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How do I connect AI assistants to my LaunchNotes workspace?

Connect AI assistants to your LaunchNotes workspace using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector to manage projects and announcements directly through conversational AI.

Summary

With the LaunchNotes MCP server, you can connect your AI assistant of choice to LaunchNotes to manage your projects, announcements, and roadmap using natural language, instead of clicking through the LaunchNotes app. Sign in once with your LaunchNotes account, and your assistant works with the same permissions your role already has.

What you can do with the MCP connector

Manage your projects, announcements, and roadmap in natural language through a connected AI assistant. It can:

Projects

  • Get complete project details

  • List all accessible projects

  • Update project content (title, description, slug)

  • Update the project color palette and theme

  • Update custom CSS, HTML, headers, and footers

  • Toggle project features (feedback, roadmap, ideas, RSS, voting)

Announcements

  • List and filter announcements

  • Get announcement details

  • Create new announcements

  • Update existing announcements

  • Set or backdate an announcement's publish date (keep original dates when importing a changelog)

  • Publish announcements immediately

  • Schedule announcements for future publication

  • Preview what publishing will notify — email, Slack, specific audiences, or nothing — before it goes out

  • Archive announcements

  • Attach supporting links (blog posts, docs, videos)

  • Draft announcement from a template

Roadmap

  • List roadmap stages and work items

  • Create work items

  • Edit a work item's name, description, and owner

  • Move work items between stages

  • Post a progress update to a roadmap item's timeline — optionally moving it to a new stage and notifying the people following it

  • Look up a single work item's full details

Categories

  • List a project's categories

  • Assign categories to announcements and roadmap items

Linking

  • Link roadmap items and announcements to each other, in either direction

Search & discovery

  • Search across announcements, roadmap items, and ideas by topic — find what you need without knowing an exact ID

Feedback

  • Retrieve and search reader feedback

  • Organize/file feedback under an announcement, roadmap item or idea

Analytics

  • See your top announcements by engagement (views, email opens, feedback)

  • Get a project analytics snapshot — subscriber counts and feedback sentiment (aggregate only, no personal data)

Setting up the connection

Connecting is a quick browser login. Pick your assistant:

Best for

Setup

Claude Code

CLI / agentic coding workflows

Install the plugin, then sign in

Cursor

AI code editor users

Paste a config snippet, then sign in

Claude Desktop / claude.ai

Most everyday users

Install the plugin, then sign in

Advanced — scripting & automation

Scripts/automations that can't do a browser login

API token + npx (legacy, still supported)

Claude Code

  1. Run /plugin marketplace add launchnotes/mcp-server-guide

  2. Run /plugin install launchnotes@launchnotes

  3. Sign in through your browser when prompted.

Cursor

  1. Open Cursor → Customize → MCPs → Add.

  2. Paste:

{ "mcpServers": { "launchnotes": { "url": "<https://mcp.launchnotes.com/mcp>" } } }

Then sign in through your browser when prompted.

Skills in Cursor — the connection above gives you the tools and skills aren't bundled with it. Until one-click install lands in the Cursor Marketplace, add them manually (exact commands in the repo): either sideload the full plugin into ~/.cursor/plugins/local/launchnotes, or copy skills/* into ~/.cursor/skills/, then reload Cursor.

Claude Desktop / claude.ai

Install the plugin for tools and skills (requires a paid plan — Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise):

  1. In Claude's settings, go to Customize → Plugins.

  2. Click Add → Add marketplace → Add from a repository.

  3. Paste https://github.com/launchnotes/mcp-server-guide and click Sync.

  4. Open the LaunchNotes plugin that appears and click Install (the +).

  5. Sign in through your browser when prompted.

Prefer just the tools? Add a custom connector pointing at https://mcp.launchnotes.com/mcp — connectors carry the tools but not the skills.

Advanced — scripting & automation

The original setup — a LaunchNotes API token with npx -y @launchnotes/mcp — still works and remains supported for scripts and automations that can't sign in through a browser. It's no longer the recommended path for everyday use.

About skills

Skills are ready-made playbooks that walk your assistant through common LaunchNotes jobs — for example, turning a week of shipped work into a publish-ready announcement, or clustering reader feedback into roadmap items. You describe the outcome and the skill runs the steps, always leaving anything customer-facing for you to approve before it goes out.

Skills come with the plugin — so how you get them depends on your assistant:

  • Claude Code — tools and skills, automatically.

  • Cursor — tools with the MCP connection; add the skills with the manual step in the Cursor setup above.

  • Claude Desktop / claude.ai — tools and skills when you install the plugin (above). A tools-only custom connector doesn't include skills.

Getting new skills later: We add and improve skills over time, and Claude doesn't pull those changes down on its own. To get the latest, go to Customize → Plugins, open LaunchNotes, and click Update.

Already connected with an API token?

The first version of the LaunchNotes MCP connection asked you to generate an API token and run the server locally with npx -y @launchnotes/mcp. As of August 2026, that setup is frozen — it won't get new tools or fixes, and it doesn't include skills. The connection described above is the path forward: you sign in with your LaunchNotes account instead of pasting a token, and your assistant works with your role's permissions rather than your token's.

Switching takes a couple of minutes. Disconnect the old connection first — the new one uses the same name and the same tool names, so leaving both in place can send your assistant to the stale one.

  • Claude Code — run claude mcp remove launchnotes.

  • Claude Desktop — go to Settings → Developer → Edit Config, delete the launchnotes block under mcpServers (the one with npx @launchnotes/mcp and your API token), then restart Claude. If it isn't there, check Customize → Connectors and disconnect LaunchNotes from the ⋯ menu.

  • Cursor — in Customize → MCPs (or ~/.cursor/mcp.json), delete the old launchnotes entry.

Then follow the setup steps for your assistant above. Once you're connected, you can revoke the old token in LaunchNotes → Settings → API — the new connection doesn't use it.

Need IT approval?

If you're having trouble connecting you likely need your IT team to approve the LaunchNotes MCP connector. We've put together this helpful resource that you can send to your IT team:
​How do I approve the LaunchNotes MCP connector for my organization?

Notes & important info

  • As of August 2026, the MCP connector is in beta. Features and functionality may evolve.

  • Rate limited. Requests are throttled at the API layer; your assistant will surface an error if it hits the limit.

  • Important: Your assistant acts with your LaunchNotes's account permissions — it can only do what your role allows.

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