# FabCon 2026: Fabric data agents are generally available

> At FabCon and SQLCon 2026, Microsoft made Fabric data agents generally available, released the local Fabric MCP server as GA, put a remote MCP server into preview and made Fabric IQ ontologies reachable over MCP in preview.

By Brandon Gross. Published March 20, 2026.  
Tags: microsoft fabric, data agents, mcp, fabric iq.  
Canonical: https://kenseme.com/blog/fabcon-2026-fabric-data-agents-ga/

A year after Microsoft turned AI skills into data agents, data agents are generally available. Microsoft announced it at FabCon and SQLCon 2026, which opened on March 18.

## What was announced

1. **Fabric data agents, generally available.**
2. **Fabric MCP servers.** The local Fabric MCP server is generally available, and a remote Fabric MCP server is in public preview.
3. **Ontologies over MCP, in preview.** Fabric IQ ontologies can be reached through an MCP server, so agents outside Fabric can read them.
4. **Direct Lake on OneLake** is generally available.
5. **Graph in Fabric** general availability is expected in the coming weeks, and **Planning in Fabric IQ** was announced.

## Why it matters

General availability is the point where many companies allow a feature into production. Data agents in Fabric now clear that bar.

The bigger change is further down the list: ontologies over MCP. An ontology that only Fabric's own tools can read helps Fabric's own tools. One that any agent can reach through a standard protocol becomes the shared reference for the whole company. Every agent that reads it inherits its definitions, mistakes included.

## Sources

1. [FabCon and SQLCon 2026: unifying databases and Fabric on a single data platform (Azure Blog)](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/fabcon-and-sqlcon-2026-unifying-databases-and-fabric-on-a-single-data-platform/)