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title: "Connecting MCP servers"
description: "Connect Indent to hundreds of tools from the MCP directory — or register your own server — at organization or personal scope."
---

> Documentation Index
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# Connecting MCP servers

import { McpDirectory } from "@/components/mdx";

An MCP server gives Indent a set of tools it can use during a session. Indent ships a directory of
hundreds of them, so most of the tools your team already uses are a click away. Start with one or
two that match your most common workflows, and add more as you go.

## The integration directory

Browse and connect servers from
[**Settings → Integrations**](https://app.indent.com/settings/integrations). The catalog spans the
categories teams reach for most — issue tracking, docs, CRMs, observability, analytics, payments,
and far more:

- **Issue tracking and docs** — Linear, Notion.
- **Observability** — Datadog, Sentry.
- **CRM and support** — HubSpot, Plain.
- **Analytics and experimentation** — Amplitude, Statsig.
- **Payments** — Stripe, PayPal.

A few have dedicated setup pages — [Linear](/connecting/linear), [Notion](/connecting/notion),
[Datadog](/connecting/datadog), and [Sentry](/connecting/sentry) — but the rest connect the same way
from the directory.

## Custom MCP servers

When a tool has no listing in the directory, register its MCP server and Indent uses it like any
other — internal APIs, documentation systems, or anything your team exposes over MCP.

In [**Settings → Integrations**](https://app.indent.com/settings/integrations), choose **Add custom
MCP**. The form asks for:

- **Endpoint URL** — the server's address.
- **Display name** — how the integration appears in Indent.
- **Description** — what the server does. Add one so Indent knows when to use it.

Then choose how the server authenticates:

- **OAuth** — authorize through the server's own OAuth flow.
- **API token** — a token the server issues.
- **Custom headers** — headers sent with each request.
- **None** — no authentication.

## Change or remove a connection

Open a connected server from
[**Settings → Integrations**](https://app.indent.com/settings/integrations) and select **Edit
connection** to change its address, sign-in method, or credentials. Saved tokens and headers are
hidden, so re-enter them to save any change. **Test connection** checks the settings before you
select **Save changes**.

**Disconnect Integration** removes your organization's connection and everything Indent remembered
about it. Admins can go further on a custom server: under **Manage**, **Delete integration** removes
the server from the workspace entirely and disconnects everyone using it. You can add it again
later, and each connection has to be authorized again.

Indent keeps its own copy of each server's tool list, refreshed every few minutes. A server that's
slow or briefly unreachable doesn't stall a session; when a call does fail, Indent reports what the
server returned and decides whether to retry.

## Scopes

Every integration connects at one of two scopes:

- **Organization** — shared with your team. Indent connects with a shared account, and anyone in the
  organization can use it.
- **Personal** — yours alone. Indent connects as you, and only you can see or use it, from
  [**Settings → Integrations → Personal**](https://app.indent.com/settings/integrations/personal). A
  personal integration works only in a [private session](/collaborating/personal-and-private).

When a server authorizes a person rather than an application — as Notion's hosted MCP server does —
an organization-scoped connection inherits the permissions of whoever completed the flow. Authorize
those as a service account your team owns, not from a personal account; see
[Connecting Notion](/connecting/notion#use-a-service-account-for-organization-scope) for the
pattern.

Only MCP servers can be personal — from the directory or custom. GitHub, Slack, and databases are
always organization-scoped.

Source: https://docs.indent.com/connecting/mcp-servers/index.mdx