Airtable MCP for CLaude

Hey ​@atusr,

I don’t think that is the case. -and I don’t think the chatgpt generated answer above is ok. 
 

You can go ahead and submit this feature request form: https://community.airtable.com/p/product-ideas

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation

​@atusr actually that was my thinking . I could not find a good one so we cobbled together some open source project and built a test server.

This is just proof of concept - It is remote -because i do not think people should be running local servers on their computer - just for educational purposes - it autodeletes the link after 24hours
https://airtable-mcp.business-automated.com/

I find it actually quite helpful  just yesterday I needed to 30 similarly named fields  - that is a great job for a LLM
Here is a vid showing how it works from my YT channel 

Is there any movement on this? Or can Airtable give a reccomendation on one of the third party MCP’s:

https://github.com/domdomegg/airtable-mcp-server

https://github.com/felores/airtable-mcp

https://github.com/rashidazarang/airtable-mcp

https://github.com/AliMHJR/airtable-mcp-config

https://github.com/bscharwath/airtable-mcp-connector

https://github.com/marchi-lau/mcp-airtable

https://github.com/jacobwoodward/airtable-mcp

https://github.com/loticdigital/airtable-mcp

https://github.com/alexbruf/airtable-mcp

https://github.com/MCP-Mirror/rashidazarang_airtable-mcp

https://github.com/MCP-Mirror/felores_airtable-mcp

https://github.com/diegofornalha/mcp-airtable-integration

https://github.com/MCP-Mirror/domdomegg_airtable-mcp-server

https://github.com/CDataSoftware/airtable-mcp-server-by-cdata

​@kurtseifried the one I used to build our remote  MCP is  https://github.com/domdomegg/airtable-mcp-server
It seems to have full cover of all API endpoints, so a good start for running something locally.


 

I'm wondering how these compare to using Omni now that that's been released. I've been playing around with Omni, and there's some things that are a little bit frustrating about it, but I haven't played too much with creating interfaces where I presume it would excel compared to other MCP?

​@BenFortunato  I use omni for drafts of interfaces. For adding manipulating columns and tables too many times it has been behaving in a way not as expected, I am not sure what is the underlying model in Omni, but Claude seems to behaving mostly flawless on all request and it is fine on running long updates and e.g. data generation. On side effect - I am on a $20 usd Claude plan - and with lots of MCP calls I get to the daily/ hourly limit quickly ( but also i mostly build bases).   

Thanks for adding my MCP! I’ve recently updated it and it covers many functions… Here’s a blog post I published about it recently: https://rashidazarang.com/c/i-built-an-airtable-mcp-that-lets-you-chat-with-your-database

Github URL for the MCP:
https://github.com/rashidazarang/airtable-mcp
 

Is anyone having any issues using any of these MCPs with Cowork? Working fine with Chat (which is also useless) but Cowork is not detecting the MCP

Hi ​@Graham Reed, thanks for the report.

I built and actively maintain the Airtable MCP here:
https://github.com/rashidazarang/airtable-mcp

It’s working for me in the Claude App. If Cowork isn’t detecting it, you may be running into a Cowork-specific issue rather than an Airtable MCP bug.

I’m going to reproduce this tomorrow morning on Cowork and report back in this thread with what I find. If there’s a Cowork-specific config requirement or a workaround, I’ll update the repo docs so others can follow it.

If you can share any Cowork logs or a screenshot of the MCP section where it fails to detect the server, that’ll help pinpoint it faster.

I’ve been around the houses on this to try and get cowork to pick it up, a little progress I think (I got claude to read the git pages and guide me through it!).

I’m getting an error when Claude starts up now, server disconnected. Which tells me its trying and config information is in there…

For context, I’ve been using an our of the box one via the Claude marketplace, https://github.com/domdomegg/airtable-mcp-server I believe
 

And Chat keeps dying when asking produce some fairly simple reports, so was recommended by a colleague to switch to cowork. But then learned that chat and cowork are totally different environments and need their own configs. I’m hampered too by the fact my work Mac is locked down so cannot install any packages in the usual (double click) way. 

any advice or help you can give to stop me crying would be valuable!

The new Airtable MCP server works well:
https://support.airtable.com/docs/using-the-airtable-mcp-server

You can get pretty close today using the Airtable REST API with Claude.

I've been running my entire operation on Airtable. Tasks, projects, content pipeline, admin, accounts. and I've built Claude deeply into that stack. The way I connect them is via the API: Claude can read and write to Airtable through scripted automations and Lambda functions, so it effectively acts as an intelligent layer on top of my Airtable data.

It's not as plug and play as the Notion MCP, but the Airtable API is clean and well documented so the setup isn't painful if you're comfortable with a bit of code or tools like n8n/Zapier as the bridge.

Loving the new Airtable official MCP, working a dream!