Allowing AI Agents to integrate with MCP servers

17, Jul 2025

We are excited to share a powerful new capability for Telnyx AI Agents: native integration with MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. This update allows your AI Agents to connect directly with any public API that offers an official MCP server. Whether you are building with open-source models, public APIs, or internal systems, integration is now faster, simpler, and more reliable.

What’s new

  • Native support for connecting AI Agents to public APIs via official MCP servers.
  • Automatic configuration and routing through compliant MCP endpoints.
  • Seamless compatibility with third-party tools and services that support the MCP standard.

Why it matters

Connecting AI Agents to external APIs typically requires complex configuration and custom integrations. With native MCP server support, that setup becomes significantly easier. For any supported API, this is a major reduction in friction compared to using our webhook tool. The webhook tool still offers broader coverage and, in some cases lower latency because it can connect to any RESTful API. However, MCP makes it much simpler to get started with popular integrations.

One especially valuable integration now supported is Zapier. By connecting Telnyx AI Agents to Zapier as an MCP server, you gain access to thousands of automation workflows across tools like GSuite, Salesforce, Zendesk, and many others. This dramatically expands what your agents can do without needing to write additional code.

Getting started

It only takes a few minutes to get started.

  1. Sign up or log in to your Telnyx Mission Control Portal account.
  2. Navigate to the AI Assistant section.
  3. Click on the MCP server tab.
  4. Configure the MCP server.
  5. Select allowed tools.
  6. Add the MCP server to your agent.