Give AI models and agents a direct line to your iPhone

SERVER URL

https://mcp.activitysmith.com/mcp

PROTOCOL

modelcontextprotocol.io

Overview

Connect the official ActivitySmith MCP server to Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any other client that supports remote MCP servers. Your agent authenticates once through OAuth and can then request your approval, send Push Notifications and trigger Live Activities on your iPhone and iPad, without copying API keys into prompts.

Remote approvals, handled end to end

An agent can pause before a sensitive action and send a question with the context you need to decide. ActivitySmith stores the request and delivers two clearly labeled actions through a Live Activity or Push Notification. The labels can match the decision, such as Send, Deploy, or Publish.

When you choose an action, the waiting agent receives the decision immediately. Pending requests remain available for up to 30 minutes, giving you time to respond after stepping away.

See how remote approvals for AI agents work.

What agents can do

Push Notifications: Send Push Notifications to your paired devices or targeted channels.
Live Activities: Start, update, and end Live Activities on your iPhone, like live task progress on your Lock Screen.
Remote approvals: Approve or reject agent actions from your iPhone so work can continue while you are away.
Lock Screen widgets: Create widget metrics and update metric values for your Lock Screen Widgets.
Channels: Target Push Notifications and Live Activities to specific users or devices.
History and tags: Browse your Push Notification and Live Activity history. Use optional tags to organize and filter it when useful.

AI agent task progress Live Activity on the iPhone Lock Screen, updated over MCP

Setup instructions

The server URL is the same in every client. Approve the OAuth screen in your browser once, and the ActivitySmith tools become available in new sessions.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http activitysmith https://mcp.activitysmith.com/mcp

Then run /mcp inside a Claude Code session to go through the authentication flow.

Cursor

Install in Cursor with one click. If you prefer manual setup, add the server to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "activitysmith": {
      "url": "https://mcp.activitysmith.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cursor prompts you to log in the first time the server is used.

Codex

codex mcp add activitysmith --url https://mcp.activitysmith.com/mcp

Then authenticate:

codex mcp login activitysmith

Other MCP clients

For any client that asks for a remote MCP server URL, use https://mcp.activitysmith.com/mcp. The authorization flow happens in ActivitySmith. After approval, tools run against the account you authorized.

Tools

The server exposes the following MCP tools, grouped by resource. We recommend keeping tool confirmation enabled in your client and exercising caution when combining the server with other MCP servers, to reduce the risk of prompt injection.

Resource	Tool	Description
Approvals	`request_approval`	Send an actionable approval request with optional action-specific button labels, then wait for the decision.
	`wait_for_approval`	Resume waiting for a pending approval and wake as soon as the user decides.
	`get_approval`	Get the current state of an approval request without waiting.
	`cancel_approval`	Cancel a pending approval request that is no longer needed.
	`request_approval_task`	Create a durable approval task in MCP clients that support MCP Tasks.
Push Notifications	`send_push_notification`	Send a Push Notification, with optional actions, media, and channel targeting.
	`list_push_notifications`	List Push Notification history for the account.
	`get_push_notification`	Get one Push Notification by public ID.
Live Activities	`set_live_activity_stream`	Start or update a managed Live Activity stream.
	`pause_live_activity_stream`	Pause a stream and end its current Live Activity.
	`resume_live_activity_stream`	Resume a paused stream so updates apply again.
	`end_live_activity_stream`	End the current Live Activity and remove the stream key.
	`list_live_activities`	List Live Activities for the account.
Tags	`list_tags`	List account-wide tags and their usage across Push Notifications and Live Activities.
Lock Screen Widgets	`create_widget_metric`	Create a widget metric definition.
	`set_widget_metric_value`	Set the latest value for a widget metric.
	`update_widget_metric`	Update a widget metric definition.
	`list_widget_metrics`	List widget metrics for the account.
	`delete_widget_metric`	Delete a widget metric.
Channels	`create_channel`	Create a channel for targeting Push Notifications and Live Activities.
	`get_channel`	Get one channel with its assigned users and devices.
	`list_channels`	List channels for the account.
	`update_channel`	Update a channel slug.
	`set_channel_users`	Replace the user membership for a channel.
	`set_channel_devices`	Replace explicit device assignments for a channel.
	`delete_channel`	Delete a channel.
Users and Devices	`list_account_users`	List users in the account for channel assignment.
Users and Devices	`list_account_devices`	List active devices for explicit channel assignment.
API Keys	`create_api_key`	Create an API key. The key secret is shown once.
	`list_api_keys`	List API keys. Secret values are never returned.
	`update_api_key`	Update the name or channel scope of an API key.
	`delete_api_key`	Delete an API key by public ID.

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