- Go to the Claude dashboard. You will require the Pro tier or higher to use MCP.
- Click your user in the corner and click
Settings
:

Click the Settings button in the profile
- Click
Connectors
and then click Add Custom Connector
:

The connectors category in Claude with "Add Custom Connector" hovered over
- In the name field, add the name you want for this (In this example, we use
Instances
), and in the URL field type the URL you got sent via email. After this, just click Add
:

Adding the custom connector
Congratulations! You can now use all of the instances tooling within Claude. To minimise errors, each category of instances has its own tools that you can toggle on and off.
To install in Cursor, simply click the "Add to Cursor" link in the email we send you. Once you have done this, click Install
:

Clicking install in Cursor
Congratulations! You can now use all of the instances tooling within Cursor. To minimise errors, each category of instances has its own tools that you can toggle on and off.
- Open the comnmand panel by pressing either
Cmd+Shift+P
on macOS or Ctrl+Shift+P
on other platforms:

The command panel that opens
- In the search box, type
>@mcp
. Click MCP: Add Server...
:

Searching for >@mcp
- Click
HTTP (HTTP or Server-Sent Events)
:

The HTTP option in the add server options
- In the URL input, type the URL we send you and press Enter:

The URL input box
- In the ID box, type what you want to name this as. In this case, we use
instances-mcp
. Then press Enter:

Setting the ID to instances-mcp
- From here, set if you want this scoped to Global or Workspace. If it is Global, you can use it across all projects, if it is workspace you will need to configure it in each workspace you wish to use it in:

Set what scope you want it to run in
- After you have done this, you will get a trust prompt. Go ahead and click
Trust
:

Clicking trust on the security prompt
Congratulations! You can now use all of the instances tooling within GitHub Copilot. To minimise errors, each category of instances has its own tools that you can toggle on and off.