AI agent tools

AI agent tools give your agents practical capabilities beyond text generation, like searching documents, querying databases, calling REST APIs, or executing custom code.

Use pre-configured managed MCP servers for immediate access to Databricks data, use external MCP servers to connect to third-party APIs, or build custom tools for specialized business logic.

Explore these common tool patterns and implementation examples:

• • Work with structured data
  • Read structured data in Unity Catalog tables.
• • Retrieve unstructured data
  • Connect agents to vector search indexes to query unstructured data.
• • Connect to external MCP servers
  • Securely connect to MCP servers outside of Databricks to query external APIs and access third-party MCP tools.
• • Run custom business logic
  • Build a custom MCP server with your own tools.
• • AI tools using Unity Catalog functions (legacy)
  • Legacy, no longer recommended.