Vani MCP basics

Vani MCP basics

What is Vani MCP

Vani MCP lets supported AI assistants and MCP clients connect securely to your Vani workspace, understand your projects and documents, and help you perform actions in Vani from a conversation.

MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. It is an open standard that lets AI assistants connect to external applications through secure, structured tools. With Vani MCP, supported AI assistants can use Vani tools to search, create, update, organize, and share content based on your permissions in Vani.

What you can do with Vani MCP

Vani MCP helps you use an AI assistant as a workspace assistant for Vani. You can ask the assistant to find information, summarize content, create visual structures, update text, manage tables, inspect relationships between objects, and perform actions in Vani.

Examples:
  1. Convert a brainstorm into a kanban board.
  2. Create a table or chart from raw data.
  3. Find connected objects and understand relationships in a Vani Space.
  4. Use Vani prompt templates and built-in creation skills such as product mind maps, user journey maps, sprint kanbans, roadmap timelines, SWOT canvases, risk heat maps, org charts, skills matrices, meeting mind maps, and retrospective boards.

Main capability areas

1. Workspace and account context
View your Vani editions, subscription details, member counts, and your role or permissions in an edition.

2. Teams
View teams, search team members, add team members, update team member roles, and manage team access requests — if your Vani role allows it.

3. Spaces
List, create, rename, move, or duplicate Spaces; manage Spacemates; check Space permissions; handle Space access requests.

4. Zones
List, create, rename, duplicate, or move Zones; get Zone contents; view Zone versions; manage Zone-level access.

5. Search
Search across team content, Zones, frames, shapes, and comments — useful when you know what you need but not where it is in Vani.

6. Structured creation
Create mind maps, flowcharts, kanban boards, stacks, tables, and charts in a Zone from a prompt, notes, meeting transcript, CSV-style data, or a goal.

7. Tables
Read table sizes and cell text, replace or edit cell text, insert or delete rows and columns, and merge or unmerge cells.

8. Text editing
Read text from Vani objects, count text length or paragraphs, replace, insert, or delete text, and apply basic text styling

9. Relationships and connections
Inspect how objects are related, find children or parents, trace ancestors or descendants, find connected objects, check whether two objects can be connected, and create or reconnect connectors.

10. Canvas traversal and data operations
Understand object order, neighbouring objects, surrounding context, and low-level Vani data entities for detailed operations.

11. Media and files
Upload and insert pictures, videos, audio, and files into a Zone — subject to supported file size and format limits.

12. Sharing and access
Review external sharing policy, check whether external sharing is allowed, create or update external shares, and list published Space details — if your organization and role permit.

13. Templates, prompts, and skills
Fetch Vani templates, read Vani MCP knowledge resources, use Vani prompt templates, and apply Vani skills for product planning, engineering planning, compliance maps, risk maps, people maps, finance boards, and meeting summaries.