Bring Product Management
to Claude Desktop
Learn how to connect Craft.io to Claude Desktop and start using 13 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the Craft.io MCP Server?
Connect your Craft.io product management account to any AI agent and simplify how you coordinate your product strategy, manage features, and monitor roadmaps through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Workspace Oversight — List all product management workspaces and retrieve detailed metadata and configurations.
- Feature & Epic Tracking — List, query, and create new items (features, stories, epics) within your workspaces to manage your backlog.
- Portfolio Control — List and query product portfolios to understand high-level organizational distribution and strategy.
- Data Insights — Fetch complete metadata, descriptions, and current status for any specific product item via AI.
- Roadmap Monitoring — Track the progress of features and epics directly from your agent to stay on top of your release cycle.
- Operational Visibility — Check account status and verify project metadata directly from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client.
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Enter your Craft.io API Key and Account ID (found in your account settings)
3. Start managing your product ecosystem from your favorite AI assistant
Who is this for?
- Product Managers & Owners — quickly retrieve feature details and update backlog items via simple AI commands.
- Engineering Leads — monitor epic progress and verify feature requirements directly from the workspace.
- Product Operations — manage workspace distributions and verify portfolio metadata via the AI assistant.
Built-in capabilities (13)
Verify connectivity
Create an item
Get company details
Get competitors
Get company employees
Get company financials
Get company news
Get item details
Get portfolio details
List workspace items
List portfolios
List workspaces
Search companies
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect Craft.io to your AI workflow. Add Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 13 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
Craft.io in Claude Desktop
Craft.io and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Craft.io 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 Craft.io in Claude Desktop
The Craft.io 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 13 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
Craft.io for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the Craft.io MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
Can I see all the items in a specific workspace via AI?
Yes! Use the list_workspace_items tool and provide the Workspace ID. Your agent will retrieve all features, stories, and epics organized within that environment.
How do I add a new feature to my backlog using the agent?
Use the create_product_item action. Provide the Workspace ID and the title of the feature. The agent will instantly create the record in your Craft.io account.
Is it possible to list all my product portfolios via AI?
Absolutely. Use the list_product_portfolios query. The agent will retrieve the complete list of portfolios configured in your account, allowing you to monitor high-level strategy.
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.