Working with the DatoCMS MCP
If you've ever wished you could just tell DatoCMS what to do instead of clicking through it, the new DatoCMS MCP is exactly that. MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, which is a standard that lets AI assistants like Claude or ChatGPT connect directly to external tools like Dato. In our case, it means your AI assistant can create records, translate content, update fields, manage assets, and so much more, all from a simple conversation (like you're doing anyways, we can all stop pretending, myself included 😅).
The best part? You don't need to be a developer to use it. There's nothing to install, no API tokens to copy, and it works across Claude, ChatGPT, and even the mobile apps. If you can type a message (and copy paste a little URL), you can use the DatoCMS MCP.
To connect it, you'll go through a quick one-time OAuth login, which is just a fancy way of saying you click "Connect," log in with your DatoCMS account in the browser, and choose which projects the AI should have access to. That's it. Once you're connected, the assistant knows who you are and what it's allowed to touch, and you can get to work.
When you're adding a connector, all you need to know is:
Name: Put something simple (I used
DatoCMS)The MCP is hosted at
https://mcp.datocms.comso that's the URL you'll have to add.
Once it's hooked up, the kinds of things you can ask it to do are pretty broad. You can ask it to create a new blog post with specific content, translate a batch of records into multiple languages, update a field across all records of a given type, move content through workflow stages, or even reorganise your media. It handles multi-step tasks well, so things that would normally take you 30 minutes of clicking around can often be done in a single request.
In this guide we walk you through creating a connection to DatoCMS using Claude, before letting Claude create a brand new project for us for a new Pizzeria based in Berlin. It handles the schema creation, the content creation, localization, and then we do a little workflow changes using Claude for Mobile to show how easy the entire workflow it.
The MCP is currently in beta, and we'd love to get your feedback.
