Connect your AI to your automations

Every automation in your cmdk workspace doubles as a typed tool. Point Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Slack, WhatsApp, or a plain script at it and the run executes on cmdk, with your connected accounts, approvals, and run history.

You will need an API key: in cmdk, open Channels & API access (⌘K → “Channels”) and create one.

AI agents (MCP)

Your workspace exposes an MCP server. Add it once and every automation appears as a tool the AI can call, typed inputs included. Two extra tools come along: check_run and list_automations.

Claude (claude.ai & Desktop)

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector. Claude's dialog has no header field, so append your API key to the URL path:

Server URL

https://cmdk.io/api/mcp/<your key>

Claude Code

One command in your terminal:

Terminal

claude mcp add cmdk --transport http https://cmdk.io/api/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer <your key>"

Cursor / any MCP client

Add to .cursor/mcp.json (or your client's MCP config):

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cmdk": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cmdk.io/api/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <your cmdk API key>"
      }
    }
  }
}

ChatGPT

Settings → Connectors → Advanced → Developer mode → add an MCP server with the same URL and Authorization: Bearer <your key>.

Server URL

https://cmdk.io/api/mcp

Slack

In cmdk, open Channels & API access and click Connect Slack (a workspace admin approves the install).
Mention the bot in any channel or DM it: “@cmdk run the morning digest”.
When an automation needs a person, it posts a card with buttons to the channel you pick per automation, and the answer resumes the run.

Link your phone number on the Channels & API access page.
Message the workspace number to run automations.
Escalation questions arrive as button messages; replying in plain text answers them.

Plain HTTP

Anything that can send an HTTP request can start a run. Pass "wait": true to get the result in the same call, or poll with the returned run id.

curl

curl -X POST https://cmdk.io/api/automations/<automation-id>/invoke \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <your key>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"inputs": {"port": "Delfzijl"}, "wait": true}'

Safe by construction

External callers never touch your connected accounts directly. Runs execute on cmdk with the workspace's own permissions, the approval rules you set per app, and a full run history. Revoke an API key and every door it opened closes.

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