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Gen AI Toolbox for Databases MCP Toolbox for Databases

Legacy names Gen AI Toolbox for Databases, genai-toolbox

Open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and control plane for connecting AI agents and IDEs to enterprise databases.

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  1. Gen AI Toolbox for Databases

    · Public Beta Launch (v0.1.0)

    Launched in Public Beta in partnership with LangChain under github.com/googleapis/genai-toolbox as an open-source tool server and control plane for AlloyDB, Spanner, Cloud SQL, and PostgreSQL/MySQL.

  2. MCP Toolbox for DatabasesCurrent name

    · Google Cloud Next '25 / v0.4.0

    Renamed from Gen AI Toolbox for Databases to MCP Toolbox for Databases upon adding Model Context Protocol (MCP) server support and Agent Development Kit (ADK) integration; reached v1.0.0 GA on April 10, 2026 with repo renamed to googleapis/mcp-toolbox.

What is Gen AI Toolbox for Databases called now?

Gen AI Toolbox for Databases is now called MCP Toolbox for Databases, with the latest change on 23 April 2025 (Google Cloud Next '25 / v0.4.0). Earlier names covered by this entry also include genai-toolbox. Open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and control plane for connecting AI agents and IDEs to enterprise databases. Only the customer-facing name changed; the underlying technical identifiers remain backward compatible.

Also known as

  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) Toolbox for Databases
  • MCP Toolbox
  • googleapis/mcp-toolbox

Technical identifiers

Technical identifiers unchanged. Only the customer-facing product name changed; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below keep their legacy identifiers for backward compatibility.

REST / gRPC APIsbigquery.googleapis.com alloydb.googleapis.com spanner.googleapis.com sqladmin.googleapis.com
gcloud / CLI Commandstoolbox npx @toolbox-sdk/server
IAM Predefined Rolesroles/bigquery.user roles/alloydb.client roles/cloudsql.client roles/spanner.databaseUser

The GitHub repository redirected from github.com/googleapis/genai-toolbox to github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox; CLI binary ('toolbox'), Python SDK packages ('toolbox-core', 'toolbox-langchain'), and JS/TS SDK packages ('@toolbox-sdk/core', '@toolbox-sdk/server') retain their 'toolbox' namespace.

Notes & disambiguation

  • Originally launched in Public Beta on February 7, 2025 (v0.1.0) as 'Gen AI Toolbox for Databases' (github.com/googleapis/genai-toolbox) in partnership with LangChain, before being officially renamed to 'MCP Toolbox for Databases' on April 23, 2025 (v0.4.0, following Google Cloud Next '25) upon adding native Model Context Protocol (MCP) server support and Agent Development Kit (ADK) integration.
  • Reached v1.0.0 stable General Availability on April 10, 2026 (Google Cloud Next '26), with the GitHub repository officially renamed from googleapis/genai-toolbox to googleapis/mcp-toolbox and standalone documentation published at mcp-toolbox.dev alongside prebuilt MCP integration guides across BigQuery, AlloyDB, Spanner, Cloud SQL, Bigtable, Firestore, and Looker documentation.
  • Serves both as a ready-to-use build-time MCP server for IDEs and CLIs (Gemini CLI, Google Antigravity, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code via npx @toolbox-sdk/server --prebuilt) and as a run-time custom tools framework and control plane (tools.yaml) handling connection pooling, IAM/OAuth2/OIDC authentication, and OpenTelemetry observability.

Sources & official documentation

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