Hey Makers
A huge thank-you to everyone who joined our Community Live Session: Managing and Scaling Workflows with Make and MCP!
As always, it was fun, inspiring, and most of all, practical and useful! And for all of you who didn’t manage to catch it – as promised, here is the recording of the session, and all your questions from the session answered below.
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Full recording
Q&A from the session
Q1: Will there be a Make MCP plugin to build scenarios reliably with AI?
A: We already offer MCP Tools for interacting with Make Scenarios, while the quality of the result heavily depends on how complex Scenario is requested to be built, also depends on the used AI Model and several other factors. For simpler use-cases, we already observe quite great results across the most popular AI Models, and we’re providing more and more updates to the MCP Server as we go, bringing in new tools or tweaking prompts and descriptions of the existing ones, to make sure these can deliver the best possible experience.
Q2: Is there a way to control what tools are available in the MCP as opposed to showing all scenarios with on demand triggers?
A: Sure, we have a documentation for this, Scenarios as tools access control | MCP Server | Make Developer Hub, and more updates are coming. Stay tuned!
Q3: What’s the difference by using the API and MCP?
A: Dominik had a block about this topic in the MCP Talk on the latest Make Waves conference, recommended to watch, https://youtu.be/SPuW3NqPH_c?si=LRUweeCZlJ8YgY9U&t=2196.
Q4: Are there any thoughts and instructions for Gemini CLI as a client?
A: Sure, Gemini CLI can work with Make MCP Server. Usage with Gemini CLI | MCP Server | Make Developer Hub
Q5: Where do we find MCP? I have a Pro account.
A: In order to get started with Make MCP, our Documentation on that topic can be a great entrypoint, Make MCP Server | MCP Server | Make Developer Hub.
Q6: What about the danger of prompt injection in the MCP, are there safeguards already?
A: All of our Tools are annotated using the standardized MCP annotations, so the Client can know which tools are safe, which can change the data, and so on. However, this still heavily depends on the particular Client, whether it asks for approvals, how it treats the responses from the MCP Server, and so on.
Q7: Is it best to create a flow diagram first, and then use an Ai agent as I am finding this tough to understand.
A: Make MCP allows you to work with already existing scenarios as well as to build new ones, so depends on what are your expectations and needs.
Q8: So, the MCP is used to manage/build your Make scenarios, not necessarily something you embed in a scenario to do a particular task?
A: In the demo, we went mainly through the part of Make being the MCP Server, either for Tools or for the Make Management. It is certainly possible to use Make as MCP Client as well. We recommend Dominik’s and German’s session from the last Waves https://youtu.be/SPuW3NqPH_c?si=tUcEumsTNzyHH0py&t=340 if you want to learn more about that.
Q9: Does the use of the word “me” in the prompt give the AI any instructions such as user permissions or rights?
A: No, that’s just Dominik being naturally polite to the AI Models wishing for his life to be spared once the skynet emerges.
Q10: Can you do the same steps in the Make AI (find & duplicate scenarios) Agents chat as Dominik is doing in Cursor?
A: You can connect Make AI Agent to Make MCP Server to create kind of a loop-back, and then, yes, of course.
Q11: Hi Team, I like the invoice demo. How do you connect up your supplier to trigger this scenario? Do they send their email to email or do I need to give them the rebook from their system? I am trying to work out the entire process. Thank you, Ash
A: In the Demo Scenarios, we were using simple unauthenticated webhooks to receive plan GET HTTP calls. In a real world scenario, you’d likely prefer Mailhooks with Invoices being attached and then to extract data from these, or use some Invoicing System integration.
Q12: Does using the Agent use up extra credits (paid account)?
A: MCP Tool calls are classified the same as regular API Calls at Make, they don’t cost credits and the amount of MCP Calls you can execute is derived from your Organization’s API usage limit, depending on the plan as defined on Make Pricing Page, https://www.make.com/en/pricing.
Q13: Can users create tools? Or request for tools?
A: As showcased in the first third of the webinar, yes, you can build Scenarios and then use them as MCP Tools. When it comes to Make Management, Make itself provides these built-in management tools. If you’re missing one, please reach out to us.
You can also use Make Scenario containing a Make App to actually create your own Tool that manages Make – simply wrap the Make App into an on-demand Scenario, and then use it as a Tool.
Q14: Also, this is the full list (69) so far and growing?
A: The list visible on the Webinar is a full list of what was available on Make by that date. As we progress with adding more and more tools, this list will grow.
Q15: When looking at invoice scenario, why would you store data? Would you not send it to your accounting system?
A: That was just for the demo purposes to demonstrate the capabilities of working with Webhooks and DataStores – absolutely, in a real world, we’d recommend using a more robust invoicing solution (even though we believe our DataStores are capable of handling the very same load 
)
Q16: Can Make dynamically switch models (GPT-4.1, GPT-4o-mini, Claude, etc.) based on task complexity?
A: Choosing and switching the model is a client-side job, Make MCP Server just exposes Tools callable by the particular model. So depends on what you use to connect.
Q17: How do you give them all the necessary knowledge and skills?
A: In case of Make MCP Server, we annotate the tools with appropriate input interfaces, parameter descriptions and tool descriptions in general, helping the AI Assistant to decide which tool to use and when. Also, some tools, like the one for getting detail of a particular Make Module, provide additional text instructions for the Agent, which it can follow in order to map the module successfully, as demonstrated during the Webinar.
Q18: Where can I find MCP?
A: Documentation, Make MCP Server | MCP Server | Make Developer Hub
Q19: How do you handle rate limits and throttling across multiple outbound tools?
A: Inbound rate-limits for MCP Tool Calls are derived from your Make API usage allowance, as described in Q12.
When a Tool causes a Scenario to run, then standard Scenario Rate-Limiting mechanisms apply. Also, then it depends on the rate-limits of the given third-party Service the Scenario integrates with.
Q20: What’s the best way to manage webhooks vs polling for real-time AI workflows?
A: That depends on the particular use-case, whether an immediate invocation of some workflow is needed, or whether some time-based summary is enough.
Q21: Is MCP available for all users or its beta only?
A: All tools that you could see during the Webinar are broadly available to all Make Users.
Q22: Is the Make MCP Server (exposing scenarios as tools to AI clients like Cursor/Claude) currently available to all users, or is this demo based on limited / early-access availability?
A: All tools that you could see during the Webinar are broadly available to all Make Users.
Q23: Newbie to MCP here ! I see we’re using Cursor here, what are the other ways to use the Make MCP other than Cursor
A: Any MCP Client should work with Make MCP Server. In our documentation Make MCP Server | MCP Server | Make Developer Hub we provide help for connecting the most popular ones. If you encounter any difficulties connecting from a particular MCP Client, please reach out to our Customer Support.
Q24: How do I connect my account to cursor? I missed where in cursor I should put the mcp.make.com to make the connection
A: We have a documentation for this, Usage with Cursor | MCP Server | Make Developer Hub
Q25: What is cursor?
Q26: Would you mind telling me how to connect the make MCP to cursor?
A: Usage with Cursor | MCP Server | Make Developer Hub
Q27: Isn’t there a possibility that mistakes will happen with it when you’re new to it?
A: Yes.
Q28: I always have doubts about customer data. In the case of generating invoices, there is bank data, emails, etc…
A: Yeah, that’s a completely valid concern. There are certainly business areas where using traditional, deterministic methods of automation gives you more safety than offloading to AI.
Q29: Can you send files to the Make MCP server via ChatGPT?
A: As Make OnDemand Scenarios currently don’t support files on their inputs, you can’t upload the file directly as a Tool’s input. Technically, you could convert the file to Base64 encoding and send it as a long string, or upload the file in advance, and provide Make with a link from where to get it.
Q30: Can we use make inside Discord or is there any chance that it is connected to Discord?
A: Yes, there’s official Make integration with Discord, Discord - Apps Documentation
Q31: Is there any way you can use voice activated instructions rather than typing them in e.g. Discord / Cursor?
A: This depends on the AI Assistant you use – there are already AI Tools which feature speech-to-text natively, or you can use a third party speech-to-text application and use the output as the input for the AI Assistant you use.
Q32: Can you use Make MCP and ai to build any type of scenario in Make - are there any types of scenario it seems to struggle with?
A: We’re doing our best to provide quality instructions as part of the Tool Descriptions and Outputs, so the AI can get the best context for how to build a Scenario, map a particular module and so on. Of course, the results heavily depend on how complex Scenario is requested, which AI Model is used, what additional context is provided, and so on.