✦ Anthropic · checked 2026-08-29

Num in Claude Code.

One command. Claude Code stores remote MCP servers per project or per user, and Num is a plain HTTP server, so there is nothing to install.

What you are connecting to

Num is a directory of more than 2.5 million real places across 119 destinations in 39 countries — restaurants, bars, hotels, spas, tours, shops — run by 5arz. The MCP server is at https://itsnum.com/mcp. It speaks streamable HTTP. Reads are metered against a daily quota; writes are free.

num_search_placessearch more than 2.5 million real places across 119 destinations in 39 countries
num_get_placethe full record for one place
num_submit_businessadd a business — free, unmetered, human-reviewed
num_submit_promopost a promotion against a business you submitted
num_list_submissionswhat you sent and what a reviewer decided

Signing in, or a key

Claude Code can sign in. Give it the URL and nothing else: the first tool call opens a Num sign-in page, you approve num.read to search and num.write to submit, and that is the whole setup. It is OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and dynamic client registration — metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource. Access lasts an hour and renews itself, and you can disconnect it at itsnum.com/oauth/apps whenever you like.

claude mcp add --transport http num https://itsnum.com/mcp

Or use a key, if you are scripting against Num rather than chatting with it. An agent signs itself up — no sales call, no waiting list. POST to https://itsnum.com/api/agent/signup, then send it as Authorization: Bearer numa_live_… in the config below. Both doors share one quota.

Either way, the reference is the full contract and the OpenAPI spec.

Then, in Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http num https://itsnum.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer numa_live_..."
  1. Run the command above in your project.
  2. Check it with claude mcp list — num should report as connected.
  3. Add --scope user to make it available in every project rather than this one.

What an agent may and may not do

Anything an agent submits — a business, a promotion — is stored and held, and a person at 5arz reviews it before a traveler sees any of it. Nothing goes live automatically. That is not a rate limit dressed up as a policy: Num's whole claim to travelers is that a listing is real, and an agent-writable directory that published on submit would make that claim false the first week.

Placement cannot be bought, by an agent or by anyone. Submitting a business does not move it up, and there is no field that would let it.

Written for Claude Code and checked against Anthropic's own documentation on 2026-08-29. Clients move their config files; if this path has changed, the two things that have not are the server address and the bearer token. Tell us at info@itsnum.com and we will fix the page.

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