LinkedIn MCP for Claude, ChatGPT and Grok Bot: who engaged, and who fits your ideal client

Written by: Jorrit van Ginkel, founder of Ziplined
Published: 6 November 2026
Last updated: 6 November 2026

Who engaged this week and fits my ideal client?

Grace Mensah
Head of Sales, Northwind
Commented on your post about cold email reply rates
Ruben Smit
Founder, Brightwave Studio
Liked a competitor's post about hiring SDRs

12 more people fit your ideal client this week

Ziplined is a LinkedIn Lead Radar, and its LinkedIn MCP server at https://mcp.ziplined.io/mcp lets Claude, ChatGPT, Grok Bot and other AI agents read your Leads. It finds the people who engage with the posts of your team, your competitors and industry experts, keeps the ones who fit your ideal client sentence (Leads), and sends them 24/7 to Slack, email or your AI agent.

Its free Chrome extension adds dark signals: the people who view your profile, follow you or connect with you. Plans start at $49 a month, and outreach tools are on Team, from $99 a month.

MCP server URLhttps://mcp.ziplined.io/mcp

The MCP connection needs no LinkedIn login and no LinkedIn cookie.

Key takeaways

One address for every AI client: https://mcp.ziplined.io/mcp. Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Grok Bot, Cursor, Codex and VS Code each connect in two to four steps, listed below.
37 tools on production (2026-11-06): people, ideal client, sources, views, integrations, companies, posts and insights.
Every plan can connect. The data tools answer on Solo ($49 a month, 3,000 credits) and Team (from $99 a month, 10,000 credits).
A tool that costs credits or removes something first answers with a summary and a cost estimate. Nothing changes until you confirm.
Ziplined never posts, messages or connects on LinkedIn. It hands Leads to the tools you choose.

What it does

Keeps an eye on your market: who engages with the posts of your competitors and industry experts
Listens for buying signals and keeps the people who fit your ideal client: your Leads
Analyzes your own audience: who engages with your posts and your team's
With the free Chrome extension, also who views your team's profiles, follows them or connects with them
Sends Leads to Slack, email or your AI agent, and to your outreach tool on Team, from $99 a month

What it does not do

Connect to your LinkedIn account. No LinkedIn login, no cookie: Ziplined works from data it collects itself
Post, schedule or write posts
Send LinkedIn messages or connection requests
Read your inbox or open any LinkedIn profile you name

What is a LinkedIn MCP server?

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the standard AI apps use to call outside tools. A LinkedIn MCP server gives Claude, ChatGPT or Grok Bot tools that answer questions about LinkedIn.

LinkedIn publishes no official MCP server, as Google's AI Overview stated on 15 September 2026. Every LinkedIn MCP you can install today is built by a third party, Ziplined included.

The servers differ in what they read and how they sign in. That decides what you can ask and what you risk.

Which kinds of LinkedIn MCP servers are there?

We read the servers that rank for "linkedin mcp" in Google and in AI answers on 15 September 2026, and checked the Google top 10 again on 4 November 2026. They fall into three types.

	Scraper servers that use your LinkedIn cookie	Posting and content servers	Ziplined
What it reads	Profiles, companies, jobs, the feed or the inbox, opened with your LinkedIn session	Your own posts and their numbers, your drafts	People who engaged with the posts of your team, competitors and industry experts, plus dark signals
Who fits	You judge each result yourself	Not their job	Leads: people who match your ideal client
How it signs in	Your LinkedIn session, often the `li_at` cookie	Your own LinkedIn account, or LinkedIn's API for publishing	OAuth with your Ziplined account. No LinkedIn login or cookie
Acts on LinkedIn	Some send messages and connection requests	Publish or schedule posts	No. Never posts, messages or connects
Memory	What it fetches on each call	Your own account	A list that grows every night from the day you add a source
Sends people to other tools	No	No	Slack, email, CSV. Webhooks, HeyReach, Clay, Google Sheets on Team, from $99 a month
Price	Often free and open source	Part of a paid writing or scheduling plan	Connect for free. Data tools from $49 a month

Scraper servers that use your LinkedIn cookie

Profiles, jobs, the feed or the inbox
Your LinkedIn session, often the li_at cookie
Some send messages and connection requests

Posting and content servers

Your own posts and their numbers
Publish or schedule posts
Part of a paid writing or scheduling plan

Ziplined

Leads: people who match your ideal client
No LinkedIn login or cookie
Never posts, messages or connects

Choose a scraper server if you need to read any profile, a job post or your inbox from Claude, and you accept that it runs on your own LinkedIn session. Some of their own READMEs warn that LinkedIn can restrict accounts that use automated tools.

Choose a posting server if you want Claude to draft, schedule or publish your posts.

Choose Ziplined if you want to know who engaged around your market this week, which of them fit your ideal client, and you want them sent to Slack, or to your outreach tool on Team, from $99 a month.

The LinkedIn Lead Radar

Watch your market for buying signals
Analyze your own audience
No LinkedIn login or cookie

Works with

Claude
ChatGPT
Grok Bot
Cursor
Slack
HeyReach
Google Sheets
Clay

Connect your AI agent, 7 days free

How do you connect the Ziplined LinkedIn MCP?

The address is the same everywhere: https://mcp.ziplined.io/mcp. Sign-in is OAuth: you log in to Ziplined the same way you do in the app, and the workspace comes from that account.

There is no key to paste. The steps below are the ones the AI agent page in the Ziplined app shows, checked on 4 November 2026.

To test any client, start a new chat and ask: "How many leads do I have in Ziplined?" The answer is the number on your Leads page.

Claude (web and desktop)

On the AI agent page in Ziplined, click Open Claude. Claude opens the Add custom connector form with the name Ziplined and the address https://mcp.ziplined.io/mcp filled in. Claude says the form came from a link. That is normal. Click Add.
Click Connect next to Ziplined and sign in to Ziplined.

By hand: in Claude, go to Settings, Connectors, Add custom connector. Paste the address and pick OAuth.

On a Claude Team or Enterprise plan only an owner can add a connector. On the Claude Free plan, Claude allows one custom connector.

Claude Code

Run this in your terminal:

claude mcp add --transport http ziplined https://mcp.ziplined.io/mcp

Type /mcp in Claude Code, pick Ziplined and sign in.

The command adds Ziplined to the folder you ran it in. Add --scope user to use it in every folder.

ChatGPT

Copy the address https://mcp.ziplined.io/mcp.
Open ChatGPT and go to Plugins. Click the plus button, then Add custom MCP server.
Type Ziplined as the name. Paste the address under Connection. Set authentication to OAuth. Tick "I understand and want to continue", then click Create as a plugin.
Install the Ziplined plugin and sign in to Ziplined.

In a new chat, type @, pick Ziplined and ask your question.

Custom MCP servers work on ChatGPT Business, Enterprise and Edu, where an admin or owner may have to add them. On ChatGPT Pro, ChatGPT can read Ziplined but cannot change your lists.

Grok Bot

Grok Bot is xAI's app for AI teammates, not Grok chat. You add the server by asking your Bot.

In a chat with your Bot, ask: "Add a custom MCP server called Ziplined at https://mcp.ziplined.io/mcp."
When the Bot shows a Connect card, click Authorize and sign in to Ziplined in your browser.
In chat, type @ to attach Ziplined to the task, then ask your question.

Cursor

On the AI agent page in Ziplined, click Open Cursor. Your browser asks to open Cursor. Click Open, then Install.
Open Customize in the Cursor sidebar, find Ziplined and sign in when Cursor asks.

By hand: add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json and reload Cursor.

{"mcpServers":{"ziplined":{"url":"https://mcp.ziplined.io/mcp"}}}

Codex

Works in the Codex CLI and the Codex IDE extension. They share one config file, ~/.codex/config.toml.

Run codex mcp add ziplined --url https://mcp.ziplined.io/mcp.
Run codex mcp login ziplined and sign in to Ziplined.

VS Code

You need VS Code with GitHub Copilot.

On the AI agent page in Ziplined, click Open VS Code. Click Open, then Install.
Open the Command Palette, run MCP: List Servers, pick Ziplined and start it. Sign in when VS Code asks.

By hand: add this to .vscode/mcp.json in your project, then start Ziplined from MCP: List Servers.

{"servers":{"ziplined":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.ziplined.io/mcp"}}}

Any other agent works when it can add a remote MCP server and sign in with OAuth.

Which tools does the Ziplined MCP have?

The server lists 37 tools, from the operation catalog in the Ziplined code (production, 6 November 2026).

An agent can call a tool by the name of a view, source or person. It does not need an ID first.

Group	Tools	What they answer or do
People	`search_people`, `get_person`, `update_person`, `log_outreach`, `delete_outreach`	Find people by Lead status, recent engagement and outreach history. Open one person with what they engaged with. Record the outreach you did
Ideal client	`get_icp`, `save_icp`, `save_exclusions`, `get_almost_leads`	Read or change who counts as a Lead. Almost leads miss one part of your ideal client
Sources	`list_sources`, `estimate_source`, `save_source`, `delete_source`, `refresh_data`, `go_back_further`	Which profiles and company pages Ziplined watches, what a new one costs, adding it, and going back up to 90 days
Account	`get_account`	Workspace, plan, credits and the next setup step
Views	`list_views`, `get_view`, `get_filter_options`, `save_view`, `delete_view`, `add_to_view`, `remove_from_view`, `save_sync`	Saved lists, filtered or hand-picked, and the sync that sends a list to a tool
Integrations	`send_people`, `list_destinations`, `save_destination`, `test_destination`, `delete_destination`, `connect_destination`, `list_destination_targets`, `list_deliveries`	Send people to Slack, email, a webhook or an outreach tool, and see what was sent
Companies, posts, insights	`search_companies`, `get_company`, `list_posts`, `get_post`, `get_insights`	The companies behind your Leads, which posts reached them, and how this period compares with the last

What can you ask Claude, ChatGPT or Grok Bot with the Ziplined MCP?

Write the question the way you would ask a colleague. These are examples, with the tools the agent uses.

Ask	What happens	Tools
"Who engaged this week and fits my ideal client?"	A list of this week's Leads, with the post each person liked or commented on	`search_people`
"Who engaged with my posts last week that I have never messaged?"	Leads with no outreach logged	`search_people`, `get_person`
"Track who engages with my competitors and add the ones who fit to my HeyReach campaign."	Adds competitors as sources and a sync to HeyReach, after your confirmation	`save_source`, `save_view`, `save_sync`
"Every morning, send the ideal clients who engaged with my posts to #sales in Slack."	A view of new Leads and a daily sync to Slack	`save_view`, `connect_destination`, `save_sync`
"Which of my posts reached the most Leads this month?"	The posts that reached the people who fit, compared with last month	`list_posts`, `get_insights`
"Who almost fits my ideal client, and what is missing?"	Almost leads, with the one part they miss	`get_almost_leads`, `save_icp`
"I messaged Sanne today. Log it."	The outreach is recorded on her person	`log_outreach`

In the example workspace, Claude answers the first question with two invented Leads, each with a job title, a company and the post they engaged with, plus 12 more who fit. Your answer shows your own Leads.

HeyReach, Clay, Google Sheets and webhooks need a Team plan, from $99 a month. Slack, email and CSV work on Solo.

What does the Ziplined MCP not do?

It does not post, schedule or write posts. Ziplined is not a writing tool.
It has no tool that opens any LinkedIn profile you name. Its people tools read the people Ziplined found from your sources.
It does not read your LinkedIn inbox, send messages or send connection requests. log_outreach only records what you did.
It does nothing with LinkedIn jobs.
It is not an official LinkedIn MCP, and it is not free open-source software.

Is the Ziplined MCP safe for my LinkedIn account?

Sign-in. OAuth with your Ziplined account. The consent screen asks you to pick an organization, and that decides the workspace. A Team workspace can also use an API key; a key with read scope sees only the read tools.
No LinkedIn login. Ziplined reads the public posts of your sources, and the likes and comments on them, every night on its own servers. Your LinkedIn session is not used for that.
The optional extension. Dark signals come from the free Chrome extension in your own logged-in browser. It never likes, comments, connects or sends.
Confirm first. save_source, send_people, remove_from_view, delete_view, delete_source, delete_destination and save_sync with contact details answer first with a summary, a cost estimate with a ceiling and a confirm_id. The change happens only when the agent sends it back, within 10 minutes.
No secrets in the chat. Slack, Clay, Google Sheets and HeyReach connect through a link that works once, for you, within 15 minutes. The agent never asks for an API key or password.

FAQ

Does LinkedIn have an official MCP server?

No. LinkedIn publishes no official MCP server (Google AI Overview, 15 September 2026). The Ziplined MCP is a third-party server: it reads the Leads in your Ziplined workspace, not LinkedIn itself.

What is the URL of the Ziplined LinkedIn MCP server?

The Ziplined MCP server is at https://mcp.ziplined.io/mcp. It is a remote server over HTTP with OAuth sign-in, so there is nothing to install on your computer.

Can Claude read my LinkedIn through Ziplined?

Claude reads what Ziplined collected: the people who engaged with the posts of your sources, the dark signals from the extension, and who of them are Leads. Ziplined does not give Claude your inbox, your feed or any profile you name.

Does the Ziplined MCP need my LinkedIn cookie?

No. Scraper MCP servers often ask for your li_at cookie; Ziplined never does.

Which Ziplined plans include the MCP?

Every Ziplined plan can connect and list the 37 tools. The data tools answer on Solo ($49 a month, 3,000 credits) and Team (from $99 a month, 10,000 credits). The 7-day trial includes 3,000 credits.

Does using the MCP cost credits?

Questions to the AI agent cost no Ziplined credits. Credits pay for the scan: 1 per post, 1 per reaction or comment, 1 per profile view or new follower. A tool that adds a source shows the estimate first.

Can Claude send LinkedIn messages with Ziplined?

No. Ziplined never posts, messages or connects. Claude can send Leads to your outreach tool on Team, from $99 a month, and that tool does the sending.

What changed: first version, 2026-11-06.