Anypoint access

anypoint-connect is the only one of the three MCP servers that needs authentication. mule-build and mule-lint work with no credentials.

Set this up for runtime evidence or requested design-platform work: Design Center, Exchange, centralized API Governance, logs, metrics, deployments, API Manager, queues, or Object Store. Skip it for local contract design/validation, documentation, development, lint, build, packaging, or static review.

What happens when it is not set up

The skills do not fail silently and do not stall. mule-api-design, mule-ops, mule-troubleshooting, mule-review, and publish/deploy actions in mule-build probe the required capability before their first connector call, then tell you which state they found and offer a choice.

flowchart TD
    Start[Anypoint capability needed] --> Probe["Probe: whoami, then capability-specific read"]
    Probe -->|Ready| Collect[Collect telemetry]
    Probe -->|Not ready| Offer["State the reason, offer choices"]
    Offer --> SetUp[Set it up now, then re-probe]
    Offer --> Exports["You supply exported logs or metrics"]
    Offer --> RepoOnly[Repository-only scope with labeled gaps]
    SetUp --> Collect
    Collect --> Report[Report with a coverage ledger]
    Exports --> Report
    RepoOnly --> Report

Two consequences worth knowing:

• Nothing blocks. A review or a diagnosis still completes from repository evidence; the report names the coverage it could not reach.
• Exports are second-class on purpose. Logs and screenshots you paste in are labeled user-provided with the coverage you state. They can support a correlation, but absence of an entry in a truncated or filtered export never proves absence.

Skill	With access	Without access
mule-api-design	Design Center/Exchange/Governance reads and separately approved writes	Local design, authoring, and AMF validation continue normally
mule-ops	Full runtime health assessment	Repository and configuration review, or analysis of exports you supply
mule-troubleshooting	Telemetry-confirmed root cause	Source-based hypotheses with the discriminating checks named
mule-review	Optional runtime verification of a finding	Complete review with the runtime gap disclosed
mule-build	Authorized publish and deploy	Validate, test, and package as normal

Set it up

Run these yourself. An agent following these skills will print them rather than run them, because they change machine-local state.

npx -y @sfdxy/anypoint-connect@0.12.0 config init
npx -y @sfdxy/anypoint-connect@0.12.0 auth login
npx -y @sfdxy/anypoint-connect@0.12.0 auth status

A global install gives you the shorter anc command:

npm install -g @sfdxy/anypoint-connect@0.12.0
anc config init
anc auth login
anc auth status

Use the same pin the MCP configuration uses. A CLI on one version and an MCP server on another is a confusing way to debug a login problem.

Multiple organizations

Use a neutral local profile identifier rather than an organization or customer name:

anc config init --profile org-a
anc auth login --profile org-a
anc config use org-a
anc auth status

anc config use writes .anypoint-connect.json in the project. It binds a machine-local profile rather than storing credentials, but it can reveal local organization labeling, so add it to .gitignore:

.anypoint-connect.json

Verify

Two things have to be true: the MCP server is configured in your host, and the CLI profile is authenticated. Check them separately, because the fixes are different.

Check	How	Fix if it fails
Server configured	/mcp in Claude Code, codex mcp list, copilot mcp list, or your host's MCP view	Install path for your host: Claude Code, other agents
Authenticated	anc auth status	anc auth login
Visible to the agent	Ask the agent to confirm Anypoint access	See the failure modes below

Runtime readiness uses whoami and list_environments. Design readiness uses whoami and list_design_center_projects; it does not require runtime environment visibility. The skills redact identity and organization details from their report.

Failure modes

State	What you see	Fix
Not configured	The host exposes no anypoint-connect tools at all	Add the MCP entry for your host, then restart or reload it. Login is not the problem
Not authenticated	Tools exist but report missing, invalid, or expired credentials	anc auth login, then re-check anc auth status
Environment not visible	Authentication works, but the environment you asked about is absent	Wrong organization or profile, a business-group boundary, or a misspelled environment name. Check anc config use and the environment list
Not permitted	Authentication and environment resolve, but an operation is refused	The identity or the subscription lacks that capability. Use an identity with the right scope, or supply an export instead
Transient failure	Timeout, rate limit, or server error	Retry once with a narrower window before treating it as an access problem

A first npx start also downloads the package, so a cold start can look like a hang. Wait for it once; later starts use the cache.

Privacy

The skills already treat organization and identity detail as sensitive, and they will not put it in a report. Keep the same boundary yourself:

• Do not commit .anypoint-connect.json.
• Do not paste tokens or credentials into a chat. The CLI holds the session; the agent never needs the secret itself.
• Redact identifiers, private hostnames, and payloads from logs you supply, or expect the skill to paraphrase and redact them in the output.
• Exported telemetry belongs outside the repository. Point the agent at a path; do not commit the file.

What the skills do with access

The readiness workflow the skills follow lives in the repository at skills/mule-ops/references/anypoint-readiness.md. It defines the probe, the access states, the choices offered, the metadata required for supplied exports, and the rule that an access state appears in the report whenever it limited scope.