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Summary
Read Airtable bases, table schemas, and records from any AI agent. 4 read-only tools, Personal Access Token auth.
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Example prompts for Airtable
Click any prompt to copy it. Paste into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot or OpenClaw to run it against this connector.
Claude is AI and can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.
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Airtable + Claude
Read Airtable bases, table schemas, and records from any AI agent. 4 read-only tools, Personal Access Token auth.
Prerequisites
See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:
AIRTABLE_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN
Step 1 — Get credentials
Setup:
- Create a Personal Access Token at https://airtable.com/create/tokens.
- Grant only the
data.records:readandschema.bases:readscopes. - Restrict the token's access to only the bases this connector must read.
- Set
AIRTABLE_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN.
Authentication: Authorization: Bearer ${AIRTABLE_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN}. Use a scoped Personal Access Token, not a legacy API key.
Discovery order: call airtable_list_bases, then airtable_list_tables with a base ID to find table IDs, names, fields, and views. Use a table ID when possible because names can change.
…(continued in the in-app connector instructions)
Step 2 — Install the adapter
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d
Step 3 — Add the connector in Claude
Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide showsYOUR_SERVER_ID.
Recommended path — works on claude.ai web without editing any config file.
- In Claude, open Customize → Connectors.
- Click +, then Add custom connector.
- Enter a name, e.g.
Airtable, and the remote MCP server URLhttps://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID, then click Add. - Click Connect and sign in to AnythingMCP (OAuth) to allow access.
All tools below appear in your chat — start typing prompts.
Available tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
airtable_list_bases | List bases accessible to the Personal Access Token |
airtable_list_tables | List a base's table schemas, including table IDs, names, fields, and views |
airtable_list_records | List records from a table |
airtable_get_record | Get one record by ID from a table, for example record ID recABC123DEF456 |
FAQ
Does it work with Claude Code as well as Claude Desktop? Yes — point both at https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID.
Next steps
- Connector landing page
- Connect to ChatGPT
- Connect to Cursor
- Connect to Gemini
- Connect to Meta Muse
- Connect to Microsoft Copilot
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