Connect AI Collection to Claude, Cursor, and other AI assistants

You can now plug AI Collection directly into your AI assistant. Instead of asking Claude or Cursor to guess which AI tools exist, your assistant can search 2000+ curated tools, fetch details, and find alternatives — right from inside the conversation.

This works through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard that lets any compatible AI assistant connect to external data sources. AI Collection now publishes an MCP server at https://thataicollection.com/mcp with six tools your assistant can call automatically.

What your assistant can do

• Search the directory — "Find me an AI tool for video editing"
• Look up a specific tool — "Tell me about Midjourney"
• Browse categories — "What's in the image-generation category?"
• Find alternatives — "What's similar to Midjourney?"
• Get curated picks — "What are the top AI tools you recommend?"
• List all categories — "What categories does AI Collection cover?"

Every result includes the canonical link back to the application's page on AI Collection, so you can dig in further.

Connect it to your assistant

Claude Desktop

Open ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows). Add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-collection": {
      "url": "https://thataicollection.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. The tools appear under the connectors menu.

Cursor

In Cursor settings, open Features → MCP and add a new server:

• Name: AI Collection
• Type: http
• URL: https://thataicollection.com/mcp

Continue

Add to your ~/.continue/config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": [
    { "name": "ai-collection", "url": "https://thataicollection.com/mcp" }
  ]
}

Claude.ai (web)

Open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector and paste:

https://thataicollection.com/mcp

NSFW content

By default the MCP server filters out the NSFW category to match the safer-by-default posture of most assistants. If you're using an assistant that permits NSFW content, every relevant tool accepts an includeNSFW: true argument the assistant can pass through.

What's next

We're listing AI Collection on the public MCP directories — mcp.so, smithery.ai, and glama.ai. If you find AI Collection useful in your assistant, an upvote on any of those goes a long way.

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