upstream-twenty/packages/twenty-agent-skills/references/use-twenty-mcp/setup.md

Set Up Twenty MCP

Overview

Use this reference to configure a workspace-specific Twenty MCP endpoint. The skill must not assume a fixed workspace domain; collect the user's workspace URL first, normalize it to an MCP URL, then configure and authenticate the MCP client of the agent in use.

Self-hosted instances are first-class targets. Any Twenty workspace works: managed cloud, self-hosted on a custom domain, or a local instance over HTTP. Never require a twenty.com workspace.

Required User Input

Ask for the workspace URL or host if it is missing. Do not invent or reuse a private default domain.

Accept any of these forms:

myworkspace.twenty.com
myworkspace.customdomain.com
myworkspace.localhost:3001
https://myworkspace.twenty.com
https://myworkspace.customdomain.com/mcp
http://myworkspace.localhost:3001/mcp

Optional inputs:

• MCP server name. Default to a workspace-derived name in the form twenty-<host-without-tld>, for example acme.example.com becomes twenty-acme-example.
• Whether to force CLI OAuth login immediately. Default to no when the agent opens OAuth on its own after the MCP server is added. Only force login if the automatic OAuth window does not appear.

URL Normalization

Normalize workspace input as follows:

• If the input already starts with http:// or https://, preserve that scheme.
• If the input has no scheme and is localhost, 127.x.x.x, [::1], *.localhost, or *.localhost:<port>, use http://.
• If the input has no scheme and is any other host, use https://.
• Strip any trailing / before looking at the path, so https://acme.example.com/ and https://acme.example.com/mcp/ normalize the same as their unslashed forms.
• If the final URL does not end with /mcp, append /mcp.

Examples:

myworkspace.twenty.com       -> https://myworkspace.twenty.com/mcp       name: twenty-myworkspace
acme.example.com             -> https://acme.example.com/mcp             name: twenty-acme-example
myworkspace.customdomain.com -> https://myworkspace.customdomain.com/mcp name: twenty-myworkspace-customdomain
myworkspace.localhost:3001   -> http://myworkspace.localhost:3001/mcp   name: twenty-myworkspace-localhost-3001
https://acme.example.com/    -> https://acme.example.com/mcp             name: twenty-acme-example
https://acme.example.com/mcp/ -> https://acme.example.com/mcp            name: twenty-acme-example

A trailing slash that survives normalization produces //mcp or /mcp//mcp, neither of which is the registered endpoint.

Setup Per Agent

The Twenty MCP server uses streamable HTTP transport with OAuth authentication. Configure it with the agent the user is actually running.

Codex

codex mcp add twenty-myworkspace --url https://myworkspace.twenty.com/mcp
codex mcp login twenty-myworkspace

For a local instance:

codex mcp add twenty-local --url http://myworkspace.localhost:3001/mcp
codex mcp login twenty-local

OAuth guards specific to this client:

• Do not pass --login to codex mcp add. It is deprecated.
• Codex can open OAuth on its own when it sees the new MCP server. Run codex mcp login <server-name> only if that window does not appear.
• Do not manually run open <authorization-url> for an OAuth URL printed by codex mcp add unless the user confirms no browser tab opened. Opening the same authorization URL twice creates two callback tabs with the same state and different one-time code values.

The Twenty marketplace plugin for this client bundles a setup-mcp.sh helper that automates URL normalization, server naming, and this add-then-login sequence.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http twenty-myworkspace https://myworkspace.twenty.com/mcp

For a local instance:

claude mcp add --transport http twenty-local http://myworkspace.localhost:3001/mcp

Claude Code prompts for OAuth when the server is first used. /mcp inside a session shows connection and authentication status, and re-runs the OAuth flow on demand.

Cursor

Add the server to .cursor/mcp.json in the project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json for every project:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "twenty-myworkspace": {
      "url": "https://myworkspace.twenty.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cursor opens the OAuth flow when the server is enabled in its MCP settings.

Other MCP Clients

Any client that supports streamable HTTP MCP servers with OAuth works. Configure a server entry pointing at the normalized MCP URL:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "twenty-myworkspace": {
      "url": "https://myworkspace.twenty.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

If the client cannot do OAuth, configure bearer headers in the user's private MCP client config only, never in shared or committed files.

Validation

After setup, verify the server is available with the client's own inspection command (codex mcp get <server-name>, claude mcp list, or the equivalent), or by listing available tools in a fresh session.

When connected, use the Twenty MCP discovery flow:

learn_tools -> execute_tool

Troubleshooting

Debugging Workflow

Use this workflow when the user reports missing tools, unexpected workspace data, authentication failures, or suspects the agent queried the wrong Twenty workspace.

1. Identify the intended workspace URL or host from the user's request, using Required User Input when it is missing.
2. Normalize the intended workspace to its MCP URL with the URL Normalization rules above.
3. Inspect the configured Twenty MCP servers and compare their URLs to the intended normalized URL (codex mcp list, claude mcp list, or the client's MCP config file).
4. If no configured server points at the intended MCP URL, configure one with a workspace-specific name using the per-agent setup above.
5. If the server exists but authentication fails, or MCP startup reports Auth required, run the client's OAuth login for that exact server.
6. If the configured server is correct and authenticated but its tools are not visible in the current session, explain that the session may have loaded tools before the server was added or authenticated. Ask the user to reload the agent or start a new session so it picks up the updated MCP config.
7. Before querying workspace data, confirm the callable Twenty MCP namespace or tool name corresponds to the intended server. If only a different Twenty server is callable, do not use it as a fallback unless the user explicitly asks.
8. When reporting results, state which workspace URL or MCP server was used if there was any ambiguity.

Common Failure Modes

• If OAuth fails for a self-hosted workspace, check that SERVER_URL matches the public workspace origin. OAuth metadata and MCP URLs derive from that value.
• If a local workspace fails over HTTPS, use http:// explicitly per the localhost normalization rule.
• If the server name already exists, replace that entry with the new URL, or pick a different name to keep several workspaces side by side.

Safety Rules

• Do not put API keys in skill files. Prefer OAuth login. If an MCP client does not support OAuth, configure bearer headers only in the user's private MCP client config.
• Do not inspect or manually extract OAuth tokens as a workaround.