Make MCP server

The Make MCP Server allows you to use your Make scenarios as tools for AI assistants like Claude. This integration enables AI systems to directly trigger and interact with your Make automation workflows, creating powerful connections between AI capabilities and your existing automation infrastructure.

Installation Requirements

Before setting up the Make MCP Server, ensure you have:

• NodeJS installed on your system
• A Make API Key with scenarios:read and scenarios:run scopes
• An MCP client (such as Claude Desktop App)

Setting Up with Claude Desktop

To integrate the Make MCP Server with the Claude Desktop application, you'll need to modify your Claude Desktop configuration file.

Add the following configuration to the "mcpServers" section of your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "make": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": ["-y", "@makehq/mcp-server"],
            "env": {
                "MAKE_API_KEY": "<your-api-key>",
                "MAKE_ZONE": "<your-zone>",
                "MAKE_TEAM": "<your-team-id>"
            }
        }
    }
}

Configuration Parameters

You'll need to replace the following placeholders with your own values:

• MAKE_API_KEY: Your Make API key (generate this in your Make profile)
• MAKE_ZONE: The zone where your organization is hosted (e.g., eu2.make.com)
• MAKE_TEAM: Your team ID (found in the URL of your Team page in Make)

How the MCP Server Works

Once configured, the MCP server performs several key functions:

• Connects to your Make account and detects all scenarios that use "On-Demand" scheduling
• Analyzes and resolves input parameters for each scenario, making them accessible to AI assistants
• Enables AI assistants to trigger scenarios with appropriate parameters
• Returns scenario results as structured JSON that AI assistants can interpret

Benefits of Using Make MCP Server

• Convert your existing Make workflows into callable tools for AI assistants
• Keep complex automation logic in Make while making the functionality available to AI systems
• Create two-way communication between AI assistants and your automation workflows

How to add this MCP server to Cursor

There are two ways to add an MCP server to Cursor. The most common way is to add the server globally in the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file so that it is available in all of your projects.

If you only need the server in a single project, you can add it to the project instead by creating or adding it to the .cursor/mcp.json file.

Adding an MCP server to Cursor globally

To add a global MCP server go to Cursor Settings > MCP and click "Add new global MCP server".

When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file will be opened and you can add your server like this:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "cursor-rules-mcp": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "cursor-rules-mcp"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Adding an MCP server to a project

To add an MCP server to a project you can create a new .cursor/mcp.json file or add it to the existing one. This will look exactly the same as the global MCP server example above.

How to use the MCP server

Once the server is installed, you might need to head back to Settings > MCP and click the refresh button.

The Cursor agent will then be able to see the available tools the added MCP server has available and will call them when it needs to.

You can also explictly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.