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Status Future consideration
Workspace watsonx Code Assistant Ideas
Components watsonx Code Assistant (general)
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 4, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Enable WatsonX Code Assistant (WCA) to support MCP servers

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an emerging open standard that enables AI assistants to retrieve structured, contextual information from external sources—such as CMSs, bug trackers (e.g., Jira, Confluence), database schemas, UI design tools (e.g., Figma), and other project- or client-specific systems.

Adding MCP support would allow WCA to dynamically fetch relevant, contextual information from any MCP-compliant server—including those hosted in private, on-premise, or otherwise restricted environments. Since WCA runs locally on the developer’s machine, it is uniquely positioned to access internal resources that may not be reachable from cloud-hosted platforms like WatsonX.

Many tools, including Continue.dev and Cursor, already support MCP. A growing list of compatible servers can be found at https://mcpservers.org.

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  • Admin
    Matt Rodkey
    Jun 18, 2025

    The next generation of WCA which is targeted for 2H25 will be agentic and will support MCP. More details to come in the coming weeks/months

    Reply
  • Guest
    Jun 10, 2025

    My team is interested in this feature as well. Thanks for creating this request.

    Reply
  • Guest
    Jun 9, 2025

    MCP has reached critical mass and quickly garnered support by many major platforms and all major LLM providers. In order to continue to have WCA be relevant and IBM Software developers remain competitive, MCP must be included in our tooling.

    Reply
  • Guest
    Jun 4, 2025

    I think it's a good idea. Support for MCP and A2A is likely to become standard.
    For IBM, which places a strong emphasis on openness, actively aligning its services with open standards is considered a highly important initiative.

    Reply

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