Connect Phrase to any AI client in minutes
The Phrase MCP Server brings the platform into Claude, Cursor, Codex, and any MCP-compatible client. Translate, run quality checks, trigger workflows, and build your own agents on top of Phrase, all from inside the tools you already work in.
Is your AI client still locked out of your localization platform?
More and more of your daily work now happens inside AI clients. But your language assets and projects sit in a platform those clients can’t reach. So new workflows stall. Teams patch the gap by hand, copying context back and forth, or the AI goes without it and guesses.
The Phrase MCP Server connects the two, so the work happens where you already are.
Do your localization work from inside your AI client
Add Phrase to your client once and sign in with your Phrase account. From then on, your client works with Phrase directly: pull from projects, run tasks, and act on the platform on your behalf.
You decide what it can do, view, create, or delete, and that sits on top of your existing Phrase role. An agent can never do more than the person behind it already can. Change it or revoke it whenever you want.
You set it up once, in the client, and it’s there whenever you work.
Why teams build on the Phrase MCP Server
Build agents and workflows on Phrase
Do more than look things up. Agent builders can create and deploy agents that work with Phrase: flagging when content needs translating, triggering workflows, pulling the latest quality scores back into your process, and calling individual capabilities as building blocks. Phrase does the translation and the heavy lifting; your agents keep it moving.
The whole platform, one connection
Strings, TMS, Quality Evaluation, Orchestrator, Portal, Studio, and Language AI, all reachable through a single server. Not a thin translation endpoint, but the full platform, so an agent can move a project from intake to delivery without you wiring up each capability by hand. Configure only the parts you need.
Permissions that inherit your role
Access is scoped to view, create, or modify and delete, layered on top of each user’s existing Phrase role and never beyond it. Grant what an agent needs, revoke it in one click. Governance your security team will recognise.
Put Phrase to work without leaving your client
Translate in context
Point your agent at a string or a file and Phrase translates it, with your term base, translation memory, and style guide applied automatically. Consistent output, with no set-up per request.
Check quality on the spot
Pull Quality Evaluation scores on any output without leaving your editor. Get the score and the reasoning behind it, then decide what ships and what needs a human.
Trigger real workflows
Have your agent build and manage an Orchestrator workflow, send a file for translation, or pull project status straight from a prompt, so the right work starts in Phrase at the right moment.
FAQs
What is the Phrase MCP Server?
It’s a server that connects Phrase to any AI client that supports the Model Context Protocol, the open standard for linking AI clients to real systems. It lets clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex work with your Phrase platform directly.
Which AI clients does it work with?
Any MCP-compatible client, including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and VS Code.
Can I build agents and custom workflows on it?
Yes. The server exposes Phrase capabilities as building blocks, so agent builders can create and deploy agents, and build custom workflows that run on the platform, straight from their AI client.
How do permissions work?
You choose what the AI client can access, view, create, or modify. That sits on top of each user’s existing Phrase role, not beyond it, so an agent can only ever do what the person behind it is already allowed to do. You can change or revoke access at any time.
Which parts of the platform does it cover?
One server reaches Strings, TMS, Quality Evaluation, Orchestrator, Portal, Studio, and Language AI. You configure only what you need.
Is my data secure?
Access runs through your Phrase sign-in and existing roles and permissions, not a shared key, and can be revoked instantly. Phrase is ISO 27001 certified, GDPR-compliant, and operates separate EU/US data residency regions. SOC 2 Type II certification is in progress.
Where do I start?
Set it up now via the docs, or view the server on GitHub.
Bring Phrase into your AI client
One connection puts the whole platform where your team already builds.