Guide · Claude Cowork

Connect in Claude: one click, no API key

For the Claude Desktop app (the Chat and Cowork tabs) no API key is required. You add a connector and sign in once by email. With the first connection 50 free credits are active. The screenshots show the German Claude interface.

1 Open settings

Click your own name at the bottom left, then Settings.

Claude Desktop app: menu opened at the bottom left, Settings entry
Menu bottom left → Settings.

2 Add a connector

Open Connectors on the left, click Add at the top right, then Add custom connector.

Settings → Connectors, Add menu with Add custom connector
Connectors → Add → Add custom connector.

3 Enter name & address

Enter Agentic-Firmenbuch as the name and https://mcp.agentic-firmenbuch.at/mcp as the address, then choose Add. Leave the OAuth fields empty.

Add custom connector dialog with name Agentic-Firmenbuch and URL https://mcp.agentic-firmenbuch.at/mcp
Enter name + URL, then "Add".

4 Start in chat: confirm the connection

The connector is now added; there is no separate "Connect" button. In a new chat, ask a company-register question (or activate Agentic-Firmenbuch). On first use Claude asks once to connect, then a browser tab opens for sign-in.

Claude asks to connect to Agentic-Firmenbuch on first use
On first use in chat Claude asks to connect, then the browser opens.

5 Confirm by email

In the browser, enter your email address and choose Send code. Then type the 6-digit code from the email into the open window, and the connection is established. No API key, no password.

Agentic-Firmenbuch.at login page: email field and send button
Enter email → Send code → type the 6-digit code from the email.

✓ Test it

In a new chat, ask a question such as "Are you connected to Agentic-Firmenbuch and which tools are available to you?" If the agent names the company-register tools (search companies, financials, history …), the connection is active.

Get started

Prefer a different tool? Claude Code, VS Code and Cursor connect like Claude via an email code, with no key at all. An API key is only needed for CI, servers and your own scripts: this way.