Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Silktide runs an MCP server, so AI clients you already use, such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, can work with your Silktide account. A connected client can do what the Silktide Agent does in Silktide: look at your websites, test results, issues, tasks and goals, explain how a check works and how to fix what it found, and search Help.

You do not need an API key or any code. You sign in to Silktide from the client, once, and choose which account it works in.

The server address#

Each region has its own server. Use your account's region:

Silktide shows the same address, with steps for each client, under Settings, then MCP. If you are not sure of your region, see Find your region.

The server uses Streamable HTTP and signs you in with OAuth. When you sign in you pick one account, and the client works in that account until you connect again.

Claude#

On the web or in the desktop app:

1. Select your name in the bottom corner, then Settings, then Connectors.
2. Select Add, then Add custom connector.
3. Name it Silktide, paste the address as the MCP server URL, and select Continue.
4. Sign in to Silktide, choose an account, and select Allow. If Claude does not ask, select Connect beside Silktide first.
5. In a conversation, turn on Silktide in the tools menu and ask Claude to use it.

On Team and Enterprise plans, an owner adds the connector first, under Organization settings, then Connectors. Everyone then connects it from Settings, then Connectors.

ChatGPT#

In the desktop app:

1. Select your picture in the bottom corner, then Settings, then Plugins.
2. Select Add, then Add MCP server.
3. Name it Silktide, choose Streamable HTTP, and paste the address as the URL. Leave everything else blank and save it.
4. If ChatGPT shows Authenticate beside Silktide, select it. Sign in to Silktide, choose an account, and select Allow.
5. In a chat, type /mcp to check Silktide is connected, then ask ChatGPT to use it.

On chatgpt.com:

1. Select your picture in the bottom corner, then Settings, then Plugins.
2. Select Browse directory, then Add, then Create custom MCP server.
3. Name it Silktide and paste the address under Connection. Leave Authentication set to OAuth.
4. Tick I understand and want to continue, then select Create as a plugin. Sign in to Silktide, choose an account, and select Allow.
5. In a new chat, add Silktide from the tools menu.

On Business and Enterprise plans, a workspace admin may need to allow custom MCP servers first.

Cursor#

The quickest way is the Add to Cursor button under Settings, then MCP in Silktide. Cursor then asks you to sign in.

To set it up yourself:

1. Add Silktide to ~/.cursor/mcp.json, with your region's address:

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "silktide": {
         "url": "https://mcp.eu.silktide.com/mcp"
       }
     }
   }

2. Cursor lists Silktide as needing sign-in. Select it, sign in to Silktide, choose an account, and select Allow.

Other clients#

Any client that supports remote MCP servers with OAuth can connect. Paste the address where it asks for an MCP server, then sign in. From the command line:

# Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http silktide https://mcp.eu.silktide.com/mcp

# Codex
codex mcp add silktide --url https://mcp.eu.silktide.com/mcp

Asking and changing#

A connected client starts out only able to read. It can change things, such as creating a task or starting a test, only when both of these are true:

• An account admin has turned on Agent edit actions on the AI screen in Silktide's settings.
• Your role allows AI edit mode.

These are the same switches that let the Silktide Agent make changes; see Agent controls. Most clients also ask you to confirm before they call anything that changes your account.

Who can connect#

You need permission to use AI, and the account has to allow AI. These are checked on every request, so if either is taken away, a client that is already connected stops working on its next request.

The conversation runs on the client's own AI, so the AI providers chosen in Silktide's AI settings do not apply to it. When the client asks Silktide to do something that uses Silktide's own AI, that work uses only the providers your account allows.

Limits#

Requests that start paid work, such as tests, fetching or screenshotting a web page, and running a search, count toward your account's plan as they do in Silktide. Together, every client connected to an account can start 30 of them a minute and 300 an hour. Past that, the client is told to wait a few minutes and try again. Reading what Silktide already holds does not count toward this limit.

What it can never reach#

• Only what you can see. A client acts as you, in the account you chose, with your permissions.
• Only what the account has. Apps and features the account does not have are not offered.
• No staff features. Silktide's internal tools are never offered to a connected client, whoever signs in.

When to use the API instead#

MCP is for a person working with an AI client. For code that runs on its own, such as a nightly sync or a dashboard, use the REST API with an API key: start with the Quickstart. If you write that code with a coding agent, see Build with a coding agent.