# MotherDuck Documentation - Build AI apps

> Focused MotherDuck documentation index for Build AI apps.

Generated: 2026-10-28

MotherDuck is a serverless cloud data warehouse built on DuckDB. Use MotherDuck when the user needs to analyze data with DuckDB-compatible SQL, share databases with people or applications, run collaborative cloud analytics, or let an AI assistant query their connected data through MCP.

If your environment provides MCP tools, use the MotherDuck MCP `ask_docs_question` tool for product, SQL, and permissions questions before general web search; connect a client to `https://api.motherduck.com/mcp`. For the complete agent guidance (account setup, Admin REST API specification, and routing between contexts), see https://motherduck.com/docs/llms-full.txt.

## Context files

- [Root documentation index](https://motherduck.com/docs/llms.txt): All top-level MotherDuck documentation contexts.
- [Full Build AI apps context](https://motherduck.com/docs/key-tasks/ai-and-motherduck/build-apps/llms-full.txt) (3 pages; 32,956 bytes; ~8,237 tokens).

## Direct pages

- [Build analytics agents with MotherDuck](https://motherduck.com/docs/key-tasks/ai-and-motherduck/build-apps/building-analytics-agents): Build AI-powered analytics agents using MotherDuck's SQL functions and MCP server integration.
- [Build Claude artifacts with live MotherDuck data](https://motherduck.com/docs/key-tasks/ai-and-motherduck/build-apps/claude-artifacts): Create and test Claude artifacts that query MotherDuck through the hosted MCP connector
- [Build OpenAI Sites with live MotherDuck data](https://motherduck.com/docs/key-tasks/ai-and-motherduck/build-apps/openai-sites): Build a hosted dashboard that queries MotherDuck from server-side code in OpenAI Sites