This month at Port, we’ve made it easier to work the way you already do. You can now use Port right inside your IDE with the new Remote MCP Server, build and edit scorecards directly in the UI, and let AI handle routine tasks like incident updates and organizational prompts. Add in quality-of-life improvements, like rerunning actions with one click and customizing related entities, and you’ll spend less time on setup and more time building. Keep reading to review all of our updates!
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Work with Port inside your environment
🚀 Port’s Remote MCP Server is now available in open beta!
Stay in flow while coding. The new Remote MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server lets you connect Port directly to IDEs and AI tools like VS Code, Cursor, Claude, and GitHub Copilot. Secure OAuth authentication means you can query data, run actions, and check docs without leaving your IDE.
Build and edit scorecards in the UI
Keep your governance rules fresh without touching YAML. You can now create and update scorecards through a simple form in the Scorecards tab of your data model page. It’s a faster, easier way to keep standards up to date.
Apply filters across dashboard widgets
Get clearer insights faster. You can apply filters (like team, title, or identifier) across multiple widgets on any dashboard. This makes it easy to focus on the data that matters most without editing each widget individually. Support for more blueprint properties and date filters is coming soon.
Define dynamic permissions policies for viewing entities
The new policy key allows you to grant read permissions to users using dynamic rules based on Port’s catalog query capabilities, including contextual queries that access the user’s properties and owning teams. This enables advanced permission policies such as:
Only allowing tech leads or department managers to view specific entities.
Allow developers access to services owned by their team at all times, and to all services while they are currently on call.
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Filter data by custom user properties
Make queries more personal and precise. You can now add user context—like their properties or owning teams—into query rules, so dashboards, self-service actions, and permissions adapt automatically to whoever is using them.
Integrated with the Search API, this works anywhere a search call is made, including:
- Widgets & pages initial filters (currently available in JSON mode only—will be added to the filters form soon)
- Self-service actions' entities search & conditions
- Permission policies
- Via the API
Share prompts across your organization
Make your team’s best practices instantly accessible in AI tools like Claude and VS Code Copilot. With prompt support in the Port Remote MCP Server, platform engineers can define organizational prompts in Port and share them directly with developers. Use it to standardize workflows—like writing release notes, opening PRs, or applying coding standards—so everyone gets guided, consistent answers right in their IDE.
Enhanced mapping testing and validation
We’ve made mapping setup more reliable and easier to debug. Test results now show clear resource names instead of generic labels, blueprint schemas are automatically validated (covering property types, relation names, and more), and test mapping runs automatically when you resync, flagging any issues in a helpful popup. This means faster troubleshooting and fewer surprises when syncing your data.
To see these additions in action, go to the “Data Sources” section on the “Builder” page and click on one of your data sources.
Auto-generate incident updates with AI
Stop writing the same incident updates over and over. Port can now use AI to draft contextual updates for Slack, so stakeholders stay informed while your team focuses on solving the issue.
Re-run actions in one click
Need to run the same action again? Now you can re-run it directly from the run page with the same parameters with no manual re-configuration required.
Customize related entities tabs
Show the right data in the right place. Filters for related entities tabs let you tailor what’s displayed by blueprint properties or relation paths, giving teams a cleaner, more relevant view.
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Track historical sync metrics in Ocean
Spot trends and troubleshoot faster with access to historical sync performance data in Ocean. Past metrics now sit alongside your most recent runs.
Sync on-prem Jira Server data
If you’re running Jira Server on-prem, you can now bring that data into Port. Keep projects connected and managed seamlessly—even outside Atlassian Cloud.
Here’s a smooth, combined version that keeps it easy to read while linking to both roadmap items and docs:
Azure DevOps: easier setup, better context
Working with Azure DevOps in Port is now much simpler. Use wildcards and glob patterns to match files faster and with more flexibility, and see the full picture of your pipelines by automatically linking them to their related repositories. Together, these updates save you time on setup and give you richer insights for tracking and reporting.
💪 Built with your feedback: wildcards & globs · pipeline metadata enrichment
🔗 Learn more in our docs: file matching · pipeline context
Automate across Ocean and Aikido
Cut out manual steps by connecting Ocean and Aikido. Automate key processes across both platforms in just a few clicks.
Execution agent decrypts encrypted inputs
When using secret-type input fields in your actions, such as API keys, tokens, or passwords, the Port execution agent can automatically decrypt these encrypted values before sending requests to third-party applications.
Check the latest Ocean integration versions
Quickly see the most recent version for each Ocean integration in the docs, with direct links to the changelog. Just visit an integration’s documentation page to get started.
Delete SSO-created teams
You can now delete teams created through SSO directly from your team management page. Visit your Teams settings via the “Builder” or “Catalog” sections to manage and remove unwanted SSO teams.
Executors can cancel pending SSA runs
Members can now update their own pending SSA run to Failure without admin help. Just open the pending run in the UI and use the edit option to cancel it.
Security page
We’ve added a new section to the Port website to make it easier to find the information you need:
Security – Learn how Port protects your developer platform data and internal tooling. We’ve published our security practices and documents so you can review the standards we follow and build confidence in how we safeguard your systems.
Guides
- Interact with PagerDuty incidents
- Map PRs to services in monorepo
- Trigger GitHub Copilot from Port
- Generate Zendesk ticket summaries with AI
- Self heal scorecards with AI
- Track AI driven pull requests
- Trigger Claude Code from Port
- OWASP top 10 scorecard
Just for fun: DevOps Alchemy!
Remember the game Little Alchemy where you combined elements to discover new ones? Now you can do the same with Port resources. Our very own Aaron Taylor built DevOps Alchemy, a browser game where you mix and match Port resources and see what AI says you can build.
Give it a try → DevOps Alchemy