Marketplace FAQs

Name: Marketplace
Author: upbound

Question 1

What is the Upbound Marketplace MCP Server?

Accepted Answer

It's a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides AI agents with programmatic access to the Upbound Marketplace API. This enables intelligent discovery, search, and management of cloud-native packages and repositories, especially for Crossplane compositions.

Question 2

What kind of Crossplane resources can I manage using this tool?

Accepted Answer

You can search for packages with advanced filtering, retrieve detailed package metadata including CRDs and examples, access package assets like documentation, manage repositories, and specifically utilize specialized tools for Crossplane compositions and functions.

Question 3

How does it benefit AI agents and developers?

Accepted Answer

It allows AI agents to interact intelligently with the Upbound Marketplace, automating the search, discovery, and management of Crossplane compositions, functions, and packages. This streamlines cloud-native development workflows by providing programmatic access to essential resources.

Question 4

Is authentication required to access private resources?

Accepted Answer

Yes, the MCP server uses UP CLI-based authentication to access private Upbound Marketplace resources. You need to have the UP CLI installed and authenticated (by running `up login`) before the server can access these resources.

Question 5

How can I integrate this server with my AI applications?

Accepted Answer

The server supports integration via stdio for MCP-compatible agents (like Claude Desktop) and also offers an HTTP JSON-RPC 2.0 API, making it easy to integrate with web applications and REST clients.

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