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Public Preview Claude is Anthropic’s AI assistant, available as a native desktop app for macOS and Windows and a browser-based app. Both support MCP integrations, allowing you to connect Wherobots tools directly.

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Component Overview

Wherobots’ Agentic Tools consist of the following components that work together to provide our agentic experience:
Connects your AI assistant to Wherobots Cloud for catalog exploration, Spatial SQL generation, and query execution.
Gives your AI assistant domain-specific Wherobots knowledge for more accurate commands and fewer errors.
Wraps the full Wherobots API into a single binary for job submission, log streaming, and automation.

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Why use Wherobots’ agentic tools?

Wherobots’ agentic tools connect your AI assistant to Wherobots Cloud and your local development environment so you can interact with your spatial data, catalogs, and jobs in a more intuitive way.
The MCP Server connects your AI assistant to Wherobots Cloud so you can browse catalogs, databases, and table schemas (including Overture Maps and your own datasets) by asking questions in plain language instead of navigating the console.
Describe a geospatial task (e.g. “find buildings within 500m of this point”) and the MCP Server returns optimized Spatial SQL using WherobotsDB’s ST functions, spatial joins, and indexing patterns.
Use the CLI or the extension to submit Spark job runs, stream logs in real time, check resource metrics, and cancel jobs without leaving your editor or terminal.
Agent Skills teach your AI assistant Wherobots-specific APIs, query patterns, and workflow sequences so it produces correct wherobots CLI commands, valid MCP tool calls, and accurate notebook code on the first try.

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Before you start

The following prerequisites are required:
  • A Claude account with an active paid subscription.
    • You cannot add a Custom Connector in a free account, so an active paid subscription is required to use the Wherobots MCP Server with Claude (Web & Desktop app).
  • A Wherobots Account within a Professional or Enterprise Organization. See Create a Wherobots Account.
  • For the desktop flow: Claude Desktop installed.

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Install and configure

Setting up the Wherobots MCP Server in Claude is a two-part process:
  1. A Team Owner adds Wherobots as a Custom Connector for the Claude Organization (once).
  2. Each Team Member enables the connector for their own account.

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Team Owner: Add Wherobots as a Custom Connector

Before anyone on your team can connect, a Team Owner must add the Wherobots MCP Server as a Custom Connector at the Organization level.
To add Wherobots as a Custom Connector in Claude on the web:
  1. Go to Connectors.
  2. Click Add custom connector or use this pre-filled link to enter credentials in the subsequent step:
  3. Configure the connector:
    • Name: wherobots or a name of your choosing.
    • Remote MCP server URL: https://api.cloud.wherobots.com/mcp/
      Claude Connectors page with the Add custom connector button highlighted
  4. Save the connector.
The connector now appears under Custom connectors in the Directory for everyone in your Claude Organization.

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Team Member: Enable the Wherobots MCP Server

After a Team Owner has added the Custom Connector, each team member must enable it on their own account. The same steps work in both Claude on the web and Claude Desktop — both use the same connectors interface.
  1. Open the connectors page in Claude:
  2. Click the + (Add connector) button.
    Claude Connectors page with the + Add connector button highlighted
  3. In the Directory modal, search for wherobots. Under Custom connectors, click the + next to Wherobots Production. A pop-up appears asking you to grant access to Wherobots Production for your Claude account.
    Claude Directory search results showing the Wherobots Production Custom Connector
  4. A new browser tab opens to the Wherobots sign-in page:
    • Sign in to Wherobots, select your Organization from the Organization access dropdown, and click Allow access.
    Wherobots OAuth consent screen prompting Claude access for the selected Organization
  5. Return to Claude. A Wherobots Production connector will appear under your Web connectors with the Custom badge.
    Claude showing Wherobots Production connected in the Web connectors list

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Verify installation

Ask a question in Claude: 
Use the Wherobots MCP server to show me the data tables in my Wherobots Organization
If configured correctly, Claude will call the Wherobots MCP server (showing a tool such as list_catalogs) and return the catalogs available in your Organization.

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Next steps

MCP Server Best Practices

Common tasks, example prompts, and cost considerations for the MCP Server.

MCP Server Demo Videos

Watch the MCP Server automate catalog discovery, spatial queries, and notebook generation.

Agent Skills

Learn more about available skills and installation options.

MCP Server vs CLI

Understand when to use the MCP Server vs. the CLI.