{"id":309433,"date":"2025-12-10T19:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/309433\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T19:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:31:07","slug":"announcing-official-mcp-support-for-google-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/309433\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing official MCP support for Google services"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the recent launch of Gemini 3<\/a>, we have the state-of-the-art reasoning to help you learn, build, and plan anything. But for AI to truly be an \u201cagent\u201d, to pursue goals\u00a0 and solve real-world problems on behalf of users, it needs more than just intelligence; it needs to reliably work with tools and data.<\/p>\n

Anthropic\u2019s Model Context Protocol<\/a> (MCP), often likened to a “USB-C for AI”, has quickly become a common standard to connect AI models with data and tools. MCP enables AI applications to execute the complex multi-step tasks it takes to solve real world problems. However, implementing Google\u2019s existing community-built servers often requires developers to identify, install, and manage individual, local MCP servers or deploy open-source solutions\u2013placing the burden on developers, and often leading to fragile implementations.<\/p>\n

Today we\u2019re announcing the release of fully-managed, remote MCP servers. Google\u2019s existing API infrastructure is now enhanced to support MCP, providing a unified layer across all Google and Google Cloud services. Developers can now simply point their AI agents or standard MCP clients like Gemini CLI to a globally-consistent and enterprise-ready endpoint for Google and Google Cloud services.<\/p>\n

Crucially, we are extending this capability to your broader enterprise stack through Apigee, allowing you to leverage the purpose-built APIs your organization uses for specific data flows and business logic. Customers can now expose and govern their own developer-built APIs, as well as external third-party APIs, as discoverable tools for agents. Read more about Apigee\u2019s announcement here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We are incrementally releasing MCP support for all our services, starting with:\u00a0<\/p>\n

1. Google Maps: Grounding AI in the real world<\/p>\n

Maps Grounding Lite, available through Google Maps Platform<\/a>, connects AI agents to trusted geospatial data, offering access to fresh information on places, weather forecasts, and routing details such as distance and travel time. This allows developers to build agents that can accurately answer real-world location and travel queries without hallucinating. For example, an AI assistant can use Grounding Lite to respond to queries such as, “How far is the nearest park from this rental?\u201d, \u201cWhat should I pack for the weather in Los Angeles this weekend?\u201d, or \u201cCould you recommend kid-friendly restaurants near our hotel?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

2. BigQuery: Reasoning over enterprise data<\/p>\n

The BigQuery MCP server enables agents to natively interpret schemas and execute queries against enterprise data without the security risks or latency of moving data into context windows. It provides direct access to BigQuery features like forecasting while ensuring data remains in-place and governed.<\/p>\n

3. Google Compute Engine (GCE): Autonomous infrastructure management<\/p>\n

By exposing capabilities like provisioning and resizing as discoverable tools, this server empowers agents to autonomously manage infrastructure workflows. Agents can handle everything from initial builds to day-2 operations, such as dynamically adapting to workload demands.<\/p>\n

4. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE): Autonomous container operations<\/p>\n

The GKE MCP server exposes a structured, discoverable interface that allows agents to interact reliably with both GKE and Kubernetes APIs, eliminating the need to parse brittle text output or string-together complex CLI commands. This unified surface allows agents, operating autonomously or with human-in-the-loop guardrails, to diagnose issues, remediate failures, and optimize costs.<\/p>\n

Built-in security and observability<\/p>\n

We are bringing order to this ecosystem with a unified approach to discovery and governance. With the new Cloud API Registry<\/a> and Apigee API Hub<\/a>, developers can find trusted MCP tools from Google and their own organizations, respectively. We pair this ease of discovery with rigorous control: administrators can manage access via Google Cloud IAM<\/a>, rely on audit logging<\/a> for observability, and utilize Google Cloud Model Armor<\/a> to defend against advanced agentic threats such as indirect prompt injection.<\/p>\n

“Google’s support for MCP across such a diverse range of products, combined with their close collaboration on the specification, will help more developers build agentic AI applications. As adoption grows among leading platforms, it brings us closer to agentic AI that works seamlessly across the tools and services people already use.”- David Soria Parra, Co-creator of MCP & Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see an example of these new MCP servers in action:<\/p>\n

Imagine an agent that will help identify an ideal location for retail. Using Agent Development Kit (ADK<\/a>), you can build a natural-language agent backed by Gemini 3<\/a> Pro, that connects to BigQuery to forecast revenue based sales data, while simultaneously, the agent cross-references Google Maps to scout for complementary businesses and validate delivery routes, all via standard, managed MCP servers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the recent launch of Gemini 3, we have the state-of-the-art reasoning to help you learn, build, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,123520,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-309433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-u0026-machine-learning","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}