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Paste one address into your app.

Your assistant cannot do this bit for you: no app lets a conversation change its own settings. You do it once and never again.

https://mcp.victano.com/mcp

№ 01Which app are you using?

Pick your app. Follow two steps.

The menu names are today’s; apps move them without warning.

One click on the web, in Claude Desktop or on your phone. It opens Claude’s add-connector window with Victano’s name and address already filled in; confirm Add.

Add Victano to Claude (opens in a new window)

If the link does not open the window, add it by hand:

  1. Open your connector settings

    On the web and in Claude Desktop: Customize, then Connectors, then the + and Add custom connector. Cowork uses the same connector settings, so these are the steps there too.

  2. Add a custom connector

    Name it Victano, paste the address above, and leave every authentication field empty.

Two things catch people out

On the free plan Claude allows exactly one custom connector, so remove the other one first if you have one. And Claude connects from Anthropic’s servers rather than your laptop, so your VPN and firewall are not involved.

  1. Turn on developer mode

    Settings, then Security and login, then Developer mode. OpenAI has moved this more than once: if it is not there, look under Settings, Connectors, Advanced.

  2. Create the connector

    Settings, then Connectors, then Create. Name it Victano, paste the address above, authentication none.

Not on the free plan

Custom connectors need Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Education. If you are on the free plan no amount of looking will find the menu, and Claude’s free plan does allow one connector if you would rather not pay to try us.

Cursor takes an install link. It opens Cursor with the server already filled in.

Add Victano to Cursor

Then say “Victano is connected. Set up my account.” in the chat, and it will ask for your email from there.

One command, then carry on in the same session.

claude mcp add --transport http victano https://mcp.victano.com/mcp

Claude Code can also do the whole thing itself. Paste the sentence from the front page and it will run this, ask for your email, and store the key.

Almost every other client wants the same address, in one of three shapes.

Zed
Settings, AI, MCP Servers, Add Server, Add Remote Server.
VS Code
Command palette, MCP: Add Server, the HTTP option. It writes .vscode/mcp.json for you.
Goose
goose configure, then Add Extension, Remote Extension (Streaming HTTP).
Windsurf, Gemini CLI
An mcpServers entry named victano, type http.
Codex
TOML rather than JSON: [mcp_servers.victano] with url.
Raycast
Install MCP Server, transport HTTP, then the URL. Headers and OAuth are optional and this server needs neither.
Mistral Le Chat
Connectors, then Custom MCP Connector, then the server URL, with authentication left empty.

Choose the remote or HTTP option, never a local or stdio one. Victano is a hosted server, not a package to install.

№ 02How you know it worked

Ask something only a connected assistant can answer.

You should get a number, not an apology. If it says it has no such tool, the connector did not save.

Go back to your chat and say this

Victano is connected. How many EU tenders are open right now?

Your assistant

Victano is holding 311,000+ notices from TED, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, France, Germany, Spain, Romania, Belgium, Czechia, Finland, Ireland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary and the EU grants portal. Every search is signed in: it asks for your email once (a free account during the Founding Beta), and the same account keeps a profile, reads a notice's documents and gets the daily brief.

The figure and the list are read from the ingestion ledger on 17 Oct 2026.

№ 03Then set up the account

One line, one code.

It asks for your email, we send a six-digit code, you paste it back. No form, no password.

Victano is connected. Set up my account.

Still not connecting? These apps move their menus without warning, and when they do this page is wrong until somebody tells us. You are not doing it wrong. Write to hello@victano.com with the app you are using and what you see, and during the beta you will get a person rather than a ticket number.