How to Use Amplitude MCP With Claude Code

Amplitude MCP is a server that exposes your Amplitude data to AI tools through the Model Context Protocol, an open standard for connecting AI assistants to external systems. Once connected, an assistant like Claude Code can read and work with your product analytics, so you can ask for a funnel or a retention cohort and get an answer grounded in your real behavioral data.

Because it uses an open protocol, the same Amplitude MCP server works across MCP-compatible clients, including Claude Code, the Claude desktop app, Cursor, and Codex. The workflows below use Claude Code, but the capabilities carry over to the other clients.

Once connected, you can ask Claude Code to query and build Amplitude analyses for you in plain language, so you describe the outcome you want instead of clicking through a builder. Here are the workflows that get the most use.

• Investigate a metric change without leaving your editor. Ask why activation dropped last week while you are in a project, and Claude Code pulls the funnel and the segments behind the change so you can act on it in the same session.
• Build funnels and cohorts on demand. Ask for a signup-to-activation funnel for the last 30 days, or a cohort of users who completed onboarding, and get the analysis back in the conversation.
• Read experiment results in context. Ask how a recent experiment performed and get the variant comparison and metric lift, so you can decide whether to ship, iterate, or stop.
• Summarize a dashboard before a meeting. Ask Claude Code to summarize a dashboard and turn a wall of charts into a few sentences you can share.
• Check event volume and data quality. Ask it to flag spikes or drops in event volume that suggest a broken implementation, which is useful right after a release.

Because these queries run against Amplitude Analytics, the answers reflect the same governed metrics your team already uses, and you can go deeper with AI Agents for natural-language analysis across the platform.

Using Amplitude MCP with Claude Code keeps product analysis in the same place you write code, which removes the context switch between your editor and the Amplitude UI. For engineers and analysts who work in the terminal, that means answering data questions without breaking flow, and without generating or rotating API keys, since the connection uses OAuth.

The practical payoff is speed. A question that used to mean opening a browser, building a chart, and filtering by segment becomes a single prompt in the tool you already have open, with the answer grounded in governed data rather than a guess.

Connecting Amplitude MCP to Claude Code takes about two minutes: you add the Amplitude MCP server to Claude Code, start a session, and authenticate with Amplitude through an OAuth flow. There are no API keys to create, and customers on the EU data center use a region-specific endpoint.

Because the exact commands and endpoints can change, follow the current steps in the official documentation rather than copying a static list: the Amplitude MCP overview and the Claude Code setup guide. After connecting, you can confirm it worked by asking Claude Code which Amplitude projects you can access.

You can extend the server with the Amplitude MCP marketplace, the official open-source plugin repository that adds reusable commands and skills for Claude Code. It is optional, but it speeds up common tasks like creating charts, building dashboards, and instrumenting events, with commands that run directly in your Claude Code session.

Skills from the marketplace activate automatically based on your request, so asking a question like why a metric spiked can trigger the relevant analysis skill without manual setup. The marketplace install steps live alongside the rest of the setup in the Amplitude MCP documentation.

The Amplitude MCP server inherits the permissions of the user who authenticates, so it can only read or modify the projects you already have access to in Amplitude. Connecting through Claude Code grants no additional access. Because authentication uses OAuth, there are no long-lived API keys to store, share, or rotate, which keeps the surface area small.

Amplitude MCP turns Claude Code into a direct line to your product data, so you can move from a question to an answer without leaving your editor or managing API keys. Connect it once, ask in plain language, and keep the analysis next to the code you are already writing.