Clerk MCP: auth snippets and user management in your AI app

Get Clerk's authentication docs, SDK snippets and quickstart guides in your editor, and manage your Clerk applications, users and production setup from the same chat. ContextGate connects Clerk's MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, where you can keep the docs and snippets, switch off user changes, and trace each call in Activity.

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Connect Clerk to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

  1. 1Click Connect Clerk free and sign in with your Clerk account.
  2. 2Docs and snippets are low risk to keep. Tools that change users or your production setup are worth switching off for most AI apps.
  3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
  4. 4Ask Cursor for the Clerk SDK snippet that protects a route in your app, then open Activity to see the call.

Add authentication with Clerk from your editor

  • Pull Clerk SDK snippets into the file you're working on.
  • Follow a Clerk quickstart guide step by step with your AI app.
  • Look up authentication docs when a sign-in flow misbehaves.
  • Manage your Clerk applications and users.

Users and production, behind a switch

  • Switch off the user and production-setup tools; they're hidden from AI apps and refused if called.
  • A policy can hide user emails and block secret keys pasted into a request.
  • Activity records each call, so a change to a user can be traced.

What you get with Clerk and ContextGate

  • Your AI apps can use ClerkClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Clerk through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
  • You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Clerk tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
  • Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

Clerk tools

Clerk's own MCP server shows its tools once you sign in. When you connect it, they are listed and synced in your workspace.