The StartProto MCP wires your AI tools straight to your live data. Ask questions, build recurring reports, and cross-reference StartProto with everything else you use. Setup takes about two minutes.
What you can reach
Jobs, operations, and scheduling
Quotes, sales orders, and invoices
Purchase orders and shipments
Part types, BOMs, and live inventory
Machines and production status
Connect in two minutes
Server URL
https://agents.api.startproto.com/v0/mcp
Claude (Desktop and Web)
Go to Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
Name it StartProto and paste the server URL.
Click Connect and sign in with your StartProto login.
Codex
Open Codex Settings → Open config.toml.
Add the lines below, then save and restart Codex.
toml
[mcp_servers.startproto]
transport = "http"
url = "https://agents.api.startproto.com/v0/mcp"
Check it works
Start a new chat and ask: **"List my 5 most recent jobs."** If you get real records back, you are connected.
Ask | What you get |
Show me all jobs behind schedule. | Every late job, ready to act on |
Which POs arrive this week? | Incoming purchase orders by date |
List parts below their reorder point. | A reorder list pulled from live inventory |
Give me WIP grouped by machine, as a table. | Work in progress organized by machine |
Pull the BOM for part X and check inventory. | The full BOM with current stock levels |
Build a Live Artifact
An interactive app Claude builds in your chat, wired to your live StartProto data. No code, no exports.
A live artifact is a custom tool Claude builds in the artifacts area beside your chat. It reads your real StartProto data every time you open it. Describe what you want, and Claude builds it.
What it can do
Reach your data
Jobs, operations, and scheduling
Quotes, sales orders, and invoices
Purchase orders and shipments
Part types, BOMs, and live inventory
Machines and production status
Show it your way
Tables, boards, cards, charts, and counters
Filter, sort, group, and highlight on any field
Combine several data types into one view
Refresh on demand to pull the latest numbers
Save it as a report you run again and again
Build one in a few steps
Connect the StartProto MCP in Claude first. See the setup guide on page one.
Start a new chat and describe the tool you want. Name the data, the layout, and any filters.
Ask Claude to build it as an artifact wired to your StartProto MCP. It opens beside the chat.
Claude pulls your live data and renders the first version. Check the numbers against the app.
Refine by chatting. Add a column, change the grouping, drop in a refresh button.
Reopen it any time. It reads current data on every load.
Share the chat with your team so they can run it too.
Example: the Live Jobs Dashboard
This Live Jobs Dashboard reads straight from your StartProto data and refreshes on demand.
What it shows
A jobs list you can filter by active, overdue, rework, or all
Stat cards across the top for a quick read on the floor
Search across every job
A detail view for any job with completion progress, each operation step and its WIP count, and BOM material availability
Build it with this prompt
"Build a live artifact connected to my StartProto MCP. Show all jobs as a filterable list with active, overdue, and rework views, stat cards up top, and search. Clicking a job opens a detail view with completion progress, operation steps with WIP counts, and BOM material availability."
Then refine it by chatting. Add a column, change a filter, or set it to refresh on a schedule.
View | What it does |
Reorder tracker | Flags everything behind schedule, grouped by machine |
Incoming POs | Lists every part below its reorder point |
Morning Summary | Shows purchase orders arriving in the next seven days |
WIP by machine | Open quotes and sales orders with totals |