Anaplan MCP

Anaplan’s Integration API is powerful but technically demanding — most organizations rely on a small group of model builders to handle data extraction, imports, and workflow execution, creating bottlenecks. Anaplan MCP democratizes that access by wrapping the entire API in 68 structured tools that AI assistants can invoke conversationally.

Built in TypeScript and running over the Model Context Protocol (MCP), this server lets business users ask Claude to explore models, pull data, run imports, or manage workflows — all in plain English, without touching the API directly.

What It Can Do

• Explore workspaces, models, modules, lists, views, and line items
• Read & write cell data and list items
• Run imports, exports, processes, and delete actions with automatic task polling
• Upload & download files with chunked transfer for large datasets (50MB chunks)
• Administer models — open, close, delete, set periods and fiscal year
• Query users, versions, and task history

Common Use Cases

• Model documentation — explore structure, list line items with formulas, check dimension usage
• Data review — pull current data, identify recently added items, summarize forecasts
• Impact analysis — find modules using specific lists, trace line-item references
• Automation — run monthly imports, export actuals, add new products to master lists
• Onboarding — walk new team members through module structure and model composition

Engineering Highlights

• Name resolution — human-readable names mapped to Anaplan IDs with case-insensitive matching and caching
• Automatic task polling — async actions polled every 2 seconds with up to 5-minute timeout
• Retry logic — exponential backoff for rate limits (429) and server errors (5xx)
• Chunked uploads — transparent management of large file uploads
• Large response handling — automatic truncation and streaming for CSV datasets
• Three-layer architecture — Auth (pluggable providers) → API (16 domain wrappers) → Tools (MCP registrations with Zod validation)

Authentication

Supports basic auth, certificate auth, and OAuth2 (both device grant and authorization code flows). Configuration is entirely through environment variables — no config files or CLI flags.

Works With

Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and any MCP-compatible client using stdio transport. Built with TypeScript 5.x and Node.js 18+.