By: Chris Haggan

ClearCase remains a trusted system of record for many large enterprises - particularly those with long-lived, safety-critical, or heavily regulated software assets. But as DevOps processes evolve and automation expectations rise, teams often face a critical gap:
How do we bring ClearCase into our new agentic development workflow without disrupting what is working?

Today, we’re excited to introduce the DevOps Code ClearCase MCP integration preview - a lightweight, extensible bridge that connects ClearCase environments into agentic toolchains through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

🚀 Why This Matters

ClearCase has been a proven foundation for software configuration management in many enterprise environments, valued for its maturity, auditability, and ability to support long-term product lifecycles.

As development models continue to incorporate AI assistants, autonomous agents, and natural-language interaction, teams are increasingly looking for ways to include ClearCase in these new workflows - without replacing existing automation, governance, or practices.

The MCP integration preview helps bridge that gap by offering a modern interaction layer designed specifically for agentic workflows, allowing ClearCase to participate seamlessly in intelligent development ecosystems.

With the preview MCP integration, ClearCase capabilities can now be:

• Accessed by MCP-enabled development agents
• Used as part of conversational, task-based workflows
• Integrated into AI-assisted orchestration
• Extended over time without changing core ClearCase processes

This enhances ClearCase for emerging AI-driven use cases while preserving the stability teams depend on.

🔧 What the Integration Enables

The DevOps Code ClearCase MCP preview tools make core ClearCase actions - such as checkout, checkin, query operations, and history lookup - available to AI agents through a standard MCP interface.

This means MCP-capable agents can now interact with ClearCase programmatically, opening the door to scenarios such as:

• Conversational, AI-assisted developer tooling
• Automated insights and change analysis
• Workflow guidance based on repository state
• Hands-free environment interaction for complex ClearCase structures

Rather than replacing existing automation or scripting, the MCP integration adds a new interaction pattern — enabling ClearCase to participate in emerging intelligent automation workflows while preserving current processes and governance.

💡 Example Use Cases

1. Automated Build Validation With AI-Driven Insights

AI agents can retrieve metadata, change history, or configuration snapshots during a review or promotion workflow — reducing manual lookup and improving traceability.

2. Smarter Orchestration in CI/CD

Instead of scripting individual ClearCase commands, MCP-aware agents can coordinate operations (like checkout or labeling) as part of guided automation.

3. Intelligent Developer Assistants

With ClearCase exposed to AI copilots, developers can now ask questions like:

• “Which files changed in the last baseline?”
• “What branch is this version derived from?”
• “Show me the impacted components.”

This makes longstanding ClearCase assets far more approachable — especially for new team members.

📈 The Bigger Impact

This integration ensures that organizations using ClearCase don’t have to choose between modernization and continuity.

Instead, they gain:

• Enterprise-grade versioning and governance
• The added power of intelligent automation and AI

Whether modernizing gradually or building a hybrid agentic-DevOps workflow, this connector helps ClearCase evolve alongside new development practices — not be left behind by them.

📌 Availability

These capabilities are available now in preview for experimentation and early adopters.

A broader, supported release is planned for early next year, including expanded functionality, refinements, and additional agent scenarios.

To start using the preview in VSCode, Claude Code, Cursor, or another MCP-capable environment, add this configuration:

"clearcase": {

    "command": "npx",

    "args": [

        "-y",

        "@securedevops/mcp-devops-clearcase"

    ],

    "type": "stdio"

}

Note: Node.js and NPX are required before enabling these tools.

👉 ClearCase - ready for the era of intelligent automation and agent-powered development.