10 MCP(Model Context Protocol) Use Cases Using Claude

By Ginikachukwu Nwibe

on Tuesday, May 27th, 2025

Give a person AI alone, and they'll only get answers; give them access to MCPs, and they will use those answers to automate tasks for a lifetime — My classic twist on the good old fishing proverb 😅

Claude can now do more than just answer your questions. It can carry out tasks for you, like booking appointments, analyzing spreadsheets, or generating custom reports with real-time data. This is possible through Model Context Protocols (MCPs).

In this post, we're showcasing 10 interesting ways you can combine Claude's intelligence with MCPs to accomplish what was previously impossible with AI alone. These are practical applications you can implement today to enhance your productivity and capabilities. These use cases demonstrate why MCPs are quickly becoming the most exciting development in AI implementation.

What is MCP (Model Context Protocol) and Why Does It Matter?

Before exploring our top use cases, let's take a moment to quickly understand what MCPs are

Simply put, MCP is like USB-C for AI

It is like providing AI with the "hands" to perform actions using just natural language. This makes MCP use cases incredibly diverse and impactful across every industry. Anything you can do manually with your everyday tools, AI chatbots can now do for you without any need for coding

You can learn more about MCPs in detail and how to connect them to Claude in this exciting blog post: What is an MCP

Now, let's explore the 10 powerful MCP use cases that can be achieved with Claude

Top 10 MCP Use Cases: Practical Applications of AI Agents

Here are 10 compelling ways Model Context Protocol empowers AI agents to perform actions and automate tasks. You also dont need to build an automation system to enjoy these use cases. Once you connect to a secure and easy-to-use MCP server, you can just prompt your chatbot with natural language.

Apart from connecting individual tools to your AI agents, you can also connect entire workflows and trigger them from Claude. An example is the MCP flows you can build with Airtable (It also includes templates for the flows).

You can start by using the largest open-source MCP server for free

Now let's dive in.

1. Personalized outreach

How many tasks beat the pain of personalized cold outreach?

Not too many, plus you also get ignored half the time. One of the interesting use cases of MCP on Claude is automated personalized outreach. With just a simple prompt, Claude can:

Get a list of companies
Ask Perplexity AI MCP to research their website, since Claude does not have search capabilities
Use scrape relevant emails from the target websites
Create a Google Doc containing personalized pitches for each company

2. Sending automated voice replies to Customers with Eleven Labs MCP

If you've used Eleven Labs, you know it's not just useful; it's actually pretty fun and cool to play around with

You can do a lot of useful and fun things on Eleven Labs from the Claude chat interface

Turn text into audio: For example, repurpose an article or an ebook into audio
Convert long messages to audio: For example, instead of sending a long text response to a customer, you can just tell Claude to convert it to audio.

Try out the Eleven Labs MCP with your Claude desktop here

https://www.activepieces.com/mcp/elevenlabs

3. Turn Youtube Video Into Engaging Linkedin Content:

Just drop in your YouTube link, and Claude will:

Transcribe the whole video automatically
Pull out the interesting bits people care about
Wrap it all up in your personal style
Give you multiple post options to choose from

The best part is that you can edit the content inside the Claude interface directly.

Why create content twice when you can amplify what already works?

Check out the YouTube MCP here:https://lnkd.in/dSiNcz4c

4. Adding search abilities to Claude with Perplexity MCP

Claude is a very creative AI for writing, it makes your content sound more human than other LLMs. However, Claude does not have search abilities. The Perplexity MCP enables you to connect Perplexity MCP to Claude so you can search the internet and get relevant data while working with Claude

You can check out the Perplexity MCP here: https://www.activepieces.com/mcp/perplexity-ai

5. Email Automation:

Claude can now directly compose emails on your behalf and then, with your approval, send them instantly from any email address. This accelerates communication, ensures consistent messaging, and frees up time from repetitive email tasks. Just type what you need to do with Gmail in Claude

Try the Gmail MCP here

https://www.activepieces.com/mcp/gmail

6. Intelligent File Organization & Management:

MCPs enable Claude to access your file system. It can scan directories, identify file types (images, PDFs, executables), and automatically move them into designated, logical folders. This is an ideal starting point for anyone new to MCP, offering immediate benefits. It saves time, reduces digital clutter, and improves accessibility of your files. Claude can access your files either through Google Drive, OneDrive, or any file management systems you use

You can check out the Google Drive MCP and the Microsoft OneDrive MCP:

7. Automatic Web Scraping/Crawling

The most relatable thing about web scraping is how much we all hate doing it.

One tool you can connect to Claude to achieve this is Firecrawl. It helps you scrape websites and turn them into LLM-ready data.

Now, Claude can chat with Firecrawl to scrape websites and return LLM-ready data for you using natural language

So here are some cool things you can do with Firecrawl MCP from Claude

🌐 Start a crawl

Let’s say you need data from hundreds of pages on a site. Simply prompt: "Claude, start crawling [website link] with Firecrawl and get me data from every product page with images, prices, and ratings."

📊 Get crawl results

You don’t even need to log into Firecrawl to see what’s happening. Just ask: "Hey Claude, fetch me the latest crawl results from Firecrawl."

You get your insights with everything organized and displayed in LLM-ready format

🛠 Make a Custom API Call

Need something more complex?

Try this: "Claude, make a custom API call to Firecrawl to scrape all blog titles and URLs from [specific endpoint].

Try the Firecrawl MCP here

https://www.activepieces.com/mcp/firecrawl

8. Automated GitHub Repository Updates:

By integrating GitHub MCP with Claude, you can use natural language to prompt Claude to perform tasks like updating repositories, creating new branches, committing changes, or even managing simple pull requests based on given instructions.

This automates routine code management, reduces manual errors, and allows developers to focus on core coding. Here are some tasks you can perform for Claude on GitHub

Create Issue: Create Issue in GitHub Repository
Get issue information: Grabs information from a specific issue
Create comment on an issue: Adds a comment to the specified issue (also works with pull requests)
Lock issue: Locks the specified issue
Unlock issue: Unlocks the specified issue
Raw GraphQL query: Perform a raw GraphQL query
Create Pull Request Review Comment: Creates a review comment on a pull request in a GitHub repository
Create Commit Comment: Creates a comment on a commit in a GitHub repository
Create Discussion Comment: Creates a comment on a discussion in a GitHub repository
Custom API Call: Make a custom API call to a specific endpoint

Try the GitHub MCP here: https://www.activepieces.com/mcp/github

9. Manipulate Notion Database

You know that feeling when your brain is like, "I need to write this down in Notion," but you're in the middle of five other things.

By the time you switch over, you've forgotten what you were doing.

Now you can chat with your Notion data without leaving the Claude chat using the Notion MCP

Here are some other cool things you can do with this combo

Hey Claude, can you...

"...throw together a project timeline in Notion for this project I'm planning?"
"...find that note in Notion about the client who was being extra last week?"
"...add “figure out my life” 😅to my Notion tasks for tomorrow?"
"...take this massive document, give me the not-boring parts, and add it to my Notion?"

Try it out here:

https://www.activepieces.com/mcp/notion