# MCP Toolbox for Databases MCP Server

MCP Toolbox for Databases enables your agent to connect to your database.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/database-toolbox/toolbox/toolbox:0.31.0` on oci. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**328 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### feat: Add policy-based automatic PII detection and dynamic masking

## Feature Request

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
Enterprises using MCP Toolbox to connect AI agents to databases face significant privacy compliance challenges (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, etc.) when query results contain personally identifiable information (PII). While MCP Toolbox provides secure access controls, it lacks intelligent output filtering to automatically detect and mask PII in query results before they reach LLMs or applications.

## Describe the soluti

[Read the thread](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues/3373) · 2026-06-06 · open · outside contributor · 17 comments

### Using ToolboxClient from an ADK agent

### Prerequisites

- [x] Search the [current open issues](https://github.com/googleapis/genai-toolbox/issues)

### Question

I am currently running MCP Toolbox (v0.9.0) on Cloud Run utilising toolbox-core (v0.4.0) within an ADK agent which is deployed to Agent Engine. 

When using locally with adk web as well as when deployed to Agent Engine and Agentspace everything  works when using the ToolboxSyncClient and auth_methods.get_google_id_token methods.

When it is deployed I am seeing some weird 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues/955) · 2025-07-22 · closed · external user · 16 comments

### MCP OAuth flow ignores PRM authorization_servers and user is redirected to <mcp_host>/authorize → 404

### Prerequisites

- [x] I've searched the current open issues
- [x] I've updated to the latest version of Toolbox

### Toolbox version

1.2.0

### Environment

- **MCP server**: `googleapis/mcp-toolbox` v1.2.0 with `--prebuilt=looker` configured in EKS
- **Authorization server**: Looker (`https://<authorization_server_url>.com`)
- **Reproduction date**: 2026-05-22

```
prm.json: |
    {
      "resource": "https://<mcp_resource_url>/mcp",
      "authorization_servers": ["https://<authorization_s

[Read the thread](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues/3278) · 2026-05-22 · open · external user · 15 comments

### Validating parameters before hitting the query

### Prerequisites

- [x] Search the [current open issues](https://github.com/googleapis/genai-toolbox/issues)

### Question

As in most real world consumption of this project, LLMs will be used to trigger these tools. LLMs might pick incorrect parameter or we might want to alter the parameters on some conditions. In a fastmcp implementation, we can put the validation/alteration inside the tool but here as only queries can be fired, what's the best place to put the validation/alteration in? Pleas

[Read the thread](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues/708) · 2025-06-13 · closed · external user · 14 comments

### Support  usage of `parameters` fields with non-filtering parameters

### Prerequisites

- [x] I've searched the current open issues
- [x] I've updated to the latest version of Toolbox

### Toolbox version

0.4.0+binary.linux.amd64.0.4.0.4ed16ccd18768ac02402356f9660526b3452418b

### Environment

1. Linux aaronpc2025 6.8.0-59-generic #61-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Apr 11 23:16:11 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
2. Downloaded from https://github.com/googleapis/genai-toolbox/releases

### Client

_No response_

### Expected Behavior

When running a mysql 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues/535) · 2025-05-06 · closed · external user · 14 comments

### Most recent

### feat(source/vertica): add Vertica database source and SQL tools

### Prerequisites

- [x] Search the [current open issues](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues)

### What are you trying to do that currently feels hard or impossible?

I would like to add Vertica support to MCP Toolbox.

Vertica is a columnar analytical database commonly used for large-scale data warehouse and analytics workloads.

Currently, MCP Toolbox does not have a native Vertica source. Because of this, users cannot:

- Define custom SQL tools backed by Vertica
- Use Toolbox c

[Read the thread](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues/3883) · 2026-08-27 · open · external user · 0 comments

### [Feature Request] Allow disabling or configuring export interval for Cloud Trace spans (TraceService/BatchWriteSpans)

### Prerequisites

- [x] Search the [current open issues](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues)

### Question

Issue Description
​Environment Details
​Tool: MCP Toolbox
​Version: v1.2.0
​Connector/Database: BigQuery
​Feature: Telemetry (Tracing)
​Problem Description
​After enabling the telemetry feature in mcp-toolbox (v1.2.0) while using the BigQuery tool, the system repeatedly issues span write requests to Google Cloud Trace (google.devtools.cloudtrace.v2.TraceService/BatchWriteSpa

[Read the thread](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues/3862) · 2026-08-24 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Reloading config file drops all prebuilt tools from server

### Prerequisites

- [x] I've searched the current open issues
- [x] I've updated to the latest version of Toolbox

### Toolbox version

1.9.0

### Environment

1. OS type and version: macOS 26.6.2
2. How are you running Toolbox: As a downloaded binary (e.g. from `curl -O https://storage.googleapis.com/mcp-toolbox-for-databases/v$VERSION/linux/amd64/toolbox`)

### Client

### Expected Behavior

Modifying a custom configuration file should trigger a reload and update the custom configs, while

[Read the thread](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues/3859) · 2026-08-21 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### feat(source/db2): add support for IBM Db2 database source and tools

### Prerequisites

- [x] Search the [current open issues](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues)

### What are you trying to do that currently feels hard or impossible?

We want to connect AI agents, IDE assistants (such as Google Antigravity, Gemini CLI, Claude Code), and custom production applications to IBM Db2 databases via MCP (Model Context Protocol).

IBM Db2 is widely adopted across enterprise environments (e.g., banking, financial services, retail, and insurance) for mission-

[Read the thread](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues/3858) · 2026-08-21 · open · external user · 3 comments

### Add a mongodb-list-collections tool to discover collections in a database

### Prerequisites

- [x] Search the [current open issues](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues)

### What are you trying to do that currently feels hard or impossible?

After merging https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/pull/3715, a single MongoDB tool config can leave collection out and have the agent supply it at runtime (https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues/1679). But that only works if the agent already knows the collection name. There's no way for it to ask "wha

[Read the thread](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues/3848) · 2026-08-19 · open · outside contributor · 4 comments

### initialize with protocolVersion 2026-07-28 returns -32601 instead of negotiating (behaviour changed in 1.8.0)

## Summary

An `initialize` request carrying `"protocolVersion": "2026-07-28"` is answered with `-32601 invalid method initialize` on **1.8.0** and **1.9.0**. On **1.7.0** the same request negotiates normally and the server replies with `2025-11-25`.

The graceful downgrade is otherwise intact — `2026-07-28` is the only value that fails. Unknown versions still negotiate fine, which is what makes this look like a gap rather than a policy: the version is known well enough to be routed, and being k

[Read the thread](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues/3834) · 2026-08-17 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### Looker tool to import dashboard from lookml

### Prerequisites

- [x] Search the [current open issues](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues)

### What are you trying to do that currently feels hard or impossible?

Exposing this existing Looker API as a tool is very valuable for non developers to be able to create rich dashboards via AI generated code without needing to execute tons of tools calls to iteratively construct a looker dashboard:

https://docs.cloud.google.com/looker/docs/reference/looker-api/latest/methods/Dashboard

[Read the thread](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues/3825) · 2026-08-14 · open · external user · 0 comments

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