Connect Claude Code to tools via MCP
Learn how to connect Claude Code to your tools with the Model Context Protocol.
Claude Code can connect to hundreds of external tools and data sources through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source standard for AI-tool integrations. MCP servers give Claude Code access to your tools, databases, and APIs.
Connect a server when you find yourself copying data into chat from another tool, like an issue tracker or a monitoring dashboard. Once connected, Claude can read and act on that system directly instead of working from what you paste.
If you're connecting your first server, start with the MCP quickstart for a step-by-step walkthrough. This page is the full reference.
本篇目录
- What you can do with MCP
- Find and build MCP servers
- Installing MCP servers
- MCP installation scopes
- Practical examples
- Authenticate with remote MCP servers
- Add MCP servers from JSON configuration
- Import MCP servers from Claude Desktop
- Use MCP servers from claude.ai
- Use Claude Code as an MCP server
- MCP output limits and warnings
- Tool input schemas with a root-level combinator
- Tools with invalid input schemas
- Require approval for a specific tool
- Respond to MCP elicitation requests
- Use MCP resources
- Scale with MCP tool search
- Use MCP prompts as commands
- Managed MCP configuration