Who it is for
Developers wiring Clerk into an application for the first time.
Overview
What Clerk does
Clerk provides authentication, organizations and billing for applications. This connector is a documentation surface rather than a management API: it returns SDK snippets and implementation patterns for sign-in flows, session handling and route protection, for multi-tenant apps with organizations and role-based access, and for waitlists, early access flows and billing, with framework-specific examples covering Next.js, React, Expo and others. Nothing in a live Clerk instance is read or modified through it, which makes it safe to attach during development and irrelevant afterwards.
Tool surface
Two tools and both retrieve reference material: list_clerk_sdk_snippets enumerates the available snippets and bundles, filterable by tag, and clerk_sdk_snippet fetches one. No account data is touched.
Availability
Where Clerk is listed
Clerk is listed in the Claude connectors directory only. Clerk has no app under the same domain in the ChatGPT directory; 392 of the 3,150 products here are on both marketplaces, and this is not one of them.
The MCP server behind a Claude connector is usually the same server a ChatGPT app would need, so the absence is a distribution decision rather than a technical one.
Claude listing
In the Claude connectors directory
Clerk publishes 2 tools to Claude, a deliberately narrow surface; only 5.3% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors expose fewer.
The median Claude-listed connector filed under Developer Tools publishes 13, so this one sits 11 tools below its bucket's median, 83rd of 95.
It falls in the 1-3 tools band, which holds 16.4% of the Claude directory.
Measured against the live endpoint
A direct call to the endpoint returned 2 tools, matching the 2 the listing publishes. Probed 2026-08-07.
Tools the server actually returns
clerk_sdk_snippetlist_clerk_sdk_snippets
Clerk publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally.
Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there.
- Publisher
- Clerk
- Verification
- Verified partner (37.8% of the Claude directory)
- Filed under
- Developer Tools
- Endpoint
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https://mcp.clerk.com/mcp - Documentation
- Publisher setup docs
- Published tools
- 2 · 1-3 tools band
- Depth rank in Developer Tools
- 83 of 95
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Clerk carries partner verification in the Claude directory, which 474 of 1,253 listings do (37.8%). That is a review step past self-publishing, not an Anthropic-built server.
In the publisher's words
How Clerk describes it
Add Clerk authentication to your app directly through Claude. Access up-to-date SDK snippets and implementation patterns for sign-in flows, session management, and route protection. Build multi-tenant B2B apps with organizations and role-based access, configure waitlists and early access flows, and implement billing. Get framework-specific examples for Next.js, React, Expo, and more through natural language prompts.
Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it.
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This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from Clerk's public marketplace listing as it stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with Clerk, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.
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