---
title: "Airbyte MCP server for AI agents - actionlake"
description: "Give Claude 88 Airbyte actions through one MCP server: sources, destinations, connections. Your agent never holds the credential. 100,000 calls a month free."
canonical: https://actionlake.com/connectors/airbyte
updated: 2026-10-23
---

Connectors · Data & integration

# Airbyte MCP server for AI agents.

actionlake is an MCP gateway: one remote MCP server that connects Claude and other MCP clients to Airbyte and the rest of your systems. It gives your agent 88 Airbyte actions (35 reads, 35 writes and 18 that wait for a confirmation) and holds the Airbyte credential itself, so the agent never does. It paces Airbyte's limits and records every call.

[Connect Airbyte free](https://actionlake.com/console?start=sandbox) [See pricing](https://actionlake.com/pricing)

100,000 free calls a month. No card, no email, no password: press Start a free sandbox on the next screen and keep the key it shows you.

`claude mcp add --transport http actionlake https://connect.actionlake.com/mcp`

the first call

```
do {
  action: "airbyte.workspaces.list",
  intent: "check which Airbyte account is connected"
}
# List workspaces · read · 1 upstream call
```

- 88 actions in one signed file
- 35 read look, never change
- 35 write create and update
- 18 wait for a yes destructive, confirmed first

Set up

## Connect Airbyte in three steps.

1. 01
   ### Add actionlake to Claude.
   Run the command once in Claude Code; its consent page can create a free sandbox: 100,000 calls a month, no card. In the Claude app, add a custom connector with the URL below and paste your key on the consent page. Creating a new sandbox from the Claude app is not yet tested by us.
   `https://connect.actionlake.com/mcp`
2. 02
   ### Connect Airbyte.
   Session login. actionlake opens the session and renews it when it expires. actionlake stores what you paste write-only, sealed under your tenant's key.
   - `client_id` Airbyte application client ID
   - `client_secret` Airbyte application client secret, shown beside the client ID
   - `api_prefix` Your Airbyte api prefix
   - `host` Where your Airbyte lives: your host
   ```
   account { op: "connections.requirements", service: "airbyte" }
   # free: exactly what to paste, and what is found for you
   ```
3. 03
   ### Make the first call. Check before a write.
   Ask in plain words; Claude picks the action. Before anything changes, `check` validates the call and prices it, for free.
   ```
   do    { action: "airbyte.workspaces.list" }
   # list workspaces · read · 1 upstream call
   check { action: "airbyte.groups.create", input: { … } }
   # free: inputs, permissions, cost and confirmations, nothing sent
   ```

Airbyte at a glance

**Sign-in**

Session login. actionlake opens the session and renews it when it expires.

**You provide**

`client_id` `client_secret`

**Setup fields**

`api_prefix` `host`

**Limits we pace to**

600 calls a minute, per connection

**API covered**

Airbyte API v1 (OpenAPI 3.1.0)`api.airbyte.com`

**Built from**

Airbyte's documentation, read 23 October 2026[OpenAPI spec (GitHub)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/airbytehq/airbyte-platform/main/airbyte-api/server-api/src/main/openapi/api.yaml) [reference.airbyte.com](https://reference.airbyte.com/reference/getting-started)

**Service file**

Version 1.0.0, signed (Ed25519)

**Cached reads**

35 of 35 reads, for up to 5 minutes; a write clears what it affects

**Shared entities**

3, so ask can line Airbyte up with your other systems

**Data**

Processed and stored in Sydney, Australia. No US region yet

Capabilities

## What an AI agent can do in Airbyte.

88 actions in 23 areas. Every one carries its effect, so a key can allow the reads and hold the rest.

- **35** read look, never change
- **35** write create and update
- **18** destructive wait for a confirmation

1. ### Sources
   7
   2 read · 4 write · 1 destructive
   Create a source · Start an OAuth flow for a source and get the consent URL · List sources · Get a source
2. ### Destinations
   6
   2 read · 3 write · 1 destructive
   Create a destination · List destinations · Get a destination · Replace a destination's configuration
3. ### Connections
   5
   2 read · 2 write · 1 destructive
   List connections (source-to-destination syncs) · Create a connection between a source and a destination · Get a connection · Delete a connection
4. ### Dataplanes
   5
   2 read · 2 write · 1 destructive
   Create a dataplane · List dataplanes · Get a dataplane · Delete a dataplane
5. ### Declarative source definitions
   5
   2 read · 2 write · 1 destructive
   Create a declarative (low-code) source definition from a manifest · List a workspace's declarative (low-code) source definitions · Get a declarative source definition · Update a declarative source definition's manifest
6. ### Destination definitions
   5
   2 read · 2 write · 1 destructive
   Create a custom (Docker image) destination definition · List a workspace's custom destination definitions · Get a custom destination definition · Update a custom destination definition
7. ### Groups
   5
   2 read · 2 write · 1 destructive
   List an organization's user groups · Create a user group · Get a user group · Delete a user group
8. ### Permissions
   5
   2 read · 2 write · 1 destructive
   List permissions for a user or organization · Get a permission · Revoke a permission · Grant a permission to a user

**15 more areas · 45 actions**

- Regions **5**
- Source definitions **5**
- Tags **5**
- Workspaces **5**
- Applications **4**
- Jobs **4**
- Embedded **3**
- Group members **3**
- Group permissions **3**
- Organization oauth credentials **2**
- Workspace oauth credentials **2**
- Connector definitions **1**
- Organizations **1**
- Streams **1**
- Users **1**

Top actions

## The Airbyte API, shaped for agents.

The ids your agent types, what each does, and the one name it shares with other systems. 32 of Airbyte's 32 action names are shared with at least one other connector, so an agent learns them once.

| Action | What it does | Effect | Same name in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `airbyte.users.list` List users in an organization | List users in an organization. | read | `identity.user.list` 474 connectors |
| `airbyte.groups.list` List an organization's user groups | List an organization's user groups. | read | `identity.group.list` 262 connectors |
| `airbyte.groups.create` Create a user group | Create a user group. | write | `identity.group.create` 205 connectors |
| `airbyte.groups.delete` Delete a user group | Delete a user group. | destructive | `identity.group.delete` 181 connectors |
| `airbyte.workspaces.list` List workspaces | List workspaces. | read | `work.workspace.list` 50 connectors |
| `airbyte.group_members.list` List a group's members | List a group's members. | read | `identity.group_member.list` 103 connectors |
| `airbyte.permissions.list` List permissions for a user or organization | List permissions for a user or organization. | read | `identity.role_assignment.list` 41 connectors |
| `airbyte.applications.list` List the user's API applications | List the user's API applications. | read | `identity.application.list` 37 connectors |
| `airbyte.applications.create` Create an API application (client ID and secret) | Create an API application (client ID and secret). | write | `identity.application.create` 27 connectors |
| `airbyte.workspaces.create` Create a workspace | Create a workspace. | write | `work.workspace.create` 36 connectors |
| `airbyte.group_members.add` Add a user to a group | Add a user to a group. | write | `identity.group_member.add` 72 connectors |
| `airbyte.connections.create` Create a connection between a source and a destination | Create a connection between a source and a destination. | write | `automation.connection.create` 30 connectors |

Try it

## Prompts to paste into Claude.

Each one names the Airbyte actions it will call, so you know what it reads and what it changes before you send it.

1. Read read
   Who has access in Airbyte? List every user and their role.
   calls `airbyte.users.list`
2. Write write
   Create a user group in Airbyte. Show me exactly what you will send before you save it.
   calls `airbyte.groups.create`

Governance for Airbyte

## Destructive actions wait for a yes.

18 Airbyte actions are destructive. These are all of them:

- Delete a user group `airbyte.groups.delete`
- Remove a user from a group `airbyte.group_members.remove`
- Delete an API application `airbyte.applications.delete`
- Revoke a permission `airbyte.permissions.delete`
- Delete a workspace `airbyte.workspaces.delete`
- Delete a connection `airbyte.connections.delete`
- Cancel a running job `airbyte.jobs.cancel`
- Delete a tag `airbyte.tags.delete`
- Delete a region `airbyte.regions.delete`
- Delete a source `airbyte.sources.delete`
- Delete a dataplane `airbyte.dataplanes.delete`
- Delete a destination `airbyte.destinations.delete`
- Revoke a group's permission `airbyte.group_permissions.delete`
- Delete a custom source definition `airbyte.source_definitions.delete`
- Delete a custom destination definition `airbyte.destination_definitions.delete`
- Delete a workspace's OAuth app credentials for a connector `airbyte.workspace_oauth_credentials.delete`
- Delete a declarative source definition `airbyte.declarative_source_definitions.delete`
- Delete an organization's OAuth app credentials for a connector `airbyte.organization_oauth_credentials.delete`

A destructive action runs only with `confirm: true`. Under the `human` policy the agent cannot confirm for itself: the run stops until a named person approves, in the console or from a signed link in an email. The cap on a key is refused before the call is sent, never after.

do airbyte.groups.delete confirm_policy: **human**

Delete a user group?

**intent:** the user asked me to delete a user group

run suspended · waiting for a named person · key _airbyte-agent_ cannot confirm itself

In the console, or from an emailed signed link.

a key for this connector

```
account {
  op: "keys.create", name: "airbyte-agent",
  allowed_actions: ["airbyte.*"], cap_calls: 2000,
  confirm_policy: "human_for_writes",
  approval_rules: [
    { match: "airbyte.groups.delete", approver: "lead@example.com" },
    { match: "airbyte.group_members.remove", approver: "lead@example.com" },
    { match: "airbyte.applications.delete", approver: "lead@example.com" }
  ]
}
```

Illustrative. Scoped to Airbyte only, capped at 2,000 upstream calls, every write confirmed, and the destructive ones approved by a named person.

Cost

## What Airbyte costs on actionlake.

Every Airbyte action is one upstream call, the only thing actionlake bills. Searching, `check`, `cost`, `account` and any call Airbyte refused with 401, 403, 429 or a 5xx are free. Paid plans start at US$49 a month for 250,000 calls, with overage from US$0.30 down to US$0.18 per 1,000.

- 1 upstream call per action all 88 Airbyte actions
- 88 actions page each page of a long list is one call
- 35 reads can be cached a cache hit costs nothing
- 100,000 calls a month, free paid plans from US$49 a month for 250,000

[See pricing](https://actionlake.com/pricing)

Action index

## Every Airbyte action.

88 actions by area: the id your agent calls, what it does, and its effect.

**Sources 7**

- `airbyte.sources.create` Create a source write
- `airbyte.sources.delete` Delete a source destructive
- `airbyte.sources.get` Get a source read
- `airbyte.sources.initiate_oauth` Start an OAuth flow for a source and get the consent URL write
- `airbyte.sources.list` List sources read
- `airbyte.sources.patch` Update part of a source's configuration write
- `airbyte.sources.replace` Replace a source's configuration write

**Destinations 6**

- `airbyte.destinations.create` Create a destination write
- `airbyte.destinations.delete` Delete a destination destructive
- `airbyte.destinations.get` Get a destination read
- `airbyte.destinations.list` List destinations read
- `airbyte.destinations.patch` Update part of a destination's configuration write
- `airbyte.destinations.replace` Replace a destination's configuration write

**Connections 5**

- `airbyte.connections.create` Create a connection between a source and a destination write
- `airbyte.connections.delete` Delete a connection destructive
- `airbyte.connections.get` Get a connection read
- `airbyte.connections.list` List connections (source-to-destination syncs) read
- `airbyte.connections.update` Update a connection (schedule, streams, status, namespace) write

**Dataplanes 5**

- `airbyte.dataplanes.create` Create a dataplane write
- `airbyte.dataplanes.delete` Delete a dataplane destructive
- `airbyte.dataplanes.get` Get a dataplane read
- `airbyte.dataplanes.list` List dataplanes read
- `airbyte.dataplanes.update` Update a dataplane write

**Declarative source definitions 5**

- `airbyte.declarative_source_definitions.create` Create a declarative (low-code) source definition from a manifest write
- `airbyte.declarative_source_definitions.delete` Delete a declarative source definition destructive
- `airbyte.declarative_source_definitions.get` Get a declarative source definition read
- `airbyte.declarative_source_definitions.list` List a workspace's declarative (low-code) source definitions read
- `airbyte.declarative_source_definitions.update` Update a declarative source definition's manifest write

**Destination definitions 5**

- `airbyte.destination_definitions.create` Create a custom (Docker image) destination definition write
- `airbyte.destination_definitions.delete` Delete a custom destination definition destructive
- `airbyte.destination_definitions.get` Get a custom destination definition read
- `airbyte.destination_definitions.list` List a workspace's custom destination definitions read
- `airbyte.destination_definitions.update` Update a custom destination definition write

**Groups 5**

- `airbyte.groups.create` Create a user group write
- `airbyte.groups.delete` Delete a user group destructive
- `airbyte.groups.get` Get a user group read
- `airbyte.groups.list` List an organization's user groups read
- `airbyte.groups.update` Update a user group write

**Permissions 5**

- `airbyte.permissions.create` Grant a permission to a user write
- `airbyte.permissions.delete` Revoke a permission destructive
- `airbyte.permissions.get` Get a permission read
- `airbyte.permissions.list` List permissions for a user or organization read
- `airbyte.permissions.update` Change a permission's type write

**Regions 5**

- `airbyte.regions.create` Create a region write
- `airbyte.regions.delete` Delete a region destructive
- `airbyte.regions.get` Get a region read
- `airbyte.regions.list` List the organization's regions read
- `airbyte.regions.update` Update a region write

**Source definitions 5**

- `airbyte.source_definitions.create` Create a custom (Docker image) source definition write
- `airbyte.source_definitions.delete` Delete a custom source definition destructive
- `airbyte.source_definitions.get` Get a custom source definition read
- `airbyte.source_definitions.list` List a workspace's custom source definitions read
- `airbyte.source_definitions.update` Update a custom source definition write

**Tags 5**

- `airbyte.tags.create` Create a connection tag write
- `airbyte.tags.delete` Delete a tag destructive
- `airbyte.tags.get` Get a tag read
- `airbyte.tags.list` List connection tags read
- `airbyte.tags.update` Update a tag's name or colour write

**Workspaces 5**

- `airbyte.workspaces.create` Create a workspace write
- `airbyte.workspaces.delete` Delete a workspace destructive
- `airbyte.workspaces.get` Get a workspace read
- `airbyte.workspaces.list` List workspaces read
- `airbyte.workspaces.update` Update a workspace write

**Applications 4**

- `airbyte.applications.create` Create an API application (client ID and secret) write
- `airbyte.applications.delete` Delete an API application destructive
- `airbyte.applications.get` Get an API application read
- `airbyte.applications.list` List the user's API applications read

**Jobs 4**

- `airbyte.jobs.cancel` Cancel a running job destructive
- `airbyte.jobs.create` Trigger a sync, reset, refresh or clear job for a connection write
- `airbyte.jobs.get` Get a job's status and statistics read
- `airbyte.jobs.list` List sync and reset jobs read

**Embedded 3**

- `airbyte.embedded.create_scoped_token` Create an Airbyte Embedded workspace-scoped token write
- `airbyte.embedded.create_widget_token` Create an Airbyte Embedded widget token write
- `airbyte.embedded.list_organizations` List the organizations available to Airbyte Embedded for the user read

**Group members 3**

- `airbyte.group_members.add` Add a user to a group write
- `airbyte.group_members.list` List a group's members read
- `airbyte.group_members.remove` Remove a user from a group destructive

**Group permissions 3**

- `airbyte.group_permissions.create` Grant a permission to a group write
- `airbyte.group_permissions.delete` Revoke a group's permission destructive
- `airbyte.group_permissions.list` List a group's permissions read

**Organization oauth credentials 2**

- `airbyte.organization_oauth_credentials.delete` Delete an organization's OAuth app credentials for a connector destructive
- `airbyte.organization_oauth_credentials.upsert` Create or update an organization's OAuth app credentials for a connector write

**Workspace oauth credentials 2**

- `airbyte.workspace_oauth_credentials.delete` Delete a workspace's OAuth app credentials for a connector destructive
- `airbyte.workspace_oauth_credentials.upsert` Create or update a workspace's OAuth app credentials for a connector write

**Connector definitions 1**

- `airbyte.connector_definitions.list` List source or destination connector definitions read

**Organizations 1**

- `airbyte.organizations.list` List the organizations the caller belongs to read

**Streams 1**

- `airbyte.streams.list` List a source's streams and their sync modes read

**Users 1**

- `airbyte.users.list` List users in an organization read

Questions

## The Airbyte MCP server, answered.

**Is there an Airbyte MCP server for Claude?**

Yes. actionlake is an MCP gateway: a remote MCP server that gives Claude, or another MCP client, 88 Airbyte actions across sources, destinations, connections and dataplanes, through the same eight tools it uses for every other connector. actionlake is independent; it is not made or endorsed by Airbyte.

**What do I need to connect Airbyte?**

Airbyte application client ID and Airbyte application client secret, shown beside the client ID. Plus your api prefix and your host. The free call account { op: "connections.requirements", service: "airbyte" } lists exactly what to paste.

**Can an AI agent delete or change things in Airbyte?**

Only if its key allows it, and only with an explicit confirmation. 18 Airbyte actions are destructive, including delete a user group, remove a user from a group and delete an API application. Each runs only with confirm: true. Under the human confirm policy, or an approval rule on the key, the run waits until a named person approves it.

**Will an AI agent use up my Airbyte API limit?**

actionlake paces every call to the limits in the Airbyte service file: 600 calls a minute per connection. Repeated reads are answered from cache (35 Airbyte actions can be), which never reaches Airbyte.

**What does an Airbyte action cost?**

One upstream call, the only unit actionlake bills. A list that pages bills one call per page (88 Airbyte actions page). Cache hits, searches, dry runs and calls Airbyte refused with 401, 403, 429 or a 5xx are free. The Free plan includes 100,000 calls a month with no card. Paid plans start at US$49 a month for 250,000 calls, with overage from US$0.30 down to US$0.18 per 1,000.

**Which Airbyte API does it cover?**

The Airbyte API v1 (OpenAPI 3.1.0) at api.airbyte.com by default, or the base URL set when you connect. It is built from Airbyte's documentation as read on 23 October 2026. 88 actions in 23 areas, each one in the signed service file (version 1.0.0).

**Does actionlake keep my Airbyte data, and where?**

actionlake processes and stores data in Sydney, Australia; there is no US region yet. Reads may be cached for up to 5 minutes, and a write clears the reads it affects. Each run's request and response is kept, sealed, for your plan's trace window: 1 day on Free, 3 days on Starter, 7 days on Pro, 14 days on Team, 30 days on Business and 30 days on Enterprise. Your Airbyte credential is sealed under your tenant's key, never logged and never returned. Your traffic is not used to train models.

**Which AI clients can use it?**

Claude Code, tested by us end to end, and the Claude app as a custom connector, tested by us with an existing key. Other MCP clients that support remote servers over Streamable HTTP (MCP revisions 2025-06-18 and 2025-11-25) and OAuth dynamic client registration, or a bearer header, should connect the same way; we have not tested them. Or plain REST, under the same action names.

## More connectors like Airbyte

Shares the most action names with

- [Celigo integrator.io 11](https://actionlake.com/connectors/celigo-integrator-io)
- [Workato 11](https://actionlake.com/connectors/workato)
- [Fivetran 9](https://actionlake.com/connectors/fivetran)
- [Prefect Cloud 9](https://actionlake.com/connectors/prefect-cloud)
- [Apache Airflow 5](https://actionlake.com/connectors/apache-airflow)
- [dbt Cloud 5](https://actionlake.com/connectors/dbt-cloud)

Joins with, on shared entities

- [MongoDB Atlas 3](https://actionlake.com/connectors/mongodb-atlas)
- [Gitea 3](https://actionlake.com/connectors/gitea)
- [Forgejo 3](https://actionlake.com/connectors/forgejo)
- [Mistral AI 3](https://actionlake.com/connectors/mistral-ai)
- [Toggl Track 3](https://actionlake.com/connectors/toggl-track)
- [Sentry 3](https://actionlake.com/connectors/sentry)

Browse

- [All Data & integration connectors](https://actionlake.com/connectors/category/data-and-integration)
- [All connectors](https://actionlake.com/connectors)
- [How actionlake compares](https://actionlake.com/compare)

actionlake is independent. It is not made or endorsed by Airbyte; the name is the vendor's own. Counts are from the Airbyte service file, version 1.0.0.

## Give your agent Airbyte today.

[Connect Airbyte free](https://actionlake.com/console?start=sandbox) [See pricing](https://actionlake.com/pricing)

Start free - 100,000 calls/month, no card. No signup. Hard caps on every key. Cached answers are free.

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Source: https://actionlake.com/connectors/airbyte
More: https://actionlake.com/llms.txt