Smartsheet now lets AI assistants read and update your project sheets

Smartsheet has made its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server generally available. In plain terms, AI assistants can now look at your live project sheets and change them when you ask. You can ask which tasks are blocked, or tell the assistant to update a status, without opening Smartsheet yourself.

What changed

MCP is a standard way for AI assistants to connect to other software. Smartsheet's version includes more than 40 tools for exploring, creating and managing sheets, rows, columns and automations. You can update task statuses, add rows and change a project's structure using everyday language.

Smartsheet says the server sends structured context, including row relationships, column types, cell history and comments. It says this keeps the amount of data small, which should lower cost and speed up answers when a team runs hundreds of AI-assisted queries.

Two ways to connect on AWS

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) post walks through two routes. Both use the same Smartsheet tools. The right one depends on who is doing the work.

• Amazon Quick is an AI workspace for business users, project managers and operations teams. Smartsheet is a ready-made connector, with no app registration and no coding.
• Kiro is a tool where developers write code with an AI agent. Setup takes a config file and a personal access token, and it is scoped to one person's work.

What it looks like in practice

The post uses a software team that tracks its sprint, a short work cycle, in one Smartsheet sheet. A project manager asks Amazon Quick which tasks are blocked this week. It pulls the rows and returns a summary with owner names and due dates, from live data and without a report being built.

A developer asks Kiro for the open backend tasks assigned to them, and the list appears right in their coding tool. When the fix is committed, a Kiro hook, an automatic trigger, marks the matching row Complete.

What is not clear yet

The material does not say what the Smartsheet MCP Server costs, or whether a particular Smartsheet or AWS plan is required. It lists three regional endpoints and two sign-in options, OAuth 2.0 or a personal access token, but the full setup requirements were not included. Anyone planning to try it should check those details first, especially who in the company can see and change sheets through an AI assistant.