Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Connector is the unified connection layer that brings enterprise systems and data into your agents. Authorize once in the console to expose a system's capabilities as MCP tools for your agents.
Before an agent can answer questions about your business, it has to be able to read your data. That data is scattered across DingTalk Docs, Yuque, OSS, databases, and all kinds of SaaS systems, and integrating each one separately is both time-consuming and hard to maintain.
Connector consolidates these systems into a single connection layer. You complete the authorization once in the console, and Connector packages the capabilities of that system into standard tools exposed to your agents over the MCP protocol. The agent does not need to know where the data lives — it simply calls the tools.
If you previously created data connections in the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio console, those connectors must be migrated to the new Connector before you can manage them in the new Connector console.
Connector is currently in Beta. Features and the list of supported Apps are still expanding.
Features
- Connect 20 types of systems: DingTalk, Yuque, Salesforce on Alibaba Cloud, databases, OSS, and more — ready to connect out of the box. See the App catalog.
- Tools generated automatically: Callable tools are generated as soon as the connection is created. You never write an API wrapper yourself. See Core concepts.
- Configure credentials once: Every connector under the same App shares one auth config, so rotating a credential means editing one place. See Authentication overview.
- Hosted files and tables: Documents and tables you upload are parsed and hosted by the platform, ready for agents to search and cite. See File connector.
Start here
- Quickstart: Connect your first App and call its tools from your agent in about 10 minutes.
- Core concepts: Understand how Apps, connectors, tools, and MCP relate to each other.
- App catalog: Browse every connectable App and the prerequisites for each one.
- Authentication: Configure credentials once and reuse them across every connector under the same App.