Marshal · Platform tools, MCP, and connectors
Tools & MCP is the connector surface for harness agents — built-in platform tools, the Exemplar MCP endpoint, and connector A2A agent cards so agents can act on real systems with credentials you control
Marshal · Tools & MCP
Tools & MCP is the connector surface for harness agents — built-in platform tools, the Exemplar MCP endpoint, and connector A2A agent cards so agents can act on real systems with credentials you control
Agents discover tools and connectors (sky rails); invocations hit MCP/A2A with org credentials and policy (orange rails).
Connector catalog
Enable a connector once—Tools & MCP publishes it as governed tools for agents, Cursor, Claude, and your frameworks
Why it matters
How this harness capability fits the Exemplar platform: one identity, one policy layer, and one audit trail across console, MCP, and SDK.
Without a shared tool plane, every agent team hand-wires Jira, PagerDuty, Datadog, and cloud APIs—different auth, no shared audit, token-heavy glue.
Exemplar publishes connectors as unified MCP tools on one governed endpoint, so frameworks and IDE clients share the same catalog, policy, and audit trail.
A flat catalog of unified tools with one { action, params } call shape—platform tools plus connector *_tool actions on {agent_base}/mcp.
A2A specialist agents per connector—agent cards and JSON-RPC endpoints orchestrators can hand a whole turn to.
Enable connectors; unified tools appear on the org MCP endpoint for Cursor, Claude, and harness.tools() without per-vendor SDKs.
Import your own OpenAPI specs to publish custom endpoints as MCP tools behind the same governance.
Official documentation on docs.exemplar.dev for this capability.
Open developer guide (opens in a new tab)Get started
Put Tools & MCP to work with the rest of Marshal—or talk to us about your agent stack.
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