Deploy from Claude or ChatGPT with MCP.
Add the Thora connector to Claude or ChatGPT, sign in once, and ask your AI to put your site or app on Thora. It builds a private preview. You approve what goes live.
What you're connecting.
MCP is the standard way an AI app talks to other software. Thora has a connector that speaks it. Once it's added, the AI you already use can create a site on Thora, change its files, build a private preview and test it.
Thora Cloud is in beta, and a real person sets up each new workspace by email. Email hello@thora.cloud first, so there is a workspace to connect to.
The connector address is https://beta.thora.cloud/mcp. You paste it once. Setup menus change from time to time. Checked against each app's instructions on November 11, 2026.
Connect Claude.
Open Connectors.
In Settings, open Customize, then Connectors. On a work plan, an owner adds the connector under Organization settings first, and then each member connects it.
Add a custom connector.
Choose Add, then Add custom connector. Name it Thora Cloud, paste https://beta.thora.cloud/mcp, and continue.
Sign in.
Keep the sign-in settings it detects, choose Sign in now, and sign in to Thora. Approve the connection.
Turn it on in a chat.
In a new chat, use the plus button, then Connectors, and switch Thora Cloud on for that conversation.
Connect ChatGPT.
Open Plugins.
In ChatGPT, open Plugins, select the plus button, and choose Add custom MCP server. Your workspace may need an admin to allow it.
Enter the address.
Name it Thora Cloud and add a short description. Under Connection, choose a public endpoint and paste https://beta.thora.cloud/mcp.
Set up sign-in.
Choose sign-in with OAuth if it's offered. Read the warning ChatGPT shows for connectors it hasn't verified, continue, and create it. Review the tools it lists.
Use it in a chat.
Install it, start a new conversation, type @ and pick Thora Cloud.
ChatGPT changes how it names this feature, so the menu words may differ for you. If a step doesn't match, search the app's help for adding a custom MCP server.
Check it works, then build.
Ask who it can see.
Say: which Thora organizations can you see? Your AI reads your organizations and tells you. If it can't, reconnect the connector.
Say what you want.
Describe the site or app, or hand it the project it already made. Your AI creates the site and adds the files.
Look at the preview.
Thora builds a private preview with its own database. Your AI tests it and reads the build logs where available for your organization, and fixes what it finds. Only your team can open it.
Approve once.
Your AI asks for the release. You review it in your dashboard and approve it, and the site goes live.
You never run a command. If your AI asks you to, tell it that Thora's guidance says it does those steps itself.
What the connector will and won't do.
Your AI can
- See the organizations you belong to, and act only where your role allows
- Create a site, read its files and change them on a separate branch
- Build a private preview, test it and read build logs
- Save the live hostname you want
- Request a release or a rollback
Only a person can
- Approve a release or a rollback, in the Thora dashboard
- Type in a secret on a secure page. Never paste one into the chat
- Approve a purchase or a billing change
Other tools, and problems.
Some MCP tools can't sign in through a browser. They connect with an access token that you create in your dashboard and can revoke. A token is read-only unless an administrator picks write access, and tokens made in the dashboard expire after 30 days by default. The MCP docs list the settings.
The connector shows only the tools your sign-in and plan allow, so your AI may report that something isn't available yet. That's expected during the beta. If the tool list looks out of date, disconnect and reconnect the connector in your app.
To stop an AI's access, remove the connector in the app. A person decides what goes live no matter which AI is connected.
Honest limits.
Thora Cloud is in beta. A real person sets up each new workspace by email, so there is no self-serve checkout yet.
Going live needs a domain you own and a person to approve each release. Thora doesn't sell domains yet.
Your AI subscription covers its own use. Thora's plans and prices are on the pricing page.
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Claude is a trademark of Anthropic. ChatGPT is a trademark of OpenAI. Thora Cloud is independent and isn't affiliated with or endorsed by either company.