AI assistants (MCP)
What MCP is
Section titled “What MCP is”The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets an AI assistant use tools from other services. Posty5 runs an MCP server, so an assistant you already use can work with your Posty5 account when you ask it to.
What an assistant can do
Section titled “What an assistant can do”Posty5’s tools come in groups. You choose the groups each connection gets, and the access level decides whether the assistant may only read, also create and edit, or also delete.
| Group | What it covers | On for a new connection |
|---|---|---|
account | Who the connection is, your credits, and what each action costs | Always |
short-links | Create, find, edit and delete short links | Yes |
qr-codes | QR codes of every type, and the templates that style them | Yes |
html-hosting | Hosted pages, their variables and their form submissions | Yes |
social-publisher | Workspaces, connected accounts, and posts to every platform | Yes |
store | The stores this connection can manage | With any store group |
store-catalog | Products and tags | No |
store-orders | Orders and customers — includes shoppers’ personal data | No |
store-shipping | Shipping countries, routes, profiles and assignments | No |
store-dropshipping | Supplier catalogue, imports, product links and supplier orders | No |
Every tool, with its access level
Things you can ask
Section titled “Things you can ask”- Shorten example.com/spring-sale and make a QR code that opens it.
- Schedule this caption to my Instagram account for Friday at 9 in the morning.
- Which orders in my store are still waiting to ship?
Two ways to connect
Section titled “Two ways to connect”| Hosted URL (recommended) | Local package | |
|---|---|---|
| What you add to the assistant | https://mcp.posty5.com/t/YOUR-TOKEN/mcp | npx -y @posty5/mcp |
| Where you get it | Connect an AI assistant, on one of your API keys | Any API key, set in the assistant’s configuration |
| Access level and groups | Chosen in the dashboard | Environment variables |
| How what it creates is marked | Created via MCP, confirmed by Posty5’s MCP server | Created via MCP, as declared by the package and not verified |
| Activity log | Every call, kept for 90 days | None |
What you need
Section titled “What you need”- A Developer account and an API key. API keys and authentication
- An assistant that can add a remote MCP server by URL — or, for the local package, one that can start a local server, with Node.js 20 or later installed.