> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.getatelier.design/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Use Atelier from Claude

> Connect Atelier to Claude over MCP and work with your projects, schedules and product library from chat.

Atelier exposes an MCP server, so Claude — and any other assistant that
speaks the Model Context Protocol — can work with your studio's data
directly.

**Settings → Claude & MCP.**

## The server

```
https://api.getatelier.design/mcp
```

Works with any MCP client that supports remote servers with OAuth.

## Connect in Claude

Available on [claude.ai](https://claude.ai), and it syncs to the Claude
desktop and mobile apps — connect once, use it everywhere.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open connector settings">
    In Claude, go to **Settings → Connectors**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add a custom connector">
    Choose **Add custom connector**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add Atelier">
    Name it **Atelier**, paste the server URL above, click **Add**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Authorise">
    Sign in with your Atelier account when prompted.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Enable it in a new chat">
    Start a **new chat** and enable the Atelier connector from the tools
    menu.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Warning>
  Connectors added mid-conversation don't appear in existing chats. If
  Atelier isn't in the tools menu, start a new chat.
</Warning>

## Connect in Claude Code

```bash theme={null}
claude mcp add --transport http atelier https://api.getatelier.design/mcp
```

Then finish the sign-in it opens in your browser.

## What you can do

* Browse projects, clients, tasks, pinboards and schedules
* Search the product library and capture products from vendor URLs
* Build FF\&E schedules and update item status, quantity and space
* Manage vendors, clients and their contacts
* Comment on tasks and hand work to the Atelier AI assistant
* Start, pause and stop timers

## Things worth asking for

* *What's overdue across all my projects?*
* *Which items on the Birchwood schedule are approved but not ordered?*
* *Add these four products to the living room schedule* — with vendor
  URLs pasted in.
* *Mark the dining chairs as ordered.*
* *Add Holly Hunt as a vendor with this contact.*
* *Start a timer on 123 Maple Street.*

<Tip>
  Capturing several products at once is where this earns its keep. Paste a
  list of vendor URLs and let it import them, rather than fifteen round
  trips through the browser.
</Tip>

## What it will not do

<Warning>
  **Finance is not available over the connector.** Proposals, invoices,
  change orders and purchase orders are outside what it can reach — it
  cannot even read them. Use **AI Chat inside Atelier** for anything
  commercial.
</Warning>

Beyond that, the same guardrails apply as in Atelier's own chat: it
writes drafts, and it will not send anything, mark anything paid or
accepted, or delete anything.