Prostir
Sign in
Sign up

Practical guide

Remote MCP server for ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor

A remote MCP server connects a hosted agent to a compatible AI chat. Build and manage the agent in Prostir, grant the right access and test the client’s actual tools and sign-in before sharing the connection.

Host my AI-connected agent

Before you read

What gets published

The local-server problem turns into a hosted MCP endpoint: one public HTTPS URL, one published agent surface, controlled tools, source-backed answers, access checks, and revocation.

Best for

Companies that understand MCP enough to want the outcome, but do not want every customer, teammate, or AI client to run a local server and copy secrets by hand.

Where the work happens

Remote MCP server · Hosted MCP endpoint · ChatGPT connector · Claude MCP server

01

What is MCP?

  • MCP, or Model Context Protocol, is a standard way for AI clients to connect to external data, tools, and workflows.
  • A local MCP server is fine for one developer. It is fragile when a customer, teammate, or AI client needs the same capability.
  • A remote MCP server gives clients a stable HTTPS target that can be reached from cloud AI products.
  • A hosted endpoint lets the owner manage access, billing, logs, tools, and revocation without asking users to touch config files.
02

How Prostir turns an agent into a hosted MCP endpoint

The endpoint is not a naked tool server. It is a published product surface with owner-controlled state behind it.

  1. 01
    Start with the agent job.

    Define what the agent answers, what it can call, and who it serves.

  2. 02
    Add knowledge and tools.

    Attach source documents, searchable knowledge, built-ins, JavaScript helpers, or upstream tools.

  3. 03
    Set access.

    Choose public, protected, paid, or owner-managed access so the endpoint does not become an anonymous open pipe.

  4. 04
    Publish.

    Prostir exposes the agent through its typed public AI surface and required MCP endpoint.

  5. 05
    Connect clients.

    Use the HTTPS endpoint in ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or another MCP client when its connector flow supports remote MCP.

03

Endpoint checklist

  • linkHTTPS endpointThe public remote MCP URL for the published agent.
  • docpassportThe human-readable public page explaining what the endpoint is and how to connect.
  • dataknowledge graphThe indexed source material the agent can search or cite.
  • codetool catalogThe controlled tool list exposed to the runtime, not every internal capability.
04

Replacing local setup

The owner wants a hosted endpoint instead of asking users to run a server.

The owner wants a hosted endpoint instead of asking users to run a server.

Claude

I have an MCP tool that works locally. I want customers to use it from ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor without installing anything.

Package the behavior as a Prostir agent, attach the knowledge and tools, set access, then publish a remote MCP endpoint.

prostir_agents_validate

Agent has instructions, tools, knowledge, access rules, and a publishable slug.

prostir_agents_publish

Remote MCP endpoint is live over HTTPS. Passport and setup material are available.

Hosted

No local server for customers. They connect to the hosted endpoint where their AI client supports remote MCP.

05

Answer for search and AI overviews

  • A remote MCP server is an MCP endpoint reachable over the network, usually HTTPS, instead of a local process on one machine.
  • Prostir hosts that endpoint for a published AI agent and keeps knowledge, tools, auth, access, billing, and quotas behind it.
  • ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and other clients can use remote MCP only where their connector support, account plan, transport, and auth rules allow it.
06

Who keeps it working when our process or information changes?

Someone still needs to own the job. When a policy, tool or process changes, update the relevant Knowledge, rules, Skill or Flow and repeat the important examples. A versioned Skill helps you keep a reusable method deliberate instead of silently copying a changed prompt everywhere.

A Prostir example

Keep your customer-reply method in a Skill. When the returns policy changes, update the source and method, then test the affected Agent and Flow before colleagues use the changed process.

Review evaluation cases, then ask Builder to add a reusable reply checklist.

What to check first

Name the person responsible for updates. Keep a small set of real examples and rerun them after changes to sources, permissions or steps.

Skill publishing checks, version and release notes
Review a version before sharing it.

Solutions

Hosted MCP server for business AI that lives in Prostir

A published agent with its own hosted address, authorized tools and an MCP endpoint you can verify in supported clients.

Host my AI-connected agentSee the solution

Related cases

Explore related options

Products for this job

Agent

An agent with a clear job, your business context and a working path for the people who need it. You can test the agent with real requests, inspect its sources and allowed actions, and refine it in Builder before inviting others.

Products for this job

Skill

A reusable method with a clear purpose, ready to support authorized agents. The Skill keeps its method, supporting material and limits together. Test it with the agent and tools that will actually apply it to the job.

Products for this job

Flow

An internal Flow with a defined start, visible progress and a result you can check. Each run has a defined process and result to review. Test the trigger, authorized connections and failure behavior before enabling recurring work.

Practical guide

AI agent builder for ChatGPT and Claude

Practical guide

What is an AI-native agency?

Practical guide

Reusable AI skills: build a method for your agents

Practical guide

Knowledge base AI agent with paid access

Practical guide

Knowledge graph AI agent for product docs and support

Practical guide

MCP vs CLI: what is the difference?

Practical guide

How to make your product available in ChatGPT and Claude

Solutions

Keep your agent ready for the next conversation.

Your agent needs a home for its knowledge and allowed actions. Build it in Prostir, connect a compatible AI client and test access with the people who need it. Start your 7-day Creator trial, no card needed.

Host my AI-connected agentSee the solution

Image preview