How We Built the Airbyte Agent MCP Server and CLI
Pedro Lopez
- When
- Tuesday, June 303:45 PM – 4:05 PM · 20 min
- Where
- Expo Stage 1 NESan Francisco, CA · imported from ai.engineer's public schedule feed
About this session
Agents need a reliable way to reach live business data. At Airbyte we built two interfaces for that, and this session is how.
Cam built much of that surface. He covers the MCP server that exposes hundreds of sources through one endpoint with managed auth, and the CLI that's designed for agent harnesses rather than humans, with embedded help, packaged agent skills, and no credentials passed over the command line. Expect the real engineering: why a CLI turned out to fit autonomous agents better than the API or SDK, how auth works across the layers, and the tradeoffs the team made along the way.
Come if you're building agent tooling or thinking about how to expose your own systems to agents cleanly.
Speaker
Senior Software Engineer, Airbyte
Pedro S. Lopez is a Senior Software Engineer at Airbyte. His WF26 talk focuses on how Airbyte built its Agent MCP Server and CLI for agent-oriented data integration workflows.
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- Schedule XMLfrab / pentabarf — the format conference apps import./aie-worldsfair-2026-import/feed.xml
- MCP + RESTPoint Claude at the programme. OpenAPI 3.1 included./agents
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