Thinkific MCP is now available — connect your Thinkific school to Claude and ChatGPT and manage your school directly from your conversation. Use Thinkific MCP to find courses, check learner enrollments, look up learner profiles, and explore your product catalog without opening the Thinkific admin dashboard.
We are in the process of rolling this feature out, and it might not be available on your account. Stay tuned for full release!
What's New with the Thinkific MCP
- Connect your Thinkific school to an AI agent with a one-time authorization. No API keys or developer setup required.
- Manage your school at scale: use an AI agent to identify enrollment issues, audit content libraries, and work through learner management tasks that previously required manual one-by-one effort.
Applies to:
- Plan: Plus
- Role: Site Owner, Site Admin
What is MCP?
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI agents connect to external tools and data sources. When you connect Thinkific MCP to an AI agent like Claude or ChatGPT, the AI agent can read your school data directly, the same way it might connect to a calendar or a spreadsheet. You authorize the connection once, and the AI agent handles the rest.
How the Thinkific MCP Works
Managing a Thinkific school at scale involves a lot of context-switching: jumping between learner profiles, course lists, enrollment records, and product catalogs to answer a single question. Thinkific MCP brings all of that into one place using an AI agent, like Claude or ChatGPT. Instead of navigating the admin dashboard, you describe what you need in plain language and an AI agent retrieves it.
The connection is authorized once through a secure login flow. An AI agent uses this to retrieve information from your Thinkific school on your behalf. Your login credentials are never shared.
Access is currently read-only. An AI agent can search and retrieve your school data (courses, learners, enrollments, bundles, and products) but cannot modify records. Your Thinkific school data is not used to train AI models.
Explore the available tools here: Thinkific MCP.
Getting Started with Thinkific MCP
Follow these steps to get started with Thinkific MCP:
- How to Connect Thinkific to Claude
- How to Connect Thinkific to ChatGPT
- What Can You Do with Thinkific MCP?
- Troubleshooting Thinkific MCP
Important Considerations
- Thinkific MCP is available on Plus plans.
- This feature is currently in Beta and is available on Claude only. Connection to ChatGPT is coming soon.
- OAuth tokens can be revoked at any time from your Thinkific Integrations settings — revoking access immediately removes the AI agent's ability to read your school data.
- The MCP supports read operations only. An AI agent can find and retrieve information from your school, but cannot make changes to courses, enrollments, or learner records.
Using ChatGPT? Access to the Thinkific connector on ChatGPT is currently in Closed Beta (invitation only). If you've received an invite, see the ChatGPT setup guide at mcp.thinkific.com/docs/chatgpt.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can an AI agent see my billing or payment information?
No. Thinkific MCP does not give an AI agent access to billing, payment, or financial data. Access is limited to courses, learners, enrollments, bundles, and products. Explore the available tools here: Thinkific MCP.
Does Thinkific use my data to train AI models?
No. Thinkific does not train AI models. Your school data is used only to complete the tasks you ask an AI agent to perform. Learn more about Thinkific's Privacy Policy here: Privacy Policy. For information about how the AI agent you use handles session data, review their privacy policy.
Can I control which data an AI agent can access?
Yes. Access is controlled by the permissions granted during authorization. You can revoke access at any time from your Thinkific Integrations page, which immediately invalidates the token and removes all access. Learn more here: How to Connect Thinkific to Claude and How to Connect Thinkific to ChatGPT
What user roles is MCP available for? Can all user roles use MCP to connect an AI agent to Thinkific?
At the moment, only Site Owner and Site Admins can authorize an AI agent to connect with Thinkific. Since the authorization is per-user, MCP is not available to users with other roles.
Related Articles:
- Next step: How to Connect Thinkific to Claude
- Next step: How to Connect Thinkific to ChatGPT
- Related: What Can You Do with Thinkific MCP?
- Related: Troubleshooting Thinkific MCP