Connect your AI client

Scenery has to be added to your AI client once. After that, every tool you install from the portal shows up in the client by itself.

Supported clients

scenery mcp setup looks for these clients on your computer and connects each one it finds:

• Claude Code
• Claude Desktop
• Cursor
• Windsurf
• VS Code
• Gemini CLI
• Antigravity
• Codex CLI

The steps below use Claude Code. The other clients follow the same first two steps, and then you restart the client.

Connect Claude Code

1. Make sure you have installed Scenery and paired your laptop.

2. In a terminal, run:

   scenery mcp setup

   Expected: a line for each client it found, such as Claude Code: wrote scenery MCP entry. A client that was already connected is reported as skipped. That is fine.

3. Restart Claude Code.

   Expected: Scenery is listed when you open /mcp.

4. If Claude Code asks you to sign in, open /mcp, choose scenery, then choose Authenticate.

   Expected: your browser opens, you sign in to Scenery if needed, and Claude Code shows scenery as connected.

You only do this once. Add or remove tools later from the portal, not from the terminal.

Connect Cursor and other clients

1. Run scenery mcp setup as above. It adds Scenery to every supported client it finds.
2. Restart the client.

Expected: Scenery appears in the client’s list of MCP servers. If a client is not found, install and open it once, then run scenery mcp setup again.

Preview before changing anything

scenery mcp setup --dry-run

Expected: Scenery shows the clients it detected and a preview of the entry, and changes nothing.

Use a new tool right away

After you install a tool in the portal, type /reload-skills in Claude Code to use it straight away. Otherwise it appears the next time the client starts.

If something is off

• Run scenery doctor and check the daemon status shows running.
• Run scenery mcp setup again. It is safe to repeat.
• See Troubleshooting.

Next

• Find and install tools