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Metabase MCP and Claude skills

Run saved Metabase questions and dashboards on a schedule, and post the numbers that changed with a link back to the chart your team already trusts.

Connect Metabase to your agent (MCP)

Metabase MCP server, built into Metabase. An admin turns it on under Admin > AI > MCP, and the URL is https://your-metabase.example.com/api/metabase-mcp. In Claude Code run claude mcp add --scope user --transport http metabase https://your-metabase.example.com/api/metabase-mcp, then /mcp and Authenticate. In Claude, add the URL as a connector (Metabase is in the directory); Codex and Cursor take the same URL. It signs in with Metabase's own OAuth and runs with your Metabase permissions (docs).
API with an API key. Under Admin > Settings > Authentication > API Keys, create a key and assign it to a group; it gets exactly that group's permissions. Store it in METABASE_API_KEY with METABASE_URL and send it as the X-API-Key header.

The MCP scopes decide what a client can do: agent:content:read and agent:query:run cover reports, while agent:content:write, agent:delivery:write and agent:sql:run let it edit content, create alerts or write SQL. For the API, put the key in a group that can view only the report's collections.

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Metabase dashboard weekly digest

Every Monday: the numbers on one Metabase dashboard against last week, with the two that moved most called out in plain language.

Data teamsMondays at 8:30Report card

What agents do with Metabase

Metabase organizes analysis into questions (cards in the API), dashboards and collections. POST /api/card/{id}/query/json runs a saved question and returns its rows, GET /api/dashboard/{id} lists a dashboard's cards and filters, GET /api/collection/{id}/items browses a collection, and POST /api/dataset runs an ad hoc query. Because a saved question already holds the SQL or query-builder logic your team agreed on, an agent that runs it reports the same number people see on the dashboard.

Teams schedule a weekly KPI digest built from a handful of saved questions, an alert when a metric moves more than a set percentage, a list of questions that started failing after a schema change, and a summary of the board dashboard before the Monday meeting.

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Your Metabase numbers, on one board with everything else

Skills are free to use with any agent. Briefkin is where their results land: one board for every report, number and question your agents send, with a ping when something needs you.

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