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title: "Looker MCP Server: Claude Setup | SourceMedium"
description: Looker-managed MCP, at each instance's /mcp path, runs governed Explore queries and edits LookML over OAuth 2.1 with each user's permissions.
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# Looker MCP server

Checked September 2026.

Looker's managed server runs governed Explore queries and edits LookML at each Looker-hosted instance's /mcp path, with the signed-in user's permissions and only the tools an admin enables. Google's open-source MCP Toolbox does the same against customer-hosted Looker, and also runs saved Looks and creates dashboards and LookML files.

## Looker MCP options

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

| Option | Audience | Reads or changes | Sign-in | Setup |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Looker-managed MCP server `https://{looker-instance}/mcp` Google | Merchants | Built into Looker-hosted Looker (Google Cloud core) and Looker (original) instances; serves only the tools a Looker admin enables, each marked read or write (for example looker_query and looker_update_project_file), with the signed-in user's Looker permissions. Can write | OAuth sign-in | [Setup guide →](https://docs.cloud.google.com/looker/docs/mcp) |
| MCP Toolbox for Databases, self-hosted Google | Developers | Google's open-source server run locally or on your own infrastructure, including against customer-hosted Looker; lists models, Explores, dimensions, and measures, runs queries and saved Looks, creates Looks and dashboards, and creates, updates, or deletes LookML files. Google's Looker page says it is not a supported Google Cloud product and its prebuilt tools are pre-1.0; it signs in with API keys or an OAuth app. Can write | See guide | [Setup guide →](https://docs.cloud.google.com/looker/docs/connect-ide-to-looker-using-mcp-toolbox) |

## Connect Looker to your assistant

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

### Connect Looker to Claude, Cursor, Gemini, or VS Code

- [Looker-managed MCP server →](https://docs.cloud.google.com/looker/docs/mcp)
Guide covers Claude Code, Claude, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Gemini Code Assist, Gemini Enterprise, VS Code
- [MCP Toolbox for Databases, self-hosted →](https://docs.cloud.google.com/looker/docs/connect-ide-to-looker-using-mcp-toolbox)
Guide covers Claude Code, Claude, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Gemini Code Assist, VS Code

Looker's setup guides also name Cline and Windsurf.

## Tools each server exposes

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

### MCP Toolbox for Databases, self-hosted 50 tools: 34 read, 16 write

Read

- `get_models`
- `get_explores`
- `get_dimensions`
- `get_measures`
- `get_filters`
- `get_parameters`
- `get_field_value_suggestions`
- `query`
- `query_sql`
- `query_url`
- `get_looks`
- `run_look`
- `get_dashboards`
- `run_dashboard`
- `get_dashboard`
- `generate_embed_url`
- `health_pulse`
- `health_analyze`
- `health_vacuum`
- `dev_mode`
- `get_projects`
- `get_project_files`
- `get_project_file`
- `get_project_directories`
- `validate_project`
- `get_connections`
- `get_connection_schemas`
- `get_connection_databases`
- `get_connection_tables`
- `get_connection_table_columns`
- `get_lookml_tests`
- `run_lookml_tests`
- `list_git_branches`
- `get_git_branch`

Write

- `make_look`
- `make_dashboard`
- `add_dashboard_element`
- `add_dashboard_filter`
- `update_dashboard_element`
- `create_dashboard_layout`
- `update_dashboard_layout_component`
- `create_project_file`
- `update_project_file`
- `delete_project_file`
- `create_project_directory`
- `delete_project_directory`
- `create_view_from_table`
- `create_git_branch`
- `switch_git_branch`
- `delete_git_branch`

## Other ways to reach Looker data

- [Looker API →](https://docs.cloud.google.com/looker/docs/api-intro)
- [Conversational Analytics in Looker →](https://docs.cloud.google.com/looker/docs/conversational-analytics-overview)

## 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. Looker is not a SourceMedium source today.
## More in BI and reporting

- [Metabase MCP server →](https://sourcemedium.com/mcp-directory/metabase/)
- [Power BI MCP server →](https://sourcemedium.com/mcp-directory/power-bi/)
- [Tableau MCP server →](https://sourcemedium.com/mcp-directory/tableau/)