02 / We moved MCP to a hosted server and made it easier to use
Any MCP-capable AI tool can query PentaTrail and act on it. Ask what to fix first, and the risk bands, the hosts they sit on, and who owns them come back as one answer. Adding a domain to monitoring, archiving one, excluding an asset, closing a remediation task can be asked for the same way.
Table 1: What changed about using MCP
| Aspect |
Before |
Now |
| Connecting |
Install and configure a package on your own machine |
Add https://api.pentatrail.co/mcp, approve in the browser it opens |
| What it can do |
Read only |
Ask questions, and make changes |
| Starting an AI Deep Scan |
On screen |
On screen (unchanged) |
Approved tools can be revoked at any time from Settings in the admin console (admin.pentatrail.co).
All 17 tools are documented with a worked example on the MCP server page.