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Canny

by Canny

HIPAA CompliantSOC2 ReadyISO 27001 Ready
Productivity61 tools

Query and update Canny feedback, ideas and roadmaps from an AI agent. 61 tools, OAuth. Needs a Pro or Business plan and Canny Ideas enabled.

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Listed in Anthropic’s Connectors Directory at community tier — a listing, not a partner-level review.

Anthropic states this reflects the level of review a connector received, not a security audit.

Connect Canny via MCP

https://api.canny.io/api/mcp/v1

Works in any MCP-compatible client. In Agentman Studio it is one click — no config file to edit.

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Canny Tools & Capabilities (61)

add_user_to_company
create_changelog_entry
create_company
create_group
create_idea
create_insight
create_portal_comment
create_user
create_view
delete_changelog_entry
delete_group
delete_idea
delete_insight
delete_portal_comment
delete_view
link_opportunity
list_admins
list_board_categories
list_board_tags
list_boards
list_changelog_entries
list_changelog_labels
list_comments
list_companies
list_groups
list_idea_fields
list_idea_filtering_operations
list_idea_opportunities
list_idea_statuses
list_idea_themes
list_ideas
list_insights
list_portal_comments
list_portal_statuses
list_portal_voters
list_segment_fields
list_segment_operations
list_segments
list_users
list_views
merge_ideas
move_idea
move_insight
remove_user_from_company
retrieve_company
retrieve_group
retrieve_idea
retrieve_user
retrieve_users
send_to_autopilot
unlink_opportunity
update_changelog_entry
update_changelog_entry_status
update_company
update_group
update_idea
update_insight
update_portal_category
update_portal_comment
update_portal_status
update_view

Tool names from Anthropic's directory listing. This server requires sign-in, so we could not read tool descriptions or parameter schemas.

Limits

  • Pro or Business plan required. Other plans are refused with a named error message.
  • Canny Ideas must be enabled, independently of the plan.
  • An Owner must connect first. Until then, Managers and Contributors cannot authorise their own connectors.
  • Tool access varies by role, so two teammates on the same workspace may see different capabilities.
  • Some clients need a client ID and secret, not just the URL — Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, Devin and several GitHub Copilot variants.
  • We did not read the tool surface. The endpoint requires OAuth and Canny's article describes capabilities rather than listing tools, so the 61 count is Anthropic's and no tool names appear on this page.

Frequently asked questions

Pro or Business. Canny states that teams on other plans see the message Current plan does not support MCP connectors when they try to connect. There is a second prerequisite that is easy to miss: Canny Ideas must be enabled on the workspace, and the server will not work without it even on a qualifying plan.

Because no Owner has connected it yet. Canny requires the first connector in a workspace to be set up by someone with the Owner role. After that, any teammate can authorize their own connector, including Managers and Contributors. If you are a Manager and cannot connect, that first Owner setup is usually the missing step.

No, the tools follow your Canny role. Canny states that the tools available to each person track their role permissions, so a Contributor can read data, create Ideas, and edit Ideas within the fields their role allows. The connector inherits your existing permissions rather than granting a uniform set.

No, and Canny frames that as the point. It describes the server as letting you build AI-powered tools that operate on your Canny data without sharing your API key directly. Authentication is OAuth: we confirmed the server issues an OAuth challenge and publishes RFC 9728 metadata naming api.canny.io as its authorization server.

Canny names ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Devin, ClickUp, Canva, Missive and Runlayer. Claude, Claude Code, Codex and GitHub Copilot in VS Code need only the server URL. Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, Devin and some Copilot variants additionally need a client ID and secret.

Canny lists three jobs: pulling structured feedback data into AI workflows, automating tasks like summarizing, querying, deduplicating and analyzing feedback, and building custom tools over Canny data. The structured data it names includes Groups, MRR, Insights and opportunity values, so this reaches revenue context, not just post text.

Sources

Server Info

Category
Productivity
Developer
Canny
Tools
61
Domain
api.canny.io

Using Claude Desktop or another MCP client? Setup docs — the connection URL above works anywhere.

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