. Tool lists per agent drop from well over a hundred to a dozen or two, and routing failures become separable from tool-misuse failures by reading the trace.published 2026-05-03
Agentic AI on BTP: a Single Agent with LangGraphAgentic AI on BTP: a Single Agent with LangGraphA CAP TypeScript agent puts a LangGraph StateGraph in front of AzureOpenAiChatClient from @sap-ai-sdk/langchain, reaching SAP AI Core's Generative AI Hub, and lets its tool-calling loop draw on five deployed MCP servers — OData MCP Proxy, CI MCP Server, AI Core MCP Server, BTP MCP Server and BTP CF MCP Server — through @langchain/mcp-adapters' MultiServerMCPClient. Because agent, servers and APIs share one XSUAA tenant, the chat service forwards the signed-in user's own JWT instead of a service account, so each downstream server enforces that user's own authorizations. Past roughly a hundred combined tools the single prompt slows down and stops separating concerns, which is why the author's next post splits it into one specialist agent per MCP server behind an orchestrator.published 2026-05-03
Banking Sentinel: A Multi-Agent Credit-Risk Copilot on SAP BTP, Built on a Mixed AI StackBanking Sentinel: A Multi-Agent Credit-Risk Copilot on SAP BTP, Built on a Mixed AI StackThe risk it is chasing is a graph problem stated in banking terms: a borrower who looks safe alone and is the linchpin of a group ten times the size. Multi-agent, mixed AI stack, on BTP and CAP.Shahid, published 2026-06-24
Banking Sentinel: A Multi-Agent Credit-Risk Copilot on SAP BTP, Built on a Mixed AI Stack
Agent tooling changed in @cap-js/agents 0.9.1, 2026-08-14. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Build Your AI Agent prototype for free using SAP CAP, LangChain and Ollama cloudBuild Your AI Agent prototype for free using SAP CAP, LangChain and Ollama cloudA CAP Node.js service action calls an Ollama-hosted model through LangChain's ChatOllama, with the API key read from a .env file instead of any destination or credential binding — the hand-rolled-key route SAP's own SDK call exists to avoid. The same handler then builds a LangChain agent with createAgent and one mock tool, so a question about restaurants triggers a tool call and any other question does not, independent of the @cap-js/agents plugin's A2A-served harness.rajeevgoswami1, published 2026-08-29
Building a Pro-Code Agent on SAP BTP — Part 2: The Agent (LangGraph + GenAI Hub)Building a Pro-Code Agent on SAP BTP — Part 2: The Agent (LangGraph + GenAI Hub)Part 2 of a three-part series builds a separate, non-CAP Node/TypeScript agent that calls the Part 1 CAP service's MCP tools and reasons through SAP AI Core via @sap-ai-sdk/orchestration, using LangGraph's createAgent ReAct loop for provider-agnostic model calls across GPT, Claude and Gemini deployments. It explains why the tool's Zod schema and model-facing description are the agent's actual contract, the gotcha between a foundation-models deployment and an orchestration-scenario one, and how edge-case testing replaced date inference with a server-computed daysOverdue field after the agent wrongly called a delayed order 'on schedule'.rodfior, published 2026-08-20
Building a Pro-Code Agent on SAP BTP — Part 3: Joule Integration via A2ABuilding a Pro-Code Agent on SAP BTP — Part 3: Joule Integration via A2AThe third instalment of a three-part series deploys an already-built CAP service and LangGraph agent to SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry Runtime, wraps the agent in an A2A protocol server, and registers it with SAP Joule through a capability YAML and the @sap/joule-studio-cli, confirming the chain works end to end inside a real Joule assistant. It covers CAP's default JWT/XSUAA authentication in production, what a test deployment needs to get past it, and the cf push, mbt build and environment wiring that run both apps as separate Cloud Foundry containers. A closing section names what stays unfinished by design — a long-lived AI Core service key, no authentication on the BTP destination, no principal propagation — as the gap between this MVP and a production posture.rodfior, published 2026-08-20
Building an LLM Agent in CAP Java with Spring AIBuilding an LLM Agent in CAP Java with Spring AIThe Java counterpart to the author's own Node.js post, and written as one: connecting to AI Core with the SAP AI SDK, then calling an agent and a tool through Spring AI. Opens with a section on libraries and workflows — which framework does what, and what is left to you — before any code.published 2026-06-08
Building an LLM Agent in CAP Java with Spring AI
Agent tooling changed in @cap-js/agents 0.9.1, 2026-08-14. Affects Runnable code.
Building an LLM Agent using CAPBuilding an LLM Agent using CAPThe argument is that CAP is already most of what an agent framework wants — services, handlers, a typed model — so the agent is built inside it rather than beside it. AI Core through sap-ai-sdk, then Langchain for the agent and its tools. Long, with a TLDR at the top for people who want the shape without the walk.published 2026-05-27
Building an LLM Agent using CAP
Agent tooling changed in @cap-js/agents 0.9.1, 2026-08-14. Affects Runnable code.
Building Custom Joule Skills via RFC: Guide for SAP S/4HANA and ECC IntegrationBuilding Custom Joule Skills via RFC: Guide for SAP S/4HANA and ECC IntegrationWalks a Joule skill from a spoken question about a production order's status to an answer in SAP Build Workzone: a Cloud Connector tunnel and a destination in the BTP cockpit reach the S/4HANA or ECC system, a BAPI/RFC Action Project in SAP Build wraps the BAPI that reads the order, and Joule Studio, classic edition turns the action into a skill and deploys it. Establishing the connection and its destination before the action project exists is RFC connectivity and Destinations done for a low-code consumer rather than a CAP service. The action type here is BAPI/RFC, alongside the OData actions Joule Studio's own entry names.Robin-Qiu, published 2026-04-01
Building Durable AI Agents - Announcing the cds-langgraph-persistence PluginBuilding Durable AI Agents - Announcing the cds-langgraph-persistence PluginThe announcement, and the argument behind it. Treating an agent as a software architecture rather than a model with tools makes a list of production requirements — identity, authn and authz, multitenancy, persistence, event-driven flows, scalability, observability, CI/CD — and the author's point is that CAP already answers most of them for BTP, which is what makes LangGraph inside CAP Node.js worth doing. The post then narrows to one of those requirements, durability, and the checkpointer that supplies it. Written from a year of building agents next to real business systems rather than as a framework tour.merbinjanselm, published 2026-07-15
Building Durable AI Agents - Announcing the cds-langgraph-persistence Plugin
@mi8y/cds-langgraph-persistence has been through 3 major lines since this was published: 0.5 (2026-07), 0.6 (2026-07), 0.7 (2026-09). Affects Runnable code.
Custom Joule Agent for SAP Ariba SLP - Building an AI Agent for Supplier Registration ApprovalCustom Joule Agent for SAP Ariba SLP - Building an AI Agent for Supplier Registration ApprovalBuilds a Joule Studio agent that reviews SAP Ariba SLP supplier registration tasks: four custom skills bind to Ariba's API (pending tasks, task detail, questionnaire answers, post a decision), each needing a precisely configured BTP destination and action, and the agent's own Expertise, Instructions and Additional Context sections carry the domain knowledge, the step order, and the scoring rubrics that decide approve, deny or deny-with-resubmit. The author contrasts this with an earlier hand-wired flow on SAP Build Process Automation, where every connection, variable and error path had to be designed and wired manually.Giancarlo-Martinez, published 2026-04-07
Governance at Scale: Why a Clean Core Is What Makes Agent Governance EnforceableGovernance at Scale: Why a Clean Core Is What Makes Agent Governance EnforceableClosing a six-part clean-core series, the post argues that SAP's two agentic-AI governance mechanisms only work against a documented tool surface: MCP Gateway in SAP Integration Suite auto-translates API specifications into MCP tool schemas augmented with natural-language semantics, carrying forward existing authentication, authorization and rate limiting into the agentic layer, while AI Agent Hub, built on SAP LeanIX, discovers and runs verification assessments on agents, LLMs and MCP servers before the resulting badge is read by Joule Studio or SAP Integration Suite to decide what is trusted. Its argument holds the mechanisms up against an undocumented internal interface, where the auto-generated schema and the verification badge have nothing real underneath them, and against a consolidated CAP service exposing only released APIs, where both do.DEEPA_DORAIRAJ, published 2026-09-21
SAP Agentic AI in Practice: Building the SAP Exception Log Triage Agent (Part 3 of 6)SAP Agentic AI in Practice: Building the SAP Exception Log Triage Agent (Part 3 of 6)Part 3 of a six-part series builds a router agent that classifies incoming SM21 system log errors and SM37 job failures, delegates each to a specialized sub-agent built with LangGraph's create_react_agent, and correlates findings across both logs into a single severity score and escalation list. State moves through a typed dict shared between the router and its sub-agents, with tools that query SAP HANA tables directly; a reactive on-demand mode sits alongside a scheduled monitoring loop that compares error counts to a baseline and escalates automatically past a threshold. The router-plus-sub-agent split carries forward to Part 6, where the same router coordinates the assessment agents built in the series' other parts.DEEPA_DORAIRAJ, published 2026-04-06
SAP JOULE & ME : My First JOULE Skill in SAP EHSM-Incident Management Without CodingSAP JOULE & ME : My First JOULE Skill in SAP EHSM-Incident Management Without CodingWalks through building a transactional Joule Skill in Joule Studio, classic edition without writing code: activating an EHS Incident OData service in SAP S/4HANA, wrapping it as an Action Project with chosen input and output fields, then creating, saving and deploying the skill from those fields. Tested against a live system, the deployed skill lets a user create an EHS incident and list reported incidents through Joule's conversational interface or a configured button.Pardhasaradhi_Reddy_Chelikam, published 2026-01-05
SAP Joule implementation in an S/4HANA private cloud 3 system landscapeSAP Joule implementation in an S/4HANA private cloud 3 system landscapeWalks through enabling SAP Joule across a three-system S/4HANA Private Cloud landscape (DEV, QAS, PRD) rather than the common single-system setup: separate BTP subaccounts for the non-production systems, a shared Cloud Identity Services tenant, and catalogs and roles transported from DEV through QAS to PRD. Covers single sign-on for Joule by setting Microsoft Entra ID as the corporate identity provider in SAP IAS, so authentication flows through Entra ID without the user existing in the IAS store, plus principal propagation through the Cloud Connector into the production backend.Arunrajj, published 2026-01-21
SAP Joule: Invoice Agent for Faster Supplier Invoice Release in SAP S/4HANA Accounts PayableSAP Joule: Invoice Agent for Faster Supplier Invoice Release in SAP S/4HANA Accounts PayableWalks through building an Invoice Release Agent in SAP Joule: a custom OData service surfaces supplier invoices whose S/4HANA Flexible Workflow approval is overdue, the agent ranks them by invoice value, aging, payment tenor or a combined score, and a Joule Skill calls the standard SAP AP Invoice OData API to release them, re-prioritizing the remainder after each action. It sets out the detect-prioritize-act loop and the four ranking criteria in enough detail to rebuild the pattern, and leaves authorization, auditability and segregation-of-duty controls to the reader's own design.idc, published 2026-08-11
SAP's API Policy on AI Agents: What It Prohibits, Allows, and Leaves OpenSAP's API Policy on AI Agents: What It Prohibits, Allows, and Leaves OpenReading SAP's API Policy v.4.2026a and its FAQ against the reference architectures, the piece narrows the widely repeated claim that SAP bans AI to what Section 2.2.2 actually restricts: an agent planning and chaining API calls outside an SAP-endorsed route, closed off further by Section 3's block on bypassing API Controls through custom code. It compares the endorsed and allowed paths — the MCP Gateway on SAP Integration Suite reaching S/4HANA and ECC through RFC-based back ends under a 15-tool, 200,000-token limit, SAP-provided MCP servers through Joule Studio, the A2A protocol, customer-operated MCP servers allowed under FAQ Question 56, and the ADT MCP Server, whose 18 tools work only on development artifacts and are documented as not intended for productive use. It leaves open whether Section 2.2.2 covers ABAP code that calls a model from inside the system, since enforcement is defined at the API-traffic level rather than by a list of tools.published 2026-08-31
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
What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – September 2026What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – September 2026The September 2026 release turns CAP services into A2A-callable agents through the new @cap-js/agents plugin, which generates MCP tools from a service's entities and actions, adds an @agent.hitl approval gate and can read an AGENTS.md/SKILL.md pair for custom behaviour. The @cap-js/mcp plugin for Node.js and com.sap.cds:cds-adapter-mcp for Java reach general availability, serving describe, query and call tools over existing CAP authentication and authorisation. It also names capire/skills, SAP's curated skill library that teaches coding agents current CAP practice.published 2026-09-24
Beyond Basic AI Error Handling in SAP CPI - A Rules-First Architecture with HANA Cloud LearningBeyond Basic AI Error Handling in SAP CPI - A Rules-First Architecture with HANA Cloud LearningBuilds a rules-first error-diagnosis pipeline on Cloud Integration in SAP Integration Suite: a Groovy classifier resolves known failures — auth, timeout, malformed payload — deterministically, and only genuinely novel errors reach an LLM through the AI Adapter, after a sanitizer script replaces every payload leaf value with a typed placeholder before it leaves the tenant. SAP HANA Cloud, reached over JDBC, holds a fingerprinted dedup cache and an accumulating table of past diagnoses. It also documents the AI Adapter configuration — Advanced mode, a Bearer-prefixed Secure Parameter, and a connection/processing URL split — needed to reach a non-SAP OpenAI-compatible endpoint, found by the author to be undocumented.Krishna_Karthik, published 2026-06-11
Connecting SAP Integration Suite with SAP Document AI and SAP Business AIConnecting SAP Integration Suite with SAP Document AI and SAP Business AIWalks through a Cloud Integration flow in SAP Integration Suite that pulls PDF purchase orders from a Gmail mailbox, extracts header and line-item fields through SAP Document AI's job-submission and polling API, and validates the result with SAP AI Core's generative AI hub using GPT-5-mini as a quality check rather than the source of the extracted values. Groovy steps combine the Document AI confidence score and the model's score into one figure that routes low-scoring purchase orders to manual review, with no S/4HANA posting performed.subhojitSaha, published 2026-08-24
Integrate CAP application as outbound channel for SAP Document AIIntegrate CAP application as outbound channel for SAP Document AIDocument AI will call you back when extraction finishes, and the callback is where this goes wrong: the CAP application has to accept an unauthenticated POST from outside without dropping CSRF protection for everything else. The answer is a middleware hooked into the CAP bootstrap, and the post spends its length on the token lifecycle rather than on the extraction.sdeissenboeck, published 2026-04-22
What a Second Document AI Workshop Taught Me About GovernanceWhat a Second Document AI Workshop Taught Me About GovernanceFrom questions raised at a second SAP Document AI workshop: the retention period for extracted data is a setting in the service's administration rather than a fixed property, with the source file deleted after processing and the decommissioning period for the extracted data configured to the customer's own policy. It also draws a boundary readers kept merging: Document AI extracts across languages but does not translate, so turning a document into a reviewer's own language is a separate step, pointing on BTP at SAP Translation Hub.Nicolas_BacaStorni, published 2026-08-25
Why Our First Document AI Exercise Was a Résumé, Not an InvoiceWhy Our First Document AI Exercise Was a Résumé, Not an InvoiceWorking through a SAP Document AI workshop, the author explains why its exercises teach extraction on a résumé before an invoice: a résumé has no stable layout to map fields against, so it forces the point that the tool extracts from a written description of a schema rather than from position-matched templates. Describing the schema is shown to carry real judgment — what a missing end date should become, what a vague field name like "number" costs the model, who in a company should decide these things — and the piece argues that preparing for a project is chiefly a business task of writing down knowledge that otherwise stays in people's heads.Mariano_BacaStorni, published 2026-09-03
Agentic AI on BTP: a Multi‑Agent App with Pydantic AIAgentic AI on BTP: a Multi‑Agent App with Pydantic AISplits a single CAP/TypeScript agent that had grown to juggle five BTP MCP servers behind one bloated tool list into btp-multiagent-app, a Python and Pydantic AI rewrite where the Cloud Foundry and BTP Core MCP servers each get a dedicated specialist agent, with an audit log specialist scaffolded but left disabled, behind an orchestrator whose only tools are delegation calls to those specialists, which is the agent-tooling pattern the piece works through. Each specialist authenticates to its MCP server over Streamable HTTP with OAuth 2.1, and a shared module centralises the SAP AI Core GenAI Hub model setup behind two credential layouts, one for local runs and one for the Cloud Foundry service binding, the LLM integration side of the rewrite. Tool lists per agent drop from well over a hundred to a dozen or two, and routing failures become separable from tool-misuse failures by reading the trace.published 2026-05-03
Agentic AI on BTP: a Single Agent with LangGraphAgentic AI on BTP: a Single Agent with LangGraphA CAP TypeScript agent puts a LangGraph StateGraph in front of AzureOpenAiChatClient from @sap-ai-sdk/langchain, reaching SAP AI Core's Generative AI Hub, and lets its tool-calling loop draw on five deployed MCP servers — OData MCP Proxy, CI MCP Server, AI Core MCP Server, BTP MCP Server and BTP CF MCP Server — through @langchain/mcp-adapters' MultiServerMCPClient. Because agent, servers and APIs share one XSUAA tenant, the chat service forwards the signed-in user's own JWT instead of a service account, so each downstream server enforces that user's own authorizations. Past roughly a hundred combined tools the single prompt slows down and stops separating concerns, which is why the author's next post splits it into one specialist agent per MCP server behind an orchestrator.published 2026-05-03
Autonomous Diagnostics on Kyma Unplugged: Goose + LiteLLM + KRO + SAP AI Core in ProductionAutonomous Diagnostics on Kyma Unplugged: Goose + LiteLLM + KRO + SAP AI Core in ProductionAn in-cluster autonomous diagnostic pipeline on Kyma Unplugged (open-source Kyma, noted to also run on SAP BTP, Kyma runtime): a Goose agent with kubectl access calls SAP AI Core through a LiteLLM proxy, and most of the post is about the quirks of that route — drop_params silently swallowing unrecognised parameters and beta headers, streaming that has to be off when tools are attached, and prompt caching that sits on the Orchestration V2 API rather than the foundation-model path the LiteLLM provider hits. A second Node.js proxy reaches that API, and the author reports caching unconfirmed at production scale, which leaves the roughly $0.004 per static run a target rather than a measured figure. Spend metrics reach SAP Cloud Logging over OTLP through Kyma's Telemetry MetricPipeline while the health analysis itself lands in Kubernetes custom resources read in Busola, and the stack is declared as KRO Resource Group Definitions applied with one Terraform command.quovadis, published 2026-07-09
Banking Sentinel: A Multi-Agent Credit-Risk Copilot on SAP BTP, Built on a Mixed AI StackBanking Sentinel: A Multi-Agent Credit-Risk Copilot on SAP BTP, Built on a Mixed AI StackThe risk it is chasing is a graph problem stated in banking terms: a borrower who looks safe alone and is the linchpin of a group ten times the size. Multi-agent, mixed AI stack, on BTP and CAP.Shahid, published 2026-06-24
Banking Sentinel: A Multi-Agent Credit-Risk Copilot on SAP BTP, Built on a Mixed AI Stack
Agent tooling changed in @cap-js/agents 0.9.1, 2026-08-14. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Beyond Basic AI Error Handling in SAP CPI - A Rules-First Architecture with HANA Cloud LearningBeyond Basic AI Error Handling in SAP CPI - A Rules-First Architecture with HANA Cloud LearningBuilds a rules-first error-diagnosis pipeline on Cloud Integration in SAP Integration Suite: a Groovy classifier resolves known failures — auth, timeout, malformed payload — deterministically, and only genuinely novel errors reach an LLM through the AI Adapter, after a sanitizer script replaces every payload leaf value with a typed placeholder before it leaves the tenant. SAP HANA Cloud, reached over JDBC, holds a fingerprinted dedup cache and an accumulating table of past diagnoses. It also documents the AI Adapter configuration — Advanced mode, a Bearer-prefixed Secure Parameter, and a connection/processing URL split — needed to reach a non-SAP OpenAI-compatible endpoint, found by the author to be undocumented.Krishna_Karthik, published 2026-06-11
Build Your AI Agent prototype for free using SAP CAP, LangChain and Ollama cloudBuild Your AI Agent prototype for free using SAP CAP, LangChain and Ollama cloudA CAP Node.js service action calls an Ollama-hosted model through LangChain's ChatOllama, with the API key read from a .env file instead of any destination or credential binding — the hand-rolled-key route SAP's own SDK call exists to avoid. The same handler then builds a LangChain agent with createAgent and one mock tool, so a question about restaurants triggers a tool call and any other question does not, independent of the @cap-js/agents plugin's A2A-served harness.rajeevgoswami1, published 2026-08-29
Building a Pro-Code Agent on SAP BTP — Part 2: The Agent (LangGraph + GenAI Hub)Building a Pro-Code Agent on SAP BTP — Part 2: The Agent (LangGraph + GenAI Hub)Part 2 of a three-part series builds a separate, non-CAP Node/TypeScript agent that calls the Part 1 CAP service's MCP tools and reasons through SAP AI Core via @sap-ai-sdk/orchestration, using LangGraph's createAgent ReAct loop for provider-agnostic model calls across GPT, Claude and Gemini deployments. It explains why the tool's Zod schema and model-facing description are the agent's actual contract, the gotcha between a foundation-models deployment and an orchestration-scenario one, and how edge-case testing replaced date inference with a server-computed daysOverdue field after the agent wrongly called a delayed order 'on schedule'.rodfior, published 2026-08-20
Building an LLM Agent in CAP Java with Spring AIBuilding an LLM Agent in CAP Java with Spring AIThe Java counterpart to the author's own Node.js post, and written as one: connecting to AI Core with the SAP AI SDK, then calling an agent and a tool through Spring AI. Opens with a section on libraries and workflows — which framework does what, and what is left to you — before any code.published 2026-06-08
Building an LLM Agent in CAP Java with Spring AI
Agent tooling changed in @cap-js/agents 0.9.1, 2026-08-14. Affects Runnable code.
Building an LLM Agent using CAPBuilding an LLM Agent using CAPThe argument is that CAP is already most of what an agent framework wants — services, handlers, a typed model — so the agent is built inside it rather than beside it. AI Core through sap-ai-sdk, then Langchain for the agent and its tools. Long, with a TLDR at the top for people who want the shape without the walk.published 2026-05-27
Building an LLM Agent using CAP
Agent tooling changed in @cap-js/agents 0.9.1, 2026-08-14. Affects Runnable code.
Calling Claude from ABAP: How I Wired SAP AI Core into a Real Business ScenarioCalling Claude from ABAP: How I Wired SAP AI Core into a Real Business ScenarioA proof of concept wiring SAP AI Core's Claude deployment directly into ABAP with no CAP layer between them: two SM59 HTTP destinations, a hand-written OAuth 2.0 client-credentials exchange, and a regex to unwrap Claude's system/messages response envelope. Most of the effort goes into a system prompt that constrains the model to return one fixed JSON schema of filter fields, which ABAP deserialises with /UI2/CL_JSON and exposes through a RAP custom action so a Fiori search field can drive an OData V4 filter.PranayGaroo, published 2026-06-04
cds-toon-ai-protocol-adapter: a pragmatic way to cut AI token costs using SAP CAPcds-toon-ai-protocol-adapter: a pragmatic way to cut AI token costs using SAP CAPNames a cost most CAP-plus-LLM writing ignores: every JSON payload streamed to a model is billed by its verbosity, in latency as well as money. The plugin brings TOON — Token-Oriented Object Notation — to a CAP service so the wire format changes without the service code doing so, in a REST variant and an OData one, with token counts reported on both sides.published 2026-01-25
Connecting SAP Integration Suite with SAP Document AI and SAP Business AIConnecting SAP Integration Suite with SAP Document AI and SAP Business AIWalks through a Cloud Integration flow in SAP Integration Suite that pulls PDF purchase orders from a Gmail mailbox, extracts header and line-item fields through SAP Document AI's job-submission and polling API, and validates the result with SAP AI Core's generative AI hub using GPT-5-mini as a quality check rather than the source of the extracted values. Groovy steps combine the Document AI confidence score and the model's score into one figure that routes low-scoring purchase orders to manual review, with no S/4HANA posting performed.subhojitSaha, published 2026-08-24
Enhancing Enterprise Applications: AI-powered User Experience with SAP CAP AI PluginEnhancing Enterprise Applications: AI-powered User Experience with SAP CAP AI PluginStarts from the blank form nobody wants to fill in, and asks what an enterprise application should do about it. The AI is in service of that rather than the subject of it.published 2026-04-29
Integrating a Custom AI Model into SAP CAP Using AI LaunchpadIntegrating a Custom AI Model into SAP CAP Using AI LaunchpadYour own model rather than a hosted one: deployed to AI Core, made callable through AI Launchpad, then reached from CAP. The case a lot of companies ask about and few posts cover.egeAksoyek, published 2026-03-20
Integrating a Custom AI Model into SAP CAP Using AI Launchpad
LLM integration changed in @cap-js/ai 1.0.0, 2026-04-28. Affects Runnable code.
Michael Jackson: AI Cognitive Pipeline on SAP BTP, SAP CAP, ElevenLabs, Claude, HANA DB, SolaceMichael Jackson: AI Cognitive Pipeline on SAP BTP, SAP CAP, ElevenLabs, Claude, HANA DB, SolaceA pipeline that listens to a song, identifies the historical events it references, retrieves knowledge about each and builds an emotional arc across the whole track. Not an enterprise use case, and useful precisely for that: the plumbing — CAP, HANA, Solace, Claude, ElevenLabs — is doing something the vendor demos never ask of it.Shahid, published 2026-05-18
Natural Language Queries for SAP CAP via MCP: The LLM Translates, CDS ExecutesNatural Language Queries for SAP CAP via MCP: The LLM Translates, CDS ExecutesThe division of labour is the argument, and it is in the subtitle: the model turns English into a CDS query and CDS runs it, so nothing generates SQL and nothing hallucinates a join. Schema annotations do the resolving. Long, with the package, the repository and the MCP registry entry all linked.Shahid, published 2026-06-25
SAP Integration Suite: Intelligent Integration with AI AdapterSAP Integration Suite: Intelligent Integration with AI AdapterThe AI Adapter adds generative AI as a receiver step inside a Cloud Integration flow, connecting through either AICore-GenAIHub — a single API onto SAP AI Core's Generative AI Hub and its foundation models — or Custom-OpenAI-Rest, a plain REST call out to a provider such as OpenAI. SAP Integration Suite starts the call from the iFlow and feeds the model's response into the next step, which is the mechanics behind the sentiment-analysis, summarisation and routing use cases the piece lists without walking through any one of them.meena_choudhary, published 2026-01-28
UI5 AI Features library is now an npm PackageUI5 AI Features library is now an npm PackageThe release note for a demo turning into a dependency, and it is explicit about why that matters: the earlier version worked, but using it meant cloning the repo and copying both halves, which stops working the moment one of them changes. The post walks through what shipping the CAP plugin and the be.wl.ai control library in one npm version buys — a client and server contract that cannot drift — then lists the eleven controls by group, shows the two-line configuration that activates each half, and notes that this version is actually deployed on BTP behind both a standalone approuter and Work Zone. It closes on the demo repository, written with no library source in it as the test that the package stands alone.published 2026-08-31
UI5 AI Features library is now an npm Package
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UI5 MCP Server Got Extended for UI Integration Cards GenerationUI5 MCP Server Got Extended for UI Integration Cards GenerationVersion 0.2.1 of the UI5 MCP Server adds three tools for UI Integration Cards: get_integration_cards_guidelines feeds an agent current best practices and API versions, create_integration_card scaffolds a new card project, and run_manifest_validation checks the generated manifest against the schema. The post frames these as closing the same gaps as the server's existing tools — an LLM's outdated or wrong card API knowledge — this time for scaffolding and validating a card rather than a full app.daniel_vladinov, published 2026-01-22
What an AI infra engineer sees when opening SAP's AI stack (1/3): the model gatewayWhat an AI infra engineer sees when opening SAP's AI stack (1/3): the model gatewayA first look at SAP AI Core's Generative AI Hub from someone who builds gateways outside SAP for a living: the orchestration service harmonizes provider calls onto one API (a model name string switches providers, and SAP Note 3437766 carries the current model list, token rates and deprecation dates), runs a fixed, non-reorderable module pipeline — templating, masking through SAP Data Privacy Integration, grounding, content filtering, then the model call — and retries down an ordered fallback list whose entries can each carry their own model and rules. It places @sap-ai-sdk/orchestration among the official JavaScript, Java and Python SDKs, and notes SAP's own LiteLLM provider as a way to put a different gateway in front of it.amishkush, published 2026-09-30
What Happens to Your Data When You Enable SAP's AI Features?What Happens to Your Data When You Enable SAP's AI Features?Traces where a prompt goes when Joule, the Generative AI Hub or the orchestration service calls a third-party model through SAP AI Core: the prompt and the business context around it travel to a model such as GPT-4o, Claude or Gemini for inference, and masking through SAP Data Privacy Integration is an optional orchestration module rather than a default, so with no masking block in the @sap-ai-sdk/orchestration client config nothing is masked. On the masking options, which the author says he confirmed with SAP AI Core product management, anonymization discards the original value and pseudonymization keeps it reversible; DPI recognizes person names, email addresses and phone numbers, plus custom entities defined by regex, which leaves commercially sensitive non-PII such as a revenue forecast or a project codename to pass through unless someone writes a pattern for it, and whether that data is covered at all is one of three answers the post marks as still pending. The "no training" assurance for third-party providers is read as contractual rather than technical, and models hosted and managed by SAP, Mistral among them, are named as a path other than a US-hyperscaler-hosted one.jaripie, published 2026-04-23
Decision Logic Modernization in SAP Integrations: Using SAP-RPT-1 for Intelligent Routing DecisionsDecision Logic Modernization in SAP Integrations: Using SAP-RPT-1 for Intelligent Routing DecisionsWalks through embedding SAP-RPT-1 — SAP's foundation model for classification and regression over tabular ERP data, hosted on SAP AI Core — into a Cloud Integration flow that picks the optimal 3PL logistics partner for an outbound delivery. The iflow sends historical deliveries from SAP HANA Cloud plus the new delivery as context rows to the model's in-context learning, with no training step, and routes on the returned prediction and confidence score, the mechanism predictive models's core coverage describes for SAP-RPT-1. The author is explicit that SAP-RPT-1 differs from general-purpose language models trained on text, which keeps this apart from an LLM-integration scenario.arunmaarirajha_kv, published 2026-02-16
SAP-RPT-1.5 Is Now Generally Available: More Accurate Predictions, Better Explainability, What's NewSAP-RPT-1.5 Is Now Generally Available: More Accurate Predictions, Better Explainability, What's NewAnnounces general availability of SAP-RPT-1.5, the next release of SAP's foundation model for predictive models over tabular enterprise data: in-context classification and regression with no training step, now with stronger accuracy on high-cardinality columns, a maximum API batch of 512 rows (up from 128), and an "explain by example" mode that surfaces the historical rows that most influenced a prediction rather than ranking feature importance alone. Two variants ship, a default model and a -large model recommended past 100 columns or where accuracy is the priority, and the post previews a coming "tabular orchestration" workflow, targeted for general availability in August 2026, that is meant to select the relevant context rows from millions of historical records automatically.RanjeetKr, published 2026-08-14
A Use Case for HANA Cloud Knowledge Graph: AI‑Driven Tender AnalysisA Use Case for HANA Cloud Knowledge Graph: AI‑Driven Tender AnalysisMatching unstructured text against internal data, using both HANA engines at once — the Knowledge Graph for the relationships and the Vector Engine for similarity — with CAP holding the application and its data. Notes that the Knowledge Graph Engine is off by default and has to be enabled when the instance is created, which is the kind of thing that stops a weekend.giacomo_dantonio, published 2026-03-19
Michael Jackson: AI Cognitive Pipeline on SAP BTP, SAP CAP, ElevenLabs, Claude, HANA DB, SolaceMichael Jackson: AI Cognitive Pipeline on SAP BTP, SAP CAP, ElevenLabs, Claude, HANA DB, SolaceA pipeline that listens to a song, identifies the historical events it references, retrieves knowledge about each and builds an emotional arc across the whole track. Not an enterprise use case, and useful precisely for that: the plumbing — CAP, HANA, Solace, Claude, ElevenLabs — is doing something the vendor demos never ask of it.Shahid, published 2026-05-18
ABAP + MCP: Let AI Do Real Development in Your SAP SystemABAP + MCP: Let AI Do Real Development in Your SAP Systemabap-adt-mcp is an open-source MCP server that gives an AI agent full ABAP development capability over ADT: it searches, reads, edits, activates and unit-tests objects, and runs ATC checks, on a connected S/4HANA Cloud or on-premise system, acting as the signed-in developer. It runs on abap-adt-api, the same REST client Eclipse's own ADT tooling uses, and sits beside SAP's own ADT MCP Server, shipped with ADT for VS Code and Eclipse under a different server key, and marianfoo's abap-docs, a read-only server over the ABAP Keyword Documentation and Clean ABAP. Each destination carries a policy — read-only, allowed packages, denied tables and tools — the server checks before every call, and an optional audit file logs each tool call with its outcome and policy gate.Willian_Saez, published 2026-09-03
Building MCP Servers with SAP Integration Suite: What to Design, Not Just How to ConnectBuilding MCP Servers with SAP Integration Suite: What to Design, Not Just How to ConnectArgues that the tool design, not the connection, is the hard part of putting an API in front of an agent. Works one request — create a customer — through eight endpoint-shaped tools, where the agent carries ids between calls and rebuilds the business rules each run, then through a single intent-shaped create_customer that hides the sequence; and says what separates the two: a business operation for a name, parameters a caller can supply without a lookup, the rules in the server rather than the prompt, and a description written for an agent choosing a tool. The SAP Integration Suite half is short — three creation paths, an iFlow behind the API artifact when a tool has to cross systems — and it closes on a checklist to run before publishing.published 2026-07-07
From SAP Integration Suite iFlow to MCP Tools: Exposing OData APIs to AI AgentsFrom SAP Integration Suite iFlow to MCP Tools: Exposing OData APIs to AI AgentsBuilds an MCP Server artifact inside SAP Integration Suite's Integration Cell runtime that fronts a Northwind OData V4 API through a Cloud Integration iFlow, turning each OpenAPI operation into a tool an agent can call. Walks through the OAuth2 client-credentials flow against XSUAA and the authorization policy scope — ESBMessaging.send in place of the default API.invoke — that gates access to the MCP server, then tests the server from Claude Code.published 2026-07-14
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