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MCP Onboarding in Claude.ai and Claude Desktop connectors

New-hire onboarding plans: one hire at a time or a whole cohort from a role template. You add a hire (name, role, start day), build their task plan with owners (hr, manager or it) and due dates counted from the start, or apply a role template once and let every hire in that role inherit it with the template's version recorded. Mark tasks done or skipped as they happen (skipped is a deliberate dismissal that never counts as done), watch percent complete and overdue per hire, and onboarding_overdue lists everything still outstanding past its due date, most overdue first. Editing a template after applying it never changes a hire who already copied it.

The hires and the role templates live in the hosted store behind the token, so a plan applied here stamps the template version once, and a template edited later never changes a hire who already copied it. There is no network call inside the server on any route, so progress and overdue read exactly the same here as on a laptop, and nothing the connector holds is ever written to a local disk.

What you get

You sayTool
Ada Lovelace starts Monday as analytics-engineer; set her up.onboarding_hire_add
Apply the analytics-engineer template to her plan.onboarding_template_apply
What is still outstanding for Ada, and anything overdue across the team?onboarding_progress then onboarding_overdue

The unit suite is 18 tests, 18 passing, 0 failing (node --test, node v22), covering the template copy and version stamp, the done/skipped split and the overdue ordering; adversarial, concurrency and contract suites sit alongside it.

Connect it, no install

https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/connect mints an anonymous token and prints a URL per server, including this one, shaped like https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/onboarding/t/<token>. That URL works with no headers: the token is in the path, not in an Authorization field this form does not have.

  1. Open https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/connect and copy the URL printed for MCP Onboarding.
  2. There is no config file here: the Add custom connector form asks for a name and a Remote MCP server URL, with an Advanced settings section for an optional OAuth Client ID and Client Secret.
  3. Paste the URL as the Remote MCP server URL. Leave the optional OAuth Client ID and Client Secret blank; this endpoint does not use them.
  4. Click Connect, then turn the connector on for a conversation from the + button, Connectors.

Idle anonymous tokens are swept after 30 days. Since this route has no filesystem, a file MCP Onboarding generates comes back as a download link that expires after one hour. A Pro key can replace the token in the same URL and removes the free-tier limits.

Claude.ai and Claude Desktop connectors notes worth knowing first

On an individual Pro or Max plan you add the connector yourself from Customize, Connectors. On Team and Enterprise it is the other way round: only an Owner or Primary Owner can add a custom connector, at Organization settings, Connectors, and members then connect to what the Owner added rather than pasting their own URL.

Free: Every tool is free for one hire at a time: add, list, tasks, done, one-hire template apply, progress and overdue. Up to 500 rows on every list on every tier. Pro is $19 once, verified offline, and binds to the token after checkout.

Questions

Does this need OAuth?

No. Add custom connector offers an Advanced settings section with an OAuth Client ID and Client Secret, but the connect-by-URL route does not use it. Leave both blank: the token in the URL path is what authenticates.

I am on a Team or Enterprise plan and cannot add a connector.

That is documented, not a bug: on Team and Enterprise, only an Owner or Primary Owner can add a custom connector, at Organization settings, Connectors, Add, Custom, Web. After that, members connect to the URL the Owner added from Customize, Connectors.

Can I use my Pro key instead of the free anonymous token?

Yes. The token segment of the URL from /mcp/connect can be replaced with a Pro key, which removes the free-tier limits on MCP Onboarding for that connector.

Why did a generated file come back as a link instead of opening?

The connector runs server-side with no filesystem of its own, so any file MCP Onboarding produces is handed back as a download link that expires after one hour, rather than a path on disk.

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MCP Onboarding in detail · How connect-by-URL works · Every server for Claude.ai and Claude Desktop connectors · All clients · Claude.ai and Claude Desktop connectors docs · Buy Pro