01 · AI agents
Agents inside workflows
Answer questions, inspect documents, and create or update records through supported tools.
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Odoo 20: ERP enters the era of AI agents and MCP
Configured AI agents in workflows, a native MCP server for external AI clients, and a website assistant that builds pages from plain-language instructions — plus updates across most apps.
AI agentsMCP serverAI website assistantFinance & operations
09/2026Odoo 20.0 released
24/09/2026“Meet Odoo 20” announcement
09/2029Planned end of standard support
30 daysAI conversations kept after last message
Highlights
What’s new in Odoo 20?
Odoo 20.0 heads toward an agentic ERP: configured agents, a native MCP endpoint and an AI website assistant.
AI clientClaude · Codex · Antigravity
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Odoo MCP Server/mcp · MCP-scoped API key
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Odoo toolsWithin user permissions
02 · MCP
Native MCP server
Compatible AI clients discover and call exposed Odoo tools within the authenticated user’s access rights.
03 · Website
AI website assistant
Create pages, edit sections, forms and menus, source images and assist with SEO from natural-language instructions.
04 · Accounting
Accounting assistant
Answers on receivables and cash flow, reconciliation investigation and summaries for a responsible person to review.
05 · Manufacturing
Continuous production reporting
Downstream operations can start as quantities become available, and in-progress orders can be split for partial output.
06 · Collaboration
Discuss, CRM and calendar
Polls, favorite channels, email CC in chatter, and activities assigned to people or roles.
Feature images are Leonix editorial illustrations. Availability depends on edition, localization, installed apps, hosting and configuration.
AI agents
Configured agents, not unlimited autonomy
Odoo’s AI architecture organizes agents around instructions, skills, sources and tools. They can be triggered from automated and scheduled actions, and conversations can be inspected to refine automations.
Example workflows
- Assign CRM leads.
- Create projects after a contract is signed.
- React to low stock.
- Extract instructions from PDFs and route incoming documents.
Live Chat and accounting
- Live Chat agents answer common questions, qualify conversations and escalate to a human.
- The accounting assistant is decision support — not a replacement for accounting controls or professional sign-off.
Note: permissions, exposed tools, prompts and business rules decide what can happen. AI features require IAP credits — check consumption, data privacy and regional requirements before scaling.
MCP
Native MCP server
The endpoint is typically the database URL followed by /mcp, authenticated with an MCP-scoped API key sent as a Bearer token. Official examples cover Claude, Google Antigravity and OpenAI Codex via mcp-remote.
MCP security checklist
- Use a dedicated Odoo user with minimum access; avoid superuser credentials.
- Set key expiry, store it in a secret manager and rotate or revoke it. The key is shown only once.
- Expose only necessary tools; prefer read-only for research and reporting.
- Enforce access rights, record rules and validation server-side.
- Test write flows on staging; monitor logs and AI credit use.
MCP is a protocol, not an AI model. Hosted chat websites must explicitly support remote MCP and its authentication flow; a CLI’s MCP support does not guarantee the same in its web app.
By application
Highlights across the apps
Use the official release notes as the exhaustive checklist for each installed app.
Illustrative. Source: Prelium.
Accounting & payroll
- AI questions on reports; bulk and deferred bill payments where supported.
- Payroll test runs, payslip printing before validation, salary simulations.
- Tax, payroll and e-invoicing depend on country localization.
Operations
- Continuous production reporting and splitting of in-progress orders.
- Field Service integrated into Planning; top-menu timesheet timer.
Website & collaboration
- Structured data, tracked-link QR codes, WhatsApp widget, flexible multilingual URLs.
- Discuss polls, favorite channels, email CC in chatter.
EventsAppointmentsPOSeLearningHelpdeskRecruitmentSignStudioWhatsAppand more in the release notes
Upgrade
Planning your upgrade
| Version | Released | Standard support (planned) |
|---|---|---|
| Odoo 20.0 | September 2026 | Through September 2029 |
| Odoo 19.0 | September 2025 | Through September 2028 |
1
Inventory apps, localizations, third-party modules and integrations.
2
Review release notes and rehearse on a production-like copy.
3
Validate agent/MCP permissions, estimate IAP usage, define approval gates, prepare rollback.
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