The Context Layer for AI Agents | Airbyte

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The data and action layerfor AI agents.

Connect once, and your agents get pre-indexed context with real-time read/write access to your CRM, support desk, code repos, and more through our MCP, SDK, and CLI.

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Every agent tool connects to your systems. None of them understand the relationships between them. Your customer isn't a Salesforce record, a Zendesk ticket, and a Stripe invoice. They're one person.

Your migration isn't a Linear ticket, a GitHub branch, and a Slack thread. It's one project. Until your agents see it that way, they'll keep giving you shallow answers.

Meet the Context Store

Without context, agents make things up. Airbyte gives every agent a live, searchable index of your customers, deals, tickets, and conversations across your tools. Your agents stop guessing. They know.

Salesforce

14,302 contacts

Zendesk

2,341 support tickets

600+ apps, connected in minutes

Authenticate once. Airbyte handles the sync, schema, and updates.

What do we know about Sarah Chen?

AGENT

Find anything, across every tool

Search every connected system at once and get results tagged by source.

What's the status of the Datacore Systems deal?

AGENT

Datacore Systems has an $85K deal in Proposal stage

salesforce

,

3 Gong calls in the last 30 days

GONG

, and 2 open support tickets

Ask a business question, get a cross-system answer

One prompt pulls context from Salesforce, Gong, Zendesk, and anywhere else you're connected.

the results

Better context. Faster agents.

From our open-source benchmarks comparing the Airbyte MCP with native MCPs and APIs from Salesforce, Gong, Slack, Linear, and Zendesk.

Benefits

What Airbyte unlocks for your agents

They see your business the way you do: every system, every record, in real time.

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Your agent plugs into everything

Pre-built connectors to every tool your team already uses. CRM, support, billing, HR, plus the dev tools underneath. One-click setup with managed auth. No API keys, no webhooks, no maintenance. New connectors land every week.

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Your agent knows your business

Every customer record, support ticket, pull request, invoice, and conversation. Synced, structured, and queryable in one place. Your agent doesn't fire off a dozen API calls on the fly and hope nothing breaks. It hits one knowledge layer that's always current. One query, not ten.

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Your agent sees the whole picture

Sarah Chen in Salesforce. sarah@acme.com in Zendesk. Account #4821 in Stripe. The Context Store brings related records together in one searchable layer, so your agent can follow the connections instead of treating them as strangers. Today this gets your agent to the right answer the vast majority of the time. Deterministic entity resolution across every system is on the roadmap.

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Your agent is never behind

Built on the same replication infrastructure 20% of the F500 trusts for production data pipelines. Your agent's data isn't a stale snapshot from last Tuesday. Updates flow in as they happen, so your agent acts on what's true right now.

How it works

One foundation, three ways to build

Turn any interface into an agent with full business context. Prompt Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and more through MCP, build custom agents with the SDK, or chat with our Automation builder. Every path starts with your data already connected, unified, and ready.

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Airbyte Agents

Want ready-made agents?

Build without code in the Airbyte UI with the Automation Builder. Connect your tools, describe what you need, Airbyte Agents go to work.

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Airbyte Agent MCP

Already using Claude or ChatGPT?

One connection gives Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client access to your full business data. Authenticated and always current.

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Airbyte Agent SDK

Building your own agents?

One call to the Context Store from the Python SDK returns the full entity graph. Works with any framework.

Same Context Store powers all three.

Trusted by AI leaders and Innovators

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Franziska Ibscher

Product Manager at Drivepoint

"Without Airbyte, we'd be stitching together bespoke connectors for every integration, which would slow us down dramatically. With Airbyte, our AI features have fresh, reliable data to work with. Whether we're running automated financial models or powering AI agents that answer questions about a brand's business, none of it works without trustworthy data flowing in, and that's what Airbyte gives us."

75%

of customers increased profitability

6.7%

EBITDA increase for customers

Learn more

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Nate Chambers

Chief Product Officer

"Airbyte Agents has massively accelerated our roadmap. What we thought would take 6+ months, we were testing in the first week of the beta program. They're shipping everything we need for agentic workflows, and launching new connections faster than we can build them into our product. The team is awesome, both technically and as humans. If you're building an AI product, you can stop rolling your own pipelines and start shipping."

80%

Time saved shipping integrations

60%

Token savings vs custom connectors

Build with the Agent SDK

Connect with the SDK, plug into your existing stack, and ship agents with full programmatic control.

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Managed Auth

OAuth, API keys, token refresh. Connect once, never think about auth again.

50+ Agent Connectors

Typed SDK with auto-complete. More connectors coming every week.

Context Store

Query across every connected system. One call, full business context.

Production Ready

Backed by the same replication technology used by 20% of the Fortune 500.

Works with your favorite frameworks

The Airbyte Agent SDK is framework agnostic. Just pick your favorite and start shipping.

Built on the same OSS foundation that runs data for thousands of companies

Airbyte has been moving production data for thousands of companies since 2020. The same infrastructure that syncs 1.2M pipelines daily now powers every agent you build.

20%

of the F500 uses Airbyte

1.2M

Pipelines synced daily

600+

Data Replication Connectors

$181M

Raised from top-tier investors

compliance

Enterprise ready

Compliant with standards

SOC 2 Type II certified, GDPR and HIPAA support, with tools to help you meet internal and external regulatory requirements.

Uptime & SLA Guarantees

24/7 support and 99.9% availability backed by contractual SLAs and priority response times for mission-critical workloads.

Build context-aware agents in minutes.

Connect your systems once. Every agent you build runs on the same unified data layer.