---
title: Manage access - MCP
description: Grant, review, and revoke who can connect AI agents to Contentsquare through MCP, and see what each connection can access.
source_url:
  html: https://docs.contentsquare.com/en/mcp/manage-access/
  md: https://docs.contentsquare.com/en/mcp/manage-access/index.md
---

> ## Documentation index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.contentsquare.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

Control who can connect AI agents to your Contentsquare data through MCP. Only Customer Admins can set up the MCP integration and manage access.

## Who has access

By default, MCP setup gives Customer Admins full access to the MCP integration. Customer Admins always keep their own MCP access and can't remove it from themselves, so every Customer Admin appears in the list even if no one granted them access.

Admins can also give other users, teams, or the whole account access to query Contentsquare data through their AI agents.

## Review the Connected apps tabs

1. Click your profile and go to **Account settings**.
2. Open **Connected apps**.

Connected apps has three tabs:

| Tab | What it lists |
| - | - |
| **User access** | The users who can connect AI agents to Contentsquare through MCP, what they can do, and who added them. |
| **Active connections** | The AI agents your users have connected. This tab used to be called **Apps**. |
| **Applications** | The applications your account created for tools that need a Client ID and Client secret. See [Manage applications](https://docs.contentsquare.com/en/mcp/applications/). |

## Grant access to users

1. Open the **User access** tab.

2. Click **Add user access**.

3. Select the permission level:

   * **Read** lets users query and analyze existing Contentsquare data through MCP tools.
   * **Write** is reserved for future MCP tools that can create or modify data, such as creating a segment or goal. These tools aren't available yet, so selecting **Write** has no effect now. You can add it in advance.

4. Select who you want to give access to. Account access only goes to users of your Contentsquare account.

## Understand who signs in

Each user connects an AI tool once: they sign in to Contentsquare in a popup, select the account, and choose whether to grant access to the entire account or to specific projects. The person who completes this sign-in determines the access available to the connection:

* If a Customer Admin completes the sign-in, the connection can have account-level access.
* If another user completes the sign-in, the connection is limited to that user's MCP access. The connection stops working if that user leaves the account or loses MCP access.
* For a tool shared by a team, have a Customer Admin complete the first sign-in.

## Revoke access

To revoke access for an AI agent, remove the Contentsquare MCP server from the agent's settings. Access is also disabled automatically after 30 days without use.

If the tool uses an application you created in **Connected apps** > **Applications**, a Customer Admin can also [delete that application](https://docs.contentsquare.com/en/mcp/applications/#delete-an-application). New connections stop right away, and existing access stops within one hour.


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