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Cala turns internet chaos into structured, verified knowledge that AI agents and LLMs can call as a tool.
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Connect your AI agent to Cala's MCP
For more information about MCP and how it works, you can read more about ithere.
Pair with the agent skill.The MCP server gives your agent access to Cala's tools. Theagent skillgives it the knowledge to use them well. Install both for the full experience.
You can use Cala via our MCP. To get started, you need to get an API key to authenticate your MCP client. Go to ourConsoleand create a new API key.
With your API key in hand, you can connect your AI agent such as Cursor, Claude Code and others to our MCP server. Cala MCP gives AI agents access to verified, structured and typed knowledge — both as natural-language answers and structured data — as well as entity information.
json theme={null} { "mcpServers": { "Cala": { "url": "https://api.cala.ai/mcp/", "headers": { "X-API-KEY": "YOUR_CALA_API_KEY" } } } } ` For more information, follow their documentation here.
json theme={null} { "servers": { "Cala": { "type": "http", "url": "https://api.cala.ai/mcp/", "headers": { "X-API-KEY": "YOUR_CALA_API_KEY" } } } } ` For more information, follow their documentation here
You can configure Cala MCP in Claude Desktop from the Connectors UI. #### Individual account Go to Customize → Connectors, click +, and select Add custom connector. Enter the following information: Name: Cala URL: https://api.cala.ai/mcp/ And in Advanced settings: Client ID: sZasi0PYnHtNtiPBSFBAro5XYzZrVl8Q Client Secret: leave empty A sign-in pop-up will appear — log in with your Cala credentials to authenticate. Once connected, toggle on the tools you want to make available to Claude. #### Organization account (Team or Enterprise) <AccordionGroup> <Accordion title="Step 1: Admin adds the connector"> An Owner or Primary Owner can go to Organization settings → Connectors, click Add. Enter the following information: Name: Cala URL: https://api.cala.ai/mcp/ And in Advanced settings: Client ID: sZasi0PYnHtNtiPBSFBAro5XYzZrVl8Q Client Secret: leave empty If you are not an admin, ask your administrator to complete this step. </Accordion> <Accordion title="Step 2: Each member connects their account"> Go to Customize → Connectors, find Cala (labeled Custom), and click Connect. A sign-in pop-up will appear — log in with your Cala credentials to authenticate. Once connected, toggle on the tools you want to make available to Claude. </Accordion> </AccordionGroup>
claude mcp add --transport http cala https://api.cala.ai/mcp/ --header "X-API-KEY: YOUR_CALA_API_KEY" ` You can also install Cala as a plugin, it is part of Claude community marketplace for plugins. Cala plugin for Claude Code includes our remote MCP server as well as the skill so that Claude Code can use the MCP tools optimally. To do so, run this in your Claude Code terminal to install the community marketplace: ` /plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community ` Then, install Cala plugin: ` /plugin install cala@claude-community ` Run this to activate the plugin: ` /reload-plugins json theme={null} { "mcpServers": { "Cala": { "url": "https://api.cala.ai/mcp", "headers": { "X-API-KEY": "YOUR_CALA_API_KEY" } } } } toml theme={null} [mcp_servers.cala] enabled = true command = "npx" args = [ "-y", "mcp-remote", "https://api.cala.ai/mcp", "--header", "X-API-Key:${CALA_API_KEY}" ] [mcp_servers.cala.env] CALA_API_KEY = "YOUR_CALA_API_KEY" For more information, follow their documentation here
json theme={null} { "mcpServers": { "Cala": { "url": "https://api.cala.ai/mcp/", "headers": { "X-API-KEY": "YOUR_CALA_API_KEY" } } } } ` For clients without built-in remote MCP support: `json theme={null} { "mcpServers": { "Cala": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://api.cala.ai/mcp/", "--header", "X-API-KEY: YOUR_CALA_API_KEY" ] } }, } Here are the tools available to the Cala MCP:
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