Diagram showing VS Code, Eclipse, Cursor, and Microsoft Copilot connecting through ARC-1 as a centrally deployed ADT MCP gateway on SAP BTP or an own server to ABAP systems on-premise, private cloud, and SAP BTP ABAP Environment.

Introducing ARC-1: A Secure ADT MCP Server for Enterprise SAP Development

Series note: This post is part of my AI ABAP development series, where I go from AI development in general, to ABAP-specific problems, and then to ARC-1. In the first post of this series, I wrote about context and how I use AI in development. In the previous post, I then moved that discussion into ABAP and ended more or less with one question: what would an ADT MCP setup need to look like if you take control, identity, and security seriously from the beginning? ...

April 27, 2026 · 13 min · 2742 words · Marian Zeis
Screenshot showing the integration of SAP RAP actions in the AI agent workflow.

Building an Enterprise-Ready SAP AI Agent with Open Source

There is currently a huge hype around the new MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. I’ve built one for SAP Docs, and there are excellent community projects like the ADT API MCP Server. These tools are fantastic for individual developers. You install them, connect them to your IDE or a local LLM, and suddenly your AI assistant knows about SAP. Architecture overview (in one picture) Before diving into the details, here is the high-level architecture I’m aiming for: ...

March 3, 2026 · 8 min · 1681 words · Marian Zeis