---
title: "MCP Servers"
description: "An MCP server exposes chosen workspace operations to AI clients such as Claude or Cursor, limited by a minimum role and by what each connecting person is already allowed to do."
sidebar:
  label: Overview
  order: 0
area: settings
feature: mcp-servers
appPath: /settings/general/mcp-servers
lastVerified: 2026-10-22
version: "2026-10-16"
audience: admin
related:
  - settings/mcp-servers/add-an-mcp-server
  - ai
  - settings/users
---

An MCP server is an address an AI client connects to so it can call a set of Pyn operations you have chosen, such as searching the directory or reading an employee's enrolments. Each server has a name, a title and description the client shows, a **Minimum role**, and up to 100 operations. Offering an operation never grants access: whoever connects can call only what their own Pyn role already allows, and the same check runs on every call.

![Add MCP server: the details step, before choosing operations.](https://support.pynhq.com/media/settings/mcp-servers/settings-mcp-servers-add.png)

## What you can do here

- [Add an MCP server](https://support.pynhq.com/settings/mcp-servers/add-an-mcp-server/) and pick its operations
- **Edit** a server's title, description, role and operations; the name cannot change
- **Disable** a server to refuse every connection, and **Enable** it again
- **Archive** a server; its name becomes available again

## The MCP Servers table

Columns are **Server**, **Endpoint**, **Minimum Role** and **Status**. A server is **Active** or **Disabled**; a disabled server's panel says "This server is disabled. AI clients are refused until it is enabled again." Each operation is tagged **Reads** or **Changes data**. A connection is a grant between one person and one AI client, so Claude Desktop and Cursor connect, and are revoked, separately.

## Where it is in the app

Open `/settings/general/mcp-servers` in Pyn, or open **Settings** in the primary navigation and select **MCP Servers** under **General**. The view appears only in workspaces where MCP servers are enabled.

## Related

- [Add an MCP server](https://support.pynhq.com/settings/mcp-servers/add-an-mcp-server/) for the steps.
- [AI](https://support.pynhq.com/ai/) for Pyn's own agents and context.
- [Users](https://support.pynhq.com/settings/users/) for the roles the minimum role refers to.