SAS Viya
SAS Viya is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Execute SAS code and query Compute, CAS, and model APIs on SAS Viya via OAuth… It has 62 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license and runs locally with docker run -i --rm -e VIYA_ENDPOINT ghcr.io/sassoftware/sas-mcp-server:1.18.0.
- Official
- Developer tools
- Apache-2.0
- Actively maintained
Install SAS Viya
Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.
Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"sas-viya": {
"command": "docker",
"args": [
"run",
"-i",
"--rm",
"-e",
"VIYA_ENDPOINT",
"ghcr.io/sassoftware/sas-mcp-server:1.18.0"
],
"env": {
"VIYA_ENDPOINT": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --env VIYA_ENDPOINT=your-value --transport stdio sas-viya -- docker run -i --rm -e VIYA_ENDPOINT ghcr.io/sassoftware/sas-mcp-server:1.18.0Cursor
{
"mcpServers": {
"sas-viya": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "docker",
"args": [
"run",
"-i",
"--rm",
"-e",
"VIYA_ENDPOINT",
"ghcr.io/sassoftware/sas-mcp-server:1.18.0"
],
"env": {
"VIYA_ENDPOINT": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.
VS Code
{
"servers": {
"sas-viya": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "docker",
"args": [
"run",
"-i",
"--rm",
"-e",
"VIYA_ENDPOINT",
"ghcr.io/sassoftware/sas-mcp-server:1.18.0"
],
"env": {
"VIYA_ENDPOINT": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).
Environment variables
Variables the server reads at startup.
| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
VIYA_ENDPOINT | Yes | Base URL of your SAS Viya environment, e.g. https://viya.example.com. No trailing slash. |
SSL_VERIFY | No | Set false only for a self-signed Viya certificate. Disables verification for the whole process, so prefer a trusted certificate. |
CLIENT_ID | No | SASLogon OAuth client id used for the token refresh exchange. |
COMPUTE_CONTEXT_NAME | No | Compute context that backs SAS code execution. |
MCP_TIERS | No | Expose only some tool tiers, e.g. 0-4 or 0,1,7. Empty exposes all 92 tools. Tiers: 0 Compute, 1 Data Discovery, 2 Data Operations, 3 Reports, 4 Batch Jobs, 5… |
MCP_READ_ONLY | No | Expose only tools that neither change server-side state nor cause server-side work (51 of 92). Composes with MCP_TIERS. |
MCP_APPS | No | Register interactive views (MCP Apps) for the data, SAS log and glossary tools. Additive: text-only clients are unaffected. Set false to register none. |
MCP_STATELESS_HTTP | No | Serve HTTP requests without an MCP session. Needed by clients that speak only the sessionless 2026-07-28 protocol revision (claude.ai custom connectors); the… |
VIYA_CLIENT_TIMEOUT | No | Timeout in seconds for every SAS Viya REST call the tools make. |
Tools (40)
Parsed from the Tools section of the README; check the repository for the current list.
execute_sas_codeExecute SAS code snippets and retrieve execution results (log and listing output), plus a link to the HTML results…
list_compute_contextsList available compute contexts
reset_compute_sessionDelete the cached compute session for a context, discarding its SAS state and forcing a fresh session on the next call
catalog_searchSearch the catalog for assets (tables, columns, reports, …) using the SAS catalog search grammar (free text, facets…
catalog_search_helperDiscover how to query the catalog — list the available facets, or the valid values for one facet — so you can build…
catalog_find_instanceResolve the catalog instance for a source-asset resourceuri, bridging a search hit to the profiling and download tools…
catalog_run_adhoc_analysisSubmit an ad-hoc profiling job for a table. NLP enrichment (language, sentiment, semantic IDs) is on by default,…
catalog_get_adhoc_analysisPoll a profiling job and cross-check the target instance, reporting profileready once results have landed on the asset…
catalog_download_table_profileDownload a table's data dictionary and column profile as CSV, identified by either instanceid or resourceuri.
catalog_list_agentsList the catalog's discovery agents (the crawlers that populate metadata).
catalog_run_agentStart a discovery agent run (asynchronous) to crawl its data source and refresh catalog metadata.
catalog_get_agent_historyInspect an agent's run history — status and how much metadata each run enumerated/added/updated/removed.
list_cas_serversList available CAS servers
list_caslibsList CAS libraries on a server
list_castablesList tables in a CAS library
list_source_tablesList source tables not yet loaded into memory (candidates for promotion)
get_castable_infoGet table metadata (row count, columns, size)
get_castable_columnsGet column names, types, labels, formats
get_castable_dataFetch sample rows from a CAS table
query_dataRun a FedSQL SELECT against CAS or compute data and get the rows back — one SQL surface over both storage tiers.
list_compute_librariesList the SAS libraries (librefs) assigned in a compute context
list_compute_tablesList the tables in a SAS library within a compute context
list_compute_columnsList the columns of a table in a SAS library
get_compute_table_dataFetch a page of rows from a table in a SAS library, values formatted as SAS displays them — the compute-tier…
upload_dataUpload a data file into a CAS table — read server-side so the data never passes through the model's context — from…
upload_inline_dataCreate a small CAS table from inline csv/tsv text passed as a string (a lookup/mapping table the model builds on the…
promote_table_to_memoryLoad a source table into memory at global scope (idempotent)
list_filesList files in the Viya Files Service
upload_fileUpload a file to the Viya Files Service, optionally into a Content folder (parentfolderuri).
download_fileDownload file content
list_reportsList Visual Analytics reports
get_reportGet report metadata and definition
export_reportexport a report (or specific report objects) in any format the VA service supports — package (zip), pdf, png, svg,…
describe_report_objectsDiscover what a report can contain — the eight report operations and every addable object (bar chart, list table, geo…
create_reportCreate a Visual Analytics report and return its id. Optionally pass an operations array to build the whole report in…
apply_report_operationsThe authoring workhorse — apply an ordered batch of native VA operations (addData, addPage, addObject, updateObject,…
get_report_outlineRead a report's structure back — pages → objects with the handles the other tools need (object name for…
copy_reportCopy a report to a new one (optionally renaming/refoldering). Pairs with a changeData operation for the…
delete_reportDelete a report and its content.
submit_batch_jobSubmit a SAS job for async execution
About SAS Viya
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for executing SAS code, training AutoML projects, scoring models and so much more for SAS Viya environments.
- sas-aiml
- sas-osp
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What is SAS Viya?
SAS Viya is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Execute SAS code and query Compute, CAS, and model APIs on SAS Viya via OAuth… It has 62 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license and runs locally with docker run -i --rm -e VIYA_ENDPOINT ghcr.io/sassoftware/sas-mcp-server:1.18.0. The source code is at github.com/sassoftware/sas-mcp-server.
How do I install the SAS Viya MCP server?
Add the command docker run -i --rm -e VIYA_ENDPOINT ghcr.io/sassoftware/sas-mcp-server:1.18.0 to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.
Is SAS Viya free?
The server is open source under the Apache-2.0 license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.
Is SAS Viya actively maintained?
The most recent commit was on Sep 29, 2026. The latest release is v1.18.0, published Sep 29, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.