Playmade for Claude

Build card decks from a conversation. Install the Playmade MCP server into Claude Desktop and ask Claude for a deck — it'll walk you through the whole build, then save it at a shareable playmade.ai/<slug> link.

Generate a token & copy the install command

On /settings/mcp, click Generate token. You'll get a ready-to-paste npx command that writes the token straight into your Claude Desktop config — no file editing required.

Open /settings/mcp

Paste the command, restart Claude Desktop

Paste it into a terminal (Terminal.app on macOS, PowerShell on Windows). It looks like:

npx -y @playmade/mcp-server install '<your-token>'

The installer auto-detects your OS, creates the config file if needed, and merges the playmade entry alongside any other MCP servers you have. Re-running with a new token rotates it safely.

Ask Claude for a deck

Open a new chat and try prompts like these:

"Make me a trivia deck about ancient Egypt."
"Build a Who Am I? deck of dog breeds — 10 cards with images."
"Here's what I saved on Discover — turn them into a deck."

Tip: Sonnet 4.6 drives the multi-step flow more reliably than Haiku. Both work — Sonnet is just worth the upgrade for this one.

What Claude can do with Playmade

clarify_topic — narrow a broad topic down to something buildable.
generate_cards / edit_card / add_more_cards — build and revise the deck.
generate_image — find or generate images for Who Am I? cards.
save_deck / get_deck / delete_deck — persist and manage decks.
list_saves / build_assorted_deck — turn your Discover saves into a deck in one step.

Prefer to edit the config file yourself?

Generate the token on /settings/mcp, expand "Prefer to paste it into the config file yourself?", and copy the snippet into:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

If the file already contains an mcpServers block, merge the playmade entry alongside any existing ones — don't replace the whole block.

Source and release notes at github.com/whadar/playmade/tree/main/mcp-server.