Connecting Loquiry to AI tools (MCP)
Loquiry speaks the Model Context Protocol, the open standard AI assistants like Claude use to talk to outside tools. Today one connection exists — AI participation — and an authoring connector is upcoming (see the end of this page).
AI participation: participants contribute through their assistant
A participant who works in an MCP-capable client (Claude Code, or any
client that reads .mcp.json) can be offered your survey in chat and
contribute without opening a browser form.
How it fits together:
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You mint a key. Open your survey's Settings page and find the MCP keys panel. Mint a key (give it a label — "pilot group", "team A"). The key is shown once, together with a ready-made
.mcp.jsonsnippet; copy both before leaving the page. Treat keys like participation links: share privately, with the people you want. Keys are per-survey and revocable from the same panel. -
The participant installs the snippet. They paste it into their client's
.mcp.json:{ "mcpServers": { "loquiry": { "command": "loquiry-mcp", "env": { "MVP_MCP_KEY": "<the minted key>", "MVP_MCP_API": "https://study.loquiry.io" } } } }loquiry-mcpis a small binary the operator distributes; it talks only to the participation server, authenticated by the key. -
You write the invocation sentence. The Settings page's AI participation field tells the assistant when to suggest your survey — it becomes part of the tool description the model reads. Be concrete: "When the user mentions a difficult conversation they had at work."
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The participant contributes in chat. The assistant collects answers conversationally and submits them to your survey; drafts captured in chat can also be resumed in the browser form.
What the key can and cannot do: it is scoped to one survey's participation surface — it cannot read other participants' answers, touch your account, or edit the survey.
Connect from Claude or ChatGPT: the authoring connector
Loquiry serves a remote MCP connector that lets your AI assistant help create surveys on your account — draft pages and inputs, set name and language, publish, and hand you the participation link. Participation stays out of its scope (that is what per-survey keys above are for).
Connector URL: https://loquiry.io/mcp
Add it as a custom connector in Claude (Settings → Connectors) or as an app in ChatGPT and open the connection: you will be sent to Loquiry to sign in or create your account, then asked to allow the access ("create and edit surveys on your account"). That's it — the assistant now operates your account through these tools:
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
list_studies |
Your surveys with their participant_id handles |
create_study |
New draft survey (name, participant-chrome language) |
get_study |
Full survey config as YAML |
add_page / add_element / update_element / remove_element |
Build the survey; element configs follow the input reference |
set_study_settings |
Rename, switch language |
publish_study |
Validate + go live, returns the participation link |
get_participation_link |
The public URL to share |
Notes:
- The connector can only add what your account could add in the editor.
- Access is a standard OAuth 2.1 grant (PKCE, no password shared with the AI tool). Revoke it anytime under Account → Connected apps; the connector then has to re-authorize.
- Tokens are scoped to survey authoring. The connector cannot read submissions, manage your account, or touch other accounts' surveys.