Connect to AI Assistants - AutoPrintFarm Docs

Connect AutoPrintFarm to the AI assistant you already use — Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity, and more — and ask about your farm in plain language. “Which printers are idle right now?” “What’s low on stock?” “How many orders shipped this week?” Your assistant pulls the answer straight from your account. There’s nothing to install and no key to copy. You connect once, sign in, pick your farm, and you’re done.

Your connection link

Paste this into your assistant when it asks for a server or connector URL:

https://api.autoprintfarm.com/mcp

How connecting works

Add the link

Paste https://api.autoprintfarm.com/mcp into your assistant’s connector settings. Step-by-step instructions for each assistant are below.

Your assistant opens a browser to AutoPrintFarm. Sign in the way you normally do — no key or token to paste.

Pick your farm and approve

Choose which farm to connect and approve the read-only access. The connection locks to that one farm.

Ask away

Your assistant can now answer questions about your farm. Nothing else to set up.

You must be an owner or admin of the farm you want to connect. Operators and viewers can’t authorize an AI connection.

What your assistant can see

The connection is read-only. Your assistant can read:

Printers & hubs

Fleet status, live telemetry (temps, progress, current layer), models, locations, and hub health.

Print jobs

Queued, active, and historical jobs, job detail, and job stats.

Inventory & SKUs

Finished-goods stock, low-stock alerts, SKUs, and bills of materials.

Products

Catalog products and their assembly components.

Orders

Sales orders, line items, and order stats across platforms.

Worklist & wiki

Worklist tasks and your internal wiki articles.

Analytics

Production, printer utilization, failures, inventory, and revenue reports.

Your assistant can read your farm — it can’t start prints, change settings, send printer commands, or modify any data. Controlling hardware and writing data are never exposed to AI assistants.

Connect your assistant

Pick your assistant below. In every case the link to paste is the same: https://api.autoprintfarm.com/mcp.

Claude
ChatGPT
Grok
Perplexity
Mistral Le Chat

Claude has a built-in connector menu — no files to edit.

Open connector settings

In Claude (web or desktop), go to Customize → Connectors.

Add a custom connector

Click + and choose Add custom connector.

Paste the link

Enter https://api.autoprintfarm.com/mcp and name it AutoPrintFarm.

Connect

Click Add, then Connect, and complete the Continue with AutoPrintFarm sign-in.

Custom connectors need a paid Claude plan (Pro or Max). On Team or Enterprise, an owner adds it once for the whole organization. See Claude’s custom connector guide if the menu looks different in your version.

Custom connectors live behind ChatGPT’s Developer mode — you turn it on once.

Turn on Developer mode

Open Settings → Connectors, click Advanced at the bottom, and turn on Developer mode.

Create a connector

Back on Settings → Connectors, click Create.

Paste the link

Set the server URL to https://api.autoprintfarm.com/mcp and give it a name like AutoPrintFarm.

Complete the Continue with AutoPrintFarm prompt.

Custom connectors are available on paid ChatGPT plans (Plus, Pro, Team, Enterprise, Edu). See OpenAI’s Developer mode & MCP connectors help if the menu differs.

Grok lets you add any connector from its connectors page.

Open the connectors page

Go to grok.com/connectors.

Add a custom connector

Click New Connector, then choose Custom.

Paste the link

Enter https://api.autoprintfarm.com/mcp.

Complete the Continue with AutoPrintFarm prompt. Grok then finds the farm data it can read.

Custom connectors need a paid Grok account and work in Grok on web, iOS, and Android. See xAI’s Connectors announcement for the latest.

Open connector settings

Go to Settings → Connectors.

Add a custom connector

Click + Custom connector and choose Remote.

Paste the link

Enter https://api.autoprintfarm.com/mcp and pick OAuth for sign-in.

Save and sign in

Save, then complete the Continue with AutoPrintFarm prompt.

Custom connectors are available on Perplexity Pro, Max, and Enterprise. See Perplexity’s MCP connectors help if the menu differs.

Open the connectors page

In Le Chat, open Connectors and click + Add Connector.

Choose a custom connector

Switch to the Custom MCP Connector tab.

Paste the link

Name it AutoPrintFarm and set the server URL to https://api.autoprintfarm.com/mcp.

Connect

Click Connect and complete the Continue with AutoPrintFarm sign-in.

Custom MCP connectors are available on all Le Chat plans. See Mistral’s MCP connectors docs if the menu differs.

Using a coding tool?

If you work in an IDE or terminal, point any MCP-capable tool at the same link. These need a little more setup than the chat assistants above.

Claude Code
Cursor
Codex CLI
VS Code (Copilot)
MCP Inspector

Add the server from a terminal:

Terminal

claude mcp add --transport http autoprintfarm https://api.autoprintfarm.com/mcp

The next time Claude Code uses it, a browser opens for the Continue with AutoPrintFarm sign-in. Check the connection anytime with /mcp.

Add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (all projects) or .cursor/mcp.json (one project), then authenticate the autoprintfarm server when Cursor prompts:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "autoprintfarm": {
      "url": "https://api.autoprintfarm.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Config keys can change between Cursor versions — see the Cursor MCP docs if this doesn’t match your build.

Add an entry to ~/.codex/config.toml, then complete the sign-in when Codex prompts:

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.autoprintfarm]
url = "https://api.autoprintfarm.com/mcp"

The exact keys for a remote MCP server have changed across Codex releases — check the current Codex docs if this doesn’t load.

Add this to .vscode/mcp.json in your workspace, then run MCP: List Servers, start autoprintfarm, and sign in:

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "autoprintfarm": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.autoprintfarm.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See the VS Code MCP docs if the keys differ in your version.

To test the connection directly, run the official inspector:

Terminal

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector

Set Transport Type to Streamable HTTP, use https://api.autoprintfarm.com/mcp, click Connect, and complete the sign-in. Then try the ping tool to confirm which farm you’re connected to.

What you can ask

Once connected, just ask — your assistant picks the right data:

“Which printers are idle right now?”
“How many orders shipped this week?”
“What’s low on stock?”
“Show me failed jobs from the last 7 days and the most common failure type.”
“What’s the success rate per printer this month?”
“Which worklist tasks are overdue?”

Managing connections

Each connection is tied to exactly one farm — your data never crosses farms. To disconnect an assistant or switch the farm it’s tied to, open the AutoPrintFarm dashboard and go to Settings → Connected AI Apps. Removing access there immediately cuts off the assistant.

Troubleshooting

“Not authorized” when signing in — you must be an owner or admin of the farm. Operators and viewers can’t authorize an AI connection.
Wrong farm, or data missing — each connection serves one farm. Reconnect and pick a different farm, or switch it under Settings → Connected AI Apps.
Assistant won’t start a print or change a setting — that’s expected. The connection is read-only.
Connector won’t connect — double-check the link is exactly https://api.autoprintfarm.com/mcp, and that your plan supports custom connectors (most assistants require a paid plan).

Next steps

REST API

Prefer scripts over chat? The same data is available over a key-authenticated REST API.

Authentication

How API keys and scopes work for the REST API.

Your connection link

​How connecting works

​What your assistant can see

Printers & hubs

Print jobs

Inventory & SKUs

Products

Orders

Worklist & wiki

Analytics

​Connect your assistant

​Using a coding tool?

​What you can ask

​Managing connections

​Next steps

REST API

Authentication

How connecting works

What your assistant can see

Connect your assistant

Using a coding tool?

What you can ask

Managing connections

Next steps