Connect your AI Agents to Airtable in minutes

What is an Airtable MCP server?

It’s an MCP server that exposes tools from Airtable. These tools let your AI agents perform a host of “on-the-fly” actions with Airtable, from creating tables to updating comments to fetching records.

How can I use the Airtable MCP server?

Here are just a few use cases (these use cases can also apply to other project management MCP servers):

• Project tracking automation: Your agent can monitor project statuses across your Airtable bases and automatically update records based on triggers from other tools. For example, when a GitHub pull request is merged, your agent can update the corresponding feature's status in your product roadmap base
  
  
• Data enrichment and research: Your agent can automatically populate Airtable records with relevant information from multiple sources. For instance, when a new lead is added to your CRM base, your agent can research the company, pull in firmographic data, and auto-fill fields like industry, employee count, and recent news
  
  
• Content calendar management: Your agent can analyze your Airtable content calendar, identify gaps or conflicts in your publishing schedule, and propose new content ideas based on performance metrics from past posts. It can then create draft records with suggested topics, target dates, and assigned writers
  
  
• Cross-platform workflow orchestration: Your agent can detect changes in Airtable and trigger coordinated actions across your integrated tools. For example, when a deal moves to "Closed Won" in your sales base, your agent can create onboarding tasks in your project management tool, add the customer to your support base, and schedule a kickoff meeting

What are popular tools for Airtable’s MCP server?

Here are some popular tools across data types:

Records

• <code class="blog_inline-code">get_record</code>
• <code class="blog_inline-code">list_records</code>
• <code class="blog_inline-code">update_record</code>
• <code class="blog_inline-code">replace_record</code>

Bases

• <code class="blog_inline-code">get_base_schema</code>
• <code class="blog_inline-code">create_table</code>
• <code class="blog_inline-code">update_table</code>

Tables

• <code class="blog_inline-code">get_table_schema</code>
• <code class="blog_inline-code">create_ table</code>
• <code class="blog_inline-code">Update_table</code>
• <code class="blog_inline-code">get_base_tables</code>

What makes Merge Agent Handler’s Airtable MCP server better than alternative Airtable MCP servers?

Here are a few reasons:

• Built-in authentication and credential management: The platform securely manages credentials and supports both individual and shared authentication flows through a guided Link UI, reducing security and implementation complexity
  

• Centralized security gateway with Data Loss Protection (DLP): All tool inputs and outputs pass through a security gateway that can block, redact, or mask sensitive data using default or custom rules, providing protections not inherent to basic MCP servers
  

• Comprehensive tool call logging and observability: Every tool call and underlying API request is logged, creating a complete audit trail for monitoring, debugging, and compliance
  

• Pre-deployment validation via the Evaluation Suite: Airtable’s tool behavior can be tested and evaluated against expected outcomes before production deployment, helping teams catch errors and optimize tool performance early
  

• Tool Pack–based access control: Airtable tools can be bundled with other connectors into Tool Packs, allowing fine-grained control over which tools an agent can access for a given use case

How can I start using Merge Agent Handler’s Airtable MCP server?

You can take the following steps:

1. Sign up for Agent Handler by registering for a free account. 

2. Navigate to "Tool Packs" in the left sidebar and select "Create New Tool Pack." You can give it a relevant name (e.g., "Airtable Automation Tools").

3. Browse the available connectors and add Airtable to your Tool Pack.

4. Choose your authentication method by deciding whether to use individual authentication (each user connects their own Airtable account) or shared authentication (one set of organization-level credentials for all users).

5. Select specific Airtable tools you want to make available to your agent, or enable all tools by default.

6. Navigate to "Registered Users" in the sidebar and create a new registered user, which represents the identity that will perform actions through your agent.

7. Save your Tool Pack settings and finalize your configuration.

8. Copy the MCP entry URL from your Tool Pack settings and connect it to your agent so it can access the Airtable tools you've configured.

Can I set custom security rules for Airtable tool calls?

Yes, you can add any number of security rules in a matter of clicks in Merge Agent Handler.

For example, you can:

• Block credit card numbers in Airtable record fields
• Redact social security numbers from Airtable base content
• Log when agents access records containing email addresses or phone numbers
• Block your agents from creating or updating Airtable records that contain specific terms, like "confidential" or "internal only"