# 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:1.10.0` on oci. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**573 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

### 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

### Support for metdata for both sources and tools in tools.yaml and description for sources

### Prerequisites

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

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

Right now, there’s no straightforward way to **categorise or tag source** and tools inside the tools.yaml file and **Description for source**
When working with multiple sources or tools that serve different environments (e.g., test, staging, prod) or purposes, it becomes difficult to:

- Filter or select tools progr

[Read the thread](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues/1896) · 2025-11-07 · open · external user · 30 comments

### why there are duplicate parameters descrption in the tools ?

### Prerequisites

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

### Question

When i use this toolbox with mysql, i check the input of llm, and find there are multiple parameter descriptions, one is in the function description, and another is in the parameters.

Is this neccessary ? or it can be remove the paramter descriptions in the function to concise the input of llm ? 

### Code

_No response_

### Additional Details

_No response_

[Read the thread](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues/1327) · 2025-09-04 · open · external user · 18 comments

### Add digital signature to Toolbox binaries

### Prerequisites

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

### Question

When I am trying to run the toolbox.exe, my company security system is blocking the same. As per my company security team, the exe file doesn't have digital signature for auth & only has SHA-256 checksums for primary verification. Can you pls help here, how to proceed.

### Code

_No response_

### Additional Details

_No response_

[Read the thread](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues/996) · 2025-07-25 · closed · external user · 18 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

### 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

### Cloud Build Failure Reporter: toolbox-test-nightly (toolbox-testing-438616) failed

Cloud Build Failure Reporter found test failure for [**toolbox-test-nightly (toolbox-testing-438616)** ](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/runs/98464753878) at [527f9911791f5cab55f5b518194d56bf6db1430a](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/commit/527f9911791f5cab55f5b518194d56bf6db1430a). Please fix the error and then close the issue after the **toolbox-test-nightly (toolbox-testing-438616)** test passes.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues/3882) · 2026-08-27 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Cloud Build Failure Reporter: toolbox-test-on-merge (toolbox-testing-438616) failed

Cloud Build Failure Reporter found test failure for [**toolbox-test-on-merge (toolbox-testing-438616)** ](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/runs/98058312312) at [59fb2c42180d1eaf8ac74d099263f9c8b783a1bd](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/commit/59fb2c42180d1eaf8ac74d099263f9c8b783a1bd). Please fix the error and then close the issue after the **toolbox-test-on-merge (toolbox-testing-438616)** test passes.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues/3874) · 2026-08-26 · open · outside contributor · 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

### Cloud Build Failure Reporter: toolbox-test-nightly (toolbox-testing-438616) failed

Cloud Build Failure Reporter found test failure for [**toolbox-test-nightly (toolbox-testing-438616)** ](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/runs/96371931206) at [c2ada6421f718cb861c7ccd5f0e8cd7e841a407f](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/commit/c2ada6421f718cb861c7ccd5f0e8cd7e841a407f). Please fix the error and then close the issue after the **toolbox-test-nightly (toolbox-testing-438616)** test passes.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/issues/3857) · 2026-08-21 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

[See all 24 reports Pod holds for MCP Toolbox for Databases](/mcp/mcp-toolbox-for-databases/issues) — of 573 qualified upstream.

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