# How to Connect an AI Assistant to MyLaserTools (MCP)

> Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor or another AI assistant to your MyLaserTools account over MCP. It can search the Art Library, download the original files your account can open, unlock paid pieces with sparks when you agree, open pieces in the design editor and fill in free generators.

You can connect an AI assistant to your MyLaserTools account and ask it for what you want to make. It searches the Art Library, shows you previews, downloads the original files your account can open, opens the pieces you pick in the design editor and fills in free generators such as Connected Text or Plant Stakes with your text and sizes.

The connection uses MCP (Model Context Protocol), the open standard that assistants like Claude and ChatGPT use to work with other services. This guide covers how to add the server, what the assistant is allowed to do and how to disconnect.

## What your assistant can do

- **Search the Art Library** for artwork that matches a description, and show you previews, formats, licence terms and what each piece costs on your account.
- **Download original files.** Free pieces, pieces included with your plan and pieces you unlocked come as download links. In Claude Code or another assistant that can save files, it can put them straight into your project.
- **Unlock paid pieces with sparks**, if you allow it: the assistant tells you the cost first and spends only after you agree.
- **Open pieces in the design editor.** The assistant makes a link that opens the pieces you chose, and any text you asked for, in the editor on your account.
- **Fill in free generators.** For Connected Text, Plant Stakes, Backpack Tags and 3D Print Boxes it makes a link that opens the generator with your text, sizes, font and style already set. You check the preview and download SVG, STL or 3MF in your browser.
- **Find the right generator** for a laser, CNC, 3D printing, printing or vinyl project, with a link to its page.
- **Check your account:** your plan and spark balance.

> The assistant never buys sparks or changes your plan. It spends sparks only if you ticked that permission and only after you agree to the cost it shows you. Editor links also ask before anything is spent.

## Before you start

- A MyLaserTools account. Any account can connect, and the generator links are free.
- Art Library pieces work as they do on the website: included with Supporter and Pro, or unlocked with sparks.
- An assistant that supports remote MCP servers, sometimes called custom connectors.

## Step 1: Add the MyLaserTools server

Every assistant uses the same server address:

Server address

```
https://www.mylasertools.com/mcp
```

### Claude (web and desktop)

1. Open **Settings**, then **Connectors**.
2. Choose **Add custom connector**.
3. Name it MyLaserTools, paste `https://www.mylasertools.com/mcp` and save.
4. Choose **Connect** next to the new connector to sign in (Step 2).

### ChatGPT

Open **Settings**, then **Apps & Connectors**, and create a connector with `https://www.mylasertools.com/mcp` and OAuth sign-in. Custom connectors are only offered on some ChatGPT plans, and you may need to turn on developer mode under the advanced settings first.

### Claude Code

Run this in your terminal, then start Claude Code and use `/mcp` to sign in:

Terminal

```
claude mcp add --transport http mylasertools https://www.mylasertools.com/mcp
```

### Cursor and other editors

Editors that read an MCP settings file (for example `.cursor/mcp.json`) take the server like this:

MCP settings file

```
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mylasertools": {
      "url": "https://www.mylasertools.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Step 2: Sign in and approve

The first time the assistant connects, it opens MyLaserTools in your browser. Sign in if you are not already, and you will see what the assistant is asking to do:

- **Search and preview artwork.** Always on, this is what the connection is for.
- **Download artwork files.** Original files your account can already open. Untick it if you only want suggestions and editor links.
- **Spend sparks to unlock artwork.** Off unless you tick it. Even then, the assistant asks you before each spend.
- **Prepare editor links.** Untick it if you only want suggestions.
- **Use free design generators.** Untick it to keep the assistant to the Art Library.

Choose **Allow** and you go back to your assistant. It stays connected for up to 30 days before asking you to approve it again. Only approve an assistant you added yourself.

## Step 3: Ask for what you want to make

Talk to the assistant as you would to a friend who knows the site. For example:

- "Find a sunflower I can engrave on a garden sign and open it in the editor with the text Rosie's Garden."
- "Make cut-out plant stakes for basil, mint and thyme."
- "I want a 3D printed box for my screws, 120 by 80 mm and 40 mm deep, with a lid."
- "Which generators can make a two-colour backpack name tag for my 3D printer?"
- "Download the original SVG of that oak leaf border."
- "How many sparks do I have left?"

The assistant answers with files or links. A download link gives you the original file. Open an editor link while signed in to MyLaserTools to bring the pieces into your design. A generator link opens the generator with everything filled in, ready to adjust and download.

## Paid artwork and sparks

- Search results, previews and download quotes say whether each piece is free, included with your plan, already unlocked or how many sparks it costs.
- **Supporter and Pro members** download the paid library without spending sparks, just as on the website.
- **Free accounts** can unlock paid pieces with sparks: the assistant shows the cost, waits for you to agree and spends only if you allowed spending.
- Pieces you have unlocked before download again for free, and your balance updates as soon as you unlock.
- If you run short of sparks, the assistant tells you; you get more on the website. It never buys sparks.
- When you open an editor link that includes a piece costing sparks, the editor shows your balance and the cost and waits for you.
- Generator links never cost anything and work without signing in.

## Fair use

Requests from assistants may be rate limited. Downloads count toward the same limits as on the website. If your assistant says it reached a limit, wait a while and try again.

Assistants are for finding the artwork you asked for. Bulk extraction of the catalogue and copying the library are not supported, and accounts that try may be paused for review.

## What MyLaserTools records

For each connection we record which tools it used and when, the search words it sent, which artworks it was shown, which files it downloaded and whether its links were opened and led to an import. If you accept analytics cookies, we also note when a generator opened from one of its links starts a download. Activity records are kept for 90 days and the list of artworks shown for 35 days. We never see your conversation with the assistant, only the tool calls it makes.

## Disconnecting

Open [account settings](/profile/settings) and choose **Disconnect** next to the assistant. It is signed out straight away and can no longer use its links. You can connect it again at any time.

## Troubleshooting

- **The assistant says it needs to sign in again.** The connection expired or was disconnected. Reconnect it from your assistant's connector settings.
- **An editor link no longer opens.** Editor links expire after a short time and only open on the account that connected the assistant. Ask for a new one.
- **A download link stopped working.** Download links expire after a short time. Ask the assistant to download the piece again; pieces you already unlocked are not charged twice.
- **The assistant asks you to approve it again.** It needs a permission you did not give, such as downloading or spending sparks. Approve it only if you want the assistant to do that.
- **The assistant says a limit was reached.** Requests may be rate limited. Wait a while and try again; you can still search and download on the website.
- **Nothing happens after you choose Allow.** Reload the approval page and try again, and check that your browser lets the page return to your assistant.

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Read online: https://www.mylasertools.com/learn/business-integrations/connect-ai-assistant-mcp