Connect to MCP Clients

You can connect Arcade MCP servers to MCP-compatible clients and development environments to unlock powerful flows for your agents.

Every supported MCP client, including Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, VS Code, GitHub Copilot, and Copilot Studio, connects to an Arcade MCP Gateway over the Streamable HTTP transport. The gateway decides which tools the client can call: pick from Arcade-hosted toolkits (GitHub, Linear, Gmail, Slack, Google Calendar, Notion, Jira, Confluence, and dozens more in the integrations catalog), from remote MCP servers you registered, and from your own custom MCP servers hosted with Arcade Deploy.

Cursor

AI-powered code editor with built-in MCP support

Claude Desktop

Anthropic's desktop app for Claude with MCP integration

Claude Code

Anthropic's coding agent CLI with MCP support

Visual Studio Code

Microsoft's code editor with MCP extensions

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Microsoft's AI agent platform with MCP integration

Setting Arcade up for yourself?

These guides assume you want your own gateway, with a tool list and end-user identities you control. If you are setting Arcade up for your own work, the Arcade agent plugin is faster: install it through your client’s plugin flow, skip the API key, and sign in to each app in the browser.