Cantila MCP server

Ship to Cantila from anywhere you use Claude.

Add the Cantila MCP server once — Claude Code, the Claude app, Cowork, any MCP host. From then on, every app built inside Claude can deploy to Cantila by asking. 25 tools live today.

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Install

Pick your host. Paste the snippet. Restart Claude.

Claude Code (`.mcp.json` in your repo)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cantila": {
      "url": "https://api.cantila.app/v1/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${CANTILA_API_KEY}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop (`claude_desktop_config.json`)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cantila": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@cantila/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "CANTILA_API_KEY": "ct_live_..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Stdio (local dev, any MCP host)

npx @cantila/mcp \
  --api-key=$CANTILA_API_KEY \
  --transport=stdio

Hosted HTTP (Cowork, Claude app)

POST https://api.cantila.app/v1/mcp
Authorization: Bearer $CANTILA_API_KEY
Content-Type: application/json

Don't have an API key yet? Create a Cantila account — your first key lives in Console → Settings → API keys.

Tool surface

Twenty-five tools, named the way you'd say them out loud.

Naming follows cantila_<verb>_<noun>. Adding tools follows the same pattern — no surprises in the prompt.

cantila_deploy	Ship a project (files or repo) and return a live URL.
cantila_create_project	Create a new project — auto-wired services land on first deploy.
cantila_list_projects	List the user's projects and their status.
cantila_get_logs	Fetch build and runtime logs for a project.
cantila_set_env	Set or update environment variables and secrets.
cantila_provision_db	Create a managed Postgres / Mongo / Redis and link it.
cantila_add_domain	Attach a custom domain and issue SSL.
cantila_scale	Resize or scale a deployment up or down.
cantila_status	Report health, services, domains, and recent deploys.
cantila_connect_git	Connect a repo for push-to-deploy.
cantila_rollback	Roll back to a previous deployment.
cantila_agents_status	Read what the brain has decided and what's queued for review.
+ automation_run, connection_create, billing_summary, agents_status — full list in the API reference

One ask, end-to-end

What it looks like in chat.

you

ship the repo in this folder to Cantila with a Postgres and the domain blogapp.dev

cantila

cantila_deploy · ok · build started for repo. detected Next.js 14.
cantila_provision_db · ok · postgres-17 created, wired into env.
cantila_add_domain · ok · blogapp.dev attached, SSL issued.
live · https://blogapp.dev

Three tools. One sentence. A live URL.

The MCP channel is how the AI builder beachhead meets Cantila. List the server once and your AI tools learn 'deploy to Cantila' as a native capability.

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