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• Finds questions, dashboards, metrics, tables and other content by keyword or meaning

  Searches your Metabase content by keyword, or by meaning when semantic search is on. It can narrow to certain types, one collection, things you created, the trash, or your recently viewed items.

  Try: “Find our dashboards about customer churn”

  Read · search

• Opens a question, dashboard, metric or document and reads its details

  Reads up to 10 items at once, such as a dashboard and its questions, with optional extras like the stored query, columns, chart settings, filters, layout or document comments.

  Try: “What does the Revenue Overview dashboard show, and what filters does it have?”

  Read · get_content

• Lists what is in a collection or shows the folder tree

  Lists the items in a collection, including your personal collection or the trash, or shows the nested folder structure. Results can be sorted, filtered by type, or limited to things you created.

  Try: “What's in the Marketing collection?”

  Read · browse_collection

• Lists your databases, schemas, tables, models and columns

  Walks your connected data from databases to schemas, tables and fields, or lists the models built on a database. Sensitive fields are always left out, and values only show for tables you can query.

  Try: “Which tables in the warehouse have order data, and what columns do they have?”

  Read · browse_data

• Runs a query on your data and returns the results

  Runs a structured Metabase query (counts, sums, grouping, filters, joins) and returns up to 2,000 rows per page. It can also check a query without running it.

  Try: “How many orders did we get each month this year?”

  Read · execute_query

• Runs a saved question, with filter values if you want

  Runs a question already saved in Metabase and returns its results, applying any filter values you give it.

  Try: “Run the Weekly Active Users question for the EU region”

  Read · run_saved_question

• Draws a chart of query results right in the chat

  Shows the results of a query as an interactive chart inside your AI app, with an option to open it in Metabase. Only apps that can show charts in the chat get this tool.

  Try: “Show me weekly signups for the last quarter as a line chart”

  Read · visualize_query

• Runs your own SQL directly on a connected database

  Runs raw SQL exactly as written on a database where you have native query permission. Metabase marks it as able to change or delete data, so what it can do depends on your database login.

  Try: “Write SQL that shows the 7-day rolling average of revenue and run it”

  Delete · execute_sql

• Lists the choices available in a dashboard or question filter

  Returns the values a filter can take, such as every country in a Country filter, optionally narrowed by search text or by the other filters already chosen.

  Try: “Which regions can I pick in the Sales dashboard's Region filter?”

  Read · get_parameter_values

• Looks up what your company's data terms mean

  Lists the terms in your Metabase glossary with their definitions, or looks up one term.

  Try: “What does 'active customer' mean in our glossary?”

  Read · glossary

• Saves a new question or model, or edits or trashes one

  Creates or updates a saved question or model, including its chart type and settings, in a collection or dashboard. Setting it as archived moves it to the trash, where it can be restored.

  Try: “Save that monthly orders query as a bar chart in my collection”

  Delete · question_write

• Creates or edits a dashboard, or moves it to the trash

  Creates a dashboard or changes one, such as its name, layout, cards and filters, and can preview the layout without saving. Trashing is the only way it removes a dashboard.

  Try: “Make a dashboard with our monthly revenue, orders and churn questions”

  Delete · dashboard_write

• Creates or edits a metric, or moves it to the trash

  Saves a reusable metric, a query with one calculation and at most one grouping, or updates or trashes an existing one.

  Try: “Create a metric for monthly recurring revenue from the subscriptions table”

  Delete · metric_write

• Creates or edits a saved filter on a table, or trashes it

  Saves a named set of filters on a table, such as 'Active customers', so people can reuse it, or updates or trashes one. Each update records a short change note.

  Try: “Create a segment called Enterprise accounts for customers with more than 500 seats”

  Delete · segment_write

• Creates or edits a saved calculation on a table, or trashes it

  Saves a named calculation on a table, such as total revenue, so people can reuse it, or updates or trashes one. Each update records a short change note.

  Try: “Add a measure for average order value on the orders table”

  Delete · measure_write

• Writes or edits a Metabase document, or trashes it

  Creates a Metabase document in Markdown with embedded charts, edits its text in place or rewrites it, or moves it to the trash.

  Try: “Write a document summarising last month's sales with the revenue chart embedded”

  Delete · document_write

• Creates, renames or moves a collection, or trashes it

  Creates a collection or updates one, such as its name, description or parent folder. Trashing moves the collection and everything in it to the trash; there is no hard delete.

  Try: “Create a Q4 Planning collection inside Finance”

  Delete · collection_write

• Makes a copy of a question, dashboard or document

  Copies a question, dashboard or document into a collection you choose. For a dashboard it can also copy all its questions.

  Try: “Duplicate the Sales dashboard into the EMEA collection”

  Write · duplicate_content

• Bookmarks an item or removes the bookmark

  Adds or removes a bookmark on a collection, dashboard, document, metric, model or question for you.

  Try: “Bookmark the Revenue Overview dashboard”

  Write · bookmark_content

• Sets up or changes an alert that emails or Slacks a question's results

  Creates or updates an alert on a saved question that sends its results by email or to a Slack channel on a schedule, or when a condition is met. Alerts can be paused but not deleted here.

  Try: “Alert me on Slack in #data-team whenever daily signups drop below 100”

  Write · alert_write

• Sends a dashboard by email or Slack on a schedule

  Creates or updates a dashboard subscription that delivers it by email or Slack on a schedule, with optional filter values. Trashing it is the only way to remove it.

  Try: “Email the Sales dashboard to the sales team every Monday at 9am”

  Delete · subscription_write

• Used by the assistant behind the scenes

  Reads Metabase's built-in guides on how to use its tools

  Lists or opens Metabase's reference topics, such as how to write its query format or chart settings, so the assistant can use the other tools correctly.

  Try: “Look up how Metabase chart settings work before saving this chart”

  Read · learn

• Redraws a chart after you click into it in the chat

  Used when you click into a chart in the chat to drill through. It redraws the chart for that selection; only apps that can show charts in the chat get it.

  Try: “Drill into the March bar on that chart”

  Read · render_drill_through

Watch out for

• It can run raw SQL on your databases

  It runs SQL exactly as written on any database where you can write native queries. Ask your admin to block the Raw SQL tools for groups that do not need them. metabase.com

• It can email or Slack your data on a schedule

  It can create alerts and dashboard subscriptions sent to addresses or channels it picks. Check each one before you approve it, or have the Deliveries tools blocked. metabase.com

• Every tool is on for everyone by default

  Until an admin limits tools per group, any user can use the write, SQL and delivery tools within their own Metabase permissions. Limiting tools needs Pro or Enterprise. metabase.com

• Deleted content goes to the trash

  Dashboards, questions, collections and similar content can only be moved to the trash, so you can restore them. metabase.com

• Your results reach your AI provider

  Query results go to your AI app, which may send them to its AI provider. Check your AI app's data settings before connecting sensitive databases. metabase.com

• Admins can see who connected

  Admin > AI > MCP > Authorizations logs every app that registered and every sign-in people approved or denied. metabase.com

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