Developers: APIs

Use your app from AI tools (MCP)

Connect Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients to your app's data.

Every app has a Model Context Protocol address. Connect an AI tool to it, and you can ask things like "How many orders came in today?" or "Mark order 1042 as shipped" from that tool.

Connect

Open Dashboard → API & webhooks and create an API key.
Copy the MCP address from the same page. It looks like https://your-app.draftship.site/_ds/mcp.
Add it to your tool, sending the key as a Bearer token.

In Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http my-app https://your-app.draftship.site/_ds/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer dsa_your_key"

In Cursor, add this to .cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "my-app": {
      "url": "https://your-app.draftship.site/_ds/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer dsa_your_key" }
    }
  }
}

Tools

Tool	What it does
`describe_app`	Lists your tables, their fields and record counts
`list_records`	Reads records, with filters and sorting
`get_record`	Reads one record
`create_records`	Adds up to 100 records
`update_record`	Changes fields on one record
`delete_records`	Moves up to 100 records to the trash

Security

An API key has full admin access to your app's data, and bypasses your table permissions. Only add it to tools you trust.
Your AI tool may read text your visitors wrote. Someone could write instructions there to try to mislead it, so review what it plans to change before you approve it.
To cut off a tool, revoke its key in Dashboard → API & webhooks.
Deleted records stay in the trash for 30 days.