Connecting Claude Code

Add the Launchpad connector to Claude Code, authenticate with your secret key, and run your first session against a live server.

Launchpad works with Claude Code in the Claude desktop app. You install the Launchpad connector once, in the app's settings, and from then on Claude Code has a small set of tools for launching servers, opening sessions, deploying and reading logs. There is no terminal setup and nothing to configure by hand.

Three short pages:

Adding the connector: a few clicks in the Claude desktop app.
Authenticating: how your secret key is used and where to keep it.
Your first session: a full walkthrough from "launch a server" to "it's live".

The tools Claude gets

Tool	What it does
`get_account_status`	Your plan, entitlements and how many servers you own
`list_available_plans`	Server sizes you can launch
`list_my_servers`	The servers on your account
`request_server`	Launch a new server; returns a job id and subdomain
`get_provisioning_status`	Poll a launch until the server is genuinely ready
`request_ssh_session`	Mint a 30-minute, single-server SSH certificate
`list_active_sessions` / `revoke_session`	See and cut short open sessions
`request_subdomain`	Rename your `*.asklaunchpad.com` address
`get_server_health`	Disk, memory, CPU and service snapshot
`get_server_readme`	The on-server README
`get_service_catalog`	Services we support installing (nginx, MySQL, Node, PHP, Python…)
`deploy_app` / `get_app_logs`	HTTPS-only deploy and log tailing
`terminate_server`	Decommission a server (requires explicit confirmation)

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