CLI Coding Agents Meet MuleSoft MCP Server

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0530

As an Integration and DevOps engineer, I’ve spent countless hours staring at black and white screens — vim, vi, nano, writing, running, testing, and shipping scripts, all from one home:

The OG

echo "terminal"

Coding agents just moved in.

## Antigravity
agy
## GitHub Copilot
copilot

After experimenting with IDE coding agents — building MuleSoft applications using MuleSoft Vibes/ACB right inside VS Code — I wanted to take it further. Back to where I’m most comfortable.

Let’s spin up a CLI coding agent, and arm it with MuleSoft DX MCP Server to interact with Anypoint Platform - straight from the terminal.

MuleSoft DX MCP Server
- Features
Prerequisites
Connected App Creation
The OG: Terminal
CLI Coding Agents
- Antigravity
  - MCP Server configuration
  - Moment of truth
- Copilot
  - MCP Server configuration
  - Moment of truth

MuleSoft DX MCP Server

MuleSoft DX MCP Server supports API design, application deployment, and asset management

Features

API specification development
Application creation and configuration
Agent network creation
Asset publication in Exchange
Instance deployment and management to CloudHub 2.0 and Runtime Fabric
Application security

These features look very promising for a CLI agent. Let’s set them up.

Prerequisites

Enable Agentforce for Anypoint platform - Ref
Install Node.js 20 or later - Ref
Organization admin access to create a connected app - Ref

Connected App Creation

Log in to Anypoint Platform.
Under Access Management, click Connected Apps.
Click Create App. Add a name for the connected app.
Select App acts on its own behalf (client credentials).
Click on Add Scopes. Add the scopes mentioned in the below table.

Anypoint Code Builder	Mule Developer Generative AI User
Anypoint Monitoring	Monitoring Viewer
Anypoint Code Builder	Mule Developer Generative AI User
API Manager	Manage APIs Configuration
	Manage APIs Configuration
	View APIs Configuration
Exchange	Exchange Administrator
	Exchange Contributor
	Exchange Creator
	Exchange Viewer
General	View Connected Applications
General	View Organization
OpenID	Profile
Runtime Manager	Cloudhub Network Viewer
	Create Applications
	Read Applications
	Read Runtime Fabrics

Click on Save to save the new connected app.

The OG: Terminal

Now open The OG: Terminal. Set the environment variables for the terminal session.

macOS/Linux

export ANYPOINT_CLIENT_ID="<CLIENT_ID>"
export ANYPOINT_CLIENT_SECRET="<CLIENT_SECRET>"

Optional

export ANYPOINT_REGION="<REGION_NAME>"

Windows

$env:ANYPOINT_CLIENT_ID="<CLIENT_ID>"
$env:ANYPOINT_CLIENT_SECRET="<CLIENT_SECRET>"

Optional

$env:ANYPOINT_REGION="<REGION_NAME>"