Connect an MCP client in under a minute

Claude Code

One command, no config file to hand-edit.

claude mcp add --transport http award-travel-finder https://mcp.awardtravelfinder.com/mcp

Or install the free plugin, which does the same thing plus keeps itself updated:

/plugin marketplace add AwardTravelFinder/mcp
/plugin install award-travel-finder

Claude opens your browser on the first tool call to sign you in. No Authorization or X-API-Key header — the endpoint is OAuth-only and a leftover key header will get rejected.

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Claude Desktop

Claude Desktop doesn't speak streamable HTTP natively yet, so bridge it with mcp-remote.

1. Make sure Node.js is installed.
2. Open Settings → Developer → Edit Config and add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "awardtravelfinder": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.awardtravelfinder.com/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. It opens your browser to sign in — after you authorize, the tools show up in the tools menu.

Cursor

1. Open Cursor Settings → MCP.
2. Click + Add new global MCP server and paste:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "awardtravelfinder": {
      "url": "https://mcp.awardtravelfinder.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cursor connects over streamable HTTP directly — no mcp-remote bridge needed. It opens your browser to sign in on first use.

ChatGPT & Codex

Award Travel Finder is in review for the OpenAI plugin directory shared by ChatGPT and Codex. Once that listing is live, connecting is a search-and-click from inside either client — no config file. In the meantime, ChatGPT's Custom GPT Actions can call the REST API directly; see the REST + MCP overview for the OpenAPI schema URL.

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Any other client (mcp-remote)

Windsurf, Cline, or anything else that only speaks stdio: run the endpoint through the same bridge Claude Desktop uses.

npx -y mcp-remote https://mcp.awardtravelfinder.com/mcp

It opens a browser window to run the OAuth PKCE flow the first time, then caches the token locally. See the OAuth reference if you're wiring this up by hand instead.

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