MCP overview
The User Evaluation Model Context Protocol (MCP) server lets AI clients — Claude Desktop, Claude.ai web, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude Code — read your research data and create insight cards directly from inside a conversation. No glue scripts, no copy-paste between tabs.
Two ways to connect
| Hosted | Local (stdio) | |
|---|---|---|
| URL / command | https://api.userevaluation.com/mcp | npx @userevaluation/mcp |
| Auth | Same ue_live_… API key as REST | Same key via UE_API_KEY env var |
| Best for | Browser-based clients (Claude.ai, ChatGPT) | Local clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code) |
| Setup | Paste URL + bearer | Add command + env to client config |
| Latency | Single round-trip per tool call | Same — local process forwards to the same REST API |
Both expose the same 13 tools and inherit your plan's rate limits (60 / 300 / 1000 requests per minute).
What you can do
- Ask "what's the most-cited theme in my onboarding study?" and let Claude page through transcripts to find out.
- Drop "summarize the last interview from project X" into Claude — it'll fetch the file and transcript itself.
- Have Cursor open your IDE, then say "create cards from these three pain points" —
create_cardwrites them straight into UE. - Run
claude mcp ...from a terminal and pipe a research question into a script.
What it doesn't do (yet)
- No OAuth flow — you connect with an API key, not a "Sign in with UE" button. Tracked for a future release.
- No resources / prompts — only Tools. So you can't paperclip a transcript into the conversation as an attachment yet.
- No write tools beyond
create_card— you can't trigger reports, edit projects, or invite participants from MCP yet.
Requirements
- A paid User Evaluation plan (Basic, Standard, or Plus). Free accounts are blocked at the same gate as the REST API.
- Node.js 18+ if you use the local stdio package.
- An MCP-aware AI client. Confirmed working with Claude Desktop, Claude.ai web, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude Code.
What's coming
| When | What |
|---|---|
| Soon | Resources (drag-and-drop transcripts into the chat); Prompts (slash commands like /ue:thematic-analysis) |
| Soon | OAuth 2.1 + Dynamic Client Registration — one-click "Add User Evaluation" install in Claude Desktop |
| Later | More write tools: trigger reports, apply tags at timecodes, recruit from the API |
| Later | Listing in the Anthropic Connectors directory |
→ Quickstart — connect your first client in under 2 minutes.