Connector · MCP

Plotlay for AI agents

Plotlay has a connector for AI agents. Ask Claude (or any agent that speaks MCP) to draw up a plan and it works in your Plotlay projects directly: rooms, fixtures, doors and windows, square walls, the site boundary, GPS points from site, and finished drawings. Everything it does opens in Plotlay, ready to check and adjust by hand.

What you can ask for

"Start a project at 35 Ward Street, Pennington. Draw the laundry 2677 by 2800 with a vanity, a washer with the dryer stacked on it and a toilet along the back wall, the door on the east wall, tiles to 1400. Then give me the plan and elevations of the laundry."
"Add a 3 by 4 metre shed 1.5 metres off the back fence and give me a site plan for council."
"Mark the four corners of the house as control points and send them to sam@example.com to capture with GPS. Check later and refit."
"Make the walls between the kitchen, living room and hall single brick, the rest double brick, and draw elevations with a 22.5 degree hip roof."

Connect it

Claude.ai (and other agents that sign in): Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, URL https://app.plotlay.io/mcp, then Connect. Plotlay opens: sign in and Allow. No key to copy.
Claude Code: in Plotlay, your account (the round initial, top right) → AI agents → New agent key, then run the command Plotlay shows: claude mcp add --transport http plotlay https://app.plotlay.io/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
Other agents (Claude Desktop, Cursor and others): a remote MCP server at https://app.plotlay.io/mcp, signing in, or with the header Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY.

What it can do

Tool	Does
list_projects, get_project	Your projects, and everything drawn in one, in metres, with a link to open it
create_project	A new project at an address or coordinates
search_library, add_item	Place any of the Library's items: fixtures, furniture, kitchens, sheds, trees, pools...
add_room, add_door_or_window, add_shape	Rooms (with ceiling heights); doors, sliding and double doors, windows and archways, cut through the walls with their swings, heights and marks; any other shape or line
add_dimension, set_hatch, set_room_finishes	Dimensions (aligned or square to the drawing), hatched areas, and each room's floor, wall, ceiling and skirting finishes
set_3d	What a shape is in 3D: pushed up to a height, a deck, a sunk pool, lawn or paving, a fence, pergola, tree, tank or shed, with its material
get_schedules	Doors and windows by mark, rooms and finishes, and the site figures: site area, footprint, coverage, hard and permeable surfaces
move_element, delete_element, set_height	Adjust what's there; heights and off-floor heights for elevations
square_up_rooms	Straight, square rooms with set wall thicknesses (double brick, single brick, stud...)
set_roof, set_room_tiles, add_section_line	Roof type and pitch, wall and floor tiles, section cuts
suggest_site_boundary	The land parcel from the state cadastre (SA, VIC, QLD, TAS)
add_control_point, request_gps_points, request_scan, check_requests	Ask someone on site for GPS points or a LiDAR scan. What comes back is applied straight away: GPS points refit the drawing; a scan is lined up on the rooms and each takes its measured shape, doors, windows and furniture
export_drawing	Plan, elevations, sections, or a room's plan and elevations, as a PDF or SVG link

How it works

Coordinates are metres east and north of the project's origin (where it was created). The agent uses the same drawing engine as the app, so a plan it draws is a normal Plotlay project: open it, drag things, change heights, export again.

A connection acts as you: it can see and change the projects you can, nothing more. Agents that sign in (Claude.ai) use OAuth with PKCE; each connection gets its own key, listed in Account → AI agents. Make one key per agent or computer, and revoke any of them in the same place. Plotlay stores only a fingerprint of each key.