Connect Lucid to Claude

By connecting Lucid with Claude, you can use natural language to locate and summarize your documents, generate diagrams, and share them with your team. Read this article to learn more.

Plan availability: Free, Individual, Team, and Enterprise.

Not available on FedRAMP accounts.
Read the Lucid Plans article for more information about what is available on your account or the Upgrade your Lucid account article for instructions to upgrade.

Set up the connection

The steps to connect Claude with Lucid depends on your Claude account type:

Team or Enterprise Claude users: A Claude organization owner needs to authorize the connection for the entire Claude organization. Once the connection has been authorized, users on the Claude organization can set up the connection for their own account by following the steps in the Connect Claude to your Lucid account section.
Individual Claude users: Set up the connection by following the steps in the Connect Claude to your Lucid account section.

Regardless of your Claude account type, if you are on a Team or Enterprise Lucid account, your Lucid admin must first enable the MCP server.

For Claude admins: Authorize Claude to connect with Lucid

Claude organization owners on Team or Enterprise plans must first authorize the Lucid connection at the organizational level before users on their account can establish their own connections. To authorize Claude’s connection with Lucid, follow these steps:

Log in to your Claude Team or Enterprise account.
Click your account icon in the bottom-left corner of the page.
Select Organization Settings.
Select Connectors from the navigation menu on the left.
Click Browse connectors from the bottom of the page.
Search for and select Lucid.
Click Add to your team.
Follow the on-screen prompts to allow Claude to access Lucid.

After you’ve authorized Claude to connect with Lucid, users on your account can follow the steps in the Connect Claude to your Lucid account section below to complete the setup.

For Lucid admins: Enable the MCP server

If you are an admin on a Team or Enterprise Lucid account, you must first enable the Lucid MCP server by following these steps:

From the Lucid Home Page, select Admin from the menu to the left.
Select Security from the left-hand navigation menu.
Select AI controls from the dropdown options.
Under “MCP access”, use the toggle next to "Allow users to connect”.
Click Enable MCP or Disable MCP in the modal that appears.
Click Save changes in the top-right corner.

Once the MCP server has been enabled in Lucid, users on your account can follow the steps in the Connect Claude to your Lucid account section below to complete the setup.

Connect Claude to your Lucid account

Follow these steps to connect Claude to your Lucid account:

Open Claude.
Selectthe Customize icon from the navigation menu on the left side of the page.
Select Connectors from the panel that appears on the left side.
Click the plus sign icon in the top-right corner of the “Connectors” panel.
Select Browse connectors.
Use the search bar to search for “Lucid”.
Click the plus sign icon in the top-right corner of the Lucid option.
Follow the on-screen prompts to authorize Claude to connect to your Lucid account.

Note: If you encounter an error, the connection may need to be authorized by your Claude or Lucid admin. For more information, check out the Set up the connection section above.

Features

The Lucid Claude connector has the same features and capabilities as the Lucid MCP server.

For a complete list of Lucid MCP server use cases and example prompts, check out this post from the Lucid Community.

FAQ

What information can the Claude integration access?
Lucid’s Claude Connector uses the Lucid MCP server to surface Lucid documents that you have permissions to access. It can access document titles, content, comments, and metadata to provide the LLM with the context it needs to fulfill your request.

Can I edit the diagrams that Claude creates?
Yes. When you ask Claude to create a diagram, it generates a preview along with the option to open the document in Lucid.

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