I'm not sure about the necessity of this tool

[NiazBinSiraj]

Hi,

First of all, I appreciate your idea and your effort to address the problem. However, I’m wondering - if we simply create a read-only database user and use an official DB MCP that only allows access through that user, the database should remain safe with no risk of modification.

So in that case, why would we still need AskDB? What additional problems does it solve?

Thanks.

[mgorabbani]

Thanks for the question. This solves 3 problem.

1. You might not want to share some personal fields like password email full name or maybe an entire table to AI agent due to data privacy.
2. You can share easily with full team members who are non tech. Who wants to query in claude desktop can use it without worrying technical setup. As a dev you set it once. And adding new users or changing access can be easy to do from dashboard
3. one mcp to connect with multiple db

But also. I am thinking of allowing write access too for acting as prod db replica.