Udemy Business
Search your organisation's Udemy Business catalogue from Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot, and build learning paths and AI Role Play scenarios in your tenant. Requires a Udemy Business Enterprise Plan plus the paid AI Connectors add-on. Udemy documents 8 tools; Anthropic's directory lists 5.
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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Udemy Business Tools & Capabilities (5)
Tool names from Anthropic's directory listing. This server requires sign-in, so we could not read tool descriptions or parameter schemas.
Limits
- Enterprise-only, and it is a purchase. Udemy requires a Udemy Business Enterprise Plan plus the paid AI Connectors add-on. No personal-account path is documented.
- Two tools need Udemy Business Pro. Udemy marks
search_labsandsearch_learning_pathsPro only, so an add-on alone does not guarantee them. - Role Play creation needs a further SKU. Udemy states
create_role_playrequires the AI Role Play SKU on top of the add-on, and will be absent or fail without it. - Anthropic's tool list is three short. The directory snapshot of 2026-08-16 names five tools; Udemy's article of 2026-07-28 documents eight, two of which write.
- The directory record publishes no permissions label. There is no field to read, so nothing in the listing warns that write tools exist.
- No per-tool scope map. One published scope set covers the whole surface; you cannot grant search without also granting
mcp:write. - No safety annotations were readable. The endpoint returns 401 to an anonymous handshake, so the read/write split on this page follows Udemy's labels, not observed annotations.
- Prompts are unconfirmed. Anthropic's snapshot lists none, and the gated endpoint blocked our own check.
- Output may not be stored, vectorized or used for training. Udemy's AI Connector Terms prohibit bulk download, transformation, vectorization and storage of Output, and its use to train or fine-tune any model.
- Writes are one-way. Udemy documents no MCP tool to edit a Role Play after creation; changes must be made manually in instructor tools.
- Created content is inert until an admin acts. Paths are private by default; Role Plays are created unpublished and need manual review and publication.
- Role Play inputs have hard minimums. Udemy documents a 60-character cap on
meetingTitleand a 100–600 character range for bothtopicandskills, and states short inputs are rejected. - Lecture search covers eight languages. Udemy lists English, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese for
search_lectures. - Udemy disclaims control over what your assistant sends. Its FAQ states that the LLM decides which tools to call and what parameters to pass, and that Udemy cannot prevent proprietary data being included in a tool call.
Frequently asked questions
Can an individual Udemy learner use the Udemy Business MCP server?
No. Udemy lists a Udemy Business Enterprise Plan plus purchase of the AI Connectors add-on as prerequisites, so a consumer Udemy account cannot connect. Udemy also tells admins that a missing MCP Server setting in admin tools means the organisation lacks access, and directs them to a Customer Success representative to upgrade. Anthropic marks the listing commercial.
Does Udemy document more MCP tools than the five Anthropic lists?
Yes — eight, and two of them write. Udemy's integration article publishes a tool table naming search_assessments, create_learning_path and create_role_play alongside the five in Anthropic's snapshot of 2026-08-16. Udemy states create_learning_path creates a learning path and create_role_play creates an AI Role Play scenario in your account. The directory record carries no permissions field at all.
Does the Udemy Business MCP server return lecture transcripts?
Udemy's documentation says no. Its FAQ states that requests and responses contain only the metadata needed for discovery, and names titles, descriptions, durations and features as examples. The same page describes the server returning structured read-only results such as recommendations with titles, descriptions and links. Udemy publishes no field-level schema, so treat transcript access as undocumented rather than confirmed absent.
Can you use Udemy Business MCP Output to train or fine-tune a model?
No. Udemy's AI Connector Terms, last updated 2026-03-02, state that Customer and its Users shall not use the AI Connector Output to train, fine-tune or otherwise adapt any large language or artificial intelligence model. The same clause also prohibits bulk downloading, transforming, vectorizing or storing that Output. This summarises Udemy's stated position and is not legal advice.
What does search_labs do, and can it launch a lab?
It searches only. Udemy describes search_labs as searching its catalogue of hands-on labs for practical, interactive learning experiences, and marks it Udemy Business Pro only. Nothing in Udemy's documentation describes the tool starting, provisioning or entering a lab environment. Its example prompt asks the assistant to find labs on a topic, not to open one.
Which OAuth scopes does the Udemy Business MCP server request?
Five, published live at the path-append descriptor: course:read, mcp:read, mcp:write, lab:read and offline. The server's own 401 challenge points at exactly that document, so it is the one governing MCP clients. The root and path-insert forms both return 404. Udemy's REST API uses API-key authentication; the MCP server does not accept those keys.
Sources
- Udemy Business Support, "How to integrate the Udemy Business AI Connectors with your AI tool" — https://business-support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/articles/34213384429335-How-to-Integrate-the-Udemy-Business-MCP-Server-With-Your-AI-Tool (article updated 2026-07-28, fetched 2026-08-19 via the Zendesk Help Center article API). This is the URL Anthropic's directory publishes, minus its heading fragment; the article title now says "AI Connectors" where the directory slug says "MCP Server" · retrieved 2026-07-28
- Udemy Business Support, "Udemy Business AI Connectors: Frequently asked questions" — https://business-support.udemy.com/hc/articles/34305838778775 (article updated 2026-07-13, fetched 2026-08-19) · retrieved 2026-07-13
- Udemy AI Connector Terms & Conditions — https://www.udemy.com/terms/ai-connector/ (last updated 2026-03-02, fetched 2026-08-19; the page renders client-side and was read in a browser) · retrieved 2026-03-02
business-support.udemy.com/robots.txtdisallows help-centre search, sign-in and article view-stat endpoints, and carries noContent-Signalline.www.udemy.com/robots.txtcarries noContent-Signalline either and does not disallow/terms/(both fetched 2026-08-19) · retrieved 2026-08-19- Live RFC 9728 protected-resource descriptor — https://api.udemy.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp (HTTP 200, fetched 2026-08-19). The root form https://api.udemy.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource and the path-insert form https://api.udemy.com/mcp/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource both returned HTTP 404 · retrieved 2026-08-19
- Live RFC 8414 authorisation-server metadata — https://api.udemy.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server (HTTP 200, fetched 2026-08-19); the path-append form returned HTTP 404 · retrieved 2026-08-19
- Live anonymous probe — 2026-08-19:
POSTto https://api.udemy.com/mcp returns HTTP 401 withwww-authenticate: Bearer realm="https://api.udemy.com/mcp", resource_metadata="https://api.udemy.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp". No tool schemas were readable · retrieved 2026-08-19 - Anthropic connector directory — https://claude.ai/directory/d4ba36c1-89dd-49ee-aea3-2317efccc424 (snapshot 2026-08-16; five tool names, no prompt names, no permissions field, visibility
commercial) · retrieved 2026-08-16 - Udemy support — https://support.udemy.com/ · Privacy — https://www.udemy.com/terms/privacy/
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