Today’s fun is setting up the new Zapier MCP integration. This creates a MCP server that allows Claude Desktop or Cursor or anything else that supports MCP to call any Zaps

Setting Up Zapier MCP

Step 1: Install mcp-remote

First, install the mcp-remote package using npm:

npm install mcp-remote

Step 2: Configure MCP Endpoint in Claude Desktop

In Claude Desktop, you’ll need to add the Zapier MCP endpoint to your settings. Add the following configuration to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zapier-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://actions.zapier.com/mcp/sk-ak-<id>/sse",
      ]
    }
  }
}

Replace <id> with your specific Zapier API key identifier. Zapier gives you this snippet including the id in the setup.

Then give that permission to run Zaps.

If all goes well, you should be able to ask Claude to “send an email” if you have configured Gmail etc.

Troubleshooting

If you encounter connection issues:

  1. Check the Claude Desktop logs for error messages
tail -n 20 -F ~/Library/Logs/Claude/mcp*.log
  1. Try deleting cached credentials and reconnecting:
rm -rf ~/.mcp-auth
  1. You can also test the basic connection directly to check for missing libaries, permission errors etc:
npx mcp-remote https://actions.zapier.com/mcp/sk-ak-<id>/sse