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.
The LaunchNotes MCP server is generally available. It's listed in the Claude connector directory and the Cursor plugin directory.
Why we built this: AI can write an update in seconds. It's the work before the writing — gathering what changed, why, and who asked for it, scattered across your tools — that still eats the time. The Bottleneck Moved covers why that's the real holdup, and connecting your assistant is how you hand it off.
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
Pick your assistant:
Best for | Setup | |
Claude Desktop / claude.ai | Most everyday users | Add the connector, then the plugin for skills |
Claude Code | CLI / agentic coding workflows | Install the plugin |
Cursor | AI code editor users | Install the plugin |
Whichever route you take, the first time your assistant connects you'll sign in with your LaunchNotes account through your browser. Every request after that runs as you, with your role's permissions.
Claude Desktop / claude.ai
1. Install the connector. Open claude.ai/directory/launchnotes, or find LaunchNotes in Customize → Connectors → Discover. Your assistant now has the LaunchNotes tools.
2. Add the plugin for the skills. Go to Customize → Plugins, click Add, choose Add marketplace, and paste https://github.com/launchnotes/mcp-server-guide. Click the + on the LaunchNotes plugin that appears. Requires a paid plan (Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise).
To confirm the plugin installed, check Customize → Plugins → Yours — LaunchNotes will be listed there under the marketplace you added.
Claude Code
Run
/plugin marketplace add launchnotes/mcp-server-guideRun
/plugin install launchnotes@launchnotes
Cursor
Open cursor.directory/plugins/launchnotes and click Add to Cursor, or search for LaunchNotes in Customize and add it from the Marketplace results. Either way you get the MCP server and all eight skills together.
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 Desktop / claude.ai — the connector carries the tools; the plugin adds the skills. Install both, as above.
Claude Code — tools and skills, automatically.
Cursor — tools and skills together, from the directory listing.
Getting new skills later
We add and improve skills over time, and your assistant doesn't pull those changes down on its own.
Claude Desktop / claude.ai — go to Customize → Plugins, open LaunchNotes, and click Update. A current Claude bug leaves that button disabled for some; if yours is greyed out, remove and re-add the LaunchNotes plugin from the same screen — just the plugin, not your connector.
Claude Code — run /plugin marketplace update launchnotes, then /plugin update launchnotes@launchnotes. Takes effect in your next session.
Cursor — Customize → Plugins → LaunchNotes → Update. If you imported the repo as a marketplace and left Auto Refresh on, updates arrive on their own.
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?
How do I disconnect MCP v1 (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.
Notes & important info
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 account permissions — it can only do what your role allows.