Pad MCP
Connect your AI agent to Pad
Pad runs as a Model Context Protocol server two ways. Both expose the same hand-curated v0.2 catalog of eight resource × action tools — for items, workspaces, plans, search, and project intelligence — plus read-only resources and planning prompts. Pick the path that matches where your agent and your data live.
Remote · Pad Cloud
Zero install
Paste https://mcp.getpad.dev into Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, or ChatGPT. Sign in with your Pad
account. Your agent reads and writes the workspaces you grant it — no local
binary, no config files, no scripts.
- → OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, audience-restricted tokens
- → Per-workspace consent at sign-in
- → Revoke from
/console/connected-apps - → Best fit when your agent is hosted (Claude.ai web, ChatGPT, etc.)
Local · self-hosted
Run on your machine
Run pad mcp serve as
a subprocess of Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Windsurf. Pad's data lives in a
SQLite file on your laptop. One install command per client; no account, no
cloud round-trip.
- → No account, no network egress for tool calls
- → One-command install per client
- → Same v0.2 tool catalog as Remote
- → Best fit for desktop clients on a single machine
Not sure which? The homepage path-selector walks through Pad's three usage modes — zero install, CLI + cloud, self-host — and lands you on the right page.