Overview

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets AI coding tools talk to outside services. The OrbitOrca MCP server gives the agent in your editor access to your apps on the platform — so it can check a deploy, read logs, or ship a change without you copy-pasting between the dashboard and your editor.

What your agent can do

• Read (always on) — list your apps, check status and logs, read environment variables, list products and customers, check deploy readiness, and pull ready-made wiring prompts.
• Write (recommended) — create, deploy, stop, and restart apps, change settings and environment variables, and manage products and prices. Real changes to your apps and billing, made hands-free.

A token you create decides which of these the agent gets. Read & write is the recommended choice; pick read-only when the agent should only look. See Scopes & safety.

Connect your host

Pick your editor:

• Claude Code
• Cursor
• VS Code
• Windsurf
• Claude.ai / Claude Desktop (OAuth connector, no token)
• Other hosts

Every host points at the same server:

https://api.orbitorca.com/mcp

Editors authenticate with a personal access token; Claude.ai and Claude Desktop connect over OAuth instead. The dashboard's Connect an agent page creates a token and fills it into a ready-to-paste snippet for your editor — open app.orbitorca.com/mcp. How tokens work, expiry, and revocation are on Tokens.