IFTTT
by IFTTT
Run IFTTT actions, query services and create Applets from an AI agent. Anthropic lists 14 tools; IFTTT's own plugin repository documents 20, and two of them dispatch into 4,142 published actions and queries. OAuth with a single scope.
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.
Connect IFTTT via MCP
https://ifttt.com/mcpWorks in any MCP-compatible client. In Agentman Studio it is one click — no config file to edit.
IFTTT Tools & Capabilities (14)
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 under-lists this server by six tools. The missing names are
get_steps,my_applets,edit_applet,disable_applet,remove_appletandset_applet_filter_code. Audit against IFTTT's plugin repository, not the directory listing. - The tool count does not bound the capability. Two of the tools dispatch by identifier into IFTTT's catalogue. Treat 20 as the size of the interface and 4,142 as the size of the surface.
- One OAuth scope, and it draws no line. IFTTT's resource descriptor, its authorization server metadata and its 401 challenge all name a single scope,
mcp. Nothing at the grant separates reading from acting, and no boundary falls between a routine write and an irreversible one. - The only real permission boundary is your connected-service list. It lives in your IFTTT account, not in the MCP grant, and no configuration change is required to widen it —
connect_serviceis itself one of the tools. - IFTTT's safety guidance is not enforced. The
ifttt-lifecyclerules that require confirmation beforeremove_appletandrun_actionship as client-side plugin files. A client that has not installed them never receives them. - 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 documentation URL IFTTT's own OAuth metadata nominates is dead. Both the RFC 9728 descriptor's
resource_documentationfield and the authorization server'sservice_documentationfield point athttps://ifttt.com/docs/mcp, which returned 404 on 2026-08-22. The working page ishttps://ifttt.com/mcp. - No MCP-level rate limit is documented. IFTTT publishes per-service limits — 100 tweet actions a day, 100 phone calls a month, 30 emails a day on Free against 750 on Pro — and states that "The majority of services on IFTTT do not have any rate limits applied by IFTTT". Nothing limits tool calls as such.
- Applet counts are plan-gated. IFTTT's plans page caps Free at 2 Applets and Pro at 20, so
create_appletfails once the cap is reached. - Trigger latency differs by plan. IFTTT's service pages state that polling trigger checks run every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro-plus users and every hour for Free users, so an Applet enabled through the connector may not fire for an hour on a free account.
- Editing a community Applet silently forks it. IFTTT's guardrails state that a response carrying
made_it_your_ownset to true means a new user-owned copy was created. An agent that believes it edited a shared Applet may have created a second one. - The privacy policy the directory links does not mention this connector.
https://ifttt.com/termsis IFTTT's general terms and privacy policy, dated April 2026. It contains no clause about AI assistants, MCP or agent access. - Whether IFTTT logs MCP-initiated actions distinctly is unresolved. We found no documentation stating whether an action run through the connector is distinguishable in IFTTT's activity log from one run by an Applet. Treat it as unknown.
Frequently asked questions
Twenty, not the fourteen Anthropic lists. IFTTT's own plugin repository documents twenty tool names under a Tool overview heading. The fourteen in Anthropic's directory are an exact subset, so nothing in the directory is fabricated — it is simply missing six, including remove_applet, which IFTTT's own guardrails describe as permanent.
Far more than its tool count. Two tools take an action or query identifier as an argument and forward it into IFTTT's catalogue. IFTTT's services sitemap enumerated 2,722 actions and 1,420 queries across 1,053 services on 2026-08-22, so the reachable surface is 4,142 operations sitting behind two names.
Yes, if you have connected a lock or alarm service and hold an IFTTT Pro plan. IFTTT's services sitemap publishes 13 action slugs containing unlock and 24 containing disarm, including unlock_smartthings. Those are ordinary actions, reachable through the same run_action tool that turns on a light.
No. The approval prompt shows the MCP call, not its consequence, because the consequence is whatever your configuration and the third-party service do next. IFTTT concedes the point in its own guardrails, which instruct agents to confirm before run_action because messages get sent and devices get switched.
Same dispatcher shape, different disclosure. Both front a large write surface behind a few tool names. Zapier's directory entry lists zero tools because its set is built per user; IFTTT's is fixed and published. IFTTT is also countable — its sitemap enumerates every action — where Zapier's reachable actions cannot be diffed from outside.
One, and it draws no line. IFTTT's RFC 9728 resource descriptor and its authorization server metadata both declared scopes_supported as the single value mcp on 2026-08-22, and the 401 challenge repeats it. No scope separates listing your services from unlocking a door, because the grant has one setting.
Yes, on a Pro plan. IFTTT's services sitemap publishes actions including post_new_tweet on X, status and photo actions on Facebook Pages, and a Flickr action uploading a public photo from a URL. Each is reachable through run_action once that service is connected. IFTTT caps tweet actions at 100 per day.
Nothing beyond your IFTTT plan, but the plan gates the risky half. IFTTT states Free users can search services and enable free Applets, Pro users additionally get the ability to run actions, and Pro-plus users unlock running queries. Free caps you at 2 Applets, Pro at 20, Pro-plus at unlimited.
Sources
- IFTTT MCP page (retrieved 2026-08-22). A GET returns a setup and capability page; a POST is the MCP endpoint. It carries more detail than the URL Anthropic's directory nominates. · retrieved 2026-08-22
- IFTTT official plugin repository, the only vendor enumeration of the tool names (retrieved 2026-08-22). Tool overview: · guardrails: · retrieved 2026-08-22
- IFTTT help centre, "Using IFTTT with AI Assistants" (retrieved 2026-08-22 via the help centre's JSON API; the HTML returns a Cloudflare challenge to a non-browser client). This is the page the directory's documentation link,
https://ift.tt/ai_assistants, redirects to. · retrieved 2026-08-22 - IFTTT guide, "How to use IFTTT MCP with Claude", the source of the per-plan capability gate (retrieved 2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22
- IFTTT services sitemap, the source of every operation count on this page (retrieved 2026-08-22; redirects to
assets.ifttt.com, and is the sitemap IFTTT's own robots.txt names) · retrieved 2026-08-22 - IFTTT Webhooks service page, "Make a web request" action and query (retrieved 2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22
- IFTTT SmartThings service page, lock and alarm actions (retrieved 2026-08-22;
ifttt.com/smartthings_v2, the slug used in the sitemap, redirects here) · retrieved 2026-08-22 - IFTTT plans and pricing (retrieved 2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22
- IFTTT help centre, "IFTTT Service Rate Limits" and "How to Send Texts with IFTTT" — · (retrieved 2026-08-22 via the same JSON API; every
help.ifttt.comHTML page returns 403 to a non-browser client) · retrieved 2026-08-22 - IFTTT LLM index,
llms.txt, and robots.txt, which allows every path used here — · (retrieved 2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22 - Live OAuth posture check: an anonymous
initializetohttps://ifttt.com/mcpreturned 401 with aWWW-Authenticate: Bearer realm="mcp"challenge; RFC 9728 metadata athttps://ifttt.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource; authorization server metadata athttps://ifttt.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server(2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22 - Zapier comparison figures — our own connector page for Zapier, built from Zapier's documentation on 2026-08-22 · retrieved 2026-08-22
- Anthropic Connectors Directory entry — , read from our directory snapshot dated 2026-08-16 · retrieved 2026-08-16
- IFTTT support — · Privacy and terms
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- Productivity
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- IFTTT
- Tools
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- Domain
- ifttt.com
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