Mural MCP: read and add to shared boards from your AI app

How to connect Mural to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

1. 1Click Connect Mural free and sign in with your Mural account.
2. 2Every Mural tool is on to start. Shared boards are your team's space, so switch off the writing tools if your AI app should read a mural and summarize it rather than add to it.
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 your AI app to read your retro board in Mural and group the sticky notes into themes, then open Activity to see the calls.

Workshop work with Mural from a chat

• Read every widget on a mural to summarize a workshop or retro.
• Add one or more sticky notes to a mural, such as action items from a meeting.
• List the files attached to a mural.
• Turn a plan from a chat into a visual on a shared board.

Shared boards, controlled writes

• Switch off sticky note creation and other writes; they're hidden from your AI app and refused if called.
• Policies check every call, so personal data on a board can be hidden from the AI app.
• Activity records each Mural call, so you know which boards an AI app read or changed.

What you get with Mural and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use MuralClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Mural through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Mural 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.

Mural tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in Mural. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.

• Create sticky noteTool to create one or more sticky note widgets on a mural. use when you need to add notes to a mural layout.
• Get current userTool to retrieve information about the currently authenticated user. use when you need current user details after authentication.
• Get files for a muralTool to retrieve a list of file widgets in a mural. use after confirming the mural id when listing file attachments.
• Get Mural WidgetsTool to retrieve all widgets within a specified mural. use after confirming the mural id is correct.
• MURAL Authorization RequestTool to initiate the oauth 2.0 authorization process. use when you need to redirect a user to mural to obtain an authorization code.