Ready to put your QR Code management on autopilot? The Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows AI models like Claude to safely interact with external platforms. In just a few minutes, this guide will show you how to securely connect Claude to the QR Planet platform. Once set up, you’ll be able to use natural language prompts to pull scan statistics, generate SVG codes inline, or audit your dynamic business cards without ever leaving your AI workspace.
What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)?
MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. It’s a standard way for AI assistants and other AI applications to connect with external tools,
systems, and data sources, such as our QR Code platform.
How the integration works
In this MCP setup, your AI assistant acts as an MCP client that wants to use features from our QR Code Platform. Our QR Code Platform provides an MCP server that exposes supported platform actions and data in a structured way.
Simplified MCP integration overview1. Configuration and Connection
In your AI application, such as Claude, ChatGPT, OpenCode or Gemini, you configure our QR Code Platform as an MCP server. This tells the AI assistant where our MCP server is available and how it can connect to it.
Once the connection is configured and authenticated, the AI assistant can discover which tools and resources are available through the MCP server. These tools represent supported actions in the QR Code Platform, such as retrieving QR Code information, creating or updating QR Codes, accessing campaign data, or performing other platform actions that have been made available.
3. Request Routing
When a user asks the AI assistant to perform an action, the assistant decides whether one of the available MCP tools is needed. If so, it sends a structured request to the MCP server. The MCP server receives the request, validates it, and communicates with the QR Code Platform through the supported platform interfaces.
4. Response and Processing
The QR Code Platform processes the request and returns the result to the MCP server. The MCP server then sends the response back to the AI assistant in a structured format that the assistant can understand and use in its final answer to the user.
5. Secure and Standardized Communication
This architecture means the AI assistant does not connect directly to the QR Code Platform database or internal systems. Instead, all communication goes through the MCP server, which strictly controls which data and actions are available. This keeps the integration clear, secure, and easier to manage while allowing AI tools to work with the QR Code Platform in a standardized way.
Once logged in, click on the menu API settings and in the area API v2 click on <SHOW SECRET API KEY> to see the full API key.
Once the Secret API key is revealed, mark it and copy&paste it to an editor - we will need it later!
2. Log in to Claude
Now its time for you to log into Claude.
3. Add MCP Connector
Once logged in, click on the left menu Customize.
Now click on Connectors, then on +, and finally on Add custom connector.
Next, fill out the form with the following info:
- Name: QR Planet MCP (you can name it differently if you want)
- Remote MCP Server URL: https://api.qrplanet.com/mcp
- OAuth Client ID: claude-web
Now, we created the Connector, but did not actually connect it.
Next, click on the Connector QR Planet MCP that you just created and then on the button Connect.
In the popup that opens paste now the API key that you copied before and click on Authorize.
Now the connected Connector shows up with all the available tools.
Now we are ready to start our chat with Claude to access the QR Code platform.
5. Start a Chat session using MCP
After we configured the MCP Connector we are finally able to chat with the QR Codes. Therefore open a new chat session and start to ask questions about your QR Codes.
Prompt Examples
- Make a table with the 5 oldest QR Codes in my QR Planet account
- How many Digital Business Cards are created in my account?
- Create a new QR Code that points to https://test.de
- How many scans has my QR Code easter-promotion2
- Get the SVG of the QR Code easter-promotion2 and show it inline.
Quick Tip: The first time you ask Claude to use a tool during a chat session, it will ask for your permission to run. Simply click Allow to let the protocol pull your account data.
Example Responses
Sample prompt to show the 5 newest QR Codes
Sample prompt to show the QR Code image as SVGCongratulations, you now can use our QR Planet MCP server to access all your QR Code data from Claude.