Lately, I've been trying to find ways to speed up handling incident response in my squad. This has led me to explore Skills and MCP in coding agents. We use IBM Bob , though everything in this article will hold for other popular agents out there. We use Jenkins to run all our automations. Setting up a Jenkins MCP server for Bob seemed like a natural next step. The MCP server lets us query job information in natural language, eliminating the need to navigate the Jenkins UI. It also opens up avenues of creating agent skills that can use the MCP tools to automate repeatable workflows Pre-requisites To get started with Jenkins MCP, you'll need the following: Jenkins server Jenkins API token Coding agent of choice Steps Installing the Jenkins MCP server plugin Follow the steps mentioned in https://plugins.jenkins.io/mcp-server . Once installed, the plugin should appear under the list of installed plugins in the UI. No other setting needs to be configured.…