Claude Code How to use Airtable with Claude Code
You want Airtable inside Claude Code so it can find records that need attention, sync structured records safely, review a base before changing it, and clean up duplicate records — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.
Create your Airtable gateway
The gateway is the thing Claude Code connects to, and it is where you decide which Airtable tools an agent may use. You create it once and every client reuses it.
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Create an Arcade account
Sign up and open the dashboard. The free tier is enough to follow this through.
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Create an MCP Gateway and select your Airtable tools
In the dashboard, create a gateway and pick the Airtable tools you want to expose. The gateway is what your client connects to, and it is where tool access is decided.
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Copy your gateway URL
Every client below needs it.
https://api.arcade.dev/mcp/<YOUR-GATEWAY-SLUG>
Connect the gateway to Claude Code
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Add the gateway as a remote HTTP MCP server
claude mcp add arcade --transport http "<YOUR_ARCADE_GATEWAY_URL>"
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Verify it was added
claude mcp get arcade claude mcp list
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Try it out
Open Claude Code in your project and ask it to use one of your Airtable tools.
Full Claude Code guide in the docs steps verified 2026-08-13
Try these Airtable prompts
Claude Code can now act on your Airtable account. Click a prompt to copy it.
Limit access to authorized users and require approval before records are created, changed, or deleted. Pair it with Contextual Access policies so an agent can update a base without being allowed to delete rows.
