How to connect Claude to DT Terminal with MCP
By DT Terminal · Published
Claude connects to DT Terminal as a custom connector. In DT Terminal, open Settings, MCP and press Connect to Claude, which copies the connector URL and opens Claude. In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors, choose Add custom connector, paste https://dtterminal.app/api/mcp and press Add, then Connect. Claude sends you to DT Terminal to sign in and shows what it is asking for. Reading your profile, journal, backtests and connected accounts is ticked; writing is not until you tick it, and nothing can place a trade at your broker. Tick the box that says your data will leave DT Terminal, press Allow, and Claude brings you back. It works on claude.ai and in the Claude desktop app, on DT Terminal Verified to read and Pro to write. Settings, MCP then lists every call Claude makes, and Disconnect stops it at once.
Step by step
Five minutes, most of them in Claude. The permission screen is DT Terminal's own.
01Copy the connector URL
Open DT Terminal, go to Settings and choose MCP. The connector URL sits at the top: https://dtterminal.app/api/mcp. Connect to Claude copies it for you and opens Claude on the page where connectors live.
MCP needs a paid DT Terminal plan: Verified lets the app read your account, and Pro also lets it write to your journal. You need an account before you connect, because the app you connect signs in to it.
- Settings, then MCP, then Copy next to the connector URL
- Or press the button for your app and skip the copying
02Add the connector in Claude
In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors, and choose Add custom connector. Name it DT Terminal, paste the URL and press Add.
Then press Connect next to it. Claude opens DT Terminal in your browser to sign in. This works on claude.ai and in the Claude desktop app.
- Customize, Connectors, Add custom connector
- Name it DT Terminal and paste the URL
- Add, then Connect
03Sign in and check the request
DT Terminal shows who is asking, the account it will act as and where your data is sent. For Claude that address is claude.ai. DT Terminal does not check who runs an app, since anyone can register one and pick its name, so deny it if the address is not claude.ai.
- The screen says Claude wants to connect
- It sends to claude.ai
- Deny anything you did not just set up
04Choose what Claude can do
Reading is ticked and writing is not. Press Customise to see all seven permissions: read your profile, read and change your journal, read and change your backtests, read and change your connected accounts.
Tick a write only if you want Claude to log trades, write reflections or start a sync for you. No permission can place a trade at your broker. Then tick the box that says your data will leave DT Terminal, and press Allow.
- Reads are on, writes stay off until you tick them
- Nothing you allow can place a trade
- What Claude reads is handled under its own terms from then on
05What to ask Claude
Ask about your trades the way you would ask Edge, the coach inside DT Terminal. Claude reads the same journal, so its answers come from your own record rather than from trading in general.
The connector is available in every chat once it is on. If Claude does not use it, say so in the question, for example "Using DT Terminal, run my weekly debrief".
- Run my weekly debrief
- Find my leaks from the last 90 days
- Review today against my plan
06See what it did, and disconnect
Settings, MCP lists Claude with when you connected it, when it was last used and what it may do. Under it, What your AI read lists the latest calls, newest first, and whether each one worked.
Disconnect stops Claude at once. Every token it held stops working, and it cannot read or change anything until you connect it again. What it already read stays with it.
- Every call it made, newest first
- Disconnect cuts it off straight away
FAQ
The Model Context Protocol is an open standard for connecting an AI app to a tool it can read and use. An app that speaks it can work with any product that publishes a connector, without a separate integration for each one.
On DT Terminal, Verified to connect and read, and Pro to let Claude write to your journal. Claude's own plan decides which connectors you can add there.
Only on Pro, and only if you tick a write permission for it. On Verified it can read but not write, and reading is the default on Pro too. With journal write it can log trades, write notes and reflections, and edit or delete what it created. Every call it makes is listed in Settings, MCP.
No. Broker connections are read only by design. The accounts write permission can start a sync and edit account details, and no permission opens order execution, whatever the app asks for.
Check the URL is exactly https://dtterminal.app/api/mcp, with nothing added. Then remove the connector in Claude and add it again, so it signs in afresh. If you disconnected Claude in Settings, MCP, press Connect in Claude again.
Open Settings, MCP in DT Terminal and press Disconnect next to Claude. Its access stops at once. Remove the connector in Claude's Connectors as well, so it stops asking.
Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code each have a button in Settings, MCP and a page like this one. Any other app that supports remote MCP servers with sign in can connect with the same URL.