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Checked September 2026.

Whatever tables a brand's data team has loaded into Unity Catalog, such as orders, customers, or marketing spend, sit behind Databricks' Genie servers. Genie One takes a plain-language question, writes and runs the SQL, and answers with links to its sources; the SQL server, in preview, runs queries against the same tables.

Databricks MCP options

Every fact in a row comes from the publisher's own documentation.

Ways to reach Databricks data from an assistant
Option Audience Reads or changes Sign-in Setup
Genie One MCP server https://{workspace-hostname}/ai-gateway/mcp-services/system.ai.genie_one_mcp Databricks Merchants A workspace MCP Service (system.ai.genie_one_mcp, governed through Unity Gateway) that sends a natural-language question to Genie, which searches the workspace's data, writes and runs SQL, and returns an answer with links to its sources, limited to what the user's Unity Catalog permissions allow. Read only OAuth sign-in Setup guide (opens in a new tab)
Genie Agent MCP server https://{workspace-hostname}/api/2.0/mcp/genie/{genie_space_id} Databricks Merchants A managed server scoped to one Genie Agent, a curated set of up to 25 Unity Catalog tables, that answers natural-language questions by writing and running SQL; read-only. Read only OAuth sign-in Setup guide (opens in a new tab)
Databricks SQL MCP server https://{workspace-hostname}/api/2.0/mcp/sql Databricks Developers A managed server that runs AI-written SQL on a SQL warehouse against Unity Catalog tables to read and write data, under the user's Unity Catalog permissions; the system.ai.dbsql MCP Service variant permits writes by default and can be made read-only with a policy setting. Can write OAuth sign-in Setup guide (opens in a new tab)

Connect Databricks to your assistant

Each card lists the servers whose setup guide covers that assistant.

Connect Databricks to ChatGPT, Cursor, or Codex

Connect Databricks to Claude

Databricks's setup guides also name Windsurf.

Tools each server exposes

Listed as each publisher documents them. A write tool can change something in the account.

Genie One MCP server 5 tools: 5 read, 0 write

Read

  • genie_ask
  • genie_poll_response
  • genie_get_query_result
  • view_ask
  • genie_cancel_response

Databricks SQL MCP server 3 tools: 2 read, 1 write

Read

  • execute_sql_read_only
  • poll_sql_result

Write

  • execute_sql

Other ways to reach Databricks data

One MCP server per tool still can't answer a cross-channel question.

Each server brings its own sign-in, its own definition of revenue, and data your assistant can't join to the rest.

SourceMedium connects 63 commerce and marketing sources, keeps one set of maintained definitions, and gives ChatGPT, Claude, and other assistants a single connection to all of it. Databricks is not a SourceMedium source today.

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