Files.com now supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which brings AI directly into your Files.com site for the first time. MCP is an open standard that lets an AI assistant — Claude or any other AI that supports it — call tools and reach data through one common interface, instead of every AI and every app needing a custom integration. Think of it as a universal adapter: the AI plugs into MCP, and MCP plugs into Files.com.

With the Files.com MCP server connected, your Files.com environment becomes conversational. You ask in plain language, and the AI does the work. Watch the demo to see it in action.

In practice, that means you can manage files, folders, share links, permissions, users, and groups just by asking. You can ask for business insights drawn from the activity on your site, or have a report or dashboard generated on the spot. Onboarding a new partner, setting up an automation, reviewing a user-activity log — the AI can handle the task and hand you the result.

Real-World Application

Picture this. You administer Files.com for a fast-paced logistics company, and you need to set up a new partner workspace. You tell the AI assistant "onboard a new partner," and it creates the user accounts, assigns group memberships, builds the folder structure, and configures the automations that route incoming files straight into the right system — an ERP ready to process new shipments, for example.

In healthcare, the AI can generate a real-time dashboard tracking user activity and access, so you stay on top of data-privacy and security requirements without combing through logs by hand.

Finance teams can share sensitive documents and then ask how those documents are being used, all through natural-language prompts.

It does not stop there. Want a snapshot of who is accessing what, or a chart of file uploads by department? Ask for it. The AI turns the data already in your Files.com site into a dynamic dashboard or a usable report.

Secure and Compliant by Design

Security and compliance are top priorities, and the MCP integration was built with that in mind. Every AI-driven task runs inside your existing Files.com environment, using the security controls and permissions you already configured. The AI can only do what the connected account is allowed to do, and every action it takes is recorded in the same audit trail as any other change. You get the power of AI without giving up control of your data.

Connecting AI to Files.com

The Model Context Protocol is becoming the common way for AI agents to reach the systems they work on, and Files.com is the cloud-native File Orchestration Platform sitting at the center of how files move through a business. Connecting the two means the platform that already speaks every protocol, links 50+ cloud and on-prem systems, and keeps a complete audit trail can now take instructions in plain language — and still enforce every permission and log every action.

This builds on the broader work to bring AI into Files.com. The same site that runs your transfers, automations, and integrations is now reachable by an AI agent through MCP, and reachable in code through the Files.com API and SDKs when you want to build the workflow yourself.

To set it up, see our documentation or the GitHub repo. For more on how the team uses AI day to day, read how AI is transforming productivity at Files.com.

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