Integrate Goose with Live Odoo Data via CData Connect AI
Goose is an open source AI agent that runs locally on your machine and works with a wide range of LLM providers. It supports the model context protocol (MCP) through its extensions framework, so you can add external tools and data sources and give the agent access to live systems beyond the model's training data.
By integrating Goose with CData Connect AI through the built-in MCP Server, Goose gains governed, real-time access to live Odoo data. You can list catalogs, explore schemas, and query records from Odoo data using natural language prompts, with all data access running securely against authorized sources.
This article explains how to configure Odoo connectivity in Connect AI, generate the required personal access token, install and set up Goose, add the Connect AI MCP Server as a custom extension, and verify the integration by querying live Odoo data from the Goose chat.
About Odoo Data Integration
Accessing and integrating live data from Odoo has never been easier with CData. Customers rely on CData connectivity to:
- Access live data from both Odoo API 8.0+ and Odoo.sh Cloud ERP.
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Extend the native Odoo features with intelligent handling of many-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many data properties. CData's connectivity solutions also intelligently handle complex data properties within Odoo. In addition to columns with simple values like text and dates, there are also columns that contain multiple values on each row. The driver decodes these kinds of values differently, depending upon the type of column the value comes from:
- Many-to-one columns are references to a single row within another model. Within CData solutions, many-to-one columns are represented as integers, whose value is the ID to which they refer in the other model.
- Many-to-many columns are references to many rows within another model. Within CData solutions, many-to-many columns are represented as text containing a comma-separated list of integers. Each value in that list is the ID of a row that is being referenced.
- One-to-many columns are references to many rows within another model - they are similar to many-to-many columns (comma-separated lists of integers), except that each row in the referenced model must belong to only one in the main model.
- Use SQL stored procedures to call server-side RFCs within Odoo.
Users frequently integrate Odoo with analytics tools such as Power BI and Qlik Sense, and leverage our tools to replicate Odoo data to databases or data warehouses.
Getting Started
Step 1: Configure Odoo connectivity for Goose
Connectivity to Odoo from Goose is made possible through Connect AI's Remote MCP Server. To interact with Odoo data from Goose, start by creating and configuring a Odoo connection in Connect AI.
- Log into Connect AI, click Sources, and then click Add Connection
- Select Odoo from the Add Connection panel
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Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Odoo.
To connect, set the Url to a valid Odoo site, User and Password to the connection details of the user you are connecting with, and Database to the Odoo database.
- Click Save & Test
- Navigate to the Permissions tab and update user-based permissions
Add a Personal Access Token
A Personal Access Token (PAT) is used to authenticate the connection to Connect AI from Goose. It is best practice to create a separate PAT for each integration to maintain granular access control.
- Click the gear icon () at the top right of the Connect AI app to open Settings
- On the Settings page, go to the Access Tokens section and click Create PAT
- Give the PAT a descriptive name and click Create
- Copy the token when displayed and store it securely. It will not be shown again
With the Odoo connection configured and a PAT generated, Goose can now connect to Odoo data through Connect AI.
Step 2: Install and set up Goose
Next, install Goose, choose an LLM provider, and add the Connect AI Remote MCP Server as a custom extension so the agent can discover and call live data tools through Connect AI.
- Download and install Goose by following the official installation guide, then launch the application
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On the Welcome to goose screen, choose an AI provider. Select Use Free/Local Providers to run a local model, or Connect to a Provider to configure a provider such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, and enter the required API key
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In the left navigation, click Extensions, then click + Add custom extension
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In the extension dialog, configure the server with the following values:
- Extension Name: CData MCP, or any name of your choice
- Type: Streamable HTTP
- Endpoint: https://mcp.cloud.cdata.com/mcp
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Under Request Headers, add the following two headers and click + Add after each pair:
- Authorization: Basic your_base64_encoded_email_PAT
- Content-Type: application/json
Note: Goose will use Basic authentication with Connect AI. Combine your Connect AI user email and the PAT you created earlier in the format email:PAT, base64 encode the combined string, and prefix it with Basic. For example, given [email protected]:ABC123...XYZ789, the Authorization header value becomes something like: Basic dXNlckBkb21haW4uY29tOkFCQzEyMy4uLlhZWjc4OQ==
- Click Save to save the configuration
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Return to the chat, click the extensions icon at the bottom of the chat input, and confirm that the configured MCP is enabled
With the MCP server added and an LLM provider configured, Goose is ready to query live Odoo data through Connect AI.
Step 3: Query live Odoo data from Goose
With the integration complete, use the Goose chat to interact with live Odoo data through natural language prompts handled by the configured LLM.
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With the CData MCP extension enabled, type a prompt in the chat, for example:
- List catalogs from my CData MCP
- Show the available schemas and tables for Odoo
- Query the top 5 records from a table in Odoo data
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Goose calls the Connect AI MCP Server and returns live results from Odoo data
At this point, your Goose agent communicates with the Connect AI MCP Server and retrieves live Odoo data through remote MCP tools directly from the chat.
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