BC Observatory

An outside-the-box way to see all of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central at once: official docs, source code, Microsoft's guidelines, YouTube sessions and community blogs, woven into one cross-referenced knowledge base that AI agents can use as a source of truth and humans can travel through like a galaxy.

Site: https://waldo1001.github.io/waldo.BCObservatory/ (GitHub Pages, rebuilt every night) About the project, who it is for: https://waldo1001.github.io/waldo.BCObservatory/about/ · The MCP server and the plugin, what to ask, how to install: https://waldo1001.github.io/waldo.BCObservatory/mcp/ Status: milestone M3 (content flowing nightly: Learn topic hubs, 16k AL object pages for BC28-30, 22 localizations, roadmap features, videos, community posts). Machine-generated pages are badged unreviewed until Opus reviews them.

Use it from an agent

Install the plugin, not just the server. The plugin connects three MCP servers (the Observatory, bc-code-atlas for AL source, Microsoft Learn) and four skills that tell your agent when to use them, plus a reminder to ask the Observatory before it searches the web. Only the Observatory server needs Node.js 22 or newer (the current LTS is fine): check with node --version; install with winget install OpenJS.NodeJS.LTS (Windows) or brew install node (Mac), then restart the app you install into.

Then ask: What is table 18 in Business Central? Use BC Observatory. It should answer Customer. When it does not, INSTALL.md has a "Something went wrong" table per app.

claude plugin marketplace add waldo1001/waldo.BCObservatory          # Claude Code plugin, step 1: the marketplace
claude plugin install bc-observatory@bc-observatory                  # step 2: the plugin (MCP + bcobs-lookup, bcobs-whats-new, bcobs-localization, bcobs-grounding)
copilot plugin install waldo1001/waldo.BCObservatory:plugin       # the same plugin in GitHub Copilot CLI

What the plugin installs (three MCP servers, four skills, what leaves your machine): plugin/README.md.

Source bodies and the call graph: bc-code-atlas by Stefan Maron (MIT), connected by the plugin. Learn pages and AL code samples: Microsoft's Learn MCP, also connected by the plugin.

Server only, no skills: claude mcp add bc-observatory -- npx -y bc-observatory@latest (packages/mcp). To run the server from a checkout instead: claude mcp add bc-observatory -- env BC_OBSERVATORY_LOCAL=$PWD node --import tsx packages/mcp/src/server.ts. Without any install: llms.txt, GitMCP and DeepWiki (badges above).

Using this server

Business Central questions go here first (D108): features, release waves, what is new, AL objects, fields, events, localizations, version diffs, blog and video coverage. Start with bc_search; bc_whats_new for "what is new" or "what changed in BC 29"; bc_get_object and bc_diff_object for one object. Fall back to Microsoft Learn or web search only when the Observatory has no answer, and say so. Every answer ends with Data as of <date>, covers BC <versions>; an empty one ends with No match in the Observatory. ...; an error that says unreachable means the data source is down, and bc_status (version, reachability, page counts, last deploy) tells "down" from "no answer". The server sends the same rule as its MCP instructions (packages/mcp/README.md has the details). For a client that does not show those, put this in the project's CLAUDE.md (or AGENTS.md, .github/copilot-instructions.md):

## Business Central questions
Use the BC Observatory MCP tools (bc_search, bc_whats_new, bc_get_object, bc_diff_object, ...) FIRST for any
Business Central question. Fall back to Microsoft Learn or web search only when the Observatory has no answer, and say
so. If its tools fail, run bc_status and tell me it is down; do not skip it silently.

Related MCP server: bc-code-intelligence-mcp

What it is

• Overlay, not mirror. Microsoft Learn stays the canonical documentation. BC Observatory builds hub pages per topic, feature, AL object and localization that summarize and deep-link to Learn articles, the actual code (microsoft/BCApps and the version history), BCQuality rules, videos (with timestamps) and blog posts.

• Agents first. Every page is markdown with strict frontmatter, every index is JSON, llms.txt exists per section, and npx bc-observatory is an MCP server over the same files. GitMCP and DeepWiki work out of the box.

• A galaxy to travel. Domains are systems, hubs are stars, sources orbit the hub they describe, localizations are constellations drawn over the W1 sky, and this week's changes light up. Authors get a flight path showing where their blog hooks into BC.

• Change radar. What changed in BC this week: docs commits, code diffs per object and per version, deprecations, roadmap items, new videos and posts, with a weekly digest and RSS.

• Honest by construction. Deterministic extraction first; language models (Haiku for facts, Sonnet for prose, Opus for review) only on deltas; every claim carries evidence; every page shows its trust tier and review state.

How it runs

Nightly, on a Mac Mini registered as a self-hosted GitHub Actions runner, on a Claude subscription (no API keys), inside a fixed budget window, newest content first. See docs/PLAN.md for the architecture and docs/RUNBOOK.md for operations.

Add your blog or channel

Open a pull request that adds an entry to sources.yaml. By default your content is stored as summary, quotes under 25 words and links back to you (tier: community). If you want your full text indexed, set full_text: true and add a consent block pointing at your pull request. See CONTENT-NOTICE.md.

License

Code: MIT (LICENSE). Generated content: CC BY 4.0 (LICENSE-CONTENT). Third-party material keeps its own terms. Unofficial; not affiliated with Microsoft.