Connect Claude, Cursor, and Other AI Tools to Your Academy

Connect any MCP-compatible AI tool to your academy to read, search, and edit course content live, with no copy and paste.

If you already use Claude or Cursor, you can connect it directly to one of your academies. The connection lets that assistant browse your courses, read and search lessons, and save edits as drafts without repeated copying and pasting.

This is an optional advanced setup. You do not need it to use Fayne’s built-in lesson AI. The connection standard is called MCP, which is why your AI tool labels this area “MCP” or “Connectors.”

You choose the academy during sign-in. The connected assistant can work only in that academy. Lesson text changes save to drafts, but deleting lessons or changing the course structure affects the live course immediately.

What your AI tool can do

After connecting, your assistant gains a set of tools scoped to your academy:

Browse courses

List every course in your academy and read a course outline: each lesson’s title, order, and length.

Read and search lessons

Open any lesson block by block, or run a full-text search across every lesson title and body in a course.

Edit lessons

Make surgical, block-level edits or rewrite a whole lesson. Edits are saved to your draft, never published automatically.

Create and remove

Create a new course or lesson, or remove a lesson you no longer need. Plan limits are enforced just like in the dashboard.

Search your knowledge

Ground new content in your own material by searching the sources you have added to your academy’s knowledge base.

Before you start

1. You have a Fayne account with an academy

   You sign in with your normal Fayne login during setup, then pick which academy to connect. If you manage more than one academy, you choose one per connection.

2. You use an MCP-compatible AI tool

   Claude (desktop and web), Claude Code, and Cursor all support remote MCP servers. Other clients need support for remote MCP over HTTP and OAuth. Availability and setup depend on your client and workspace settings.

The connection URL

Every client connects to the same address:

https://mcp.fayneos.com/mcp

There is no API key to copy or paste. The first time your client connects, it opens a browser window where you log in to Fayne and choose which academy to connect. Your client stores the resulting access securely and reuses it on every future request.

Connect your tool

Claude

Works in both the Claude desktop app and Claude on the web.

1. Open Connectors

   Go to Settings > Connectors and click Add custom connector.

2. Add the Fayne server

   Give it a name like Fayne and paste the connection URL:

   https://mcp.fayneos.com/mcp
   

   Click Add.

3. Sign in and pick your academy

   Claude opens a Fayne sign-in window. Log in, choose which academy to connect, and click Allow. The connector now shows as connected.

4. Use it in a chat

   Start a new conversation and ask Claude to work with your academy, for example: “List the courses in my academy and summarize the outline of the first one.”

Claude Code

Add the server from your terminal with the http transport:

claude mcp add --transport http fayne https://mcp.fayneos.com/mcp

Then start Claude Code and run /mcp to begin authentication. A browser window opens where you log in to Fayne and choose your academy. Once it shows as connected, Claude Code can call the Fayne tools directly.

Add --scope project to share the connection with your team through a checked-in .mcp.json, or --scope user to make it available across all of your own projects. Each teammate still signs in with their own Fayne account.

Cursor

1. Open MCP settings

   Go to Settings > MCP and click Add new MCP server.

2. Add the Fayne server

   Add Fayne as an HTTP server. In your mcp.json, that looks like:

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "fayne": {
         "url": "https://mcp.fayneos.com/mcp"
       }
     }
   }
   
3. Sign in and pick your academy

   Cursor prompts you to authenticate. A browser window opens where you log in to Fayne and choose your academy. The server then shows a green dot in MCP settings.

One connection is scoped to one academy. To work with a second academy, add a second connection and choose that academy when you sign in.

How edits stay safe

Letting an AI tool write to your live academy sounds risky, so Fayne builds in guardrails.

Review lesson drafts

Lesson text changes save to drafts for you to review and publish. Deleting a lesson or reorganizing modules changes the live course, including the order used for drip availability.

Conflict protection

Fayne checks for concurrent changes during a lesson save. Ask your assistant to read immediately before editing, avoid editing the same lesson in two places at once, and have it re-read before retrying a conflict.

Scoped access

A connection can only touch the single academy you chose at sign-in. It cannot see your other academies or any other owner’s content.

Plan limits enforced

Creating courses and lessons respects the same plan limits as the dashboard. Write requests are limited to 100 per 60 seconds per credential. A locked academy remains read-only.

Tips for good results

• Ask it to read before it writes. “Read lesson 3, then tighten the introduction” produces better edits than asking blind. Your tool is built to read first, but naming the lesson helps it target the right one.
• Point it at your knowledge base. If you have added sources to your academy, ask the assistant to ground a draft in them: “Draft a lesson on discovery calls using my frameworks.”
• Use the built-in prompts. Most clients surface Fayne’s ready-made prompts (draft a lesson, critique a lesson, expand an outline) in their prompt or slash-command menu.
• Review before publishing. Open the lesson in the Fayne editor, read the AI’s changes, and publish when you are happy. The block editor shows exactly what changed.

Lessons you add from the Explore Library become your academy’s own copies. Edits made through a connected tool change your copy only, never the Explore Library or any other academy. See Explore Library for how copies work.

Troubleshooting

The browser sign-in window never appears

Your client may have cached a failed attempt. Remove the Fayne server from your client and add it again. In Claude Code, run claude mcp remove fayne and re-add it, then run /mcp to retry authentication.

The tool says it cannot find my course or lesson

Connections are scoped to a single academy. Confirm you chose the right academy during sign-in. If you picked the wrong one, remove the connection and add it again, then select the correct academy.

My edits are not showing up for students

Lesson text changes are saved as drafts. Open the lesson in the Fayne editor and publish it. Deletion and course-structure changes take effect immediately.

I get a rate limit or plan limit error

Write requests are limited to 100 per 60 seconds per credential, and course and lesson creation respects your plan limits. For a rate limit, wait for the interval shown in the error. For a plan limit, review your usage in Fayne.

Example requests

Use course and lesson names from your own academy:

• “Show me the courses in my academy.”
• “Create a draft course called Client Onboarding with exactly three lessons. Reuse the initial blank lesson.”
• “Read the Attribution lesson in Marketing Metrics, then add a Common mistakes section without removing the existing content.”
• “Group all lessons in Marketing Metrics into Acquisition and Measurement modules without deleting any lessons.”
• “Find how I explain customer acquisition cost in my other courses.”
• “Search my knowledge sources for the client discovery framework, then read the matching source.”

Creating a course also creates one blank lesson. Ask your assistant to reuse it when you want an exact lesson count.

What the connection can access

The assistant can read course outlines, module titles, lesson content, course-page descriptions and authoring-enabled knowledge sources in the academy you authorize. Responses include the identifiers and authoring details needed to locate and edit that content. Source reads may be shortened when a document is long.

The connector has no tools for member records, learner practice responses, payment records, pricing settings or deleting whole courses. Personal information you put in course text or knowledge sources can still be returned to your connected assistant. Only enable a source for authoring when you want it available for these workflows; see Knowledge.

Fayne records activity information for security and support, including the tool called, time, outcome and request metadata. New MCP activity logs exclude search text, titles and lesson bodies. Historical logs can include course titles and search terms. MCP activity logs have a 90-day retention period, with expired records removed by an hourly cleanup. Your assistant provider processes the content it receives under its own privacy policy. See Fayne’s privacy policy for Fayne’s data-handling and retention terms.

Disconnect or revoke access

Remove the Fayne connection in your assistant’s settings to stop using it there. Removing a connection does not delete content the assistant provider has already retained.

In Fayne, open Settings > MCP server > Your connected assistants, choose the assistant and select Disconnect. This revokes its current access and refresh tokens. You can connect it again later.

For a headless connection, revoke its access token in the Access tokens section of the same page. If you cannot access your settings, contact Fayne support; include the assistant and academy name, but never send an access token or password.

Get help

For setup problems, missing courses, failed edits or access-revocation requests, visit Fayne support. Include the assistant name, approximate time and error message, without private lesson content or credentials.