Connect AI teammates to approved tools

Tools are approved capabilities that an AI teammate can use during work. They can support actions such as checking URLs, making HTTP requests, searching storage, reading files, updating contacts, escalating conversations, scheduling work, running code, or calling another teammate.

The important point is control. AI teammates do not need unlimited access to be useful. They need the right tools for the job.

Alloy has different tool sets for different runtime contexts. Some tools are available to regular AI teammates, some are system-only, and some are added dynamically from assigned skills.

System-only tools are reserved for system organization runtime behavior. Regular AI teammates use the tools and skills allowed for their role.

MCP servers let an organization register external tool servers and make them available to AI teammates.

The MCP page lets teams add, test, edit, and delete organization-level MCP servers. A teammate's detail page includes an MCPs tab where staff can enable or disable those servers for that teammate.

An MCP server can have a name, URL, and optional headers. Current create flow accepts `http://` and `https://` URLs and blocks duplicate names.

Testing sends an initialize request to the stored server, injects organization variables into the URL and headers, and reports success or error status.

HTTP tools and MCP testing can use organization variables, including secrets, for reusable configuration and credentials.

This keeps sensitive values out of ordinary copy and lets teams manage tool connections centrally.