What is MCP (Model Context Protocol)?
MCP is an open standard created by Anthropic that lets AI assistants like Claude and Cursor actually do things in the real world — not just chat. It's how AI tools connect to external services: databases, APIs, platforms, and now your Skool community.
Think of it as giving your AI assistant hands. Instead of copying content from ChatGPT and pasting it into Skool, you say "Schedule this post for Thursday at 9am" and it happens. That's MCP.
The Problem: AI Can't Touch Skool
You're probably already using AI to write community posts, generate engagement prompts, and plan content calendars. But here's where the workflow breaks:
The Copy-Paste Gap
- No native Skool MCP. Skool doesn't offer MCP support. AI tools can't connect to your community directly.
- No official Skool API. There's no first-party API to build integrations against. The third-party API is limited to basic webhooks.
- Manual publishing. You generate content in AI, then manually copy-paste to Skool. Every. Single. Time.
- No calendar awareness. Your AI has no idea what's already scheduled, when gaps exist, or what spaces you have.
- Can't batch operations. Scheduling 20 posts means 20 separate manual operations in Skool's interface.
What It Looks Like in Practice
Once StickyHive's MCP server is connected, your AI conversations become actionable:
Example: Planning next week's content in Claude
get_available_slots. You have posts scheduled Monday 9am and Wednesday 2pm, but nothing Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday. That's 3 open slots with good engagement windows at 9am and 12pm.• Tue 9am: "What's the biggest win you had this week?" (engagement prompt)
• Thu 9am: "3 frameworks I use for..." (value post)
• Fri 9am: "Weekend challenge: try this one thing..." (action prompt)
All scheduled in your Community space. Want me to adjust any of them?
89 MCP Tools for Full Skool Control
StickyHive's MCP server exposes 89 purpose-built tools across ten groups — giving AI assistants complete access to your Skool operations, lead pages, and social accounts:
Workspace (3 tools)
The starting point for every conversation — see what's connected, load extra tools, and check on background jobs.
Get workspace overview
Your communities, spaces, defaults, and recent drafts in one call. When you have only one community or space, other tools no longer need you to name it.
Load more tools
Load extra tools for a group — scheduling, courses, lead pages, workflows, and more — into the current conversation and refresh the client's tool list.
Check a background job
Check on a background job started by a queued tool, such as a Skool write or a file upload: queued, working, completed, or failed, with the result when it's done.
Post Scheduling (9 tools)
Create & Schedule Posts
Create posts with title, content, scheduling time, pin settings, poll options, and auto-first-comment — all in one call.
Find Calendar Gaps
AI-powered calendar intelligence: finds open time slots in any space, respecting minimum gaps between posts.
Batch Schedule Content
Schedule multiple draft posts at once with even spacing. Turn a week of content ideas into a scheduled calendar in seconds.
View Your Queue
Filter scheduled posts by status, date range, space, or draft state. Full visibility into what's coming up.
Reschedule Posts
Move posts to new times instantly. Great for responding to community events or adjusting your strategy.
Instant Publish
Bypass the schedule and publish immediately. Perfect for time-sensitive content or breaking news in your niche.
Edit Before Publishing
Modify title, content, space, time, or settings of any pending post. Iterate on content before it goes live.
Remove Posts
Clean up drafts or cancel scheduled posts that are no longer relevant.
Browse Spaces
See all available community spaces (posting destinations) across your connected Skool groups.
Community Management (3 tools)
Discover Communities & Spaces
List all connected communities with their spaces, member counts, and platform details. The starting point for any community operation.
Read About Page
Fetch the current landing page description shown on your Skool group's public about page — the long-form marketing copy visible to non-members.
Update About Page
Rewrite and publish a new landing page description directly from your AI assistant. Supports multi-paragraph formatting with newlines.
Synced Community Content (4 tools)
Read the posts and comments StickyHive has already synced from your community feed — separate from the posts you schedule.
List community posts
List synced community posts, filtered by space, community, author, or date, a page at a time.
Get a community post
Get one synced community post with its full content.
List community comments
List synced comments, scoped to one post or across the community, a page at a time.
Get a community comment
Get one synced comment with its full content.
Community Health Audit (3 tools)
Data-driven lifecycle diagnostics across 8 stages — positioning, seeding, on-ramp, onboarding, engagement, connection, retention, and rescue. Find what's broken and where to fix it first.
Full Health Audit
Get the overall health score, maturity assessment, first broken link in the lifecycle chain, severity-sorted tab summaries, and recommended priority fix.
Drill Into a Broken Area
Deep-dive into a specific lifecycle tab with full metrics, insights, and actionable recommendations. Use after the overview audit to fix the weakest link.
Refresh community audit
Queue a fresh run of the full community health audit. It returns right away, and the new results show up in the audit once the run finishes.
Workflow Automation (14 tools)
Build trigger-condition-action automations that run on autopilot — welcome new members, send DMs on events, assign roles, and more.
Create Workflows
Build custom automations with triggers (member joined, post created, etc.), conditions, and actions (send DM, assign role, etc.).
View All Workflows
See all workflows for a community with their status, trigger types, and run statistics.
Workflow Details
Get full configuration, run history, and performance stats for any workflow.
Dry-Run & Preview
Test a workflow with sample data to preview what actions would fire — without actually executing them.
Manual Trigger
Trigger a workflow on demand for specific members or events, outside the normal automation schedule.
Trigger & Action Registry
Discover all available triggers, actions, conditions, and operators for building workflows on any platform.
Update, Toggle & Delete
Modify workflow configuration, daily limits, or enable/disable workflows instantly. Deleted workflows keep their history so members are never contacted twice.
Exclusion Rules
Prevent specific members from triggering workflows. Manage who gets excluded from automations.
Run History & Retry
View execution logs for any workflow and retry failed runs to ensure nothing slips through the cracks.
DM Sequences (11 tools)
Multi-step direct message campaigns with delays, branching, and enrollment tracking — built for onboarding, nurturing, and re-engagement.
Build DM Sequences
Create multi-step message sequences with delays, conditions, and branching logic for member onboarding or nurturing.
Enroll Members
Add members to a sequence manually or let workflows auto-enroll them. Each member progresses through steps independently.
Track Enrollments
See who's enrolled, what step they're on, and filter by active, paused, completed, or exited status.
Manage Enrollments
Pause, resume, or cancel individual enrollments. Fine-grained control over each member's journey.
Simulate & Preview
Dry-run a sequence to preview all messages and timing without sending anything. Validate before launching.
Step Type Discovery
See all available step types for building sequences: DM, delay, condition, branch, and more.
View & Inspect
List all sequences with enrollment stats, or dive into a specific sequence to see its steps and configuration.
Full Lifecycle Control
Update sequence steps and settings, enable/disable, or soft-delete sequences you no longer need.
Course Management (13 tools)
Full classroom CRUD — create courses, build sections, add pages with rich content and video, reorder, publish/unpublish, and upload media.
Browse Courses
List all courses in a community with their structure, publish status, and metadata. The starting point before creating or editing content.
Create Courses
Create new courses with title, description, cover image, privacy, and tier settings. Cover images are auto-uploaded to Skool.
Add Sections
Create module folders to organize pages into logical groups within a course.
Add Pages & Lessons
Create pages directly in a course or inside a section. Pages hold your actual content — text, video, resources.
Write Rich Content
Update page content with rich text (headings, lists, code blocks, images, links), embed YouTube videos, and add transcripts.
Read Course Content
Fetch full course structure with all sections and pages, or read specific page content including rich text and video data.
Reorder Content
Drag-and-drop equivalent: move pages or sections to new positions within their parent container.
Publish & Draft
Toggle visibility of courses, sections, or individual pages. Keep content in draft until it's ready for members.
Upload Media
Upload images from any URL to Skool's storage for use as course covers or inline images in page content.
Edit & Delete
Update a course's title, description, cover image, privacy, or tier — or delete a course, section, or page you no longer need. Deletes are irreversible.
Lead Pages (12 tools)
Build, publish, and track lead capture pages hosted by StickyHive — start from a template, edit the page and its form, and read submissions and analytics.
List lead pages
List your lead pages with title, slug, status, public URL, submission count, and an analytics summary. Filter by draft, published, or archived.
Get a lead page
Get a lead page's full details: its content, SEO settings, forms, and public URL.
List lead page templates
Browse pre-built templates to start from a proven design: webinar, ebook, challenge, community, sales, coaching, course, event, coming soon, link in bio, thank you, quiz, survey, and blank.
Get lead page analytics
Views, unique visitors, submissions, conversion rate, and payment stats, with a daily breakdown for the last 30 days by default.
Create a lead page
Create a new page as a draft, optionally from a template. A lead capture form is added automatically.
Edit lead page settings
Change a page's title, slug, SEO settings, or custom code.
Edit lead page content
Replace a page's HTML and CSS. If the page is live, it's rebuilt automatically.
Publish a lead page
Make a page public at its URL. The page is compiled and a preview image is generated.
Unpublish a lead page
Take a page offline and return it to draft.
Delete a lead page
Permanently delete a page with all its forms, submissions, quizzes, and analytics. This cannot be undone.
Edit a lead page form
Configure the form's fields, submit action, redirect URL, success message, webhook, and CRM sync.
List lead page submissions
See captured form data such as name and email, with UTM parameters and timestamps.
Social Posts (17 tools)
Draft, schedule, and publish posts to Instagram, Facebook Pages, Threads, TikTok, and LinkedIn from the same conversation. AI-created posts start as drafts; scheduling and publishing only work if you grant publishing access when you connect.
List social accounts
Your connected social accounts with their health (connected or needs reconnecting), timezone and current local time, capabilities, and next free queue slots.
Get a social account
One account with its posting quota. For TikTok, it also lists the privacy options to choose from.
Get posting rules
Posting rules per network: post types, caption limits, media limits and formats, first-comment support, and network-specific options.
List social posts
Social posts, newest first, with each account's status, time, link, and error. Filter by status, account, platform, or scheduled time range.
Get a social post
One social post with every account's status, scheduled time, link, first comment, and error.
Check a social post
Check a post without saving it — caption, media fit, and required options — and get per-account errors before you schedule.
Get media
A media item's status (processing, ready, or failed), size, length, and which network formats it fits.
Create a social post draft
Create a post as a draft for one or more accounts. It never publishes on its own.
Edit a social post
Change a post's caption, media, first comment, or target accounts. Accounts it has already gone out to stay as they were.
Import media from a URL
Copy a public image or video into StickyHive for social posts. Drafts can use it right away; it's ready to schedule once processing finishes.
Start a media upload
Get a signed URL to upload a file directly, with multipart uploads for files over 100 MB.
Finish a media upload
Finish an upload started with social_create_media_upload so the file can be processed.
Delete a social post
Delete a post that hasn't gone out to any account yet. Any scheduled sends are cancelled.
Schedule a social post
Schedule a draft for a specific time — in each account's own timezone by default — or into each account's next free queue slot. Everything is checked first, and it tells you why if it can't schedule.
Publish a social post now
Publish a post to its accounts immediately. Your AI assistant confirms the caption, media, and accounts with you first.
Unschedule a social post
Take scheduled or failed accounts of a post back to draft.
Retry failed accounts
Resend a post to only the accounts that failed, now or at a new time. Accounts it already went out to are never sent twice.
Setup in 5 Minutes: Add Skool to Claude as a Custom Connector
Connect Skool
Sign up for StickyHive and connect your Skool community with our Chrome extension. 2-minute setup.
Add a Custom Connector
In Claude, go to Customize → Connectors, click + Add, choose Add custom connector and paste https://stickyhive.ai/mcp/.
Sign In and Approve
Claude sends you to StickyHive to sign in and approve access. No API key or config file needed.
Start Talking
Ask your AI to schedule posts, check your calendar, or batch-publish content. All in natural language.
Using Cursor, Windsurf or another MCP client? Create an API key in StickyHive under Settings → Developer and add the server to your client's MCP config. Full walkthrough: connect Claude to Skool.
{
"mcpServers": {
"stickyhive": {
"url": "https://stickyhive.ai/mcp/",
"transport": "sse",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer hm_live_your_api_key_here"
}
}
}
}
What Community Managers Use It For
Weekly Content Batching
Generate a full week of engagement posts with AI and schedule them all in one conversation. No more daily manual posting.
Calendar Gap Analysis
Ask AI to identify gaps in your content calendar and suggest content to fill them. Never miss a posting day.
Launch Coordination
Schedule announcement posts, teaser content, and follow-ups across multiple spaces for product/course launches.
Content Repurposing
Take a long-form post and have AI split it into multiple shorter posts, then schedule them across the week.
Emergency Rescheduling
Plans change. Tell AI to move everything around when your schedule shifts.
Draft Review & Publishing
Review your draft queue with AI, get improvement suggestions, then schedule the approved ones.
Automated Member Onboarding
Create a workflow that triggers when someone joins, then auto-enrolls them in a DM sequence with a welcome message, day-3 check-in, and day-7 resource share.
Engagement-Based DM Campaigns
Build DM sequences that nurture inactive members back into your community with multi-step outreach and tracking.
Workflow Testing & Iteration
Dry-run automations with sample data to preview what would happen, then iterate before going live.
Community Health Diagnostics
Run a lifecycle audit to find the first broken link in your community funnel, then drill into the weakest area with metrics and recommendations.
About Page Rewrites
Read your current landing page copy, rewrite it with AI for better positioning, and publish the update without leaving your chat.
Skool MCP vs. Other Approaches
How does MCP-based community management compare to the alternatives available today?
| Capability | StickyHive MCP | Manual Skool | Third-Party API | Zapier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI-native interface (natural language) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Schedule posts | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Create posts programmatically | ✓ | ✗ | Basic | ✗ |
| Content calendar intelligence | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Bulk scheduling | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Works with Claude/Cursor | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Workflow automation | ✓ (14 tools) | ✗ | ✗ | Basic |
| DM sequences | ✓ (11 tools) | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Community management | ✓ (3 tools) | ✓ (manual) | Basic | ✗ |
| Community health audits | ✓ (3 tools) | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| About page management | ✓ | ✓ (manual) | ✗ | ✗ |
| Polls & pinning | ✓ | ✓ (manual) | ✗ | ✗ |
| OAuth 2.1 security | ✓ | N/A | API key | ✓ |
| No coding required | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
Connect AI to Your Skool Community
Stop copy-pasting between ChatGPT and Skool. Give your AI assistant direct access to schedule, publish, automate workflows, and run DM campaigns.
✓ 89 MCP tools across scheduling, workflows, DMs, courses, lead pages, social posts, audits & communities
✓ Works with Claude, Cursor, and any MCP client
✓ Also available via n8n, REST API, and OpenClaw
✓ OAuth 2.1 secure authentication
✓ Setup in 5 minutes, no coding
✓ 14-day free trial
Free for 14 days • Works with any Skool community • MCP access included on all plans
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Skool MCP?
Skool MCP refers to a Model Context Protocol server that connects AI assistants (like Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible tool) to Skool communities. Since Skool has no official API or MCP support, StickyHive built the first MCP server that lets you manage your Skool community through natural language conversations with AI.
Does Skool have native MCP support?
No. Skool does not offer native MCP support or an official first-party API. StickyHive provides the first and only MCP server for Skool, enabling AI tools like Claude and Cursor to schedule posts, manage calendars, and automate publishing in your community.
How do I connect Claude to my Skool community?
Connect your Skool community to StickyHive (2-minute setup with the Chrome extension). Then add StickyHive to Claude as a custom connector: go to Customize → Connectors, click + Add, choose Add custom connector, paste https://stickyhive.ai/mcp/ and sign in to approve access. It works on claude.ai, Claude Desktop and the Claude mobile apps. Then ask Claude to schedule posts, find open calendar slots, or publish content in plain language.
What can I do with the Skool MCP server?
StickyHive's MCP server provides 89 tools across ten groups: 17 for social posts (draft, schedule, and publish to Instagram, Facebook, Threads, TikTok, and LinkedIn), 14 for workflow automation (create trigger-condition-action rules, test, run manually, manage exclusion rules, view run history), 13 for course management (create courses, sections, pages with rich content, reorder, publish/unpublish, upload media), 12 for lead pages (create from templates, edit content and forms, publish, read analytics and submissions), 11 for DM sequences (build multi-step campaigns, enroll members, track progress, simulate runs), 9 for post scheduling (create, update, delete, reschedule, publish, find calendar slots, bulk-schedule), 3 for workspace setup (one-call overview, loading more tools, checking background jobs), 3 for community management (list communities, get and update about page descriptions), 4 for synced community content (read posts and comments from your feed), and 3 for community health audits (overall lifecycle score, per-tab drill-down, and refresh). All accessible through natural language in any MCP-compatible AI tool.
Is Skool MCP better than using the Skool API?
Skool has no official first-party API. The third-party SkoolAPI offers basic webhooks and member endpoints but can't schedule posts, automate workflows, or run DM sequences. StickyHive's MCP server provides 89 AI-native tools covering scheduling, workflow automation, DM sequences, course management, lead pages, social posts, community management, and health audits — capabilities no other integration offers for Skool.
Which AI tools work with StickyHive's Skool MCP?
Any MCP-compatible AI client works, including Claude Desktop, Cursor IDE, Windsurf, Cline, and other tools that support the Model Context Protocol. The server uses standard OAuth 2.1 authentication and SSE transport, so any compliant client can connect.
Do I need to be technical to use MCP?
Not really. If you can use Claude Desktop or Cursor, you can use MCP. Setup is adding a server URL to your AI tool's settings. After that, everything is natural language — just ask your AI to schedule posts, and it does it. No coding, no terminal commands, no API calls to write.
Is my community data safe?
Yes. The MCP server uses OAuth 2.1 authentication (the same security standard used by Google, Microsoft, etc.). In Claude you sign in to StickyHive and approve access, and you can disconnect anytime from Claude's Connectors list. Other MCP clients authenticate with an API key from your StickyHive account. We never store your Skool password, and all data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
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