What's new
What we have shipped in MCP Studio, newest first. Bug fixes and small polish are left out — this is the list worth reading if you have been away for a month.
Looking for how something works? Read the documentation. Building on the MCP Studio SDK? That has its own list.
October 2026
4 updates- New feature
Leave folders out of a repository or website source
You can now choose folders a source should not index, such as an archive or agent configuration, from the Exclude button next to the source. Content already indexed there is removed when you save, and later refreshes skip those folders.
Excluding folders - New feature
Pin a GitHub source to a branch, tag, or commit
You can now index a repository at a specific release by adding /tree/<tag> or /commit/<sha> to its URL. Every citation links to the exact commit that was indexed, and the dashboard shows which commit each source was last indexed at.
Pinning a repository - Integration
Build MCP servers by asking Claude, Cursor, or Codex
You can now connect Headless Context MCP to your AI assistant with an API key and create servers, add sources, change tools, and read analytics from a chat. Destructive actions always ask you to confirm first, and a key limited to specific servers keeps the assistant inside them.
Connect Headless Context MCP - Integration
Create and manage MCP servers from your own code
The MCP Studio API lets you create servers, add sources, choose tools, build custom tools, and read analytics over HTTP with an API key, from a script, a CI pipeline, or your own product. Every endpoint is documented in an interactive reference where you can send real requests from the page.
MCP Studio API
September 2026
6 updates- New feature
Your agent receives the image, not a description of it
Upload a logo, diagram, or screenshot as a source and an assistant asking for it gets the file itself, ready to drop into whatever it is building. The image stays searchable by what is in it, so a question about your brand colours reaches it without naming the file.
Upload files - New feature
Tell your server when a source matters
Add a retrieval rule to any source and your agent reaches for it on the requests you name, even when the question does not mention it — a brand kit for anything customer-facing, a runbook for anything about incidents. Each rule shows exactly what it will do before you rely on it.
Retrieval rules - New feature
Ask your server what shipped recently
Point a source at a changelog or release-notes page and your agent can ask what is new, what changed, or what shipped this week, and get the entries back newest first. On a server covering more than one product, name the page you mean and get that product only.
Tools reference - New feature
Upload files from your computer as a source
Add a spreadsheet, Word document, PowerPoint deck, PDF, text or HTML file, or an image, and MCP Studio reads the text out of it and indexes it like any other source. A workbook is cited per sheet, a deck per slide, and a PDF per page, and zipping several together counts as one source.
Upload files as a source - New feature
Connect another MCP server as a source
Paste an MCP endpoint — a published GitBook site, for example — and MCP Studio connects to it and shows you the tools it offers before you add it. Questions are forwarded live, so its answers are always current, and for a server that needs a key you paste the key once and we store it encrypted.
Connect another MCP server - New feature
Build your own MCP tool
Describe a tool in your own words and MCP Studio builds it against your sources — useful when your team keeps asking one question none of the ten built-in tools targets well. The tool deploys with your server and any MCP client can call it, with five per account.
Build your own tool
August 2026
10 updates- New feature
Private servers and access tokens
Make a server private and it answers only to clients holding a token you issue, scoped to that one server and revocable at any time. This is what lets you index confidential material and still share the endpoint with your team.
Private MCP servers - Integration
AI Context by MCP Studio for n8n
A community node that gives n8n workflows grounded answers from your MCP servers: pick a server, query it, manage which tools are enabled, and read your metrics inside a workflow. Install it from n8n's community nodes panel as n8n-nodes-mcp-studio.
n8n integration guide - New feature
API keys scoped to specific servers
Limit an account API key to named MCP servers, so a key handed to an integration or a script reaches only what you intended. Keys can be scoped when created and revoked or deleted from the dashboard.
Managing your account - Analytics
Full request log history with CSV export
Browse your entire request history, paged and filterable by tool and client, rather than a recent window. Tool, source, and client breakdowns render as donut charts with a hover readout, and the whole log exports to CSV.
Dashboard guide - New feature
API access for partner integrations
Drive MCP Studio programmatically with an API key: create servers, manage sources and tools, and read metrics. This is what platform integrations are built on, and it is available on any account.
API reference - Plans & billing
30-day analytics trial and usage-based billing
New accounts get every analytics tier free for 30 days, plus five sources for life on their first MCP server. You can also opt into usage-based billing so requests beyond your plan are metered rather than refused.
Trials and overage - Analytics
Action and Predictive analytics
Action shows the exact passage returned for every request, retrieval confidence per page, the gaps in your content, and an impact model with a visible formula. Predictive groups question chains to show how many requests it took to reach a working answer, grades each source A to D, and ranks the content fixes worth making.
Action and Predictive guide - New feature
Version-aware answers
Every passage handed to an AI client is labelled with the version of your documentation it came from, as either current or pinned to a release. Agents are told to prefer current pages for things like minimum requirements and command syntax.
How indexing works - New feature
Full GitHub repository indexing
A repository source indexes the whole text and code of a repo rather than only its documentation files, which makes code-shaped questions answerable from the repo itself. Private repositories work once you connect GitHub.
Adding sources - New feature
Restore a deleted MCP server
A deleted server stops answering immediately and stays restorable for seven days, so an accident is recoverable. Its indexed content is released right away and rebuilt when you restore it.
Dashboard guide
Build something with your own context
Paste a documentation URL, a GitHub repo, or a website, pick your tools, and get a live MCP endpoint your AI assistant can query.
Build an MCP server