Starting MindsDB's MCP API - Mindsdb

This sections provides instructions on how to start MindsDB with its MCP API enabled.

Enable MindsDB as an MCP Server

Install MindsDB locally via Docker or Docker Desktop.
The MCP API is enabled by default, as part of the HTTP API, at path /mcp/.

To enable the HTTP API explicitly, you can use the MINDSDB_APIS environment variable:

bash

export MINDSDB_APIS='http,mysql'

Or, specify it when starting MindsDB:

bash

python -m mindsdb --api http,mysql

<Tip> If this is your first time using MindsDB, make sure to [connect your data source](/mindsdb_sql/sql/create/database) and/or [upload files](/mindsdb_sql/sql/create/file), so that you can ask questions over your data as shown in the following steps.

To get you started quickly, use our sample dataset that stores the sales manager data.

sql

CREATE DATABASE sales_manager_data
WITH ENGINE = "postgres",
PARAMETERS = {
    "user": "demo_user",
    "password": "demo_password",
    "host": "samples.mindsdb.com",
    "port": "5432",
    "database": "sales_manager_data"
};

</Tip>

MindsDB's MCP server is available at localhost:47334/mcp/sse.