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MCP server

This searches documentation, not your Mailchimp account. The server answers questions using this site’s published content, so it works without a Mailchimp credential. To let an agent act on your account, call the API directly or use Agent skills.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets an AI agent discover and call an external server’s tools during a conversation.

This documentation site is itself an MCP server. Connect an agent to it and the agent can search these docs directly from your editor or terminal instead of you copying passages into the conversation by hand.

Ask it what you’d ask a person:

“Search the docs for how Mailchimp scopes OAuth 2 tokens to a single account.”

“What does the Marketing API docs site say about pagination limits on the Reports endpoints?”

“Find the docs page on batch operations and summarize the request size limit.”

Connect your agent

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http fern_mcp_mailchimp-docs \
  https://mailchimp.com/developer/_mcp/server

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Add the URL to your MCP server configuration:

https://mailchimp.com/developer/_mcp/server

Claude Desktop

Open Claude menu → Settings → Developer → Edit Config, then add the server under mcpServers in claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mailchimp-docs": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mailchimp.com/developer/_mcp/server"
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Add the same server to .vscode/mcp.json in your project:

{
  "servers": {
    "mailchimp-docs": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mailchimp.com/developer/_mcp/server"
    }
  }
}

Restart the client after saving. Each one surfaces a connection indicator once the server responds.

Other ways agents can access these docs

An agent can also read this site directly. Every page has a Markdown version at its own URL with .md appended, and an llms.txt index lists those pages at every level of the docs, down to individual sections. This works the same way on authenticated documentation sites and public ones like this one.

curl https://mailchimp.com/developer/marketing/build/ai-tools/mcp-server.md

Searching and fetching solve different problems: the docs-search tool finds the right page when an agent doesn’t know where to look, and a direct .md fetch reads a page you’ve already identified without spending tokens on HTML. Agents commonly use both in the same session. See llms.txt for the full index format and how to scope one to just the section an agent needs.

  • Agent skills package workflows that call the Marketing API itself.
  • Authentication covers the API key and OAuth 2 credentials for calling the Marketing API directly.