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Getting started with ZoomSphere MCP

Learn how to get the most out of the ZoomSphere MCP 🙌🏼

Written by Karolina

ZoomSphere MCP lets you work with your ZoomSphere account directly from an AI chat like Claude – no copy-pasting, no switching tabs, no manual setup in a separate automation tool. You describe what you want in plain language, and the AI does it inside ZoomSphere for you.

What is MCP?

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets AI assistants connect directly to real tools and data – in our case, your ZoomSphere account.

The easiest way to think about it: a regular API executes one fixed command and nothing more. MCP is different – it gives an AI assistant the context to understand what you're trying to achieve, decide which steps are needed, and carry them out for you, across one or several connected tools.

That means you can go from "I have a folder of photos" to "I have a week of scheduled posts" in one conversation, instead of manually briefing, drafting, formatting, and scheduling each piece of content yourself.

How to connect

Claude: ZoomSphere is listed in Claude's official connector directory. Open claude.ai/customize/connectors/id/zoomsphere, click Connect and sign in with your ZoomSphere account. It takes about two minutes. Step by step: How to connect ZoomSphere to Claude. Rolling it out to a whole Claude Team or Enterprise organization: Claude for Teams.

ChatGPT and other MCP clients: add the server address https://mcp.zoomsphere.com/mcp and sign in with your ZoomSphere account.

No API keys, no tokens. ZoomSphere MCP is included in every ZoomSphere account.

💡 New to ZoomSphere and no Scheduler app yet? Just tell the assistant what you want to do. It suggests a setup – one Scheduler app per brand with its channels from all networks, and for agencies one workspace per client – creates it after you approve, and then continues with your request.

Why is it great?

  • Skip the tab-switching. Research, drafting, and scheduling can happen in one conversation instead of jumping between separate tools.

  • Keep your context in one place. Your AI assistant remembers your strategy, your brand voice, and your preferences, and applies them automatically. You don't have to re-explain them every time.

  • Combine ZoomSphere with your other MCP-connected tools. If you also connect tools like Google Drive, Canva, or Dropbox, your assistant can pull assets from one and schedule the finished post in ZoomSphere, all in the same conversation.

Everything ZoomSphere MCP can do

Set up workspaces and Scheduler apps

  • Create, rename and delete a workspace

  • Create a Scheduler app (and share it with teammates right away), rename it, add or remove channels, and delete it

  • The assistant creates or deletes a workspace or Scheduler app only after you explicitly confirm. If a Scheduler app can't be created (your subscription doesn't include the Scheduler, no channel is connected, or you're missing permissions), it tells you what to do.

Learn more: Workspace Setup

Plan and create posts

  • Create a new post for a social channel

  • Edit a post that's still in progress

  • Delete a scheduled post

  • Pull up the full details of a specific post

  • Check the status of a post that's processing in the background

  • List your posts, and filter them by content pillar or tag

  • See each post's status on every channel: published, error (with the reason), or waiting to be published

  • Get a quick preview of published posts (text snippet, link, and publish date)

  • Set almost everything the post editor can: location (Facebook, Instagram, Threads), tagging people in Instagram photos, @mentions (Facebook, LinkedIn, Threads), audience targeting (Facebook, LinkedIn), Facebook ad posts (dark posts), photo album description, a custom link preview, and post options for Threads, YouTube and TikTok

  • Set and read the content pillar, tags and brief when creating or editing a post. Learn more: Content Pillars, Tags

  • Set the post owner and the assigned person – only people with access to the Scheduler app can be selected. Learn more: Post Assign

  • Add collaborators to Instagram image, carousel and Reel posts (up to 3 per post) and to Facebook Reels, and add or remove them when editing a post. Learn more: Instagram Collaboration, Facebook Collaboration

  • Set links in a Facebook carousel – a separate link for each card and a link for the final card. Learn more: Facebook Photo Carousel

  • Publish a post right now and resend a post whose publishing failed. Learn more: Publish Now

Organize published posts

  • Change the content pillar of a post that has already been published. Learn more: Content Pillars

  • Change the tags of a post that has already been published. Learn more: Tags

  • Change the brief of a post that has already been published

Comment, share and get approvals

  • Read and add comments on scheduled posts and ideas – both Internal comments (team only) and Discussion with Client (visible also to clients who approve the post)

  • Mention a teammate or a client in a comment – they get the same bell and email notification as from the app, so you can ask a client to approve a post right from the chat

  • Delete your own comments on posts and ideas

  • Internal comments require the Editor or Admin role on every channel of the post. If a role is missing, the assistant tells you on which channel.

  • Send selected posts by email to people from the app, or to ZoomSphere Chat – the same as Send to Email and Send to Chat in the calendar

Capture ideas and notes

  • Jot down a quick post idea

  • Update an existing idea

  • Delete an idea

  • List your ideas

  • Set and read the content pillar, tags and brief of an idea. Learn more: Idea Post

  • List, create, edit and delete Quick Notes in the calendar. When planning posts, the assistant takes your notes (campaigns, important days) into account. Learn more: Quick Notes

Check context and rules before you post

  • See which ZoomSphere account you're signed in with

  • See your available workspaces, scheduler apps, channels, and publishing statuses

  • Check which post types a given network supports

  • Check the text and media limits for a specific post type and network

Upload media

  • Upload a file from a public URL

  • Upload a file directly for agent workflows with HTTP access

  • Get a link so you can upload a file yourself

  • Check the status of an upload

  • Upload a GIF as a video post to Facebook, X and LinkedIn

💡 The same file limits apply as when you upload in the app – for example, a Facebook video can be up to 1 GB. See all limits in Post Types & Publishing.

Track performance

  • See day-by-day metrics for a channel (up to 90 days)

  • Get channel totals and averages for any date range, with a comparison to the previous period or year

  • See metrics for each post in a date range, ranked by any metric (e.g., your top posts by reach)

  • Get post totals and averages per network, split by channel, post type, or content pillar, with a period-over-period comparison

  • Filter post analytics by network, post type, tags, or content pillars

  • Look up metrics for specific posts, including breakdowns like reactions by type

  • See which metrics are available for each network and post type

Send feedback

  • Report an issue or suggestion about the MCP server straight to the ZoomSphere team

Put together, this means your assistant can schedule or publish a post outright, prepare a draft for your approval, send it to your client by email or chat, ask them to approve it in a comment, check a network's limits before anything goes live, and attach an image or video to the post – all in the same conversation, once you're connected.

How to work with it

Once connected, just describe what you want in your own words. A few examples to get you started:

  • "Draft a LinkedIn post announcing our new feature launch and save it in ZoomSphere."

  • "Show me what's scheduled on our calendar for next week."

  • "Take the idea I just added to the Scheduler calendar and turn it into a draft post."

  • "I'm uploading photos from last week's shoot. Pick the best ones and prepare draft posts for Instagram."

  • "Plan next month's posts around the campaigns and important days in our calendar notes."

  • "Add @partnerbrand as a collaborator to Friday's Instagram Reel and tag our Prague store as the location."

  • "Create a Facebook carousel from these 4 product photos and link each card to its product page."

  • "Tag all posts we published in September about the autumn sale with 'Autumn Sale' and set their content pillar to Promotion."

  • "Send next week's posts to Jana by email for approval."

  • "Which of this week's posts failed to publish, and why? Try sending them again."

  • "Create a new workspace for our client Acme with a Scheduler app for their Instagram and LinkedIn."

You can also work the other way around: add a note in Ideas in the Scheduler calendar describing the post you want, and use that as the starting point when you ask your assistant to prepare a draft.

Good to know

  • ZoomSphere MCP works with the AI platforms that support MCP connectors.

  • The more context you give (your goals, your tone of voice, what's worked well before), the better the results, since the assistant carries that context with it across the conversation.

  • Can't see a workspace or Scheduler app? The assistant tells you which ZoomSphere account you're signed in with, so you can check you're connected with the right one.

  • Don't see a new feature in your assistant yet? Refresh the connector's tools list and start a new chat. See ZoomSphere MCP: Troubleshooting and Security.

  • This is a new capability, and we're actively expanding what it can do – if there's a workflow you'd like to see supported, let us know.

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