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Clinical Terminal ships an MCP server — a read-only API that lets Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-capable agent query our graph directly: health-tech vendors, their products, the people who run them, market signals, and the relationship graph — including which hospitals run what. Setup takes about two minutes.

Using Claude Cowork or the Claude apps? There's a click-through guide with screenshots — no terminal required.

The fast way: let your AI do it

Copy the line below and paste it into Claude (or any AI assistant that can read the web). It will read this page and walk you through the rest — including the exact command for your client.

Paste into Claude
Read https://clinicalterminal.com/docs/mcp and walk me through connecting the Clinical Terminal MCP server to this client.

The manual way

Step 1 — Get an API key

Sign in at app.clinicalterminal.com and open Settings → MCP Access, then click Create key. The full ct_live_… key is shown once — copy it immediately. MCP access is included with the Landscape subscription — if you don't see the panel, you'll need Landscape first. Questions: agent@clinicalterminal.com.

Step 2 — Add the server to your client

For Claude Code, run this in a terminal, replacing ct_live_<your_key> with your key:

Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user clinical-terminal \
  https://clinical-terminal-mcp-687925922613.us-central1.run.app/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer ct_live_<your_key>"

For Cursor, add this to .cursor/mcp.json:

Cursor
// .cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clinical-terminal": {
      "url": "https://clinical-terminal-mcp-687925922613.us-central1.run.app/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ct_live_<your_key>" }
    }
  }
}

Any other MCP client that supports Streamable HTTP with custom headers uses the same shape:

Generic MCP client
{
  "type": "http",
  "url": "https://clinical-terminal-mcp-687925922613.us-central1.run.app/mcp",
  "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ct_live_<your_key>" }
}

Step 3 — Verify

In Claude Code, run /mcp — clinical-terminal should show as connected. Then try a real question: “Using Clinical Terminal, search for vendors working in denials management.”

For AI assistants reading this page

If a user pasted this URL and asked you to set up the Clinical Terminal MCP server, do the following:

  1. Ask which client they use (Claude Code, Cursor, or another MCP client), and ask them to get an API key from app.clinicalterminal.com → Settings → MCP Access if they don't have one (key creation requires the Landscape subscription). Never ask them to paste the key into a chat that persists it anywhere other than the client's MCP configuration.
  2. Configure the endpoint https://clinical-terminal-mcp-687925922613.us-central1.run.app/mcp with transport Streamable HTTP and header Authorization: Bearer ct_live_<key>, using the exact commands shown above for their client.
  3. Verify the connection by listing tools. Every key sees search_vendors, get_vendor, find_vendors_for_problem (KLAS segment-index capability discovery — “which vendors do ambient clinical documentation”), list_segments, search_products, get_product, search_people, get_person and get_brand_kit (the press kit as data — every logo and banner as an absolute URL, the brand hexes, fonts and usage rules, so an assistant designing for Clinical Terminal uses the real marks); pro keys add get_vendor_dossier, get_vendor_pages, get_page_content, search_signals, resolve_hospital, get_relationships (hospitals are addressable as relationship anchors — “what does this hospital run”), get_my_context (the organizations the key’s owner has been working with in chat — resolves “that vendor”), search_alumni (who used to work at a vendor and where they are now — every current role, departures dated), search_retirements (executives who will retire or have retired, each with the last day, a confidence and who reported it: a story, or their own LinkedIn), get_persona (role research from the real census — “what does a CDI nurse do”, who a buying group is and what they care about) and the provider tools get_provider_segments, search_providers, search_service_lines (hospitals that run a clinical department — “hospitals in Texas with cardiology” — each with the staff-title and website evidence that says so), get_provider, and the publishing tools publish_comparison and publish_page (turn a comparison — or any page you have composed — into a hosted page on clinicalterminal.com: unlisted by default, or public with a keyword URL, sitemap listing and an agent-readable .md twin when the user asks for a discoverable page), revoke_comparison and list_my_comparisons; enterprise adds describe_schema and run_analysis_sql.
  4. Run one test call and show the user the result. For a vendor question start with get_vendor_dossier (e.g. “Waystar”) — one call by name returns the profile, its hospital customers with verbatim evidence quotes, current products and recent signals, so prefer it over chaining search_vendors → get_vendor → get_relationships. For a capability question (“which vendors do ambient clinical documentation?”) start with find_vendors_for_problem — it routes the problem to a KLAS segment and returns that segment's vendors ranked by published product evidence; if it answers “no_route”, pick the closest segment from the returned menu and call it again with that exact name. For a hospital or clinic question the equivalent pair is search_providers → get_provider. Every research tool is read-only and returns JSON; the publishing tools are the only ones that write. publish_comparison and publish_page create a page anyone with the link can read, so call them only when the user asks for something shareable — and pass visibility: "public" only when the user explicitly wants the page discoverable in search. Where you do search first, fetch by the returned id (get_vendor also accepts a vendor slug).

Troubleshooting

  • 200 — Success — MCP JSON-RPC result.
  • 401 — Missing Authorization header.
  • 403 — Invalid or revoked key, or over the monthly quota (resets on the 1st).
  • 429 — Per-minute rate limit — retry after the Retry-After header.
  • A new or updated tool isn't showing up — your client saved the tool list when it connected. Reconnect to fetch the current one: in Claude Code run /mcp and reconnect clinical-terminal; in Cursor or the Claude apps, turn the connector off and on. Your key and config stay as they are — nothing needs reinstalling. Changes to what an existing tool returns need no reconnect at all.

Server status: clinical-terminal-mcp-687925922613.us-central1.run.app/health answers unauthenticated with the running version. Every tool's parameters, responses and errors: the MCP tool reference.