Asana says its MPC server allows AI assistants and other applications to access the Asana Work Graph so customers can access Asana data from compatible AI applications, generate reports and summaries based on Asana data, and analyze project data and get AI-powered suggestions. Through it, an employee can ask an AI assistant, for example, “Find all my incomplete tasks due this week”, “Create a new task in the Marketing project assigned to me” or “Show me the status of the Q2 Planning project.”
As AI platforms like Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and others multiply, developers are eager for ways, such as MCP, to connect them to existing enterprise productivity applications. However, there have been warnings that these AI agents, some of which come from AI platform providers themselves, have security risks.
DeepCove Cybersecurity’s Meghu notes that some AI broker agents, like MCP, are actually long-lived server-TCP connections. He prefers a connection solution using the RAG model (retrieval augmented generation) with an API call that can be authenticated for security. Among other benefits, RAG can be configured to search only approved data and not information used in training that may include sensitive information.
