Developer Tools
Overview
This module covers tools that help you build with AccelByte Gaming Services (AGS) from wherever you work: your terminal, your scripts, and your AI assistant.
AGS CLI
A unified command-line tool for AccelByte Gaming Services that covers 25 services in one binary.AGS API MCP Server
Connect your AI assistant to AccelByte Gaming Services so it can search, explain, and call AGS APIs for you.Which tool to use
The AGS CLI and the AGS API Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server reach the same AGS APIs, and both work with an AI assistant. With either one, your assistant can find the right endpoint, explain what an API does, and look up or change something when you ask in plain language.
The difference is where each tool runs and how predictable its results are:
| If | Use |
|---|---|
| You want to start right away, with nothing to install | AGS API MCP Server |
| Your assistant runs in a web browser, such as Claude or ChatGPT on the web, and can't run commands | AGS API MCP Server |
| A multi-step change must run the same way every time | AGS CLI workflows |
| You want to review every call before anything runs | AGS CLI workflows |
| You run in a CI pipeline or script, without anyone logging in | AGS CLI |
Both tools offer workflows, but they run differently. In the MCP server, your AI assistant follows a workflow's guidance and decides each step, so two runs can differ. An AGS CLI workflow is a file with fixed steps, so the same inputs always produce the same calls, and a dry run shows each one first.
More tools on the way
These tools are in development or early availability:
- AI Marketplace Plugin: Connects AI coding assistants such as Claude Code and Codex to the AGS CLI and to the AGS MCP servers. It makes AGS workflows available to an AI assistant as callable tools.
- AGS Extend SDK MCP Server: An MCP server that gives an AI assistant knowledge of the AGS Extend SDK for Go, C#, Java, and Python.