MCP Quick Start Guide - Conductor Documentation

Getting Started with Conductor’s MCP

This quick start gives you an overview-level path from zero to your first useful conversation with Conductor’s MCP. It is intentionally LLM-agnostic—the same four steps apply whichever MCP-capable AI assistant you connect through. If any term is unfamiliar, skim Introduction to Conductor’s AI Connectors and What is an MCP tool? before you start.

Configure an MCP connection with your AI tool of choice

Before you can ask anything, your AI assistant needs a connection to Conductor’s MCP server. Each LLM does this a little differently—the underlying protocol is the same, but the UI and plan requirements vary. Pick the assistant you use and follow its setup article:

• ChatGPT & Codex
• Claude
• Copilot
• Perplexity

At a high level, each guide walks you through:

1. Verifying your plan and permissions
2. Adding a connector pointed at Conductor’s MCP URL
3. Authenticating with your Conductor account.

Once you’ve enabled the connector, your assistant can call Conductor’s MCP tools on your behalf.

Go shopping for skills

You don’t have to invent every prompt from scratch. Conductor maintains a library of skills—pre-built, tested prompt templates that take advantage of MCP tools to deliver a specific outcome (an audit, a competitive comparison, a board-ready summary, and more). Browse the Template Gallery to find skills that match the work you want to do. Useful starting points include:

• Introduction to using skills covers how skills work and how to run one with your assistant.
• Teach your LLM Conductor gives your assistant the vocabulary and context it needs to use Conductor data well.
• The gallery itself, filtered by persona or use case to narrow down.