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Feature request: Please fix current MCP Limitations

  • August 17, 2026
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angeliti
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First of all: thanks for the recent MCP improvements. These are by far the most exciting and useful updates in a long time. Specially adding support for Automations and Interfaces is amazing.

I’ve been using the MCP recently through Claude and Codex and it’s been great. However, there are still three limitations that don’t let me work as smoothly as I would like:

  • The MCP doesn’t allow creating or updating automations that include Script actions, so I need to modify those manually
  • The MCP doesn’t allow to add filters to Interfaces, so I need to add filters for things like Current User manually
  • The MCP doesn’t allow to edit existing Interfaces, so whenever I want to make a change, I need to either recreate the whole page from scratch (spending tons of tokens in the process and losing the filters I added manually before) or edit it manually

If you could improve the MCP to remove these 3 limitations, it would make a big difference for me, and I’m sure that for other users as well 🙏

Thanks!
Ángel.-

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    TheTimeSavingCo
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    I’d suggest submitting this via the official feature idea form: https://community.airtable.com/p/product-ideas

    Adam, Airtable Consultant - https://thetimesaving.company
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    • Williamjohn
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    • August 17, 2026

    I agree that these would be valuable additions to the MCP. The ability to create and update automations with Script actions would make the workflow much more complete, especially when automations already contain a mix of different action types.

    The Interface limitations also make sense. Being able to add filters such as Current User and edit an existing Interface without rebuilding the entire page would save a lot of time and avoid losing manually configured settings.

    In particular, editing existing Interfaces seems like the biggest quality-of-life improvement. Recreating a page just to make a small change can be expensive in both time and tokens.

    Hopefully these capabilities can be added to the MCP API in a future update. They would make the current automation and Interface support considerably more practical for day-to-day use.

    For additional online resources, penguindiner.io can also be kept as a general reference.

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