Claude Desktop

Add the Kloudfuse MCP server to Claude Desktop as a custom connector. Claude walks the user through SSO login in a popup browser — no JSON editing.

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Prerequisite

An operator has already enabled the connector on your Kloudfuse cluster by following Enable on the Cluster. If you haven’t done that step, Claude’s "Add" button will fail with a start_error banner.

Install the Connector

  1. Open Claude Desktop, click your profile icon, and choose Settings → Customize → Connectors.

  2. In the Connectors pane, click the + icon (top-right of the connectors list) to open the Add custom connector dialog:

    Claude Desktop — Add custom connector dialog

  3. Fill in the fields:

    Field Value

    Name

    Any friendly label, e.g. Kloudfuse (shown in the Connectors list)

    URL

    https://<KLOUDFUSE_URL>/mcp (replace with your cluster URL)

    Advanced settings

    Leave collapsed — Kloudfuse does not need custom headers or OAuth overrides

  4. Click Add. Claude opens a browser window to your Kloudfuse SSO sign-in page.

  5. Sign in with your corporate identity (Okta, Azure AD, Google, SAML). On success the browser shows a Connected page and Claude Desktop lists the Kloudfuse tools under the new connector.

    Claude connected success page
If the Add button returns an Invalid URL format error, double-check that the URL starts with https:// and ends with /mcp (not a bare cluster URL). If it returns start_error after you sign in, the cluster hasn’t been set up yet — see Enable on the Cluster.

Manage the Connector In-App

From Settings → Connectors → (the name you gave the connector, e.g. Kloudfuse):

  • Toggle the connector on or off for a chat without re-authenticating.

  • Expand the Tools list and disable individual tools (for example, turn off write operations) — Claude won’t invoke disabled tools.

  • Disconnect removes the connector’s stored credentials from this Claude Desktop install.

  • Reconnect re-runs the SSO flow — use this after switching user accounts or if a token expires and Claude starts returning 401s.

Tool toggles are per-installation. If you use Claude Desktop on multiple machines, set them per machine.