How to Connect Claude to Chatfuel

Chatfuel is listed in Claude's connector directory, so you connect it from Claude itself, without copying a server link. You connect Chatfuel once, sign in with your Chatfuel account, and then Claude can work with your bots on claude.ai, in Claude Desktop, in the Claude mobile apps and in Claude Code.

How to add Chatfuel from the Claude directory

1. In Claude, open Customize → Connectors. In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the sidebar, then Connectors.
2. Click Discover, type Chatfuel in Search connectors and open the Chatfuel listing. The listing also opens directly at https://claude.ai/directory/chatfuel.
3. Click Connect to Claude.
4. Sign in to Chatfuel and approve access on the consent screen. Leave Read-only off if Claude should be able to make changes.
5. Back in Claude, Chatfuel is listed under Your connectors with the status Connected.

The Chatfuel listing carries the Community label: Anthropic screened the connector before listing it, and Chatfuel builds and runs it. The connector works through the Chatfuel MCP server at https://mcp.chatfuel.com/panel, the same server other assistants connect to, with your own Chatfuel permissions.

How to use Chatfuel in a chat

In a chat, click + in the message box → Connectors and turn Chatfuel on. Then write what you need, for example "Show me my bots and which ones have AI turned on." The connector works in Claude Desktop and the mobile apps on the same Claude account without extra setup.

Claude can ask for approval before it runs a Chatfuel tool: click Allow once or Always allow. To decide per tool, open Customize → Connectors → Chatfuel and pick Always allow, Needs approval or Blocked under Tool permissions. With Needs approval on the tools that change your bot, Claude asks you before every change.

How to add the connector on Team and Enterprise plans

On Claude Team and Enterprise plans, an owner adds Chatfuel for the organization: on the Chatfuel listing, the owner clicks Connect for your team. To try the connector alone first, the owner clicks the arrow next to it and picks Connect just for me. Members then click Connect to Claude and sign in with their own Chatfuel account, so each person works with their own Chatfuel permissions. A member who can't add connectors sees Request instead, and the request goes to the organization's owners.

Can I use the connector in Claude Code?

Yes. When you log in to Claude Code with the same Claude account, the connectors you added in Claude are available there automatically: run /mcp to see Chatfuel in the list. To add the server to Claude Code on its own, or to use the full API, see how to connect Claude Code to Chatfuel.

Can I add Chatfuel as a custom connector instead?

Yes. A custom connector uses the same server. In Customize → Connectors, click + Add → Add custom connector, enter the name Chatfuel and the link https://mcp.chatfuel.com/panel, click Continue, then Add, and sign in to Chatfuel.

A custom connector is also how Claude connects with a CLI token: choose No sign in under Authentication and add the request header Authorization: Bearer <token>, where <token> is your Chatfuel CLI token. On Team and Enterprise, everyone who uses that connector then acts as the token's owner, so prefer signing in there. Where to get the token is in Chatfuel MCP sign-in, read-only access and CLI token.

What can I ask Claude?

Claude can turn on Fuely AI, fill in the Knowledge Base, set up comment replies, add bookable services and review your chats. Examples:

• "Turn on AI for my Instagram bot."
• "Add an FAQ: we deliver Monday to Saturday."
• "Why didn't the bot answer on Instagram last night?"

More requests are in Chatfuel MCP example prompts. An overview of Claude with Chatfuel is on chatfuel.com/mcp/claude.

Common issues

I don't see Chatfuel tools in my chat

Turn the connector on in the chat: click + in the message box → Connectors → Chatfuel. A connector that isn't turned on in a chat isn't used there.

Claude asks me to sign in again

The Chatfuel sign-in has expired or was revoked in Connected apps in the Chatfuel dashboard. Open Customize → Connectors, click Reconnect next to Chatfuel and sign in again.

Claude can read my bots but can't change them

The connector was signed in with Read-only on. Open Chatfuel in Customize → Connectors, click Disconnect, then Connect again and leave Read-only off.

I see two Chatfuel connectors

Chatfuel was added as a custom connector before and then connected from the directory. Both connections work. To keep only the directory one, open the custom Chatfuel connector in Customize → Connectors, open the three-dot menu and click Remove.