Use MCP servers in Tabnine Agent with Toolport
Toolport is a free, open source local MCP gateway. Add your servers to Toolport once, flip the Tabnine Agent toggle, and Tabnine Agent gets all of them through a single gateway entry. Toolport picks a full tool list or search for each client, and you can change it in Clients.
Setup
- Download Toolport for Windows, macOS or Linux, and add your MCP servers to it (or import the ones your other AI agents already have; secrets go to your OS keychain).
- Open the Clients tab and toggle Tabnine Agent on. Toolport writes its gateway entry into Tabnine Agent's config, next to anything already there.
- Restart or reload Tabnine Agent. Your full server set is available through Toolport, and any server you add later shows up without touching Tabnine Agent again.
Where Tabnine Agent keeps its MCP config
Tabnine Agent MCP config
All platforms ~/.tabnine/mcp_servers.json
JSON with a top-level mcpServers object.
Good to know
- Tabnine loads MCP servers only while a workspace folder is open, so open a folder after connecting.
- Toolport writes the user config only. Project .tabnine/mcp_servers.json files are left alone.
Why a gateway instead of Tabnine Agent's own server list?
- One setup, every agent. The same servers work in Tabnine Agent and every other AI agent on your machine; add a server once and they all get it.
- Secrets in the OS keychain. API keys are injected at runtime and never sit in Tabnine Agent's config file.
- Watched by default. Rug-pull and tool-poisoning detection on every tool, plus per-tool governance and a destructive-tool kill switch. How the security works.
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