Using with Claude Code

Claude Code is Anthropic’s CLI for Claude. It supports MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, which let Claude interact with external APIs through natural language. The Auto Content Engine MCP server gives Claude direct access to your GEN content engines, rows, cells, and generations.

Caution

The MCP server package is coming soon. In the meantime, you can use Claude Code’s built-in HTTP tools (curl, fetch) to call the API directly.

Installation

npm install -g @poweredbygen/autocontentengine-mcp-server

Configuration

Set your API key as an environment variable:

export GEN_API_KEY="gen_pat_a1b2c3d4e5f6..."

Then add the server to your Claude Code MCP config (.mcp.json in your project root or ~/.claude/mcp.json globally):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gen-autocontentengine": {
      "command": "autocontentengine-mcp-server",
      "env": {
        "GEN_API_KEY": "gen_pat_a1b2c3d4e5f6..."
      }
    }
  }
}

What you can do

Once configured, you can manage your content engine through natural language:

Ask Claude…	What happens
”Show me my agents”	Lists all your GEN agents
”Create a new content engine for my fitness agent”	Creates a content engine under the specified agent
”Add a row with a script about morning routines”	Creates a row and populates the script cell
”Generate a voiceover for row 3”	Triggers AI voiceover generation on the specified row
”What’s the status of my latest generation?”	Checks the generation status
”List all rows in my content engine”	Fetches and displays content engine contents

Example conversation

You: Show me the content engines for my agent

Claude: I found 2 content engines for agent "FitnessCoach":

  1. "March Content" (12 rows, 8 columns)
  2. "Viral Hooks" (5 rows, 4 columns)

You: Add a new row to "March Content" with a script about 5-minute
     ab workouts for beginners

Claude: Done. I created row 13 in "March Content" and set the Script
        cell to your text. Would you like me to generate a voiceover
        for it?

You: Yes, generate a voiceover

Claude: Generation started (id: gen_abc123). I'll check back in a
        moment... Generation complete. The voiceover is ready in
        row 13, column "Voiceover".

Using the API directly (without MCP)

If the MCP server is not yet available, you can still use Claude Code with the API via curl:

# Ask Claude to run API calls for you
# Claude Code can execute shell commands, so just ask:

"Fetch my sheets from the GEN API using curl. My API key is in $GEN_API_KEY
 and my agent ID is agent_abc123."

Claude will construct and execute the appropriate curl commands, parse the JSON responses, and present the results in a readable format.