{"slug": "directus-the-back-end-for-your-whole-team", "title": "Directus The back end for your whole team", "summary": "Directus launched a native MCP server that connects AI tools such as Cursor and Claude Desktop directly to a user's live database, letting developers scaffold collections and content teams translate posts through conversation. The headless CMS backend generates production-ready REST and GraphQL APIs from any connected SQL database and can be self-hosted or deployed to Directus Cloud, with setup via the command `npx directus-template-cli@latest init`.", "body_md": "# The backend for your whole team.\n\nConnect any database. Get instant APIs, a no-code interface, and a native MCP server for your headless CMS.\n\nnpx\n\ndirectus-template-cli@latest init\n\nnpx\n\ndirectus-template-cli@latest init\n\nTrusted by teams at\n\nTrusted by teams at\n\nFor Developers\n\nFor Developers\n\n## Your data. Your API. Your entire team's workspace.\n\nSelf-host on your own infrastructure or deploy to Directus Cloud. Have a full backend up and running in minutes.\n\n## Your data. Your API. Your entire team's workspace.\n\nSelf-host on your own infrastructure or deploy to Directus Cloud. Have a full backend up and running in minutes.\n\n1 / 6\n\nBuild websites and apps from your database\n\nConnect a database and Directus generates a production-ready REST and GraphQL API automatically. Your schema stays exactly as you built it, with full access and no abstraction layer in the way.\n\n{\n\n\"data\": [\n\n{\n\n\"id\": 1,\n\n\"status\": \"published\",\n\n\"title\": \"Introducing Directus\",\n\n\"slug\": \"introducing-directus\",\n\n\"excerpt\": \"Build APIs directly from your SQL database.\",\n\n\"author\": {\n\n\"id\": 7,\n\n\"name\": \"Maya Chen\",\n\n},\n\n\"tags\": [\"api\", \"graphql\", \"cms\"],\n\n\"published_date\": \"2026-05-14T09:00:00Z\",\n\nUse Cases\n\n{\n\n\"data\": [\n\n{\n\n\"id\": 1,\n\n\"status\": \"published\",\n\n\"title\": \"Introducing Directus\",\n\n\"slug\": \"introducing-directus\",\n\n\"excerpt\": \"Build APIs directly from your SQL database.\",\n\n\"author\": {\n\n\"id\": 7,\n\n\"name\": \"Maya Chen\",\n\n},\n\n\"tags\": [\"api\", \"graphql\", \"cms\"],\n\n\"published_date\": \"2026-05-14T09:00:00Z\",\n\n1 / 6\n\nBuild websites and apps from your database\n\nConnect a database and Directus generates a production-ready REST and GraphQL API automatically. Your schema stays exactly as you built it, with full access and no abstraction layer in the way.\n\nEdit content without filing a ticket\n\nGovern data access across your team and agents\n\nConnect AI directly to your live data\n\nReplace spreadsheets with structured data\n\nExtend the interface with your own code\n\n1 / 6\n\nBuild websites and apps from your database\n\nConnect a database and Directus generates a production-ready REST and GraphQL API automatically. Your schema stays exactly as you built it, with full access and no abstraction layer in the way.\n\n{\n\n\"data\": [\n\n{\n\n\"id\": 1,\n\n\"status\": \"published\",\n\n\"title\": \"Introducing Directus\",\n\n\"slug\": \"introducing-directus\",\n\n\"excerpt\": \"Build APIs directly from your SQL database.\",\n\n\"author\": {\n\n\"id\": 7,\n\n\"name\": \"Maya Chen\",\n\n},\n\n\"tags\": [\"api\", \"graphql\", \"cms\"],\n\n\"published_date\": \"2026-05-14T09:00:00Z\",\n\n1 / 6\n\nBuild websites and apps from your database\n\nConnect a database and Directus generates a production-ready REST and GraphQL API automatically. Your schema stays exactly as you built it, with full access and no abstraction layer in the way.\n\n{\n\n\"data\": [\n\n{\n\n\"id\": 1,\n\n\"status\": \"published\",\n\n\"title\": \"Introducing Directus\",\n\n\"slug\": \"introducing-directus\",\n\n\"excerpt\": \"Build APIs directly from your SQL database.\",\n\n\"author\": {\n\n\"id\": 7,\n\n\"name\": \"Maya Chen\",\n\n},\n\n\"tags\": [\"api\", \"graphql\", \"cms\"],\n\n\"published_date\": \"2026-05-14T09:00:00Z\",\n\n## Teams can work independently. On the same data.\n\nThree teams, three different jobs, one backend. No tickets required.\n\nContent Team\n\nTranslate and publish in one conversation.\n\nA content editor asks the AI Assistant to translate a blog post into French, German, and Spanish. It writes the translations directly into the correct locale fields. No third-party tool, no copy-paste, no manual field mapping. One conversation, done.\n\nDeveloper\n\nScaffold a data model from your IDE.\n\nA developer connects Cursor to Directus via MCP and asks it to create a new collection with fields, relationships, and validation rules. The schema is live in seconds. No clicking through the Studio, no writing migration scripts.\n\nOperations\n\nTag 500 images before lunch.\n\nAn ops manager connects Claude Desktop to Directus and asks it to analyze product images, generate alt text, and apply category tags. The metadata is written directly to the asset records. Hours of manual work, gone.\n\n## Teams can work independently. On the same data.\n\nThree teams, three different jobs, one backend. No tickets required.\n\nContent Team\n\nTranslate and publish in one conversation.\n\nA content editor asks the AI Assistant to translate a blog post into French, German, and Spanish. It writes the translations directly into the correct locale fields. No third-party tool, no copy-paste, no manual field mapping. One conversation, done.\n\nDeveloper\n\nScaffold a data model from your IDE.\n\nA developer connects Cursor to Directus via MCP and asks it to create a new collection with fields, relationships, and validation rules. The schema is live in seconds. No clicking through the Studio, no writing migration scripts.\n\nOperations\n\nTag 500 images before lunch.\n\nAn ops manager connects Claude Desktop to Directus and asks it to analyze product images, generate alt text, and apply category tags. The metadata is written directly to the asset records. Hours of manual work, gone.\n\n## Teams can work independently. On the same data.\n\nThree teams, three different jobs, one backend. No tickets required.\n\nContent Team\n\nTranslate and publish in one conversation.\n\nA content editor asks the AI Assistant to translate a blog post into French, German, and Spanish. It writes the translations directly into the correct locale fields. No third-party tool, no copy-paste, no manual field mapping. One conversation, done.\n\nDeveloper\n\nScaffold a data model from your IDE.\n\nA developer connects Cursor to Directus via MCP and asks it to create a new collection with fields, relationships, and validation rules. The schema is live in seconds. No clicking through the Studio, no writing migration scripts.\n\nOperations\n\nTag 500 images before lunch.\n\nAn ops manager connects Claude Desktop to Directus and asks it to analyze product images, generate alt text, and apply category tags. The metadata is written directly to the asset records. Hours of manual work, gone.\n\n## AI that acts on your data. Not a copy of it.\n\nConnect any model or agent to your backend. The same access policies that govern your team govern your AI.\n\nAI & MCP\n\n## AI that acts on your data. Not a copy of it.\n\nConnect any model or agent to your backend. The same access policies that govern your team govern your AI.\n\nBuilt-in AI Assistant\n\nConversational AI embedded in the Studio. It writes, translates, creates records, and routes content for review.\n\nNative MCP Server\n\nNative MCP Server\n\nConnect Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT, or any MCP-compatible tool directly to your Directus backend.\n\nGoverned by Default\n\nAI agents operate under the same role-based access control as human users.\n\n## A no-code admin interface with the features your end-users need.\n\nAll the features you'd add later. Already here.\n\nDigital Asset Manager\n\nUpload, organize, and transform files on demand. Request any image at any size. CDN-ready. Your media library lives next to your content.\n\nThe backend\n\nyour whole team\n\nactually uses.\n\nCreate Reusable Blocks with \n\nMany-to-Any Relationships\n\nThomas\n\n-\n\n1d ago\n\nDashboards Your Team Builds\n\nYour data is already here. Build charts, metrics, and reports directly on top of it without exporting to another tool.\n\nRealtime & WebSockets\n\nSubscribe to any collection and get live updates. Build collaborative apps, live dashboards, or real-time feeds on your existing database.\n\nVisual Editing & Live Preview\n\nEditors see their changes in your actual app as they type. Configurable per collection. Works with any frontend framework.\n\nAa\n\n## A no-code admin interface with the features your end-users need.\n\nAll the features you'd add later. Already here.\n\nDigital Asset Manager\n\nUpload, organize, and transform files on demand. Request any image at any size. CDN-ready. Your media library lives next to your content.\n\nThe backend\n\nyour whole team\n\nactually uses.\n\nCreate Reusable Blocks with \n\nMany-to-Any Relationships\n\nThomas\n\n-\n\n1d ago\n\nDashboards Your Team Builds\n\nYour data is already here. Build charts, metrics, and reports directly on top of it without exporting to another tool.\n\nRealtime & WebSockets\n\nSubscribe to any collection and get live updates. Build collaborative apps, live dashboards, or real-time feeds on your existing database.\n\nVisual Editing & Live Preview\n\nEditors see their changes in your actual app as they type. Configurable per collection. Works with any frontend framework.\n\nAa\n\n## A no-code admin interface with the features your end-users need.\n\nAll the features you'd add later. Already here.\n\nDigital Asset Manager\n\nUpload, organize, and transform files on demand. Request any image at any size. CDN-ready. Your media library lives next to your content.\n\nThe backend\n\nyour whole team\n\nactually uses.\n\nCreate Reusable Blocks with \n\nMany-to-Any Relationships\n\nThomas\n\n-\n\n1d ago\n\nDashboards Your Team Builds\n\nDrag-and-drop analytics on top of your live data. Charts, metrics, and reports your team builds and owns.\n\nRealtime & WebSockets\n\nSubscribe to any collection and get live updates. Build collaborative apps, live dashboards, or real-time feeds on your existing database.\n\nVisual Editing & Live Preview\n\nEditors see their changes in your actual app as they type. Configurable per collection. Works with any frontend framework.\n\nAa\n\n## A no-code admin interface with the features your end-users need.\n\nAll the features you'd add later. Already here.\n\nDigital Asset Manager\n\nUpload, organize, and transform files on demand. Request any image at any size. CDN-ready. Your media library lives next to your content.\n\nThe backend\n\nyour whole team\n\nactually uses.\n\nCreate Reusable Blocks with \n\nMany-to-Any Relationships\n\nThomas\n\n-\n\n1d ago\n\nRealtime & WebSockets\n\nSubscribe to any collection and get live updates. Build collaborative apps, live dashboards, or real-time feeds on your existing database.\n\nDashboards Your Team Builds\n\nYour data is already here. Build charts, metrics, and reports directly on top of it without exporting to another tool.\n\nVisual Editing & Live Preview\n\nEditors see their changes in your actual app as they type. Configurable per collection. Works with any frontend framework.\n\nAa\n\n## Over 45 million downloads. And counting.\n\nDon't take our word for it. Hear from teams using Directus in production.\n\n- Lisa Le Pogam Head of E-Commerce Product, Club Med ### \"We no longer have to reinvent the wheel every time we build a new back-office. And the MCP you've developed - that's really what we're projecting into the future.\"\n- Antoine Veliz VP of Design, Tripadvisor ### \"Tripadvisor is using Directus to bring our products, data and content closer together. This will allow our users to plan and experience travel in new and innovative ways.\"\n- Heston Liebowitz Sr. Director of Engineering, Weber Grills ### \"Directus is the foundation of Weber's smart grilling app, enabling seamless user experiences for nearly 6 million app sessions since its launch. It has consistently delivered exceptional performance with low latency and zero downtime. Its adaptability has allowed us to quickly introduce new app features with minimal backend engineering effort.\"\n- Nikolai Zveznet Development Manager, Prusa ### \"If we didn't have [Directus], we probably would need another 50% more people on the customer support team just to deal with the overhead of trying to get the data between the different systems manually.\"\n- Maria Lucia Peraza Sr. Manager of Digital Solutions, Copa Airlines ### \"We improved [our website] load times from an average of 6 seconds to just 1-2 seconds. Directus is the perfect choice for us in terms of size, flexibility and usability.\"\n- Suzanne Smagala-Potts Sr. Manager of Digital Development, Ripley's ### \"Directus is definitely making us a lot more capable than we would be trying to go it alone.\"\n- Liam Nicoll Product Lead, Rescue.org ### \"Our team works to respond to humanitarian emergencies in over 30 languages and countries with 200 users. We urgently needed to develop a mapping content management system to replace our custom, old hunk of junk. Working with Directus saved us over 4 months of development work. Since launching in Directus, we have decreased our technical support needs 3x compared to our old system.\"\n- Tony Macias Tech Lead, The Shift Network ### \"Things that would take a month of work with other platforms can be built out in seconds. If it wasn't for Directus, we wouldn't be delivering on our dates as a team.\"\n\n## Over 45 million downloads. And counting.\n\nDon't take our word for it. Hear from teams using Directus in production.\n\n- ### \"We no longer have to reinvent the wheel every time we build a new back-office. And the MCP you've developed - that's really what we're projecting into the future.\"Lisa Le Pogam Head of E-Commerce Product, Club Med\n- ### \"Tripadvisor is using Directus to bring our products, data and content closer together. This will allow our users to plan and experience travel in new and innovative ways.\"Antoine Veliz VP of Design, Tripadvisor\n- ### \"Directus is the foundation of Weber's smart grilling app, enabling seamless user experiences for nearly 6 million app sessions since its launch. It has consistently delivered exceptional performance with low latency and zero downtime. Its adaptability has allowed us to quickly introduce new app features with minimal backend engineering effort.\"Heston Liebowitz Sr. Director of Engineering, Weber Grills\n- ### \"If we didn't have [Directus], we probably would need another 50% more people on the customer support team just to deal with the overhead of trying to get the data between the different systems manually.\"Nikolai Zveznet Development Manager, Prusa\n- ### \"We improved [our website] load times from an average of 6 seconds to just 1-2 seconds. Directus is the perfect choice for us in terms of size, flexibility and usability.\"Maria Lucia Peraza Sr. Manager of Digital Solutions, Copa Airlines\n- ### \"Directus is definitely making us a lot more capable than we would be trying to go it alone.\"Suzanne Smagala-Potts Sr. Manager of Digital Development, Ripley's\n- ### \"Our team works to respond to humanitarian emergencies in over 30 languages and countries with 200 users. We urgently needed to develop a mapping content management system to replace our custom, old hunk of junk. Working with Directus saved us over 4 months of development work. Since launching in Directus, we have decreased our technical support needs 3x compared to our old system.\"Liam Nicoll Product Lead, Rescue.org\n- ### \"Things that would take a month of work with other platforms can be built out in seconds. If it wasn't for Directus, we wouldn't be delivering on our dates as a team.\"Tony Macias Tech Lead, The Shift Network\n\n## Over 45 million downloads. And counting.\n\nDon't take our word for it. Hear from teams using Directus in production.\n\n- ### \"We no longer have to reinvent the wheel every time we build a new back-office. And the MCP you've developed - that's really what we're projecting into the future.\"Lisa Le Pogam Head of E-Commerce Product, Club Med\n- ### \"Tripadvisor is using Directus to bring our products, data and content closer together. This will allow our users to plan and experience travel in new and innovative ways.\"Antoine Veliz VP of Design, Tripadvisor\n- ### \"Directus is the foundation of Weber's smart grilling app, enabling seamless user experiences for nearly 6 million app sessions since its launch. It has consistently delivered exceptional performance with low latency and zero downtime. Its adaptability has allowed us to quickly introduce new app features with minimal backend engineering effort.\"Heston Liebowitz Sr. Director of Engineering, Weber Grills\n- ### \"If we didn't have [Directus], we probably would need another 50% more people on the customer support team just to deal with the overhead of trying to get the data between the different systems manually.\"Nikolai Zveznet Development Manager, Prusa\n- ### \"We improved [our website] load times from an average of 6 seconds to just 1-2 seconds. Directus is the perfect choice for us in terms of size, flexibility and usability.\"Maria Lucia Peraza Sr. Manager of Digital Solutions, Copa Airlines\n- ### \"Directus is definitely making us a lot more capable than we would be trying to go it alone.\"Suzanne Smagala-Potts Sr. Manager of Digital Development, Ripley's\n- ### \"Our team works to respond to humanitarian emergencies in over 30 languages and countries with 200 users. We urgently needed to develop a mapping content management system to replace our custom, old hunk of junk. Working with Directus saved us over 4 months of development work. Since launching in Directus, we have decreased our technical support needs 3x compared to our old system.\"Liam Nicoll Product Lead, Rescue.org\n- ### \"Things that would take a month of work with other platforms can be built out in seconds. If it wasn't for Directus, we wouldn't be delivering on our dates as a team.\"Tony Macias Tech Lead, The Shift Network\n\n## Over 45 million downloads. And counting.\n\nDon't take our word for it. Hear from teams using Directus in production.\n\n- ### \"We no longer have to reinvent the wheel every time we build a new back-office. And the MCP you've developed - that's really what we're projecting into the future.\"Lisa Le Pogam Head of E-Commerce Product, Club Med\n- ### \"Tripadvisor is using Directus to bring our products, data and content closer together. This will allow our users to plan and experience travel in new and innovative ways.\"Antoine Veliz VP of Design, Tripadvisor\n- ### \"Directus is the foundation of Weber's smart grilling app, enabling seamless user experiences for nearly 6 million app sessions since its launch. It has consistently delivered exceptional performance with low latency and zero downtime. 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