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Box × Claude

Use the Box MCP server
in Claude

Search and read documents and folders in your Box account. This guide connects Box to Claude (claude.ai and the Claude desktop app) through a governed gateway — one URL that also works in every other MCP client you use, with your rules and a full log attached.

Connect Box free

Live-probed · Security-scanned · Note: Box currently restricts third-party sign-ins — API-key path recommended

Setup: Box in Claude

Claude adds MCP servers via custom connectors in Settings. The gateway route takes about two minutes:

  1. Create a free gate gateway and connect Box to it from the verified directory (one click — note: Box currently restricts third-party sign-ins, so use the API-key path if the vendor offers one).
  2. Open claude.ai → Settings → Connectors and click 'Add custom connector'.
  3. Name it 'gate' and paste your gateway URL, then approve the authorization.
  4. Ask Claude something Box can answer — the call runs through your gateway, with your rules applied and logged.

What to ask once it’s connected

“Find the signed version of the vendor contract.”
“Summarize the Q3 planning document.”
“What's new in the legal folder?”
“List the files shared with me this month.”

Why route it through a gateway

One URL, every client

The same Box connection works in Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code too — no per-client re-wiring.

Rules before regret

Allow, ask, or block every tool Box exposes — reads can flow freely while writes require your approval.

Every call logged

A plain-language activity log of everything Claude did with Box — searchable, exportable, auditable.

Scanned and probed

Box passed a live handshake probe and a security scan before listing — and drift detection watches it after you connect.

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Also available: Box in Claude Code · Box in ChatGPT · Box in Cursor · Box in VS Code