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December 17, 2025
Richard Bloor

Get started with MCPTotal and Claude

See how to sign up, add apps to an MCPTotal space, and use that space in Claude.

This get-started guide is designed for developers and power users who want to explore using MCPTotal's features from Claude. The guide details the process for integrating Slack and Gmail. It covers creating an account, adding the apps, and connecting to and using MCPTotal space from Claude. It uses the example of generating a summary of a Slack channel and emailing it using Gmail.

Note: If you've followed the Get started with MCPTotal guide, you can skip to the Connect to Claude step.

Prerequisites

To follow this how-to guide, you need a:

  • Slack account with a channel you want to summarize.
  • Gmail account.
  • A Claude subscription that enables you to add MCP servers, such as Claude Pro.

Sign up to MCPTotal

  1. On the MCPTotal homepage, click Sign Up for Free.
  2. Click Continue with Google, choose your Google account, and click Continue when prompted to Sign in to MCPTotal.

Tip: You can also sign up using your email. If you do, you're sent a verification link to create your account.

You now have free access to MCPTotal and can create up to 2 spaces, each with up to 5 apps.

Access your spaces

Spaces are the foundation of MCPTotal, providing secure, sandboxed runtime environments for your MCP applications. They include a built-in MCP gateway that monitors traffic for logging and security.

MCPTotal opens in your dashboard. To access your spaces:

  1. In the menu, click Spaces.
    The MCPTotal user dashboard highlights the Spaces option in the menu.
  2. To get you started, there is a default space. If you want to create a new space, click + New Space.
    A Spaces page with an empty default space highlights the new space button.

Add apps to your space

For this example, you add the Slack and Gmail apps. 

Add Slack

  1. In your space, click Add (or Browse Apps Catalog).
    The Spaces page shows a space without any apps add highlights the add button.
  2. In the search box, enter Slack. 
    The catalog list pop-up to enable an app to be added to a space shows a search for Slack.
  3. In the Slack tile, click Add.
  4. A pop-up displays information about the Slack MCP server.
  5. Click Connect to Slack and New Connection.
    The add app information pop-up provides details about the Slack app and shows the new connection option highlighted.
  6. If necessary, sign in to your Slack account.
  7. Slack provides information about the abilities you're granting to MCPTotal. Click Allow to grant the permissions.
    The allow app access to Slack page shows details of the workspace being connected to and a list of app permissions requested by MCPTotal. The allow button is highlighted
  8. Click Add.
    The add app information pop-up provides details about the Slack app, identifies the authorized connection, and shows the add option highlighted.

You see Slack added to your space.

The Spaces page shows the Slack app in a space with a blue tick indicating the app is connected, and a lozenge confirming the MCP server is verified.

Add Gmail

To add your second and any subsequent apps to your space:

  1. In your space, click Add.
    Tip: If Add is not visible in the space, you can also find it in the space's hamburger menu.
  2. In the catalog pop-up, enter Gmail in the search box.
  3. In the Gmail tile, click Add.
  4. A pop-up displays information about the Gmail MCP server.
  5. Click Connect to Gmail and New Connection.
  6. If necessary, sign in to or select your Gmail account.
  7. Gmail provides information about the abilities you're granting to MCPTotal. Click Allow to grant the permissions.
  8. Click Add.

You've now set up the MCP server resources you need to undertake your task. 

Connect to Claude

  1. In your space tile, click Connect and then Server Details.
    An MCPTotal space shows the connect drop-down menu open with the server details option highlighted.
  2. For Claude, you can use the default settings: Streamable HTTP mode and OAuth security.
  3. Hover over the endpoint field and click the copy icon to copy the endpoint URL.
    The Connect to Space pop-up shows the streamable HTTP mode and OAuth security options selected, and the resulting endpoint displayed. The cursor hovers over the copy endpoint icon.
  4. In Claude, click Customize in the sidebar menu, then Connectors.
  5. In Connectors, click the add icon, then Add custom connector.
    The Claude customize Connectors page with add custom connector highlighted.
  6. In the Add custom connector dialog, give your connector a name, then paste the endpoint URL into the remote MCP server URL field.
    The Claude Add custom connector pop-up shows a name and connector URL entered for a custom connector. The advanced settings option is closed.
  7. Click Add.
  8. Select the connection you added and click Connect.
    The Claude Connectors list shows the Connect button highlighted for a custom connector.
  9. In the Authorization Request dialog, click Approve.
    The MCPTotal authorization request dialog shows details of the space access is being requested to with a list of the apps included in the space. The approved button is highlighted.

Use your MCPTotal space

  1. Start a chat and enter "Summarize the topics discussed in the Slack #programming channel over the last six months and email the summary to [email address of your choice]".
  2. You see Claude retrieve the information from the Slack #programming channel and send the email. At each step, where a tool in the MCPTotal space is needed, the AI pauses to request your authorization.
    The Claude chat processing a prompt and shows a request to access Slack using the MCPTotal space.
    You can choose between always allowing and allowing once. You can change these options in your MCPTotal space or the connection's settings in Claude.

Review the channel summary in Gmail

  1. In Gmail, open your Sent folder and locate the email sent to your recipient.
  2. You find the email contains information about the topics discussed in the channel.

Conclusion

In this how-to, you've seen how to create a sandbox space in MCPTotal, add apps to that space, and then make use of it in Claude to perform a helpful task.

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