Eden MCP quick start: research social data inside Claude

Get up and running

Setup takes about a minute. You'll need an Eden account first, then you connect once, sign in, and Claude can research with Eden from then on.

1. 01

   Create your Eden account

   If you don't have one yet, sign up for Eden — it's free to start. Your workspace is where your social research, Custom AI, and connections live, and it's what Claude reaches into once connected. Already have an account? Skip to step 2.

2. 02

   Connect Eden to Claude

   In Eden, open Settings → Integrations and click Add to Claude on the "AI assistants (MCP)" card. It opens Claude's connectors page with Eden pre-filled — click through to confirm. Full walkthrough (including Cursor and ChatGPT) in connect Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT.

3. 03

   Sign in once

   Claude opens a small Eden sign-in window so it can research on your behalf. Approve it and you're done — Claude never sees your password.

4. 04

   Start asking

   In a new Claude chat, ask something like "find me proven posts about cold email" or "what are <creator>'s top outliers?" If you connected before new tools shipped, refresh the tools so the latest capabilities show up.

What you can do

Four things make the Eden MCP worth wiring up:

• Search proven posts. Ask for high-performing posts on any topic and Eden searches its social index for the ones that actually broke out — not generic examples, but real posts with the engagement to back them up.
• Discover and research creators. Ask for competitors in a niche, creators similar to a known account or watchlist, or pull one creator's profile: their standout posts, the categories they win in, and how their outliers compare to their baseline — the same research that powers Eden's Discover, now answerable inside Claude.
• Check your own numbers. Ask "how did my posts do this month?" and get your cross-platform analytics — totals, outliers, and private metrics like impressions and saves. The first ask switches tracking on automatically (your social accounts need to be connected in Settings → Social accounts).
• Run your Custom AI. Every Custom AI in your default workspace shows up as an /eden- slash command, so your focused assistants work wherever you chat. See using Custom AI as slash commands.

Why this is different

Most AI assistants brainstorm from their training data. They have no idea what's performing on social right now, which posts overperformed, or what a specific creator is actually doing well — so they regress to safe, generic advice.

Where to go next

• To connect Cursor or ChatGPT too, read connect Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT.
• To reference a specific board, document, or list in a chat, read using boards, documents, and lists.
• To sharpen your searches, read search best practices.
• To have the assistant adopt one of your Custom AIs — instructions, knowledge, and all — read using your Custom AIs through the MCP.
• Driving Eden from a coding agent like Codex, Claude Code, or Cursor's agent? Download the Eden agent skill so it uses the connection correctly.
• Want Claude to run a whole job on this connection, not just answer questions? The free workflows each set up with one pasted line: Personal Brand Strategist writes your brand strategy, Weekly Strategist researches your niche every week, Head of Content plans and drafts your whole posting week, Idea Engine hands you post ideas every morning, and Content Command Center builds a dashboard on your real analytics.
• Running a one-person business? The six AIs in the One-Human Business kit are also free workflows: Weekly Content Strategist, Long-Form Outliner, Short-Form Specialist, Offer Consultant, and Marketing Strategist, plus the Personal Brand Strategist above.