Airtable (MCP)
Connect AI tools to Airtable via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to manage bases, records, and schemas
🚀 Quickstart
Connect to the Airtable MCP server with Tenklo and call MCP tools in minutes. Airtable MCP uses OAuth 2.0 with dynamic client registration, so no app registration is required.
In Tenklo (free signup), go to Integrations → Configure New Integration → Airtable (MCP).
Go to Connections → Add Test Connection → Authorize, then log in to your Airtable account and choose which bases and workspaces to connect. Later, you'll let your users do the same directly from your app.
Make your first MCP request (initialize handshake). Replace the placeholders below with your API key, integration ID, and connection ID:
curl "https://api.tenklo.dev/proxy/mcp" \
-X POST \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <NANGO-API-KEY>" \
-H "Provider-Config-Key: <INTEGRATION-ID>" \
-H "Connection-Id: <CONNECTION-ID>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "initialize",
"params": {
"protocolVersion": "2024-11-05",
"capabilities": {},
"clientInfo": {
"name": "nango-client",
"version": "1.0.0"
}
}
}'✅ You're connected! Check the Logs tab in Tenklo to inspect requests.
Follow our Auth implementation guide to integrate Tenklo in your app.
📚 Airtable (MCP) guides
Tenklo uses dynamic client registration with Airtable's MCP OAuth server. You do not need to register an MCP application — just create the integration in Tenklo and authorize with your Airtable account. During authorization, your users choose which bases, apps, and workspaces to grant access to, and the MCP server respects their existing Airtable permissions (e.g. read-only access stays read-only).
Official resources: Airtable MCP server overview