Clerk MCP Server

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Clerk is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 19 tools.

Access Clerk authentication docs, SDK snippets, and quickstart guides

Uptime history 91 days of history

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

81 ms

Response time

average over 24h

OAuth sign-in

Access

streamable-http

What changed 27

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 25 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

9 Oct 4 tools disappeared disable_billing, disable_organizations, enable_billing and 1 more

8 Oct 21 tools appeared check_domain_dns, create_application, create_production_instance and 18 more

24 Aug 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for clerk_sdk_snippet, list_clerk_sdk_snippets

Tools have disappeared from this server

A tool that vanishes takes a piece of your agent with it, and the change arrives silently. Watch this server and every such change lands in your inbox.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp-server --transport http https://mcp.clerk.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://mcp.clerk.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp-server]
url = "https://mcp.clerk.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://mcp.clerk.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.clerk.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, and it signs you in through your browser: there is no API key to paste.

Available tools 19

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

application

create_application

Create a new application in the connected workspace (like `clerk apps create`).

get_application

Get one Clerk application that the connected account can access.

clerk

clerk_sdk_snippet

Get Clerk SDK code snippets and patterns.

list_clerk_sdk_snippets

List all available Clerk SDK snippets and bundles. Filter by tag to find specific functionality.

domain

check_domain_dns

Ask Clerk to re-check DNS records for an application domain now, then read status with get_domain_status.

get_domain_status

Read DNS, SSL, and email verification status for an application domain.

instance

get_instance_config

Read instance configuration (like `clerk config pull`). Sensitive values are redacted. Pass keys to limit the top-level sections returned.

get_instance_config_schema

Read the JSON schema for instance configuration (like `clerk config schema`). Pass keys to limit the top-level sections returned.

applications

list_applications

List the applications in the connected workspace (like `clerk apps list`).

deploy

get_deploy_oauth_providers

List OAuth providers enabled on the development instance, the credential fields each needs in production, and whether production already has them (the OAuth step of `clerk deploy`).

domains

list_domains

List an application's domains, including the DNS records each one needs (dns_targets).

oauth

set_oauth_provider_credentials

Save production OAuth credentials for a provider on an instance (the credential step of `clerk deploy`). Use get_deploy_oauth_providers for the required fields.

patch

patch_instance_config

Partially update instance configuration (like `clerk config patch`). Use dry_run first to validate without applying.

production

create_production_instance

Create the production instance for an application on a domain you own, cloned from development (the first step of `clerk deploy`). Irreversible; requires confirm: true. Returns the DNS records to add and the next steps.

put

put_instance_config

Replace the entire instance configuration (like `clerk config put`). config must include every top-level key, so start from get_instance_config. Use dry_run first.

submit

submit_feedback

Send feedback to the Clerk team about a problem you hit while working with Clerk for the user. Call this when a Clerk task fails, needed a workaround, a Clerk tool returned a confusing or wrong result, documentation was missing, or the user asks you to report a problem. Never include secrets, API keys, tokens, or personal data about end users. Reports are read by the Clerk team and used to improve Clerk.

user

create_user

Create a user in an instance (like `clerk users create`). Named fields are merged over body, the raw Backend API create-user request.

users

list_users

List users of an instance (like `clerk users list`). Filters match the Backend API list-users query.

whoami

whoami

Show the connected Clerk account, its active workspace, and the granted scopes (like `clerk whoami`).

Tools removed

Tools this server used to expose. Anything built against them stopped working on the day they went.

disable_billing

removed 9 Oct 2026

disable_organizations

removed 9 Oct 2026

enable_billing

removed 9 Oct 2026

enable_organizations

removed 9 Oct 2026

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.clerk.com/mcp	streamable-http	sign-in	48 ms	14 min ago

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Clerk — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Clerk do?

It exposes 19 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_domain_dns, clerk_sdk_snippet, create_application, create_production_instance, create_user, get_application and 13 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

What is Clerk mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around domain, clerk and application. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.

Is Clerk working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 81 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Did Clerk ever remove tools?

Yes. disable_billing, disable_organizations, enable_billing, enable_organizations are no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.

How do I connect Clerk?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.

How do you sign in to Clerk?

No API key is involved. Clerk answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.

How fast is Clerk?

It answers our handshake in 81 ms on average, which is faster than 96% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.