Claude

Connect Claude to your Fishbowl once. After that, every new chat can read your Fishbowl data and propose changes for you to approve.

Before you start

You need	Notes
Your MCP server URL	ILC hosts ILC MCP and sends you the address. It looks like https://yourmcp.example.com/mcp — use the real one ILC sends you.
Your Fishbowl login	You sign in as yourself. It is never a shared key, and your Fishbowl permissions carry over.
A Claude account	At claude.ai.

Add the connector

1. From Customize, open Settings, then Connectors.
2. Open Add and choose Add custom connector.
3. Enter a name and paste your MCP server URL.
4. Select Add. Claude auto-detects the OAuth flow and ILC’s published identity (CIMD) on its own — there is nothing else to configure.

Sign in

You land on ILC’s sign-in page. Sign in with your own Fishbowl user and grant the scopes shown. The read-only tier grants sql:read and docs:read — read your Fishbowl data, and read prior-session notes plus search Fishbowl’s help. Reading is always allowed; any change still waits for your approval.

Ask your first question

Open a new chat and ask in plain language:

How many customers do we have?

The first time Claude uses a tool, it asks for your permission — choose Allow once. Claude then reads Fishbowl and answers from your live data. Every query is logged.

Note

The per-call permission prompt is Claude’s own behavior, not something ILC adds. It lets you see each tool the first time it runs.

Writing data

Reading never changes anything. When you ask for a change, Claude prepares it and hands you an approval link instead of writing directly — you review and run it yourself. See Using ILC MCP.

It carries over to Claude Code

You connect once. Sign in to Claude Code with the same account and the custom connector is already there. Re-authorize any time from claude.ai/customize/connectors.

Using a different tool? See ChatGPT.