MuleSoft, your way

Today we’re excited to announce a host of new capabilities that make it easy to extend Anypoint Code Builder to any MCP supported Integrated Development Environments (IDE) such as Cursor, Windsurf or Trae.ai. Developers can get the most out of Anypoint Code Builder, no matter where their development workflow happens. 

Anypoint Code Builder (ACB) is MuleSoft’s next generation IDE. As a VS Code based IDE, it offers a host of modern development capabilities for our customers as they craft APIs and integrations supporting countless application interactions every single day. Tools like ACB continue to be the cornerstone of agentic transformation across a vast number of businesses and industries. As we move further into the agentic world, developers are becoming more accustomed to AI-enriched coding capabilities, ranging from natural language generation to codebase parsing and proactive de-bugging. 

The growing popularity of IDEs that are specifically geared towards building with AI mandate a degree of flexibility within existing workflows, in order to empower Developers to meet the expectations placed upon them as AI accelerates all aspects of the software development life cycle. 

Whether our customers want to develop in Anypoint Code Builder, via a third party AI-first IDE or have an Agent write code on their behalf, we want MuleSoft to be available wherever developers are working to build the next generation of AI enriched integrations & automations. 

IDEs specifically dedicated to AI Development – Cursor, Windsurf and Trae.ai, all of which are built on VS Code– are surging in popularity. These tools embed AI functionalities inline as part of the Developer experience. 

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is another capability seeing widespread adoption in the tech industry–it’s an open standard that enables AI models to seamlessly interact with external data sources and tooling.

At MuleSoft, we’re continuing to pioneer our own AI development practices to keep pace with this evolving landscape. Salesforce's AI technology, Einstein, is accessible across Anypoint Code Builder so that developers have the power of Generative AI at their fingertips when building applications. MuleSoft also recently announced support for both the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) an pair of emerging standard that enables developers to expose their applications to autonomous agents and enable inter-agent communcation, supporting agentic transformation through MuleSoft's actionability.

Anypoint Code Builder continues to be the home for MuleSoft development, but we understand that workflows are growing to address the new capabilities that AI affords. Thanks to our investment in VS Code and MCP, MuleSoft developers can now have the best of both worlds–with access to an array of Anypoint Code Builder features while working in any third-party MCP supported environment. 

• Utilize Anypoint Code Builder in any IDE that supports VSCode extensions with our Anypoint Code Builder VS Code Extensions pack
• Develop, deploy, and manage Mule applications entirely in natural language in your AI IDE of choice via the MuleSoft MCP Server

We’re providing a range of powerful features to streamline MuleSoft development from third party IDEs. Using natural language, you’ll be able to:

• Create: spin up a Mule Project and Generate or Edit a Flow, facilitating rapid application development.
• Deploy: Run an Application locally for testing and debugging, then seamlessly deploy those apps to CloudHub 2.0 or RTF.
• Retrieve: list all Applications from the Runtime Manager or pull details for single applications across CH1, CH2, or RTF environments.
• Manage: Efficiently search for an Anypoint Exchange asset, create an asset in Anypoint Exchange, and Manage these assets.

Watch the demo to see how it works in action.

We will be launching more enhancements to Einstein for Anypoint Code Builder that will be available via this extensibility:

• Accelerate Development with Generative API Specifications: Automatically align your work with established format and syntax for API specs. 
• Ramp with MuleSoft faster with Generative DataWeave Transformations: Quickly learn and get started with MuleSoft’s proprietary technology.
• Clear, consistent, and complete documentation with Generative Documentation: dramatically increases API adoption and efficiency by automatically generating consistent, comprehensive documentation, eliminating common pitfalls like inconsistency and incompleteness.
• Trust in your generative code with Generative MUnit Test: MuleSoft provides a built-in code validation layer alongside generative MUnit tests. (Available H2 2025)

We look forward to continuing to provide AI enriched experiences for developers in the tools and workflows that enable them to take advantage of the huge amount of AI innovation—whereever that may be.

Download the VS Code extension pack, the MCP Server and check out our getting started blog.