Connect an AI assistant to HCode

Claude Code

Install the HCode plugin. It connects the hosted MCP server and adds the hcode skill and the /hcode:deploy command, which teach Claude how HCode builds and runs apps. Nothing runs on your machine: every tool call goes to HCode.

/plugin marketplace add https://hcode.hostafrica.com/docs/mcp/plugin/marketplace.json
/plugin install hcode@hostafrica

The plugin comes from this dashboard, so you don't need a GitHub account or git. You can also download it as a zip and load it with claude --plugin-dir hcode-claude-plugin.zip.

Then run /mcp, select plugin:hcode:hcode and sign in. If you added the server by hand before, Claude Code keeps using that entry instead of the plugin's, so remove it:

claude mcp remove hcode

Other clients

Add a remote MCP server with this URL, using the HTTP transport:

https://hcode.hostafrica.com/mcp

For Claude Code without the plugin:

claude mcp add --transport http hcode https://hcode.hostafrica.com/mcp

Sign in or use a key

Clients that support MCP sign-in open HCode in your browser, where you pick the organisation, the projects and the permissions. Standard automation selects everything needed to deploy and connect databases. Revoke a client from Integrations.

Clients that can't sign in send an API key as a bearer token. Include credential:read so the client can see which permissions it has.

A connection keeps the permissions it was given. When a tool says "Not available to this credential", revoke the client under Integrations and connect again, selecting the permission it names, or use a key that has it.

Tools

There are 79 tools, one for each API operation except log streams. Find them in the sidebar. Every client sees every tool; the ones its permissions don't allow say so in their description and name the permission they need. The MCP guide explains how they behave and the limits that apply.