Use Manus AI to Talk to Your Adobe Commerce Data via CData Connect AI

Manus AI is an autonomous AI agent platform that helps users accomplish complex tasks through natural language from browsing the web to executing code and interacting with external services. When combined with CData Connect AI remote MCP, users can leverage Manus AI to interact with their Adobe Commerce data in real-time, without any data replication.

This article explains how to connect to Adobe Commerce using the CData Connect AI MCP Server and configure Manus AI to conversationally explore (or Vibe Query) their Adobe Commerce data. With Connect AI, users can build AI agents with access to live Adobe Commerce data, plus hundreds of other sources.

Step 1: Configure Adobe Commerce connectivity for Manus AI

Connectivity to Adobe Commerce from Manus AI is made possible through CData Connect AI Remote MCP. To interact with Adobe Commerce data from Manus AI, we start by creating and configuring a Adobe Commerce connection in CData Connect AI.

1. Log into Connect AI, click Connections and click Add Connection 👁 Adding a Connection
   
2. Select "Adobe Commerce" from the Add Connection panel 👁 Selecting a data source
   
3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Adobe Commerce.

   Adobe Commerce uses the OAuth 1 authentication standard. To connect to the Adobe Commerce REST API, obtain values for the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL connection properties by registering an app with your Adobe Commerce system. See the "Getting Started" section in the help documentation for a guide to obtaining the OAuth values and connecting.

   You will also need to provide the URL to your Adobe Commerce system. The URL depends on whether you are using the Adobe Commerce REST API as a customer or administrator.

   • Customer: To use Adobe Commerce as a customer, make sure you have created a customer account in the Adobe Commerce homepage. To do so, click Account -> Register. You can then set the URL connection property to the endpoint of your Adobe Commerce system.

   • Administrator: To access Adobe Commerce as an administrator, set CustomAdminPath instead. This value can be obtained in the Advanced settings in the Admin menu, which can be accessed by selecting System -> Configuration -> Advanced -> Admin -> Admin Base URL.

     If the Use Custom Admin Path setting on this page is set to YES, the value is inside the Custom Admin Path text box; otherwise, set the CustomAdminPath connection property to the default value, which is "admin".

   👁 Configuring a connection (Salesforce is shown)
   Click Save & Test
4. Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Adobe Commerce Connection page and update the User-based permissions. 👁 Updating permissions
   

Add a Personal Access Token

A Personal Access Token (PAT) is used to authenticate the connection to Connect AI from Manus AI. It is best practice to create a separate PAT for each service to maintain granularity of access.

1. Click on the Gear icon () at the top right of the Connect AI app to open the settings page.
2. On the Settings page, go to the Access Tokens section and click Create PAT.
3. Give the PAT a name and click Create. 👁 Creating a new PAT
   
4. The personal access token is only visible at creation, so be sure to copy it and store it securely for future use.

With the connection configured and a PAT generated, we are ready to connect to Adobe Commerce data from Manus AI.

Step 2: Get started with Manus AI

Navigate to Manus and sign in to your Manus AI account. Once logged in, you are ready to configure the CData Connect AI MCP Server as a custom connector.

Step 3: Add the CData Connect AI MCP Server as a connector

Manus AI supports connecting to external MCP servers via its Connectors settings. There are two methods to add the CData Connect AI MCP Server: Import by JSON or Direct Configuration. Both methods are explained below.

1. In Manus AI, click on the profile icon and navigate to Settings 👁 Navigating to Manus AI settings
   
2. Go to the Connectors section and click Add Connectors 👁 Navigating to Custom MCP connectors
   
3. Locate Custom MCP 👁 Click Custom MCP
   
4. Click Add custom MCP to select the configuration options 👁 Add custom MCP
   

Option A: Import by JSON

Use this method to quickly configure the MCP Server by pasting a JSON configuration snippet.

1. Select Import by JSON from the connector setup options.
2. Paste the following JSON into the configuration field, replacing the placeholder values with your Connect AI credentials:

   {
    "mcpServers": {
    "cdata-connect-ai": {
    "transport": "sse",
    "url": "https://mcp.cloud.cdata.com/mcp",
    "headers": {
    "Authorization": "Basic USER_NAME:YOUR_CONNECTAI_PAT;"
    }
    }
    }
   }
    

   Replace url with the Connect AI MCP URL, USER_NAME with your Connect AI email address, and YOUR_CONNECTAI_PAT with the Personal Access Token created in Step 1. 👁 Importing MCP configuration via JSON in Manus AI
   
3. Click Import to apply the configuration.

Option B: Direct Configuration

Use this method to manually enter the MCP Server connection properties through the Manus AI interface.

1. Select Direct Configuration from the connector setup options.
2. Fill in the following fields:
   • Server Name: CData Connect AI
   • Transport Type: HTTP
   • Server URL: https://mcp.cloud.cdata.com/mcp
   • Custom Headers: Add a header with the name Authorization and the value Basic Base64Encoded(username:pat), replacing the placeholder with your Base64-encoded Connect AI email and PAT combination.
   👁 Configuring the CData Connect AI MCP Server directly in Manus AI
   
3. Optionally, enter a Note to provide Manus AI with instructions on how and when to use this MCP connector.
4. Click Save to establish the connection to the CData Connect AI MCP Server. Once saved, the connector will appear as active in your Connectors list.

Step 4: Query your Adobe Commerce data using natural language

With the CData Connect AI MCP configured in Manus AI, users can now interact with their Adobe Commerce data using natural language in any new Manus AI chat session.

1. Open a new chat in Manus AI.
2. Start asking questions about the Adobe Commerce data. For example:
   • Show me all customers from the last 30 days
   • What are my top performing products?
   • Analyze sales trends for Q4
   • List all active projects with their current status
3. Manus AI will use the CData Connect AI MCP Server to query your Adobe Commerce data in real-time and provide responses based on live data. 👁 Chatting with live data in Manus AI
   

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