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Posted on Apr 12

How to Connect Mila to Claude Desktop via MCP in 30 Seconds

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If you've been using Claude Desktop and wished it could create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations for you — now it can. Mila is an AI-native office suite with a built-in MCP server, so you can connect it to Claude (or Cursor, VS Code, or any MCP client) in seconds.

What is Mila?

Mila is a collaborative platform for documents, spreadsheets, and slide presentations — think Google Docs meets AI. With 74,000+ users across 50+ countries, it's built from the ground up for AI workflows.

The Mila MCP server gives your AI assistant 23 tools to:

Create rich documents with headings, tables, and formatting
Build spreadsheets with formulas and cell formatting (A1 notation)
Design slide presentations on a 960×540 canvas
Organize content into servers (workspaces)
Full CRUD operations on all document types

Setup: 30 Seconds

1. Get your API key

2. Add to Claude Desktop

Open your claude_desktop_config.json and add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mila": {
      "url": "https://mcp.mila.gg",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop

That's it. Claude now has access to all 23 Mila tools.

Works with Cursor and VS Code Too

Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mila": {
      "url": "https://mcp.mila.gg",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json):

{
  "servers": {
    "mila": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.mila.gg",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

What Can You Build?

Once connected, try asking Claude:

"Create a project proposal document for Q3"
"Build a budget spreadsheet with formulas"
"Make a 5-slide pitch deck for my startup"
"List all my documents and summarize the latest one"

The MCP server handles everything — document creation, reading, updating, and deletion — all through natural language.

Available MCP Tools

Here's the full list of 23 tools:

list_documents, get_document, create_document, update_document, delete_document, append_to_document, list_sheets, get_sheet, create_sheet, update_sheet, delete_sheet, get_sheet_tab, create_sheet_tab, update_sheet_tab, delete_sheet_tab, append_rows, list_slides, get_slide_presentation, create_slide_presentation, update_slide_presentation, delete_slide_presentation, append_slides, list_servers

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