Backstage is the CNCF-incubating developer portal that thousands of engineering teams use to catalog services, track ownership, and host TechDocs. When you need to find who owns a service, check its deployment status, or read documentation for an internal API, you navigate to the Backstage UI and search manually.
An MCP server for Backstage lets your AI agent query the software catalog, look up service ownership, read TechDocs, and check component health directly from Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf.
Once your AI agent has Backstage access:
https://backstage.company.com)Works with any Backstage instance running the standard catalog and TechDocs plugins.
Platform engineers: Catalog oversight. "Which components have no owner?" without writing custom catalog queries.
Backend developers: Discovery. "What APIs does the notifications team expose?" before building a new integration.
Engineering managers: Ownership tracking. "List all services my team owns and their lifecycle status" for quarterly reviews.
SREs: Incident context. "What does the order-service depend on and who owns its dependencies?" for faster triage.
| Backstage UI | AI Agent |
|---|---|
| Catalog → search → filter by kind | "List all APIs owned by the platform team" |
| Entity page → Relations tab | "What depends on the user-service?" |
| TechDocs → browse → read | "Summarize the auth library docs" |
| Catalog → filter unowned | "Which services have no owner?" |
Set up a service account for AI access:
Then point DataFaucet at your Backstage instance, authenticate with the service account, and your AI agent can query the entire software catalog as MCP tools.
Create your Backstage MCP server in 60 seconds.
Try with Backstage →{
"mcpServers": {
"backstage": {
"url": "https://datafaucet.dev/api/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID/sse"
}
}
}Replace YOUR_SERVER_ID with the ID from your DataFaucet dashboard after creating your Backstage server.
Point DataFaucet at Backstage and get a working server in 60 seconds.
Create Backstage server free →After creating, add to Claude Desktop:
"backstage": {
"url": "https://datafaucet.dev/api/mcp/YOUR_ID/sse"
}Free plan includes 3 servers. Upgrade to Pro for unlimited →
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