# Connecting Claude to Hatchik

You connect Claude to Hatchik once. There is nothing to install, no file to
edit, and no key to copy anywhere.

## The setup

1. In Claude, open **Settings → Connectors** and choose **Add custom
   connector**.
2. Paste this address: `https://app.hatchik.com/mcp`
3. Click **Connect** and sign in with Google — the same Google account you use
   for Hatchik.

When it works, ask Claude "what am I connected to Hatchik as?" and it will tell
you your email address. From then on you say things like "build me a booking
site" or "publish that to my draft" and it happens.

If you have read an older guide that told you to install a Python module, run a
command, or paste something into an `mcp.json` file, that guide is out of date.
The address above is the whole setup.

## What Claude can do once it is connected

- create a project, and build and publish a site or an app to it
- publish to your locked draft, and then make the draft live once you approve
- undo a change, or go back to an earlier version
- read your site's recent logs when something is wrong
- set up your own web address and tell you the exact DNS record to add
- build you a download of everything in a project
- delete a project, but only after showing you a warning and getting a code
  back from you

Claude never sees your database password or your API keys. Those are injected
into your app by Hatchik and are never returned to a conversation.

## When the connection stops working

Claude may say the Hatchik connection has expired, or that it is not authorised.
Nothing has happened to your site — it is still up and still serving people. It
is the connection between Claude and Hatchik that has lapsed.

To fix it: open **Settings → Connectors** in Claude, remove the Hatchik
connector, and add it again with the address above. Sign in with Google when
asked.

If signing in is the part that fails, read the "Locked out" page.

## Cutting a tool off

If you no longer want a tool connected — you changed your mind, you stopped
using it, or you think somebody else has got hold of its access — you can switch
it off yourself and it stops working straight away.

Sign in at `https://app.hatchik.com`, open **Your account**, and look under
**Connected tools**. Every AI tool that can act as you is listed there with when
you connected it and when it was last used, and each one has a "Switch off"
button. The same section lists any publish keys you made, with the same button.

Switching a tool off changes nothing about your work — your projects, sites,
databases and data all stay exactly as they are. It only stops that tool being
able to touch them. To use it again, start the connection from the tool and
approve it, the same way you did the first time.

## Doing it without Claude

The dashboard at `https://app.hatchik.com` does most of the same things by
hand: it shows every project, its draft and live addresses, its status, its
domains, its database size and its recent logs, and it can build you a download
of everything. Your site does not depend on the connector in any way.

## Other AI tools

Any tool that can add a remote MCP connector can use the same address. Tools
that cannot — some coding tools only read a local config file — can publish with
a deploy key instead, which you generate on the project page under "Other ways
to publish". Most people never need this.