Claude Desktop connects to a remote MCP server as a custom connector rather than through the config file — the config file is for servers that run on your own machine.
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_places | search more than 2.5 million real places across 119 destinations in 39 countries |
| num_get_place | the full record for one place |
| num_submit_business | add a business — free, unmetered, human-reviewed |
| num_submit_promo | post a promotion against a business you submitted |
| num_list_submissions | what you sent and what a reviewer decided |
Claude Desktop 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.
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_… as a header. Both
doors share one quota.
Either way, the reference is the full contract and the OpenAPI spec.
Bearer numa_live_…Num is a remote server, so nothing installs and nothing runs locally. If your build of Claude Desktop has no Connectors panel, it predates remote MCP support — update it.
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.