SupabaseWen Bo Xie, Lakshan Perera, Julien Goux, Andrew Valleteau, Rand Arete, Katerina Skroumpelou4 min readintermediate
Build anything: Supabase from code, and an MCP server for your app
Summary
Supabase announced new tools for agent-driven development, including native local Supabase instances, declarative schemas, and config-as-code. They also introduced Supabase Compute for long-running services and app-specific MCP servers for user agents to interact with applications.
- Local Supabase now runs natively without Docker, enabling multiple concurrent instances for testing.
- Declarative schemas use SQL files as the source of truth, with `pg-delta` generating migrations.
- Project configuration like auth providers and API limits can be managed in `config.toml` and pulled from the dashboard.
- Supabase Compute provides long-running, language-agnostic services with full Linux environments and configurable resources.
This matters for developers leveraging AI agents for coding and operations, as it streamlines backend development, testing, and deployment workflows, and enables agent-driven user interactions within their applications.
6/10




