All about the Ethnio MCP

Everything you need to know about setting up and using the Ethnio Model Context Protocol to access Ethnio features from your favorite AI like Claude or ChatGPT.

Connecting your AI to Ethnio

To get started follow these steps:

1. Go to connectors  > add in your favorite AI of choice (Claude, ChatGPT, etc)

   

   
   
2. Head to integrations > MCP AI in your Ethnio account, then copy the MCP URL
3. Paste that URL into the field above

4. Setup permissions how you'd like

   

5. That's it! You should be all set to control your Ethnio account from your preferred agentic interface.

Permissions for actions

How you want your agentic AI to handle Ethnio permissions while chatting. For example, if you want to create a study, do you want your AI to ask for approval each time it tries to do that in Ethnio:

What approval for Ethnio actions looks like

If you select approval above, every time your AI performs one of those actions, you'll see something like this:

How to use Ethnio via MCP

Now that you're connected, you need to mention Ethnio in any chat prompt in any natural language way:

What not to do:

Now the study has been created - you'll see something like this

The MCP can create screener questions (only in the study editor), quotas, and the study plan:

If you head to Ethnio, you should see the study (turned off):