ABAPilot

ABAPilot — AI & MCP Server for SAP ECC and On-Premise S/4HANA

ABAPilot is an in-system AI platform for SAP: natural-language business queries and AI-assisted ABAP development on the systems you already run — SAP ECC 6.0 through on-premise S/4HANA (any ABAP-based SAP instance). No BTP, no ADT, no RISE prerequisites. Deploys in ~2 hours.

Install the connector: npx -y abapilot · requires a licensed ABAPilot backend

Website: https://crimsonconsultingsl.com/abapilot/

Architecture deep-dive: ARCHITECTURE.md

Watch a real session (4 min): https://youtu.be/r9mg-gxKQQ0

2026 guide — AI for SAP ECC: https://crimsonconsultingsl.com/ai-for-sap-ecc/

Engineering write-up (SAP Community): Running AI agents against SAP ECC 6.0 — lessons from building an in-system MCP server

vs SAP's ABAP MCP Server: https://crimsonconsultingsl.com/abapilot-vs-sap-abap-mcp-server/

Quick start

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "abapilot": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "abapilot"],
      "env": {
        "ABAPILOT_URL": "http://<sap-host>:<port>/sap/bc/ZABAPilot",
        "ABAPILOT_USER": "<sap-user>",
        "ABAPILOT_PASSWORD": "<sap-password>",
        "ABAPILOT_CLIENT": "100"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your SAP credentials go only to your SAP system — never to us or any third party.

How it works

• Inside SAP: pure-ABAP add-on delivered as a transport into the registered /ABAPILOT/ namespace, attached to a single SICF (ICF) node with dynamic per-endpoint dispatch. No kernel changes, no Gateway, no BTP, no ADT/Eclipse dependency.
• On your network: this MCP connector (npx abapilot) links any MCP client — Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT — to the SAP-side endpoints.
• Your model: BYOK for Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Amazon Bedrock — or fully local via Ollama for zero-data-retention deployments.

Tools

49 tools, each mapping 1:1 to an endpoint of the ABAPilot dispatcher inside your SAP system.

Business data

• sap_read_table_data — Reads actual data from a SAP table with optional WHERE clause filtering and metadata inclusion
• sap_read_table_data_enhanced — Query data from an SAP table with optional WHERE clause filtering
• sap_read_table_paginated — Read table data with pagination support for large result sets
• sap_stream_table_data — Streams large table data using offset-based pagination
• sap_smart_table_query — Execute a table query with automatic metadata-driven enhancements
• sap_multi_table_query — Execute a multi-table query with proper joins and optional aggregation
• sap_count_rows — Estimate row count for a table BEFORE fetching data
• sap_analyze_query — Analyze a natural language query and return intelligent guidance for building the SAP query
• sap_search_tables — Search the Data Dictionary for tables matching a keyword

Data Dictionary & metadata

• sap_read_table_structure — Retrieves the metadata of a Data Dictionary table including field definitions, data types, keys, and descriptions
• sap_read_object_details — Read comprehensive details about any SAP repository or DDIC object
• sap_read_object_info — Get metadata about an ABAP object including creation date, last changed date, author, and package
• sap_check_type_exists — Checks whether a type exists in the SAP Data Dictionary and returns its kind
• sap_read_domain_values — Retrieves the fixed values defined for a domain
• sap_read_field_domain_values — Get domain fixed values for a specific table field
• sap_read_foreign_keys — Read foreign key relationships for a table from Data Dictionary (DD08L)
• sap_infer_joins — Automatically detect join keys between two tables based on domain matching
• sap_get_field_metadata — Get enriched metadata for SAP table fields with semantic classification
• sap_list_package_objects — List all ABAP repository objects in a development package (DEVCLASS)

ABAP code

• sap_read_code — Retrieves the source code of an ABAP object (program, class, or function group)
• sap_read_includes — Retrieves all include files for a program with their source code
• sap_read_dynpros — Retrieves screen definitions for a program including field lists
• sap_read_texts — Retrieves text elements (selection texts, text symbols) for a program
• sap_read_where_used — Queries SAP's cross-reference tables (WBCROSSGT/WBCROSSI) to find what objects use a given object (forward) or what a given object uses (inverse)
• sap_get_enhancements — List ALL enhancements for a SAP transaction or program in one call
• sap_syntax_check — Validates ABAP source code for syntax errors without creating or activating it
• sap_write_code — Low-level ABAP write endpoint
• sap_write_code_safe — Write ABAP code to SAP with validation and optional ECC 6.0 auto-fixing
• sap_patch_code — Apply delta modifications to existing ABAP programs or classes without sending full source

Operations & troubleshooting

• sap_read_dumps — Query ABAP runtime errors (short dumps) from SAP's ST22 transaction
• sap_read_dump_details — Get detailed information for a specific short dump including full error texts, cause, and solution
• sap_read_syslog — Query system log entries from SAP's SM21 transaction
• sap_read_jobs — Query background job information from SAP's SM37 transaction
• sap_run_program — Execute an ABAP report program (SUBMIT) and return its list output as text lines
• sap_run_transaction — Run the ABAP report behind a report transaction code, optionally with a selection-screen variant, and return its list output
• sap_save_variant — Create or overwrite an ABAP selection-screen VARIANT for a report, so it can be reused by sap_run_program (and the performance trace / headless…
• sap_read_user_locks — Query user lock status from USR02 table
• sap_diagnose_message — Diagnose a SAP error/warning/info message end-to-end
• sap_lookup_t100 — Look up a specific SAP T100 message by message class and number
• sap_lookup_error — Analyze a SAP error message using all available external knowledge sources

Audit & compliance

• sap_read_change_docs — Query change documents from CDHDR/CDPOS tables
• sap_read_change_docs_v2 — Optimized change document query using function modules
• sap_discover_change_object — Find the change document OBJECTCLAS for a table by querying TCDOB
• sap_scan_security_notes — Discover ABAP Security/HotNews notes for a SAP patch-day month and rank them by relevancy to this system
• sap_check_notes_relevancy — Check relevancy of one or more SAP Note numbers against this system (component/SP levels, download state, implementation readiness)

Translation

• sap_read_translations — Reads translatable texts from a SAP object in source and optionally target language
• sap_write_translations — Writes translated texts back to a SAP object
• sap_translate — Composite tool: reads translatable texts from a SAP object, translates them using AI, and optionally writes them back

Knowledge

• sap_search_knowledge — Search SAP documentation and community for information on any SAP topic

The catalog is gated in two places. In your system, the /ABAPILOT/CONFIG (or /TSRA/CONFIG) endpoint registry decides which endpoints are live — switch one off and the tool stops working, with no client change. On the client side, ABAPILOT_TOOLS narrows what a given MCP client sees:

"env": { "ABAPILOT_TOOLS": "sap_read_table_data,sap_read_code,sap_syntax_check" }

The licensed backend serves more than this connector exposes — 90+ active endpoints on a current ECC install, including transports and CTS, PFCG roles and SU24, SAP Note download and implementation, customizing writes, ABAP Unit, ATC, and SPAU/SPDD adjustment replay. The tools above are the subset with stable public schemas.

Security model

• Every call runs under the SAP user's own authorizations (S_TABU_DIS, S_DEVELOP, …) — enforced, not reimplemented
• Exposure limited to the /ABAPILOT/CONFIG whitelist table; anything not whitelisted is unreachable
• Full audit trail in /ABAPILOT/AUDIT (user, timestamp, parameters)
• Write endpoints (sap_write_code, sap_patch_code, sap_write_translations, …) ship switched off; a customer administrator activates them per endpoint in the registry

Getting access

ABAPilot is a commercial product by Crimson Consulting SL (Valencia, Spain). The npm connector is free (MIT); the in-system backend is licensed.

Book a demo: https://crimsonconsultingsl.com/demo/ — 30 minutes on a live system, you pick the task. POC deployment on your dev system takes about two hours.

Why not SAP's ABAP MCP Server?

Different jobs: SAP's server (inside ADT for Eclipse/VS Code) is excellent for developer assistance on systems with modern ADT services. ABAPilot adds what it doesn't cover: business-user queries, systems without ADT services (most real-world ECC 6.0), governed whitelist+audit access, and model choice including fully local. Many teams run both — full comparison here.