Connect an AI agent (MCP) — What an MCP connection is

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard AI assistants use to call external tools. RowFold serves it at /mcp, and the read tools it offers are the same ones RowFold's own Ask panel uses — not a separate, simpler API. That matters for one reason above all: totals are computed in the database. When your assistant asks for “the total value of open deals”, it gets an exact filtered aggregate, not a guess summed from a page of rows. Connections are read-only unless you say otherwise. Ticking allow record writes at creation adds four more tools — create, update, trash and restore — which run the very same checks as RowFold's own confirmed AI edits: field permissions, the posting seal, and lifecycle rules, applied per record, with refusals skipped and the reason named. Every write tool has a dry-run preview, and updates hand back each record's previous values so the agent can undo its own change.