How To Customize Tool Access Using Roles in Database Tools MCP Servers

By Justin Biard May 27, 2026 7 min read

The Database Tools MCP server supports role-based access control for tools which allows for users or groups to be granted access to only specific MCP tools. In this example we will look at one way to configure tools with IDCS application roles and what the end-user might see once configured.

So you need an MCP tool, now what?

By Justin Biard April 6, 2025 14 min read

tl/dr: Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a light-weight protocol that attempts to address a specific problem of how to allow 3rd parties (you, me, or anyone) to provide relevant prompts or context to a large language model (LLM) and to allow AI clients to complete well-defined tasks.