You'd reach for this when you need to programmatically generate Tableau workbooks without opening Tableau Desktop. It exposes 47 tools that let you build charts, assemble dashboards, define calculation rules, and process CSV data into .twb or .twbx files. Think of it as a headless Tableau generator: you describe what you want through the MCP interface and get back a complete workbook file. Useful for automating report generation, templating dashboards from data pipelines, or creating Tableau artifacts as part of a larger workflow. Supports both local stdio and remote HTTP transport, so you can run it alongside Claude or call it from a web service.
claude mcp add --transport stdio subhatta123-twilize uvx twilize