The Angelcam MCP Server connects Claude, ChatGPT, Grok Bot and other AI assistants to your Angelcam account. Ask in plain language whether a camera works right now, what it recorded at 3am, or what needs attention across a site, and your assistant answers from your own Angelcam data.
It works through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard AI assistants use to call tools in other services. You add one URL to your assistant, sign in with your Angelcam account, and that's it.
Note: The MCP Server is in beta: it works, but it can make mistakes. It's included in every paid Angelcam plan at no extra cost. New to Angelcam? Try it free for 3 weeks.
đŹ What you can ask
Ask the way you would ask a colleague. The assistant picks the right tools.
"Is the Front Door camera actually working right now?" The assistant pulls a fresh frame from the camera, not just the last status Angelcam recorded.
"Brief me on what needs attention at the site this morning." Offline cameras, stale snapshots, recording problems and incidents across the space.
"What did the loading bay camera record at 3am?" Frames from the footage around that moment, plus a link to play it back.
"Which cameras have gaps in their recordings from the last 24 hours?" Recorded segments and real gaps for each camera.
"Has any camera been moved or had its view blocked?" For cameras with defect detection set up, the result of each check and why it was reached.
"What Real Time Security incidents happened overnight?" What raised each incident, whether it is still open, and how it was verified.
If your assistant also has other tools connected, such as Slack or Asana, it can turn the answer into a message, a task or a daily briefing. Those actions happen in those tools, under their own permissions, not in Angelcam.
đ§ Want a recurring check? A gate left open at night, restaurant guest counts, a horse lying down, graffiti on a shopfront or waste left beside the bins: the AI camera guides walk you through each one in Claude, ChatGPT and Grok Bot.
Is the gate closed? One of the step-by-step guides: your assistant checks the yard gate every hour at night. Illustration.
â What it can and cannot do
It reads
Your spaces, locations and cameras, live and stored snapshots, live stream links, Cloud Recording (timelines, gaps, past frames, playback and download links), Real Time Security incidents, defect detection checks, and active services.
With Cloud Recording, your assistant can go back through the night and find when something changed, like new graffiti on a shopfront. Illustration.
It doesn't change your setup
It never arms or disarms locations, changes camera settings, or deletes cameras, recordings or anything else.
The one action it can take is to send feedback about a bug or a missing feature to the Angelcam team, only after you have agreed to what the report contains.
Want a connection that can never change anything?
Use the read-only URL below. It doesn't offer the feedback tool and can never change anything. This is the safer choice for a connector an admin adds for a whole organization, or for a cautious first try.
đ Connect your assistant
Pick one of two URLs:
Full connector: https://mcp.angelcam.com (reads, plus feedback)
Read-only connector: https://mcp.angelcam.com/readonly (reads only)
Claude
Free, Pro, Max: Customize â Connectors, click + then Add custom connector, paste the URL, then Add. The Free plan allows one custom connector.
Team, Enterprise: an Owner adds it once under Organization settings â Connectors â Add â Custom â Web. Members can't add it themselves; once it's there, each member finds it under Customize â Connectors (marked Custom) and clicks Connect.
ChatGPT
Paid plans, in the web app: open Plugins, click + and choose Add custom MCP server. Name it Angelcam, paste the URL as the server URL, choose OAuth, accept the warning and install it. ChatGPT calls it a plugin, but it's a private connection in your own account. On Business and Enterprise workspaces an admin may need to add it. (OpenAI moves these settings from time to time.)
Grok Bot
In a chat with the Bot that should run your checks, ask it to add a custom MCP server named Angelcam at the URL, using streamable HTTP. Complete the sign-in it opens.
Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and other clients
Claude Code: run
claude mcp add --transport http angelcam https://mcp.angelcam.comCursor, VS Code, Windsurf and others: one-click install buttons and config snippets are on mcp.angelcam.com. Any client that supports remote MCP servers over Streamable HTTP with OAuth works.
The consent page
When you connect, you first see a consent page. It shows which app is connecting and the permissions it will get, each with a checkbox, so you can untick the optional ones. Two boxes matter for most uses:
Pictures from your cameras sends snapshots to your assistant as images it can look at. Unticked, it gets links only and can't see the picture.
Cloud recordings gives access to recorded footage.
With âPictures from your camerasâ ticked, your assistant can see the scene itself, for example that a horse is lying flat. Illustration.
Click Allow access. If you are not signed in to MyAngelcam yet, you sign in first (email and password, Google or Apple sign-in all work); if you already are, you go straight back to your assistant. Your password is never shared with the AI assistant.
đ Security and privacy
Your account, your permissions. Every request uses your own Angelcam sign-in, so the assistant sees exactly what you see in MyAngelcam and nothing more.
Secure sign-in. The connection uses OAuth 2.1 with PKCE. To stop your assistant from using your account, disconnect the connector in your assistant.
Minimal logging. Audit logs record which tool ran and how it ended. They never record your prompts, email address, tokens or stream links.
Snapshots go to your AI provider. Snapshots you ask for are sent to your assistant as pictures, so the company that runs it (for example Anthropic, OpenAI or xAI) receives them under your own terms with that company. To keep pictures out, untick âPictures from your camerasâ when you connect.
đĄ Good to know
Spaces. If your account belongs to several spaces, each with its own cameras, the assistant asks which one you mean.
Shared cameras. Cameras another account shared with you live in that account's space, not yours. Tell the assistant a camera is shared with you, or ask "Which cameras are shared with me?"
Times are in UTC. Ask in your own time zone; the assistant converts it.
Recordings are read in windows. One lookup covers up to 24 hours of a recording timeline, and a download link up to 3 hours. For longer stretches the assistant splits the request.
Recordings need Cloud Recording. Footage questions only work for cameras with Cloud Recording.
About 30 requests a minute. Most questions take one to three. A long review may pause for a few seconds.
Snapshots in the chat. In Claude and ChatGPT a requested snapshot appears under the answer, with the camera name and time. Other assistants describe it instead.
đ ď¸ Troubleshooting
My assistant says the connector is not authorized
The sign-in usually expired or wasn't finished. Disconnect the connector in your assistant, connect it again and, if asked, sign in to MyAngelcam.
My assistant can't see what's in the picture
You probably unticked âPictures from your camerasâ on the consent page, so it gets links only. Disconnect, connect again and keep that box ticked.
I see no cameras, or the wrong ones
Ask the assistant to list your spaces and tell it which one to use. A camera missing in MyAngelcam is missing here too.
Still not working?
Check status.angelcam.com for an outage, then ask your assistant to send feedback to Angelcam, or email us.
â FAQ
Does it cost anything?
It's included in every paid Angelcam plan at no extra cost. New to Angelcam? Try it free for 3 weeks. See Angelcam plans, pricing, and free trial. It uses the services you already have, so footage questions still need Cloud Recording.
How is this different from the Angelcam API?
The Angelcam API is for code you write yourself. The MCP Server exposes the same platform as tools an AI assistant can use directly, under your own sign-in.
Does it replace the MyAngelcam dashboard?
No. MyAngelcam remains the place to manage your cameras and settings. The MCP Server makes everyday questions faster to answer.
Can I rely on the answers?
The MCP Server is in beta: it works, but it can make mistakes, and AI assistants can misread data. For security, compliance or incident response decisions, confirm important findings in MyAngelcam before acting.
The full tool list and setup options are kept up to date on mcp.angelcam.com.
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Found a bug or missing a feature? Ask your assistant to send feedback, or just say hello@angelcam.com.