Onboarding

When you first sign in to Manufact Cloud, an onboarding wizard walks you through workspace setup and your first server. You can also reach the same flows later from Servers → New Server and the Quickstart.

Who sees it

• New accounts land on /onboarding after sign-up or checkout
• Returning users with an organization may skip organization creation; the wizard advances to invite members or goal selection
• Each step has Skip (go to the dashboard) and Back where applicable

Wizard steps

Deploy

Best for: hosting on Manufact with GitHub, preview environments, analytics, and observability.

1. On What are you trying to do?, pick Deploy.
2. Connect GitHub (or Select Repository if already connected).
3. Choose a repository and configure the deployment (branch, region, environment variables).
4. Click Deploy and wait for the pipeline to finish.

This path matches Quickstart steps 2–4. After a successful deploy you land on the server overview or dashboard.

Connect

Best for: a server you already host elsewhere — evals, publish checks, and submission pack without a Manufact deployment.

1. On What are you trying to do?, pick Connect.
2. Paste your MCP server URL on the Connect your MCP server screen.
3. Complete OAuth if prompted, then click Connect.

Manufact opens the server's publish checklist with autorun=1 so checks start immediately. For the full URL-connect guide, see Connect an existing server.

Create

Best for: starting from scratch with a coding agent.

1. On What are you trying to do?, pick Create.
2. Copy the agent prompt (includes a pre-approved CLI device code so mcp-use login works without an extra browser step).
3. Paste the prompt into Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or another agent.
4. The wizard shows CLI deploy progress while the agent scaffolds and deploys via the CLI.

Build and deploy an MCP app to Manufact Cloud for me. 

Follow these in order

0. Ask me what MCP app I want to build. If I'm not sure, propose building the,
    example MCP Apps (widgets) template so I can see one working, and go with,
    that unless I say otherwise. you should always use npx -y create-mcp-use-app@latest {name} --template mcp-apps 
    to scaffold the project.

1. Login to the CLI:
    npx -y mcp-use@latest login

2. Install the mcp-use skill (non-interactive), which will guide you through the rest of the steps.
    npx -y mcp-use@latest skills add

3. Build the server: scaffold with the MCP Apps (widgets) template and,
    implement the tools and widgets we agreed on, following the skill:
    npx -y create-mcp-use-app@latest my-mcp-app --template mcp-apps

4. Deploy. Ask me which GitHub org to use:
    - If I want a Manufact-managed repo (no GitHub setup needed), deploy with:
      npx -y mcp-use@latest deploy --no-github -y
    - If I want it in my own GitHub, ask me which GitHub account/org, make sure
      the mcp-use GitHub App is installed there (open
      https://github.com/apps/mcp-use/installations/new and have me authorize
      it), push the project to a repo in that org, then:
      npx -y mcp-use@latest deploy -y
6. When it is live, give me both:
    - the MCP URL (to connect clients), and
    - the Manufact Cloud dashboard URL for the server, where I can see
      analytics, evals, observability, logs, and more.

Install the skill directly: npx skills add mcp-use/mcp-use

The device-code flow is documented in CLI login (--device-code).

Skip and back

• Skip on any step saves progress where applicable and sends you to the organization dashboard.
• Back returns to the previous step (for example, from goal selection to invite members, or to organization setup).

After onboarding

Next steps