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Week of September 1st

Product Update App Platform Now Supports Integration with AI-coding Assistants using MCP

What’s new

Now you can integrate AI-powered coding assistants – including Claude Code, Cursor, and VS Code MCP plugins – directly with DigitalOcean App Platform using the new DigitalOcean MCP Server. This means that your AI assistant can deploy applications, spin up databases, manage Spaces, check billing, and more – without leaving your coding environment. Go from AI-generated code to production in just a few prompts with our MCP Server Setup Tutorial, Video Walkthrough, and DigitalOcean MCP Server GitHub.

How to get started

The AI development revolution shouldn’t stop at your IDE. Whether you’re building your first AI-powered app or deploying your hundredth, App Platform + MCP integration takes you from code to production faster than ever. We’ve built a working tutorial to take you from idea to production using only prompts. It uses MCP, DigitalOcean MCP Server, GitHub MCP, and Claude Code so you can go from building the app → committing to GitHub → staging with preview deployments → all the way to merging in production.

Check out our Claude Code Tutorial and GitHub repo.