Bring Mobile Apps
to Claude Desktop
Learn how to connect Guidebook 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 Guidebook MCP Server?
Connect your Guidebook Builder account to any AI agent and take full control of your mobile event guides and scheduling workflows through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Guide Orchestration — List and manage all mobile guides in your account and retrieve detailed guide metadata
- Schedule Management — Access and monitor event schedules and sessions programmatically to keep your attendees updated
- Location Mapping — List and search for mapped event locations to ensure precise spatial coordination for your attendees
- Custom Lists — Manage and retrieve custom lists (speakers, exhibitors, sponsors) to organize your event's intellectual capital
- Activity Monitoring — Check guide details and status directly through your agent for instant event reporting
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Retrieve your API Key from the Guidebook Builder (Manage your account > API Key)
3. Start managing your mobile guides from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client
No more manual editing of sessions or locations through complex web builders. Your AI acts as your dedicated event mobile coordinator.
Who is this for?
- Event Organizers — scale mobile guide management and session coordination for large-scale conferences
- Marketing Teams — update exhibitor and sponsor lists across multiple guides through natural language queries
- Onboarding Leads — keep employees updated on company training schedules and locations without leaving your workspace
Built-in capabilities (12)
Verify connectivity
Add list item
Create a guide
Get session details
Get guide details
List attendees
List custom list items
List custom lists
List sessions
List guides
List locations
Update a guide
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect Guidebook 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
Guidebook in Claude Desktop
Guidebook and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Guidebook 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 Guidebook in Claude Desktop
The Guidebook 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
Guidebook for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the Guidebook 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 a Guide ID?
You can use the list_guides tool to retrieve all mobile guides in your account along with their unique identifiers and names.
Can I see the speakers or exhibitors for an event?
Yes! Use the list_custom_lists tool with a specific guide_id to retrieve all custom directories like speakers, exhibitors, or sponsors.
Does the integration support viewing the event map?
The list_guide_locations tool provides the metadata for all mapped locations within a guide, helping you identify precisely where sessions take place.
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.