ZOHO ADDS AI TOOLS TO CATALYST CLOUD PLATFORM

Zoho Corporation has upgraded its Catalyst cloud development platform with new artificial intelligence tools designed to help developers move AI-generated code from development to production more efficiently.

The new features include Agent Skills, a non-interactive command-line interface, Model Context Protocol support and integrations with AI coding assistants such as Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. The upgrades allow developers to work with their preferred AI tools while using Catalyst’s serverless infrastructure to build, test, deploy and scale applications. 

Country Head of Zoho Nigeria, Kehinde Ogundare, said the growing use of AI coding assistants had made application development faster, but deploying and managing the resulting applications remained a challenge.

He said Catalyst was designed to reduce this burden by bringing development infrastructure and AI-assisted workflows together on one platform.

Zoho said its Agent Skills give AI coding assistants information about Catalyst’s services, architecture and recommended development practices. Its MCP server also allows supported AI assistants to interact with Catalyst capabilities from developers’ existing environments.

The company has open-sourced its AI skills repository, software development kit, command-line interface and Slyte JavaScript framework.

Zoho added that human oversight would remain in place for production deployments, with separate development and production environments, audit trails and access controls to monitor AI-assisted activities.