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Give Your AI Agent Some Tools: Introducing the UI5 MCP ServerpublishedAnnounces @ui5/mcp-server, SAP's open-source MCP server for UI5 development, and walks through its initial six tools. get_project_info, get_api_reference and run_ui5_linter (which applies UI5 linter fixes) read the project's own version, manifest and code rather than an LLM's training data, which is what agent access to your code explains. create_ui5_app scaffolds a new JavaScript or TypeScript project, standalone or inside an existing CAP application, from templates with pre-configured OData model setups, which is generators.Blog,
UI5 MCP Server Got Extended for UI Integration Cards GenerationpublishedVersion 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 The post frames these as closing the same gaps as the server's existing tools — an LLM's outdated or wrong card API knowledge — this time for scaffolding and validating a card rather than a full app.Blog,
Agent access to your codecoverage by ecosystem, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): removed the tool count and the two absence claims about who has built something.Capability,
Agent guidancecoverage by ecosystem, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): docs/WRITING.md §3 rules out provider counts and absence claims in every capability field.Capability,
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Document extractioncoverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): removed the provider-count and absence claims (docs/WRITING.md §3); the states are unchanged.Capability,
Documentationcore coverage, coverage by ecosystem, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): absence claims about providers go stale as providers arrive. The flavor states are unchanged.Capability,
LLM integrationcoverage by ecosystem, core coverage, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note claimed who provides the capability behind this flavor, which moves with the corpus. The flavor state is unchanged.Capability,
Yesterday
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UI5 Plugins for Coding Agents: Now Supporting GitHub CopilotpublishedUI5/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.Blog,
Agent access to your codecoverage by ecosystem revisedRewritten at the maintainer's request (2026-10-25): what SAP ships named whole, and what the community adds written from what its ABAP MCP servers state about how they run, connect and sign in.Capability,
Sat 24
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btp-agentadded to the atlasLangGraph agent and UI5 chat screen over four BTP MCP serversSample,
Mon 19
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AI-assisted SAP development with MCPpublishedA 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.Talk,
Beyond copilots: Agentic development with SAPUI5publishedDevtoberfest 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.Talk,
Bring "developers.sap.com" Into Your Dev Environment: SAP Developer Context for AI Coding AgentspublishedDevtoberfest 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.Talk,
Bringing SAP themes to any web app with coding agentspublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session from SAP's UI theme designer team, in two halves. The first is how an SAP theme is built: seven reference tokens, the main tokens that carry the semantics, component tokens such as the emphasized button background, and derived tokens for states like hover — the inheritance chain that makes theming hard to follow by eye, and the reason a custom theme always derives from an SAP base theme. The second installs SAP/ui-theme-designer-plugins-for-coding-agents in Claude Code and has it apply SAP design tokens to a login screen built with a non-SAP component library, then make the page themeable from a theme root and a theme URL parameter; the design-tokens skill npm-installs the theming content to read current parameter values, and the help skill fetches the UI theme designer help pages at query time. The presenters state the skills are not limited to SAPUI5 and run in any coding agent that reads skills.Talk,
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Intelligent App Development at Scale: SAP Fiori Elements + ABAP Development Tools for VS CodepublishedA 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.Talk,
Real Pro-Code Development with Joule StudiopublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 AI-track session that runs one agent build across both of Joule Studio's paths. Playing a procurement manager, one presenter states the intent in the browser, answers the clarifying questions, watches the fit-gap analysis name the S/4HANA APIs the use case needs, and pushes the intent and requirements document to GitHub; the other clones it and carries on in a terminal, logging in with the jl command line against her landscape URL and running its init command to fetch Joule Studio's skills for OpenCode. From there the coding agent writes the specification, the discovered API specifications, the MCP translation and the agent's Python file with its model configuration and evaluation scenarios, which is the edge to Agent tooling; the skills themselves, which SAP says not to edit but which a developer may add to, are the edge to Agent guidance.Talk,
vscode-ui5-api-referenceadded to the atlasVS Code side bar view of the SAPUI5 and OpenUI5 API referenceIDE extension,
secondsky/sap-skillstype properties, flavors revisedRead today in the two plugins that answer the CAP and the UI5 door, which the ABAP pass had not opened. The sap-cap-capire skill's frontmatter states that it covers Node.js and Java runtimes, so CAP's two flavors rest on the maintainer's sentence where the entry previously answered in both by the serves-another-door fallback, which is the same reading off an absence. The sapui5 skill's frontmatter names freestyle apps and Fiori elements apps in one clause, so freestyle is stated, and fiori-elements moves onto that sentence from the README line about which request activates sap-fiori-tools, which said what triggers a plugin rather than what it covers. Nothing read names UI5 Web Components, so that flavor stays unstated. Stating freestyle changes an answer: the entry answered no there while it stated one UI5 flavor and now answers yes, which a reader comparing that flavor's options will see. The ABAP pair is unchanged.Skill,
Werkbankprovides revisedWhat Werkbank adds for ABAP, CAP and UI5 is its catalog of development skills; the workspace itself is not specific to any of those stacks. Agent workspaces is narrowed back to BTP.Desktop app,
Sun 18
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SAP Developers MCPadded to the atlasHosted MCP server of developers.sap.com tutorials and missionsMCP server,
SAP Developers MCPentry revisedNEIGHBOURS §5.1 named the hosted MCP as a companion to index as an artifact, and the graph had no entry for it. ecosystem: umbrella because its content covers SAP technologies across stacks (llms.txt names ABAP Cloud, CAP, Fiori, HANA Cloud and integration) and no single door holds it. No read_only: the anonymous mounts are read-only, but the signed-in tier writes progress (complete_step). No tool_count: the quickstart and the API page list different tools per mount. The site also serves a GraphQL API, not recorded as an interface here for want of a page read. /mcp/homepage is left out of the description: the quickstart lists it as anonymous and the API page as signed-in.MCP server,
Sat 17
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abap2UI5/samples-controlsadded to the atlasUI5 Demo Kit samples rebuilt as abap2UI5 appsSample,
SAP-samples/digital-manufacturing-extension-samplesadded to the atlasSamples for the six extension types of SAP Digital ManufacturingSample,
A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 1/3explains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 2/3explains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
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A ChatGPT-like chat app built with modern SAP technologies (CAP, SAPUI5) – Part 3/3explains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Agentic Engineering for SAP BTP Extensionsexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Reference architecture,
Develop a Full-Stack CAP Application Following SAP BTP Developer's Guideexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Workshop,
Evaluating SAP’s new MCP servers: UI5, CAP, and Fiori tools in practiceexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
From SEGW and Legacy UI5 to RAP with ARC-1explains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Github Copilot VSCode - My Own SAP Development Rulesexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
How I Use AI for Development and Why Context Mattersexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Integrate Document Information Extraction into UI5 applicationexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
OData to outcomes—Build AI-enabled SAP Fiori apps using SAP Fiori elementsexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Talk,
SAP Fiori Tools Update – First Release of the SAP Fiori MCP Server for Agentic AIexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
UI5 AI Features library is now an npm Packageexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Thu 15
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Agentic Engineering for SAP BTP ExtensionspublishedAn 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.Reference architecture,
Werkbankadded to the atlasLocal desktop workspace for AI conversations with SAP connectorsDesktop app,
Agent access to your codeframing by ecosystem revisedBeside Agent access to your systems, the ABAP door read as two names for one thing. This one is about the code, development objects reached through ADT; that one is about business data and operations. The atlas maintainer's decision.Capability,
Agent guidancecoverage by ecosystem, framing by ecosystem, facets, coverage by flavor, framing by flavor revisedskillOverflow entered on 2026-09-18, after this flavor was assessed, serves the UI5 door and states no flavor, so by the flavor rule it answers in all of them. Its own skill list names SAPUI5 data binding, custom controls, i18n and testing and nothing about the component library, so it is reported as a fallback rather than read as a community presence here. Saying so is what keeps core-only honest beside the options the page lists.Capability,
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DanKromp/skillOverflowprovides revisedThe entry's own prose said the collection covers UI5 and Fiori work and the edge cited only the total count. The UI5 pass needed to know what that coverage is, because this entry states no flavor and so answers in all of a door's flavors; the two rows name the skills the fallback rests on, which is what the capability's freestyle and web-components readings now cite.Skill,
LLM integrationcore coverage, coverage by flavor, framing by flavor, facets revisedTwo questions the options here answer differently and the page could not show. Which models an option reaches is the first fact a reader needs, because all but one of the CAP options are clients of SAP AI Core; whether the response can be streamed decides whether a chat surface is possible at all. Both are scoped to cap: the ABAP, UI5 and BTP options were not read for them in this pass.Capability,
SAP Power for Kiroprovides, description revisedThe entry said it is packaged as a Kiro power and not how it gets there or which Kiro it needs; the README read on 2026-10-15 states both.Skill,
SAP/ui-theme-designer-plugins-for-coding-agentsprovides, description revisedThe plugin's own README read on 2026-10-15 lists parameter inheritance beside component consumption in the design-tokens skill, and the entry said nothing about how the plugin gets in front of an agent. Both are facts a reader needs before the parameter mapping is any use to them.Skill,
secondsky/sap-skillslinks, flavors, requires, provides, description revisedThe same correction as description.what_it_solves, on the edge that carries this artifact's answer to the capability, so the two do not state the repository's evidence model differently. The rewording also removes the two em dashes the prose scan reported in this field.Skill,
ui5-cap-ai-featuresprovides[llm-integration], requires[sap-ai-sdk-orchestration] revisedThe edge read as an unconditional prerequisite while this entry's own when_not_to_use already said the package is an optional peer. The README states it in one sentence, quoted now: a frontend-only install does not need it and a backend project installs it explicitly, which is the distinction a reader deciding what to add to package.json needs. The edge to the HTML5 Application Repository is untouched; nothing was read for it in this pass.CDS plugin,
UI5/plugins-coding-agentsprovides, description revisedThe old sentence named one marketplace and pointed at an installation guide without saying what it contains. The plugin READMEs read on 2026-10-15 state three routes, including a Copilot marketplace the entry did not mention, and state that the skills-only route leaves the UI5 MCP server to be installed by hand. That last fact changes what a reader gets, since the entry's own warning already turns on which server reads the project.Skill,
Werkbankecosystem revisedThe project homepage describes "A small, curated shelf of MCP servers and SAP development skills." Its own catalog spans ABAP (ARC-1 and ABAP Cloud), CAP (CAP Upgrade), and UI5 skills; the workspace is not specific to one stack. This intake follows the maintainer’s explicit request after the September source sweep passed it over for lacking a workspace capability; that concern now exists as Agent workspaces. The served views describe which users the project-owned install catalog addresses. Werkbank provides the workspace; each selected connector or skill supplies the stack-specific behavior. No SAP implementation capability is attributed to Werkbank itself.Desktop app,
Wed 14
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Agent access to your codenormative relevance revisedThe policy's agentic provision reaches every server that calls ADT for an agent; it was stated on arc-1 alone and as unsourced prose in several boundaries.Capability,
LLM integrationcoverage by flavor revisedThe PromptInput page no longer carries the sentence this rested on. Read again on 2026-10-14 it states "The @ui5/webcomponents-ai package is under development and considered experimental - components' APIs are subject to change. Furthermore, the package supports Horizon themes only", with no version marker in it. The since-2.0 claim had no second source, so it goes rather than stand unsourced; the experimental state and the Horizon-only limit stay, in the words the page now uses, which are the words coverage_by_ecosystem.ui5 already quoted. The flavor's own assessment of who provides it was not redone, so assessed_at stands.Capability,
Sun 11
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OData to outcomes—Build AI-enabled SAP Fiori apps using SAP Fiori elementspublishedA 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.Talk,
Fri 9
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scaffold-fiori-ai-bridgeadded to the atlasAgent skill generating a Joule Frontend Actions bridge for UI5 appsSkill,
Agent guidanceecosystems revisedSAP Commerce opened as a product door (docs/concepts/product-doors.md, ADR-0033) and sap-commerce-skill entered behind it with no tile to sit under. Packaged knowledge for the Commerce type system, service layer, ImpEx and OCC API is the same concern the node already holds on four doors, so the key was added rather than the capability forked.Capability,
scaffold-fiori-ai-bridgeentry revisedA repository new to the SAP AI Skills Library registry snapshot of 2026-10-09, with no prior processed record in the collection cache, registering one skill at skills/Scaffold-fiori-ai-bridge. Written from the repository's README and that skill's own SKILL.md; hard rule 7: skills are indexed, never authored here. Placed behind the UI5 door because the files it reads and writes are a UI5 application's, with Joule and WebMCP as the consumers it generates for.Skill,

Tue 29
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sap-fiori-guidelinesadded to the atlasAgent skill built from the Fiori Design GuidelinesSkill,
sap-fiori-guidelinesentry revisedRead out of the SAP AI Skills Library repository, which the atlas holds as source:sap-ai-skills-library rather than as an artifact because the registry keeps other people's code in their own repositories. This skill is SAP's own code in that repository, so it is entered from its SKILL.md, README and references directory, as plugins/aicore-skills was on 2026-09-25. Hard rule 7: skills are indexed, never authored here.Skill,
Sun 27
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Documentationcore coverage revisedPackage pass 2026-09-27: the capability had no paragraph and no source at all.Capability,
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