Guru

Search a company knowledge base and write back to it.

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What the Guru connector does

The Guru MCP server connects a Guru knowledge base to Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP-compatible agent. It lets an agent search company knowledge, ask a Knowledge Agent for a cited answer across connected systems, retrieve a specific Card — and write back, by drafting a new Card or updating an existing one. Sign-in is OAuth or an email-and-token header.

Verified connector

Listed by Anthropic as a partner connector in its Connectors Directory.

Connection checked by Agentman on .

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

Guru tools (6)

  • answer_generation
  • create_draft
  • search_documents
  • update_card
  • list_knowledge_agents
  • get_card_by_id

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

Limits

  • No permissions label in the directory. Anthropic's record has no permissions field, so the listing gives no signal that two of six tools write.
  • No read-only mode. The single default scope cannot express read without write. Restricting the agent means restricting the Guru account, not the grant.
  • We could not verify tool behaviour ourselves. The endpoint returns 401 to an anonymous handshake, so no schemas and no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations were readable. Tool names are Anthropic's; behaviour is Guru's documentation.
  • Publish semantics for update_card are undocumented. Guru describes the draft-then-publish flow for its web UI and does not state which half an MCP write performs.
  • Approval workflows are conditional. "Request to publish" exists only where workflows are enabled; it is not a default gate on writes.
  • Publishing destroys draft comments. Guru documents that all draft comments are deleted when a shared draft is published.
  • OAuth clients may need whitelisting. Guru says some applications are pre-approved and others are not, and directs an invalid redirect_uri error to Guru Support.
  • SSE is not supported. Guru's documentation states only HTTP streaming works.
  • No prompts listed. Anthropic's snapshot records an empty prompt list. Because the endpoint is gated, we could not run prompts/list to confirm what the server actually serves — the empty list is the directory's claim, not our observation.
  • Answer reach depends on someone else's configuration. What answer_generation can see is set by the Knowledge Agent's connected sources, which an agent Owner or workspace admin controls.

Frequently asked questions

Can the Guru MCP server change a published Card that my whole team relies on?

Not by itself. Guru documents editing as a two-step flow: an edit auto-saves into a private draft, and a separate publish action makes it live. Guru also keeps revision history with a compare-and-revert option on every Card. Anthropic's directory record carries no permissions label at all, so the agent's write reach is not described there.

Why does Anthropic's directory show no permissions label for Guru?

The field is absent from the record entirely, not set to read-only. Anthropic's 2026-08-16 snapshot lists six Guru tools including `create_draft` and `update_card`, both of which write into a shared knowledge base, with no permissions string of any kind. Other connectors in the same snapshot do carry one, so this is a missing label rather than a format difference.

What does the answer_generation tool actually reach inside Guru?

Everything the chosen Knowledge Agent is wired to, not just Guru Cards. Guru documents Knowledge Agents as searching across connected sources including Google Drive, Slack, Confluence and Salesforce, then returning a cited answer. One tool call therefore fans out across whichever systems an administrator connected, which makes the agent configuration the real permission boundary.

What OAuth scopes does the Guru MCP server ask for?

One, named `default`. We fetched Guru's RFC 9728 descriptor and its RFC 8414 authorization-server metadata on 2026-08-19 and both advertise a `scopes_supported` list whose only member is `default`. There is no read scope separate from a write scope, so a consent screen cannot offer read-only access — approving the connector approves the writing tools too.

Does Guru log what an AI agent asks through the MCP server?

Yes, for questions routed through Knowledge Agents. Guru's MCP documentation states those questions appear in the AI Agent Center with the person making the request recorded as the asker, and that they are also tracked in Analytics. Guru separately documents a Quality Log recording every verification event, though that log respects source permissions.

Do I need OAuth to connect Guru, or can I use an API token?

Either works, and the token path is the one that always works. Guru documents an Authorization header carrying your account email and an admin-generated API token joined by a colon. For OAuth, Guru says some popular applications are pre-approved while others need whitelisting, and points clients hitting an invalid redirect_uri error at Guru Support.

Does the Guru MCP server support SSE transport?

No. Guru's documentation states plainly that only HTTP streaming is supported and Server-Sent Events are not. Anthropic's directory records the same transport, streamable HTTP, for this connector. A client configured for the older SSE transport will fail to connect, so point it at the streamable HTTP endpoint instead.

Sources

  • Using Guru as an MCP Server — https://help.getguru.com/docs/connecting-gurus-mcp-server (last updated 23 June 2026; fetched 2026-08-19 as Markdown via the .md suffix) · retrieved 2026-08-19
  • Connecting Guru's MCP Server to Custom Clients — https://help.getguru.com/docs/connecting-gurus-mcp-server-to-custom-clients (last updated 5 June 2026; fetched 2026-08-19) · retrieved 2026-08-19
  • What are Knowledge Agents? — https://help.getguru.com/docs/intro-to-knowledge-agents (last updated 23 June 2026; fetched 2026-08-19) · retrieved 2026-08-19
  • Guru Cards: creating, editing and publishing — https://help.getguru.com/docs/how-to-create-edit-and-publish-guru-cards (last updated 18 July 2026; fetched 2026-08-19) · retrieved 2026-08-19
  • What is Verification? — https://help.getguru.com/docs/what-is-verifcation (last updated 8 April 2026; fetched 2026-08-19) · retrieved 2026-08-19
  • Guru's AI Agent Center — https://help.getguru.com/docs/training-guru-ai-agent-center (fetched 2026-08-19) · retrieved 2026-08-19
  • Live RFC 9728 protected-resource descriptor — https://mcp.api.getguru.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource (fetched 2026-08-19; the /mcp-appended form returns a byte-identical body, and the /mcp/-inserted form returns 401) · retrieved 2026-08-19
  • Live RFC 8414 authorization-server metadata — https://mcp.api.getguru.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server (fetched 2026-08-19) · retrieved 2026-08-19
  • Live anonymous probe — 2026-08-19: an anonymous POST request to the endpoint returns HTTP 401 with www-authenticate: Bearer resource_metadata=…; no tool schemas readable · retrieved 2026-08-19
  • help.getguru.com/robots.txt allows /docs/, disallowing only editing, login and internal API paths; no Content-Signal header is present, and no llms.txt or sitemap.xml is served on that host (both 404, fetched 2026-08-19) · retrieved 2026-08-19
  • Anthropic connector directory — https://claude.ai/directory/6d13e7f5-f465-498c-b7c9-b99c4bc74719 (snapshot 2026-08-16) · retrieved 2026-08-16

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