{"version":"2.1.307","anchor":"mcp-menu-connect-on-claudeai-handoff-for-http-servers","canonical_anchor":"mcp-menu-connect-on-claudeai-handoff-for-http-servers","heading":"When MCP sign-in fails, Claude Code can hand off to claude.ai to connect the server","tier":"use","area":"MCP","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.307\/e\/mcp-menu-connect-on-claudeai-handoff-for-http-servers","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.307","markdown":"### When MCP sign-in fails, Claude Code can hand off to claude.ai to connect the server\n\nIf OAuth to an MCP server fails, both \/mcp and claude mcp login can now send you to claude.ai to connect it there instead\n\n**Unclear.** It is unclear which sign-in failures make this option appear.\n\n**What**\n\nMCP servers are outside services that give Claude extra tools. Some ask you to sign in through OAuth, a standard browser-based sign-in. When that sign-in fails, Claude Code can now offer to connect the server through claude.ai instead, where it becomes a claude.ai connector.\n\n- In the `\/mcp` menu, the server dialog can show a 'Connect on claude.ai' option for HTTP servers. It is selected by default when present. It opens your browser to a connect page, then checks with claude.ai ('Checking with claude.ai\u2026') whether the server is now connected there, and tells you the tools will load as a claude.ai connector the next time Claude Code starts.\n\n- In `claude mcp login`, if the OAuth flow fails, Claude Code now checks for the same handoff. It can print the connect link and optionally open it, and it clears saved sign-in data for the connector names. Before, the command only printed 'Couldn't complete authentication'.\n\n**Why**\n\nIf signing in to an MCP server from your own machine does not work, you now have another route: connect it on claude.ai and pick up its tools on your next start, instead of hitting a dead end.\n\n- Area: MCP\n- Names: `\/mcp`\n- Tier: Use it now\n- Useful: 4\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}