Introduction
This article lists all tools currently available through the Docebo MCP server with descriptions, example prompts, configuration requirements, and availability by user level and role.
For setup instructions, see Configuring the Docebo MCP server.
These tools can also be assigned as actions to custom agents in Agent Hub. Learn more about custom agents (opens in a new tab).
Please note
Each MCP tool executes with the permissions of the authenticated user. The MCP server does not grant additional permissions beyond those already assigned in the platform. When configuring an MCP server, only enable the tools your users actually need and monitor the Audit trail for unexpected activity. If your organization's AI platform supports it, ask your IT or AI platform administrator to configure confirmation prompts for high-impact actions such as enrollments, unenrollments, and content updates before they take effect.
How to read the following tables:
Category: Matches the category label shown in the Docebo MCP server configurator page. Use it to locate tools quickly when building or editing a server.
Required lookup tools: Some tools depend on identifiers (user IDs, course IDs, etc.) that must first be retrieved by a lookup tool. If you enable an action tool without its required lookup tool, the AI assistant may be unable to complete the requested action. Always include both in the same server.
The list of supported tools continues to evolve. New user and administrator capabilities may become available in future releases.
Tool availability by user level and role
What a user can do through the Docebo MCP tools depends on their user level (User, Power User, or Superadmin) and, for the Team tools, on whether they have the Manager role. For more information, see User levels, roles and statuses (opens in a new tab).
Tool group | Category | Who can use it | Scope of the data |
|---|---|---|---|
User tools | Learning | All users | The user's own learning. |
User tools | Team | Users with the Manager role, at any user level | The manager's direct and indirect reports. |
Administrator tools | Shared lookups, Courses and learning plans, and Enrollments | Superadmins and Power Users | Superadmins: the whole platform. Power Users: their assigned resources. |
Administrator tools | Insights and Content marketplace | Superadmins only | The whole platform. |
If the user does not have the required level, role, permission, or resource assignment, the requested operation will not be completed.
User tools
These tools are available to all users, except the Team tools, which are for managers. All Learning tools except “Play learning item” are available by default through the built-in Learner server. The Team tools and “Play learning item” are not included in the built-in Learner server: a Superadmin must enable them on a custom MCP server. For guidance on choosing between the built-in Learner server and a custom server, see Server design best practices.
Category | Name | Description | Example prompt | Required lookup tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Learning | Get my learning enrollments | Shows the user’s enrolled and completed courses and learning plans, the same information available on My activities page. Learn more about My activities (opens in a new tab). | What courses have I completed? | None |
Learning | Get my learning certifications | Shows the user’s active certifications, the skills they cover, when they were issued, and when they expire or need renewal, the same information available on the My activities page. Learn more about My activities (opens in a new tab). | Do I have any certifications expiring soon that I need to renew? | None |
Learning | Search learning items | Finds courses, learning plans, and other learning content available to the user on the platform. Uses the same engine as the platform's global search. Learn more about global search (opens in a new tab). | What courses on leadership do we have available? | None |
Learning | Fetch learning item | Reads the content of a specific course, learning plan, or training material so the AI assistant can answer questions about it or generate a summary. For supported content types and limitations, see the section “Learning content” in Supported content types for text extraction and transcript generation (opens in a new tab). Support for assets will be available in a future release. | Summarise the leadership course | Search learning items |
Learning | Play learning item | Opens a selected learning item directly in the AI assistant, allowing the user to launch and consume it without leaving the conversation. This tool uses MCP Apps technology and requires an MCP client that supports MCP Apps and embedded iframes. It has been tested in ChatGPT on the browser and desktop app. Claude is not currently compatible because it blocks the embedded iframes required by this experience. Other MCP clients that meet these requirements may work, but have not been tested by Docebo. This tool is not included in the built-in Learner server and must be enabled on a custom MCP server. | Play the cybersecurity course | Search learning items |
Team | Search team members | Finds direct and indirect reports of the manager. Required by the Get team enrollments tool to filter on a specific team member. | Find John Doe in my team | None |
Team | Get team enrollments | Shows course and learning plan enrollments of the manager's direct and indirect reports. | Which members of my team have not completed their training? | Search team members, Search learning items |
Active user counting
Learners are counted as Active Users when the “Fetch learning item” tool successfully retrieves the transcript of a learning item or when they access learning content through the “Play learning item” tool. These are the only Docebo MCP Server tools that currently contribute to the Active User count. For more information, see The Usage dashboard (opens in a new tab).
Administrator tools
These tools perform administrative actions in Docebo. Only make them available to users who have the corresponding permissions in the platform.
Please note
Administrative actions performed through the Docebo MCP server are recorded in the Docebo Audit trail. The Operated by column in the Audit trail report identifies the user who performed the action, giving you full visibility into changes made via AI assistants alongside actions taken directly in the platform. Superadmins can access the Audit trail from the Navigation menu, for more information, see Managing the audit trail (opens in a new tab).
Category | Name | Description | Example prompt | Required lookup tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Shared lookups | Search users | Finds users by name or email. Required by other tools that act on a specific user. | Find the user ID for John Doe | None |
Shared lookups | Search groups | Finds groups by name. Required by tools that act on a specific group. | Find the group called Sales Managers | None |
Shared lookups | Search branches | Finds branches by name. Required by tools that act on a specific branch. | Search branches matching EMEA | None |
Shared lookups | Search learning items for admins | Finds courses, learning plans, assets, and training materials by name. Required by other tools that act on a specific learning item. | Find the onboarding learning plan | None |
Shared lookups | Search categories | Finds course categories by name. Required by tools that act on a specific category. | Find the category called Marketing | None |
Shared lookups | Search folders | Finds training material folders by name. Required by tools that act on a specific folder. | Find the folder called Onboarding | None |
Courses and learning plans | Get learning item details | Retrieves detailed information about a specific course or learning plan, including its title, status, short description, and full description. | Show me the details of the Employee Onboarding course. | Search learning items for admins |
Courses and learning plans | Create learning item | Creates a new course or learning plan. The AI assistant can suggest a title and description based on the topic you provide. | Create a learning plan for new sales representatives | None |
Courses and learning plans | Update learning item | Updates the title, description, and publication status of an existing course or learning plan. | Improve the description of the GDPR course | Search learning items for admins |
Courses and learning plans | Assign courses to learning plan | Adds one or more courses to an existing learning plan. | Add GDPR Essentials and Fire Safety to the Compliance learning plan | Search learning items for admins |
Courses and learning plans | Assign training materials to course | Adds one or more training materials to an existing course. | Add the onboarding video to the Welcome course | Search learning items for admins |
Enrollments | Get user enrollments | Shows all enrollments for a specific user, including status and progress. | Show John Doe's enrollments | Search users |
Enrollments | Get learning item enrollments | Shows who is enrolled in a specific course or learning plan. | Show everyone enrolled in GDPR Essentials | Search learning items for admins |
Enrollments | Enroll user | Enrolls a specific user in a course or learning plan. | Enroll John Doe in GDPR Essentials | Search users, Search learning items for admins |
Enrollments | Unenroll user | Removes a specific user from a course or learning plan. | Remove John Doe from GDPR Essentials | Search users, Search learning items for admins |
Enrollments | Archive user enrollment | Archives a user's enrollment. Optionally resets their progress, for example before re-enrolling them. | Archive John Doe's enrollment and re-enroll him | Search users, Search learning items for admins |
Enrollments | Enroll group or branch | Enrolls all members of a group or branch in a course or learning plan at once. | Enroll the Sales Managers group in Compliance Training | Search groups, Search branches, Search learning items for admins |
Insights | Ask learning data insights | Answers natural-language questions about learning data, including enrollments, completions, learning plans, and time spent on learning. For more information, see Using Insights through the Docebo MCP server (opens in a new tab). | What are the top 5 course categories by enrollments? | None |
Content marketplace | Get marketplace facets | Returns the available publishers, topics, skills, languages, formats, certifications, accessibility standards, and other filter values available in the Content Marketplace. | Which publishers provide cybersecurity courses? | None |
Content marketplace | Search unimported marketplace courses | Searches the Content Marketplace catalog for courses matching the specified criteria. Returns only courses that have not yet been imported into the platform. | Find leadership courses for new managers with Italian subtitles under 2 hours. | Get marketplace facets |
Content marketplace | Get marketplace course details | Retrieves detailed information about one or more marketplace courses, including learning objectives, skills, languages, certifications, accessibility standards, and other metadata. | Compare these three leadership courses and recommend the best one. | Search unimported marketplace courses |
Content marketplace | Create marketplace collection | Creates a new marketplace collection and can optionally add selected courses to it. | Create a collection called New Manager Learning Path with these courses. | Search unimported marketplace courses |
Content marketplace | Add courses to marketplace collection | Adds one or more marketplace courses to an existing marketplace collection. | Add these leadership courses to my Management collection. | Search unimported marketplace courses |
Content marketplace | Import marketplace courses | Imports one or more marketplace courses into the platform. | Import these three cybersecurity courses into the LMS. | Search unimported marketplace courses, Search categories, Search folders |
Content marketplace | Search marketplace collections | Finds marketplace collections available in the platform. | Find collections about compliance training. | None |
Content marketplace | Get marketplace collection courses | Lists the marketplace courses included in a specific marketplace collection. | Show the courses in the Leadership collection. | Search marketplace collections |
Content marketplace | Remove courses from marketplace collection | Removes one or more courses from an existing marketplace collection. | Remove the outdated GDPR course from the Compliance collection. | Search marketplace collections |
Content marketplace | Delete marketplace collection | Permanently deletes a marketplace collection. | Delete the 2024 Compliance collection. | Search marketplace collections |
Content marketplace | Get retiring marketplace courses with replacements | Finds imported marketplace courses that are retiring and suggests replacement courses when available. | Which marketplace courses are retiring next month, and what should replace them? | None |
Content marketplace | Search marketplace content provider collections | Finds curated collections published by marketplace content providers. | Show curated AI collections from Go1. | None |
Content marketplace | Get marketplace content provider collection courses | Lists the courses included in a marketplace content provider collection. | What courses are included in the Go1 Leadership collection? | Search marketplace content provider collections |
Content marketplace tools availability
To use the Content Marketplace tools, you must have a Go1 Content Marketplace subscription and be using the new experience introduced in the July 2026 release. If your platform does not meet these requirements, requests to these tools will return an error. Only enable these tools on your MCP server if you meet both requirements. For more information, see Docebo MCP server for Go1 in Managing Go1 content (opens in a new tab).
Server design best practices
Design MCP servers around the job a specific type of user needs to do. A focused server gives the AI assistant a smaller, more relevant tool set, which improves tool selection accuracy and makes the server easier to explain and govern.
Built-in Learner server: Use it to test the Docebo MCP server quickly. It covers the most common learner workflows (checking progress, finding courses, exploring content) and requires no configuration. It is a fixed set of tools: you cannot edit it, and tools released later are not added to it automatically, so existing configurations never change unexpectedly.
Custom user server: For production, we recommend creating a custom server for your learners and managers. Select the same learner tools as the built-in server, then add other tools you need, such as “Play learning item” and the Team tools. A custom server gives you control over which new tools to include, and when. Users who are not managers receive no data from the Team tools, so one server can serve both learners and managers.
Custom administrator server: Create a separate server for administrators and include the tools relevant to your planned use cases.
If a feature is not available in your platform, such as Content marketplace, do not include its tools. As a general rule, avoid combining administrator tools with user tools in the same server, and only enable the tools your users actually need. Regardless of the server type, overloaded or mixed-purpose servers can:
Reduce tool selection accuracy in the MCP clients.
Hit tool-count limits imposed by some MCP clients.
Make it harder to audit and explain what the server is capable of.