Consider a loan approval agent. It has access to your bank's loan book, customer history, and credit scores. But it lacks the context that humans instinctively use:

Without this real-time intelligence, agents become knowledge-limited—constrained by historical data, unable to reason about the world as it is now. They can execute workflows, but they can't make informed decisions.

The old solution? Manual research. Analysts pull data from multiple sources, lose context switching between tools, and create bottlenecks. Decisions slow down. Risk increases.

Agents need a way to access live, trusted intelligence while they reason through complex problems. That's where the MCP Marketplace comes in.

The Databricks Marketplace is an open marketplace for data, analytics and AI. It is the central hub for discovering, connecting to, and governing MCP servers and AI-ready data, enabling agents to access external data at scale with minimal friction.