Connect RainMatch to Claude

Before you start

You need a RainMatch account. If you don't have one yet, sign up here first — it takes a couple of minutes.

The connector adds no new powers. It acts as you, and can only do what you can already do in the RainMatch app. Nothing is shared with Claude until you sign in and approve the connection, and you decide at that moment how much access to grant.

Connect from Claude web or desktop

1

Open your connector settings

In Claude, go to Settings → Connectors and choose Add custom connector. Custom connectors are available on Claude's paid plans.

2

Paste the RainMatch endpoint

Name it RainMatch and use this URL:

https://api.rainmatch.ai/v1/mcp

3

Sign in and approve

Click Connect. A browser tab opens on RainMatch where you sign in and review what you're granting. Approve it, and the tab closes itself — you never paste a password or an API key into Claude.

Connect from Claude Code

1

Add the server

Run this in your terminal:

claude mcp add --transport http rainmatch https://api.rainmatch.ai/v1/mcp

2

Authenticate

Start Claude Code, run /mcp, pick rainmatch, and choose Authenticate. The same browser approval flow opens. Once it completes, /mcp shows the connection as connected.

Paste the URL exactly as written, including the /v1/mcp path and with no trailing slash. RainMatch checks that the address you entered matches the one it publishes, character for character — a near miss stops the connection before the sign-in screen appears.

What Claude can access

The approval screen splits access in two, so you can grant reading without granting acting:

Permission	What it covers
`rainmatch:read`	Your profile, verified partners, sellers and projects, your own projects, your match feed, and your likes and partnerships.
`rainmatch:write`	Updating your base, partner and seller profiles; liking and unliking partners and projects; sending partnership requests and responding to the ones you receive.

Write access is an optional checkbox. If you leave it unchecked, the tools that change things are never handed to Claude at all — it can't see them, let alone call them. A read-only connection lists 12 tools instead of 19. You can reconnect later with write access if you change your mind.

Approving also issues a token that keeps the connection alive for 30 days of use without asking you to sign in again. Every day you use it slides that window forward.

Things to ask once you're connected

"Show me my matched projects and tell me which two are worth my time this week."

"Which partners match my project, and what does each one bring that the others don't?"

"Rewrite my partner profile headline to lead with my healthcare network."

"Summarize the partnership requests waiting on me and draft a reply to each."

"Find projects in fintech that need someone with enterprise sales relationships."

"Send a partnership request for the logistics project I liked yesterday."

Managing or removing the connection

Disconnect from Claude's connector settings at any time — access is revoked immediately, and Claude loses the ability to see or act on your RainMatch data the moment you do. In Claude Code, remove it entirely with:

claude mcp remove rainmatch

If a connection sits unused for 30 days it expires on its own, and reconnecting simply means approving once more.

Troubleshooting

The connector won't add. Check the URL character by character. The path /v1/mcp is required, and a trailing slash will break it.
Fewer tools than you expected. You most likely approved read access only. Disconnect, reconnect, and tick the write box.
No matches come back. Matching runs on a completed profile. Fill yours in inside the app, then ask again.
Still stuck? Get in touch and we'll take a look.

Use RainMatch inside Claude