Dovetail
by Dovetail
Search a Dovetail research workspace and read interview transcripts, highlights and contacts from an AI agent. Anthropic lists 9 read tools; Dovetail documents 40, including 8 that create. OAuth with real read/write scopes.
Verified connector
Listed by Anthropic as a partner connector in its Connectors Directory.
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Anthropic states this reflects the level of review a connector received, not a security audit.
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Dovetail Tools & Capabilities (40)
Tool names from Anthropic's directory listing. This server requires sign-in, so we could not read tool descriptions or parameter schemas.
Limits
- Anthropic's directory entry is badly out of date. It lists 9 tools against Dovetail's documented 40, omits all 8 write tools, records the permission as
Read, and still carries three deprecatedinsightnames Dovetail's docs no longer use. Treat the directory listing as a historical snapshot of this connector, not a description of it. - We could not read tool schemas or safety annotations. The endpoint returned 401 to an anonymous request, so no parameter-level detail or
readOnlyHintvalue is published here. The tool names and groupings come from Dovetail's documentation. - Dovetail's own two documents disagree about one scope. Its Claude help page lists
contact:writeamong the scopes granted to Claude; the server's RFC 9728 descriptor does not advertise that scope at all. Read against the descriptor, the connector cannot create contacts, and nocreate_contacttool appears in the MCP tool tables either. We could not resolve which document is stale. - No DCR or CIMD support. Clients requiring dynamic client registration must fall back to a Dovetail API token in an
Authorizationheader. Dovetail exposes no OAuth client credentials to third parties. - Rate limits are per workspace, not per user — 200 requests per minute shared across every token in the workspace, so an agent competes with your other integrations. Exceeding it returns HTTP 429 with
Retry-After. - Metadata reads return no content. List and get calls deliberately omit body text, so an agent must make a second call per record to read anything. On a large project that multiplies requests against the shared rate limit.
- Presigned download URLs bypass authentication for an hour.
download_filereturns a URL that anyone holding it can fetch. Do not let an agent paste one anywhere it will persist. - The self-hosted server is not the same product. It exposes 8 read-only tools against this connector's 40, and its last release predates most of them. Choosing it for Claude Desktop means choosing a much smaller surface.
- Whether an agent's comment notifies your teammates is unresolved. Dovetail documents in-product notification settings and a mention feature, but we found no statement that a comment created through the API triggers a notification. Treat it as unknown rather than as a no.
Frequently asked questions
Dovetail's developer documentation lists 40, in five groups. Anthropic's directory lists 9. The 31 the directory omits include every one of Dovetail's 8 create tools, so a reader who trusts the directory entry sees a read-only connector and gets a connector that writes. Build your expectations from Dovetail's list, not Anthropic's.
It writes. Dovetail documents 8 create tools covering projects, folders, docs, data entries, tags, transcript highlights, doc comments and channel data points. Anthropic's directory entry lists none of them and records the permission as Read, which is wrong. The OAuth scopes Dovetail grants Claude include project:write, note:write, insight:write and channel:write.
Thirteen application scopes that genuinely separate reading from writing. The server's RFC 9728 descriptor advertises project, note, insight and channel in both read and write forms, plus read-only contact, field, file, search and user. Unlike most connectors, declining a write scope is a real boundary here rather than a formality.
No. Dovetail's MCP tool list contains no delete, remove or archive verb, and no scope ends in delete even though the underlying REST API documents delete endpoints for projects, docs, data, channels, contacts and comments. The MCP surface is a deliberate subset. Every write it can perform adds a record rather than removing one.
Yes. create_comment posts to a doc's comment thread, which is a shared surface your colleagues read in the Dovetail app. If no thread exists one is created automatically, and the comment is attributed to the token's owner. Dovetail caps comment length at 10,000 characters and allows restoring a deleted comment for 30 days.
Interview transcripts and the contact records of the people in them. Dovetail's contacts database holds research participants and customers, with custom fields typed EMAIL and PHONE. Data entries hold transcripts, survey responses and support tickets. list_users returns workspace members. All of it is third-party personal data by construction.
Yes, and it inherits the connector once you add it to your Claude account. Dovetail states the connector is automatically available in Claude Code and that /mcp confirms it. To add the server directly, run claude mcp add --transport http dovetail https://dovetail.com/api/mcp. Claude Desktop needs the separate self-hosted STDIO server instead.
Yes, 200 requests per minute per workspace. Dovetail documents that the limit is shared across all tokens in a workspace, so multiple integrations compete for the same budget. Every response carries X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining and X-RateLimit-Reset, and exceeding it returns HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header.
Sources
- Dovetail MCP server developer documentation (retrieved 2026-08-22, page
updatedAt2026-08-11). Source of the 40-tool list and the DCR limitation. · retrieved 2026-08-22 - Dovetail self-hosted MCP server documentation (retrieved 2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22
- Dovetail product help, "MCP server" (retrieved 2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22
- Dovetail product help, "Claude" (retrieved 2026-08-22). Source of the scope list Dovetail says Claude receives. · retrieved 2026-08-22
- Dovetail developer documentation index,
llms.txt(retrieved 2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22 - Dovetail API reference, Comments guide (retrieved 2026-08-22). Source of the author attribution override. · retrieved 2026-08-22
- Dovetail API reference, Create data point and Download a file — · (retrieved 2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22
- Dovetail API reference, Get contact and Export data — · (retrieved 2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22
- Dovetail API reference, rate limits (retrieved 2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22
- Dovetail security information (retrieved 2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22
- Dovetail self-hosted MCP server source, read at commit
88a7389(retrieved 2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22 - Live OAuth posture check: anonymous initialize to the endpoint returned 401 with a
WWW-Authenticatechallenge, and RFC 9728 metadata athttps://dovetail.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/api/mcp(2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22 - Anthropic Connectors Directory entry — , read from our directory snapshot dated 2026-08-16 · retrieved 2026-08-16
- Dovetail support — <mailto:support@dovetail.com> · Privacy
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