Connect your agent

Run Aura from Claude — no config files.

Connect Claude Desktop to Aura in a few clicks. Sign in once and your agent can read your payments right in the chat — read-only to start, so it can never move money.

One-click connect

Add Aura as a connector

Paste this URL into Claude Desktop's custom-connector field — no key to copy, no file to edit.

https://getaura.sh/api/mcp

1Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Connectors.
2Click "Add custom connector".
3Paste the connector URL above and continue.
4Sign in to Aura and click Allow — Claude is connected.

Read-only — your agent can check wallet & agent balances, list and read escrows, list and read agents, list and read payment mandates. It can't move money; every payment stays behind your dashboard's approvals.

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Advanced — manual config, other hosts, or write access

For hosts without a custom-connector UI, or when you need the full write tool set, add this to your MCP host config and replace sk_live_... with a key from your dashboard.

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aura": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@aura-payments/mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "AURA_API_KEY": "sk_live_..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Host	Config path
Claude Desktop (macOS)	~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Claude Desktop (Windows)	%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
Claude Desktop (Linux)	~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Cursor	~/.cursor/mcp.json

After saving, restart the host. This key-based path exposes Aura's full tool set, including write operations — keep the key secret.