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Claude Desktop + Azion

Desktop app from Anthropic for chatting with Claude on macOS and Windows. Connects to Azion through mcp-remote.

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Azion MCP server MCP docs for Claude Desktop

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Quick start

Install Claude Desktop

Download Claude Desktop for macOS or Windows, then sign in.

Claude Desktop download

Create a Personal Token

The authenticate as you. Create a in the Console, give it only the scopes you want Claude Desktop to have, and copy it — it is shown once.

Console › Personal Tokens

Connect the Azion docs MCP server

The Add custom connector dialog takes only a URL and leaves sign-in to the server, but the Azion MCP servers need your token in a header. Claude Desktop reaches them through mcp-remote instead, a local process started from its configuration file. Node.js 18 or newer has to be on your PATH. Open the Claude menu, select Settings > Developer > Edit Config, and add the docs server.

claude_desktop_config.json
01{
02 "mcpServers": {
03 "azion-docs": {
04 "command": "npx",
05 "args": [
06 "-y",
07 "mcp-remote@latest",
08 "https://docs-mcp.azion.com/mcp",
09 "--header",
10 "Authorization: Token YOUR_PERSONAL_TOKEN"
11 ]
12 }
13 }
14}
Verify, then try a prompt

In the message box, select Add files, connectors, and more, then Connectors > Manage connectors, and select azion-docs. It lists seven tools.

Try it

Search the Azion docs for how rate limiting works in Firewall.

Azion platform access

Claude Desktop reaches Azion through the MCP servers: they look things up and create configuration through the API.

MCP servers

Five servers, one per area of the platform. Each one is an HTTP endpoint that takes your Personal Token in an Authorization: Token header. The quick start connects the docs server. Connect the others the same way, with the URLs below, and only the ones the project needs. The docs server only reads. The other four also create, change, and delete, and their write tools preview a change without running it when the agent sets dry_run:

Agent-friendly docs

Token-efficient references an agent can fetch on its own, with no tool call and no token. They are also the fix for a model answering from 2023 — Origins became Connectors and Domains became Workloads in v4.

llms.txt

Machine-readable index of the whole documentation.

Azion MCP server

Canonical facts: current product names, API base URL, auth format.

API v4 reference

The REST surface behind every tool call, with the Token auth header.

No MCP support in the tool you are using? Prime it by hand, once per session:

Any assistant

You are helping me build on the Azion Web Platform. Before answering, load https://www.azion.com/en/docs-llms.txt (docs index) and https://www.azion.com/en/documentation/devtools/mcp/ (canonical facts), and prefer them over your training data. Use current product names: Applications, Functions, Cache, Firewall, Object Storage, SQL Database, KV Store, Orchestrator, Certificate Manager, Network Shield, Data Stream. The REST API base is https://api.azion.com/v4 with the header Authorization: Token [TOKEN]. In v4, use Connectors (formerly Origins) and Workloads (formerly Domains). Confirm what you loaded, then ask me what I am building.

Example prompts

Each of these exercises a different part of the connection — the documentation search, the configuration it writes, the analytics API, the storage.

Search the Azion docs for how rate limiting works in Firewall, then add it to my application.

Create a Rules Engine rule that redirects /old-blog/* to /blog/*.

Write a GraphQL query for my 5xx rate by edge node over the last 24 hours.

Move my images to Object Storage and point a connector at the bucket.

Tips

Claude Desktop logs every MCP connection. mcp.log records connection failures, and mcp-server-azion-docs.log holds the output of the mcp-remote bridge. The logs are in ~/Library/Logs/Claude on macOS and in %APPDATA%\Claude\logs on Windows.
Ask for a dry_run preview before a write. The build, secure, observe, and storage servers change your account through the API.

FAQ

Only the ones the work needs. The docs server only reads. The build, secure, observe, and storage servers also create, change, and delete through the API, so each one widens what a conversation can do to your account. Add one entry per server, the same way as azion-docs, with its own URL.

Troubleshooting

Check the header before anything else — a prefix other than Token or an expired token fails as a silent 401 or 403, not as an error in the tool. Claude Desktop reads its configuration at startup, so quit it completely after every edit. Then read mcp-server-azion-docs.log: an npx that cannot be found means Node.js is not on the PATH that Claude Desktop sees.

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