What can you do with the Metabase integration?

LiveContext exposes 25 operations on Metabase, covering card, dashboard, user and collection. Common uses include build data dictionary, browse saved questions and rename a saved question.

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Metabase is an open-source business intelligence platform. The REST API exposes the same operations the web UI does: explore databases and tables, build and run questions (cards), assemble dashboards, organize content in collections, manage users and permissions, and execute ad-hoc native or MBQL queries through the dataset endpoint.

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Common Metabase use cases

build data dictionary
browse saved questions
rename a saved question
verify api key identity
add cards to a dashboard
fetch user details by id
inspect a saved question
purge a card permanently
scaffold a new dashboard
browse the collection tree

What you can do with Metabase

Each of these is one operation on one endpoint, available both as a workflow step and as a tool an AI agent can call on its own. Nothing bundles several operations into one action, so what a run did stays readable afterwards.

Most endpoints run on the free plan. A few, mainly the ones that publish on your behalf, need a paid plan.

Card, 5 operations

POSTcreate_card
Create a new card (question, model, or metric). Provide the underlying dataset_query, the desired display, and the visualization_settings.
DELETEdelete_card
Permanently delete a card by numeric ID. This is a hard delete - the card cannot be recovered.
GETget_card
Get a single card (question, model or metric) by numeric ID. Returns name, dataset_query, visualization settings, parameters, and metadata.
GETlist_cards
List Metabase cards (questions, models and metrics). Supports filtering by ownership, archive status, bookmarks, and parent model.
PUTupdate_card
Update an existing card. All fields are optional - supply only the ones you want to change.

Dashboard, 5 operations

POSTcreate_dashboard
Create a new empty dashboard. Use update_dashboard afterwards to add tabs, parameters, and dashcards.
DELETEdelete_dashboard
Permanently delete a dashboard by numeric ID. To soft-delete instead, archive it via update_dashboard.
GETget_dashboard
Get a dashboard by numeric ID, including its dashcards, tabs, parameters, and metadata.
GETlist_dashboards
List all non-archived dashboards visible to the authenticated user. Returns dashboard IDs, names, descriptions, and parent collection IDs.
PUTupdate_dashboard
Update an existing dashboard. Rename, move between collections, archive, edit parameters, or replace the dashcards/tabs layout.

User, 3 operations

POSTcreate_user
Create a new Metabase user (superuser scope). The new user receives an invitation email with a setup link.
GETget_user
Get a specific Metabase user by numeric ID. Returns the full user profile including email, name, group memberships, and login metadata.
GETlist_users
List Metabase users (superuser scope). Returns user IDs, emails, names, group memberships, and active flag.

Collection, 2 operations

POSTcreate_collection
Create a new collection (folder). Optionally place it under a parent collection.
GETlist_collections
List Metabase collections (folders that organize cards and dashboards).

Database, 2 operations

GETget_database
Get a Metabase database connection by numeric ID. Returns engine, host, db settings, and tables when requested.
GETlist_databases
List all configured database connections in the Metabase instance. Returns database IDs, names, engines, and basic metadata.

Card query, 1 operation

POSTrun_card_query
Execute the query attached to a card and return its results as JSON. Optionally pass parameter values, bypass the cache, or attribute the run to a specific dashboard.

Collection items, 1 operation

GETlist_collection_items
List the items (cards, dashboards, sub-collections, models, ...) inside a specific collection.

Content, 1 operation

GETsearch
Search across Metabase content (dashboards, cards, models, tables, collections, ...).

Current user, 1 operation

GETget_current_user
Get the profile of the currently authenticated Metabase user. Returns user ID, email, first/last name, common name, and superuser flag.

Database metadata, 1 operation

GETget_database_metadata
Get the full metadata of a database, including all tables, fields, foreign-key relationships and field-level metadata.

Dataset query, 1 operation

POSTrun_dataset_query
Execute an ad-hoc native SQL or MBQL query without saving it as a card.

Table, 1 operation

GETlist_tables
List all tables visible to the authenticated user across all databases. Returns table IDs, names, schemas, and parent database IDs.

Table query metadata, 1 operation

GETget_table_query_metadata
Get metadata about a table useful for running queries. Returns the parent database, all fields with their types, foreign-key references, and field values.

Use Metabase from Claude Code, Cursor or Codex

Connect Metabase in LiveContext, create an API key in Settings, then add the LiveContext MCP server to your client. Its Metabase operations become tools the client can call, next to every other integration you connected.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http livecontext https://livecontext.ai/mcp --header "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Codex (~/.codex/config.toml)

[mcp_servers.livecontext]
url = "https://livecontext.ai/mcp"

[mcp_servers.livecontext.http_headers]
"X-API-Key" = "YOUR_API_KEY"

Cursor, Claude Desktop and other JSON configs

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "livecontext": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://livecontext.ai/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Set up the MCP server step by step

How to connect Metabase

Create your workspace
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Connect Metabase once
Add your Metabase connection in Settings. Every tool from this integration reuses it, and secrets are encrypted at rest and visible only to you.
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The workflow builds itself in front of you and picks the endpoints it needs. Drag the steps yourself on the canvas whenever you would rather be explicit.

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What can you do with the Metabase integration?: LiveContext exposes 25 operations on Metabase, covering card, dashboard, user and collection. Common uses include build data dictionary, browse saved questions and rename a saved question.