I am not an AI n00b, I have configured dozens of MCP servers for our organization, including building our own custom Front MCP deployed on our own server architecture. I am trying to migrate to the official one, and cannot figure out how to make it work.
I have created a new developer app within Front following the instructions:
And I have added that to our organization in claude: (included adding the OAuth client id/secret)
But when I go to connect to it, I get an error:
Please advise.
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https://dev.frontapp.com/docs/mcp-server#2-connect-your-ai-assistant
Claude doesn’t allow you to configure MCP servers via JSON like that in the web tool (which is what makes it available org-wide). That only works for Claude Desktop or Code, which is not where this will really be used. However, even when trying to configure it for use with Claude Desktop just to test it, it didn’t work. I got the following warning when debugging with Claude Code:
Heads up: Claude Desktop's native MCP schema typically expects either command/args (stdio) or just url (remote with interactive OAuth). The transport: "streamable-http" + inline oauth.client_id/client_secret shape isn't standard
And even if I try to set it up just as a Claude-Code only thing, I am at least able to get to the Front Auth page, but after logging into Front, I get:
Even with the scopes locked in to just read/write, which is what i have set up for resources in the OAuth application.
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