Failing to access my scenario from Claude Desktop via make's MCP Server

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:bullseye: What is your goal?

To be able to access my Make scenario from Claude Desktop.

:thinking: What is the problem?

Failing to get the Make tools.

:test_tube: What have you tried so far?

Whichever configurations I have tried to set on claude_desktop_config.json, with the help of Claude itself, it failed to get the tools.

One of the examples:

“make”: {
“command”: “npx”,
“args”: [
“-y”,
“@makehq/mcp-server”
],
“env”: {
“MAKE_API_KEY”: “a70f82e3-rest of my key”,
“MAKE_ZONE”: “``eu1.make.com``”,
“MAKE_TEAM”: “81xx95”
}
}

The API token was generated with all the abilities possible.

Log:

2026-01-16T14:40:01.800Z [make] [info] Server started and connected successfully { metadata: undefined }
2026-01-16T14:40:02.123Z [make] [info] Message from client: {“method”:“initialize”,“params”:{“protocolVersion”:“2025-06-18”,“capabilities”:{},“clientInfo”:{“name”:“claude-ai”,“version”:“0.1.0”}},“jsonrpc”:“2.0”,“id”:0} { metadata: undefined }
2026-01-16T14:40:06.524Z [make] [info] Message from server: {“jsonrpc”:“2.0”,“id”:0,“result”:{“protocolVersion”:“2025-06-18”,“capabilities”:{“tools”:{}},“serverInfo”:{“name”:“Make”,“version”:“0.1.0”}}} { metadata: undefined }
2026-01-16T14:40:06.573Z [make] [info] Message from client: {“method”:“notifications/initialized”,“jsonrpc”:“2.0”} { metadata: undefined }
2026-01-16T14:40:06.575Z [make] [info] Message from client: {“method”:“tools/list”,“params”:{},“jsonrpc”:“2.0”,“id”:1} { metadata: undefined }
2026-01-16T14:40:07.092Z [make] [info] Message from server: {“jsonrpc”:“2.0”,“id”:1,“error”:{“code”:-32603,“message”:“Forbidden to use token authorization for this organization.”}} { metadata: undefined }

I am on a free plan - is that the issue?

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Hi @dushkin,

Why are you editing the config? You can add a custom connection are per these instructions and use SSE (Usage with Claude Code | MCP Server | Make Developer Hub)

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Cheers,
Henk

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Awesome! Thank you very much!

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Hi Henk.
My celebration was too early…

I get
”MakeError: Forbidden to use token authorization for this organization.”
error, although my token had the complete permissions set.

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Have you removed everything from the config file? And were you redirected to the auth flow after adding the connector?

Please make sure your config file doesn’t contain anything related to Make, then restart Claude, add the connector and try again.

Or try the url without sse: Usage with Claude Desktop | MCP Server | Make Developer Hub