Bring Carbon Offsetting
to Claude Desktop
Learn how to connect Cloverly to Claude Desktop and start using 12 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the Cloverly MCP Server?
Connect your Cloverly account to any AI agent and take full control of your sustainability initiatives and automated carbon management workflows through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Footprint Orchestration — Calculate real-time carbon footprint estimates for diverse activities including logistics (freight, shipping), travel (flights, vehicles), and energy usage programmatically
- Automated Offset Ingestion — Execute the purchase of carbon offsets based on specific activity estimates or fixed currency amounts to maintain high-fidelity sustainability compliance
- Project Intelligence — Access your complete directory of high-impact environmental projects (wind, solar, reforestation) to understand the source of your offsets directly through your agent
- Transaction Monitoring — Programmatically track your purchase history and retrieve detailed metadata, certificates, and receipts for operational and regulatory reporting
- Sustainability Visibility — Check the status of individual offset purchases and monitor account-level metadata to perfectly coordinate your organization's climate action
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Retrieve your Public and Private API Keys from the Cloverly dashboard (Settings > API)
3. Start offsetting your business operations from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client
No more manual footprint spreadsheets or searching for carbon certificates in the portal. Your AI acts as your dedicated sustainability engineer and climate coordinator.
Who is this for?
- Sustainability Managers — instantly calculate project footprints and manage offset portfolios using natural language commands
- Logistics & E-commerce Ops — automate carbon offsetting for every shipment and monitor environmental impact without leaving your workspace
- Growth Engineers — integrate real-time carbon calculation and purchase features into custom internal tools through simple AI queries
Built-in capabilities (12)
Verify connectivity
Create a carbon estimate
Purchase carbon offsets
Get account info
Get estimate details
Get impact by type
Get impact summary
Get project details
Get purchase details
List estimates
List offset projects
List purchases
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect Cloverly to your AI workflow. Add Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 12 tools in the chat interface. ask a question, Claude calls the right tool, and you see the answer. Zero code, zero context switching.
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Claude Desktop is the reference MCP client. it was designed alongside the protocol itself, ensuring the most complete and stable MCP implementation available
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Zero-code configuration: add a server URL to a JSON file and Claude instantly discovers and exposes all available tools in the chat interface
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Claude's extended thinking capability lets it reason through multi-step tool usage, chaining multiple API calls to answer complex questions
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Enterprise-grade security with local config storage. your tokens never leave your machine, and connections go directly to Vinkius Edge network
Cloverly in Claude Desktop
Cloverly and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Cloverly to Claude Desktop through Vinkius don't need to source, host, or maintain individual MCP servers. Every tool call runs inside a hardened runtime with credential isolation, DLP, and a signed audit chain.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Server catalog | Find and host yourself | 3,400+ managed |
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Sandboxed V8 isolates |
| Credential handling | Plaintext in config | Vault + runtime injection |
| Data loss prevention | None | Configurable DLP policies |
| Kill switch | None | Global instant shutdown |
| Financial circuit breakers | None | Per-server limits + alerts |
| Audit trail | None | Ed25519 signed logs |
| SIEM log streaming | None | Splunk, Datadog, Webhook |
| Honeytokens | None | Canary alerts on leak |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | DNS challenge verified |
| GDPR compliance | Manual effort | Automated purge + export |
Why teams choose Vinkius for Cloverly in Claude Desktop
The Cloverly MCP Server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS — a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts. All 12 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in Claude Desktop only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero maintenance.
* Every MCP server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS - a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts optimized for native MCP execution. See our infrastructure
How Vinkius secures
Cloverly for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the Cloverly MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
How do I find my Cloverly API Keys?
Log in to your account, navigate to Settings > API, and you will find your Public and Private keys for both Production and Sandbox environments.
Can I calculate carbon for shipping packages?
Yes! The create_estimate tool allows you to provide weight and distance parameters to get an accurate carbon footprint for logistics.
How do I retrieve a carbon certificate?
After a successful purchase, use the get_purchase_status tool to retrieve the unique certificate and receipt URL for your record.
How does Claude Desktop discover MCP tools?
When Claude Desktop starts, it reads the claude_desktop_config.json file and connects to each configured MCP server. It calls the tools/list endpoint to fetch the schema for every available tool, then surfaces them as clickable options in the chat interface via the 🔌 icon.
What happens if the MCP server is temporarily unavailable?
Claude Desktop handles disconnections gracefully. if the server is unreachable at startup, the tools simply won't appear. Once the server becomes available again, restarting Claude Desktop will re-establish the connection. There is no timeout penalty or error loop.
Can I connect multiple MCP servers simultaneously?
Yes. You can add as many servers as you need in the mcpServers section of the config file. Each server appears as a separate tool provider, and Claude can use tools from multiple servers in a single conversation turn.
Is there a limit on the number of tools per server?
Claude Desktop can handle hundreds of tools per server. However, for optimal LLM performance, Vinkius servers are designed to expose focused, well-documented tool sets rather than overwhelming the model with too many options.
Does Claude Desktop support Streamable HTTP transport?
Yes. Claude Desktop supports both SSE (Server-Sent Events) and the newer Streamable HTTP transport that Vinkius uses. Simply provide the server URL. Claude auto-negotiates the transport protocol.
Server not appearing after restart
Ensure the JSON is valid (no trailing commas). Check the file path: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\\Claude\\ (Windows).
Authentication error
Verify your Vinkius token is correct. Go to cloud.vinkius.com to regenerate it if needed.
Tools not showing in chat
Click the 🔌 icon at the bottom of the chat input. If it shows 0 tools, the server may still be connecting. wait a few seconds.