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Manage agent access and search independently. Organization admins turn each part on or off. Workspace members with edit permission choose the resources available to agents.

Permissions​

Only organization admins can change organization-wide settings and accept search terms. You need workspace edit permission to change agent access for a source or destination or search for a connection.

Agents act with the Airbyte permissions of the person or application using the Airbyte MCP. For direct reads, the credentials saved in the connector determine which records agents can see. Those credentials might allow access to data the person couldn't otherwise read in the third-party system. Review their scope before enabling access.

Manage agent access​

Turn on agent access​

  1. In Airbyte, open Context layer > Settings.
  2. Turn on Agent access.

Airbyte turns on agent access for all supported sources in your organization. Destinations aren't turned on automatically.

Choose sources and destinations​

  1. Open Context layer > Agent access.
  2. Find the workspace.
  3. Turn Agent access on or off for each source or destination.

You can also change Agent access in a source or destination's Settings. When you create a supported source or destination, its setup form includes this option if organization agent access is on. For sources, it's on by default.

Turn off agent access​

To stop direct reads from one resource, turn off its Agent access setting. To stop direct reads across the organization, open Context layer > Settings, turn off Agent access, and click Disable to confirm.

Airbyte keeps your resource selections and restores them if you turn organization agent access back on. Turning off agent access doesn't stop replication or independently enabled search.

  1. In Airbyte, open Context layer > Settings.
  2. Turn on Semantic search.
  3. Review and accept the new terms of service for storing indexed data on Airbyte infrastructure.

Choose connections​

Open Context layer > Semantic search and turn Semantic search on or off for each connection. Both its source and destination must be agent connectors.

After your organization enables search, new eligible connections have Semantic search on by default. You can change this when creating a connection or in its settings.

Search indexes data synced after you enable it. To make previously synced data searchable, start a backfill.

Turn off Semantic search for a connection on Context layer > Semantic search to stop indexing it, or turn off Semantic search on Context layer > Settings to stop search for the organization. Airbyte deletes the affected index. Re-enabling search requires a new backfill to search previously synced data, using destination compute again.

Turning off search doesn't turn off agent access or data replication.

Availability​

Agent access and search are available only in Airbyte Cloud, not self-managed Airbyte Core or Enterprise. You can't enable agent access for resources in workspaces on customer-owned Enterprise Flex data planes. Keep search off for connections on those data planes: if search is on, their syncs fail before they start.

Connect your agent​

After you configure access, connect your agent to the Airbyte MCP. Ask questions in plain language, and your agent uses the available resources.

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