livehuddle has an MCP server, so you can connect it to an AI tool you already use, like Claude, and then find, view, create, and edit your spaces from inside that tool. Point the AI at a codebase and ask for a control-flow diagram, or ask it to tweak an existing one, and the result is saved to your account.
You need an account
Connecting an AI tool is a signed-in-only feature, the same as API tokens and teams. The space, sharing, and real-time collaboration stay account-free for guests, but driving your spaces programmatically is an advanced, opt-in capability that needs an account.
Connecting
In your AI tool, add a connector (an MCP server) pointing at https://mcp.livehuddle.app/mcp. Connecting AI Tools has the steps for Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and others. The first time, your tool opens a livehuddle page titled Connect followed by the tool's name (you'll sign in first if you aren't already). It says which site the access will be sent to: only continue if you recognise it. Choose Connect to approve, or Cancel.
Approving creates an API token behind the scenes and hands it to your tool. From then on the connection just works. The token is an ordinary API token: it appears with your other tokens on liveworkspace.app, named after the tool, and you can revoke it there any time to disconnect the tool. Like all tokens, it lasts six months; reconnecting the tool then creates a fresh one.
What the AI can do
The connection gives your AI tool these tools:
- Find spaces: search your spaces by name, across your personal library and the shared libraries of every team you belong to.
- Read a space: get a tab's contents as a text outline, and a picture of it when the AI asks for one.
- List templates: browse the same hand-tuned template library the editor's template starts offer.
- Create a space: turn a request into a new space, with one tab or several. A tab can start from a template: ask for "a retrospective" and the AI can lay down the curated scaffold, then fill in your content.
- Add a tab: add another tab (its own space) to an existing space, for example a detail view of one part. Tabs can start from a template too.
- Update a space: rework a whole tab or make a small adjustment.
- Share a space: turn a space into a share link to hand to someone. Unless you ask for another level, the AI makes a Participant link: people can add stickies, write and vote, but not reshape the board.
- Rename a space and Delete a space: tidy your library from the AI tool, a whole space or a single tab. Deleting a space moves it to the Trash; deleting a tab removes it for good.
- List the Trash and Restore a space: bring back something deleted by mistake, by you or by the AI.
- Search icons and List images: find an icon by what it shows, and find a picture you uploaded to your image gallery, so the AI can put them on the canvas.
For building the picture, the AI can just describe the graph (the nodes and what connects to what) and livehuddle lays it out, so the tool doesn't have to work out coordinates. It only needs to say what exists and what links to what, or hand over the same thing as Mermaid text (a flowchart or a state diagram). It can group related boxes into labelled sections and choose a flow, a tree, lanes or a cycle. Box labels are kept to short headings: when the AI writes a long sentence, the box shows the heading and the full text goes into the box's note, so a chatty AI doesn't fill your board with paragraphs.
Beyond plain boxes and arrows, the AI can fill in sticky notes (in the sticky colours), tables, code blocks, swimlanes, and bar, line, and pie charts. Your AI tool may also surface a few ready-made prompts ("Set up a session", "Flowchart from steps" and "Show my Space") as quick actions, so you don't have to know the tool names.
When the AI changes a space you have open, you see it happen: the change arrives on your canvas straight away, outlined for a moment in your colour, and a note at the bottom says what changed. Show takes you to it and Undo puts it back (your own Undo shortcut only ever undoes your own edits). Anything you change at the same time is kept. To review or undo a change after its note has gone, see Reviewing and Undoing an Agent's Changes. An element someone else in the space has selected is off limits: a change that touches it is refused, and the AI is told to leave it out or try again later.
The AI does the thinking; livehuddle validates, lays out, saves, and renders what it produces. The MCP server runs no AI model of its own. New spaces an AI creates land at the root of My Work (or your default folder, if you set one), each with a Made by AI badge; the Made by AI filter lists them all, wherever you file them.
What a connection can and can't touch
By default the token behind a connection has full read and write access to your spaces, including the spaces in your teams' shared libraries, so only connect tools you trust, and revoke the token if you stop using one. If you'd rather a tool could look but not change anything, switch on Read-only access on the approval page when you connect it: the connection can then find and read your spaces (and list your Trash) but can't create, edit, share, rename, delete or restore anything. The block is enforced by our server, not just the tool. Its token shows a Read-only badge in the API Tokens list.
Either way, a connection can't manage your teams or your account: inviting members, changing roles, and deleting things other than spaces stay with you, signed in. It can never delete a space for good either; that stays with you, in the Trash. (A tab it deletes is gone for good.)
Approving a connection creates a token, so it fails if you already have 20 tokens that haven't expired; revoke one on liveworkspace.app first.
Connected a tool you no longer use? Revoke its token on liveworkspace.app. livehuddle stops accepting it within a minute.
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