Box MCP Server

Overview

The MCP Server Box provides a turnkey bridge between the Box cloud storage platform and AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. By exposing a suite of high‑level tools, it lets developers query, read, and analyze Box files without writing custom API wrappers or handling OAuth flows manually. This makes it easier to build intelligent workflows that need instant access to corporate documents, media assets, or any data stored in Box.

At its core, the server implements a collection of reusable operations: identity checks (), OAuth initiation (), file searching (), content extraction (), and AI‑powered question answering (). It also supports targeted data extraction from PDFs or spreadsheets via , and provides convenient navigation helpers such as folder lookup by name () or recursive listing of folder contents. Each tool returns structured JSON, making the output ready for further processing or display in a user interface.

Developers can integrate these tools into any AI workflow that supports MCP. For example, a legal assistant could search for contracts matching a keyword, pull the relevant document, and ask an AI model to summarize key clauses. A marketing team might list all images in a campaign folder, extract metadata with AI, and feed the results into a content calendar. Because the server handles authentication, rate‑limiting, and pagination internally, teams can focus on business logic rather than plumbing.

Unique advantages of MCP Server Box include its use of the library, which guarantees up‑to‑date bindings to Box’s REST API, and its support for AI‑based extraction out of the box. The server is written in modern Python 3.13+, leveraging for fast dependency management and isolation. Its modular design means you can add or remove tools as your use case evolves, keeping the MCP contract minimal yet powerful.

In summary, MCP Server Box turns Box into an intelligent data source that AI assistants can query directly. By providing a ready‑made set of tools and handling all the heavy lifting of authentication and API interaction, it accelerates development of AI‑augmented document workflows across legal, marketing, compliance, and many other domains.