backyard.energy

Connect your AI assistant

Ask Claude, ChatGPT or another AI assistant about your sites, bills, cash flow and loans. Add backyard.energy to it with the address below, approve it once in your account, and it reads your figures with their sources. It changes nothing unless you allow it.

https://app.backyard.energy/api/mcp

AI assistants

Claude

  1. In Claude (web, desktop or mobile): Customize → Connectors → + Add → Add custom connector.
  2. Paste the address https://app.backyard.energy/api/mcp and connect.
  3. backyard.energy opens in your browser: approve the connection on your home page.
  4. On a Team or Enterprise plan an owner adds it under Organization settings → Connectors.

Their own guide

ChatGPT

  1. Open chatgpt.com/plugins → + → Add custom MCP server.
  2. Paste the address https://app.backyard.energy/api/mcp, choose OAuth as the authentication, then Create as a plugin.
  3. backyard.energy opens in your browser: approve the connection on your home page.

Their own guide

Developer tools

Claude Code

  1. Run claude mcp add --transport http backyard-energy https://app.backyard.energy/api/mcp.
  2. In Claude Code type /mcp and sign in: approve the connection on your home page.

Their own guide

VS Code

  1. Command Palette → MCP: Add Server → HTTP.
  2. Paste the address https://app.backyard.energy/api/mcp and give it a name.
  3. Sign in when VS Code asks: approve the connection on your home page.

Their own guide

Cursor

  1. Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json: { "mcpServers": { "backyard-energy": { "url": "https://app.backyard.energy/api/mcp" } } }.
  2. Sign in when Cursor asks: approve the connection on your home page.

Their own guide

Other tools

  1. Any other MCP client: the same address with a personal API key in the header Authorization: Bearer bem_pat_…. Create the key on your home page.
  2. A coding agent that runs commands can also sign itself in: give it the sentence on your home page and approve the short code it shows.
  3. A spreadsheet or BI tool: read the API with a personal API key.
  4. A bank, a buyer or an accountant: share a data-room link from the site's page — a locked version of its figures, not a connection.

What it can do

  1. It reads. It changes data — to set a site up or fill in what is missing — only if you allow changes for it in your list of agents, for an hour at a time, and it shows you the plan first. Every change is recorded as made by that assistant.
  2. It sees what you see: your personal sites, or the one company you approve it for.
  3. You approve it in the same browser it opened. A link sent to you by someone else cannot be approved.
  4. Stop it any time from the list of agents on your home page.