---
title: Claude
description: Claude Desktop and Claude Code support for the POINTS MCP server is planned. Use ChatGPT today, or follow the discovery guide for any MCP host.
url: https://thepoints.io/docs/agents/hosts/claude
audience: [agents, operators]
status: Planned
---

# Claude

**[ChatGPT is the live host today.](/docs/agents/hosts/chatgpt)**

Claude Desktop and Claude Code are a planned MCP host for POINTS. Neither is QA-passed on production, and POINTS does not publish a date.

This page will carry the connection guide once the host passes QA on production. Until then, ChatGPT is the host to use; see the [ChatGPT guide](/docs/agents/hosts/chatgpt).

Host status comes from [/docs/catalog.json](/docs/catalog.json). For how any MCP host discovers POINTS, see [Discovery](/docs/agents/discovery).

## Draft setup (not yet QA-passed)

This section is a draft for QA. It is not a supported connection and it is not QA-passed on production.

### claude.ai and Claude Desktop

1. Open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
2. Enter the server URL `https://thepoints.io/mcp`.
3. Choose "Register automatically" or the default registration option.
4. Sign in to POINTS, review the requested scopes, and approve them.

### Claude Code

1. Run `claude mcp add --transport http points https://thepoints.io/mcp`.
2. Run `/mcp` in Claude Code and complete the browser sign-in and scope approval.

### Check the connection

1. Call `get_wallet_status` and `get_agent_pay_policy_vocabulary`, and confirm only the authorized account's stored data comes back.
2. Prepare a draft with `prepare_payment`, then approve or reject it in POINTS.
3. Read the draft with `get_payment_status`. The status shows `executed: false`. Approve does not execute.
4. Revoke the connection in POINTS and confirm that later calls return HTTP 401.