How to manage your website from ChatGPT or Claude, week to week
If you already spend the day in a chat assistant, opening another dashboard to change a price or read this week's enquiries is friction. Anticode runs an MCP server that Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants can connect to, so you can manage your website from ChatGPT or Claude: ask for a change, preview it, publish it, and check what came in, all in the conversation.
What you can do from the chat
The server at /mcp gives the assistant a set of tools that act on your Anticode account. In plain terms, you can ask it to:
- List your projects and published sites, and read a project's details.
- Create a project, get a quote for a build and start it.
- Request a change in words, the same way you would in the builder.
- Read and update project files.
- Show an in-chat preview of the result, in clients that support MCP Apps.
- Publish a project or unpublish a site.
- Read analytics: views per site per day, by source.
- Read form submissions: enquiries, bookings and sign-ups.
Connect it once
- Add Anticode as a connector in your assistant. There's documented setup for Claude (claude.ai, Claude Desktop and Claude Code), ChatGPT and Cursor. Other MCP clients that support OAuth remote servers can connect too. See editing a website with Claude over MCP for the steps in each.
- Sign in and approve access. The connection uses OAuth 2.1, so you sign in to Anticode in your browser and approve the assistant. Your password never goes to the assistant.
- Test with something harmless. Ask "list my Anticode sites". If it answers with your sites, the connection works.
A weekly routine in the chat
Here's what a typical Monday looks like for a small business owner who runs the site this way.
| You ask | What the assistant does |
|---|---|
| "Any new enquiries on the bakery site since Friday?" | Reads the form submissions and summarises them; you reply to customers from your own email |
| "How many visits last week, and where from?" | Reads analytics by source for that site |
| "Change the Saturday opening hours to 8 till 2." | Requests the change on the project and shows a preview |
| "Looks right. Publish it." | Publishes; the server's publish checks run as usual |
| "Take the pop-up site offline, the event's over." | Unpublishes that site |
If you have the builder open in a browser at the same time, it redraws when the assistant edits the project, with an undo, so you can watch a change land and step it back.
Safeguards worth keeping
- Preview before publishing. Ask for the preview and read it. The assistant does what you ask; it doesn't know that the price it just changed was a typo in your message.
- Publishing still passes the checks. The server re-runs its security checks at publish, so a page that fails them can't go live, whichever tool asked.
- Builds cost the same as in the builder. A build or change started from the chat counts against your plan's allowance. Ask for the quote first on anything large.
- Treat enquiry data with care. Form submissions read in a chat become part of that conversation in the assistant's own history. Check your assistant's data settings, and don't paste customer details into chats you share.
- Review agent changes the way you'd review a colleague's. See reviewing AI agent website changes.
When to open the dashboard instead
Some jobs are easier with your eyes on the page: moving sections by drag, adjusting layout, setting up connectors or a custom domain, changing team members, or reading a long list of submissions. The chat is good for quick, describable changes and for questions about what's happened; the builder is better for anything visual or administrative.
Limits
The assistant can only use the tools the server offers: it can't reply to your customers, send emails, change your domain or connectors, or manage team roles. Analytics are per site, not per page. What the assistant says is its summary of the data, so check the numbers in the dashboard before acting on anything important. More on the server itself on the MCP server page.
Questions people ask
Which assistants can I use?
There's documented setup for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. Other MCP clients that support OAuth remote servers can connect too.
Can the assistant publish without me checking?
It publishes when you ask it to. Ask for a preview first, and the server's publish checks still run.
Does the assistant see my password?
No. You sign in to Anticode in your browser and approve the connection with OAuth.
Can I disconnect it later?
Yes. Remove the connector in your assistant's settings. You can still manage everything from the dashboard.