How do I connect Sas MCP Server to Claude?

The listing records `docker run -e VIYA_ENDPOINT=https://your-viya-server.com -p 8134:8134 ghcr.io/sassoftware/sas-mcp-server:latest` as its setup step. Run it, then follow the repository's instructions for the client configuration; the listing names Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code as compatible clients.

Is Sas MCP Server free?

The listed licence is Apache-2.0. Check the upstream terms for permitted use and commercial requirements; a public repository does not by itself mean the software is free or open source. Connected APIs and hosted services may have separate charges.

What can Sas MCP Server do?

Sas MCP Server documents 40 tools to the agent, including apply_report_operations, catalog_download_table_profile, catalog_find_instance. The descriptions above come from project documentation. A live handshake does not test individual tool behavior.

Sas MCP Server

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A self-hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects to your SAS Viya environment and provides tools across the analytics lifecycle.

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$docker run -e VIYA_ENDPOINT=https://your-viya-server.com -p 8134:8134 ghcr.io/sassoftware/sas-mcp-server:latest

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Documented tools (40)

From project documentation. A server handshake does not verify each tool’s description or behavior.

apply_report_operations

The authoring workhorse — apply an ordered batch of native VA operations (addData, addPage, addObject, updateObject, setParameterValue, updateData, changeData, applyDataView) to a report. Give a page a title with addPage's title field (a text band at the top of the page body — VA headers are control

catalog_download_table_profile

Download a table's data dictionary and column profile as CSV, identified by either instanceid or resourceuri.

catalog_find_instance

Resolve the catalog instance for a source-asset resourceuri, bridging a search hit to the profiling and download tools without handling an instance id by hand.

catalog_get_adhoc_analysis

Poll a profiling job and cross-check the target instance, reporting profileready once results have landed on the asset — so a download isn't fired too early.

catalog_get_agent_history

Inspect an agent's run history — status and how much metadata each run enumerated/added/updated/removed.

catalog_list_agents

List the catalog's discovery agents (the crawlers that populate metadata).

catalog_run_adhoc_analysis

Submit an ad-hoc profiling job for a table. NLP enrichment (language, sentiment, semantic IDs) is on by default, populating informationPrivacy, nlpTerms, nlpTags, and mostImportantFields.

catalog_run_agent

Start a discovery agent run (asynchronous) to crawl its data source and refresh catalog metadata.

catalog_search

Search the catalog for assets (tables, columns, reports, …) using the SAS catalog search grammar (free text, facets like AssetType:Report, ranges). Each hit carries a resourceuri you can hand to the matching tool (e.g. getreport, getcastabledata).

catalog_search_helper

Discover how to query the catalog — list the available facets, or the valid values for one facet — so you can build precise catalogsearch queries.

copy_report

Copy a report to a new one (optionally renaming/refoldering). Pairs with a changeData operation for the copy-and-replace pattern.

create_report

Create a Visual Analytics report and return its id. Optionally pass an operations array to build the whole report in one atomic call; the result carries the created page/object names+labels and a verify hint.

delete_report

Delete a report and its content.

describe_report_objects

Discover what a report can contain — the eight report operations and every addable object (bar chart, list table, geo map, key value, …) with a one-line purpose, its data roles, common options, and an example payload. Call with no arguments for the catalog (including an intent→object map, placement

download_file

Download file content

execute_sas_code

Execute SAS code snippets and retrieve execution results (log and listing output). Runs in a reusable, per-user compute session that is kept warm across calls, so SAS state (WORK tables, macro variables, assigned librefs) persists between successive calls — use resetcomputesession to start fresh.

export_report

export a report (or specific report objects) in any format the VA service supports — package (zip), pdf, png, svg, csv, tsv, xlsx, or summary. Text formats come back inline, png as image content, and binary formats (package/pdf/xlsx) as an embedded file with the right MIME type.

get_castable_columns

Get column names, types, labels, formats

get_castable_data

Fetch sample rows from a CAS table

get_castable_info

Get table metadata (row count, columns, size)

get_job_status

Check job state

get_report

Get report metadata and definition

get_report_outline

Read a report's structure back — pages → objects with the handles the other tools need (object name for placement/updateObject targets, label for exportreport, page label for page placement).

list_cas_servers

List available CAS servers

list_caslibs

List CAS libraries on a server

list_castables

List tables in a CAS library

list_compute_columns

List the columns of a table in a SAS library

list_compute_contexts

List available compute contexts

list_compute_libraries

List the SAS libraries (librefs) assigned in a compute context

list_compute_tables

List the tables in a SAS library within a compute context

list_files

List files in the Viya Files Service

list_reports

List Visual Analytics reports

list_source_tables

List source tables not yet loaded into memory (candidates for promotion)

promote_table_to_memory

Load a source table into memory at global scope (idempotent)

query_data

Run a FedSQL SELECT against CAS or compute data and get the rows back — one SQL surface over both storage tiers. Pick the tier with target (cas for caslib.table, compute for libref.table); joins, subqueries, aggregation, and UNION all work, and the row cap is applied server-side by the tool (a LIMIT

reset_compute_session

Delete the cached compute session for a context, discarding its SAS state and forcing a fresh session on the next call

submit_batch_job

Submit a SAS job for async execution

upload_data

Upload a data file into a CAS table — read server-side so the data never passes through the model's context — from filepath (the server reads it off disk) or url (the server fetches it and converts it to the multipart upload the endpoint requires). Ingests the formats the casManagement uploadTable A

upload_file

Upload a file to the Viya Files Service, optionally into a Content folder (parentfolderuri). Content comes from exactly one of content (inline text), filepath (read server-side, binary-safe — xlsx, zip, images — gated by ALLOWLOCALFILEUPLOAD), or url (server-side fetch)

upload_inline_data

Create a small CAS table from inline csv/tsv text passed as a string (a lookup/mapping table the model builds on the fly, or a quick test table). The payload travels through the model's context, so it's for tiny tables only — use uploaddata for files or anything larger.

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Questions about Sas MCP Server

How do I connect Sas MCP Server to Claude?: The listing records `docker run -e VIYA_ENDPOINT=https://your-viya-server.com -p 8134:8134 ghcr.io/sassoftware/sas-mcp-server:latest` as its setup step. Run it, then follow the repository's instructions for the client configuration; the listing names Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code as compatible clients.
Is Sas MCP Server free?: The listed licence is Apache-2.0. Check the upstream terms for permitted use and commercial requirements; a public repository does not by itself mean the software is free or open source. Connected APIs and hosted services may have separate charges.
What can Sas MCP Server do?: Sas MCP Server documents 40 tools to the agent, including apply_report_operations, catalog_download_table_profile, catalog_find_instance. The descriptions above come from project documentation. A live handshake does not test individual tool behavior.