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Backlot

Backlot is an MCP server that adds productivity tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Local emulator for Slack, Gmail, Drive, GitHub, Jira, Notion, S3 and more, with per-document ACLs. It has 259 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license and runs locally with uvx backlot.

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Install Backlot

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Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "backlot": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "backlot"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio backlot -- uvx backlot

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "backlot": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "backlot"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "backlot": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "backlot"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About Backlot

Backlot is a local emulator for Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, GitHub, Jira, Notion, S3 and other enterprise APIs. It reproduces the response shapes, pagination, authentication, errors and per-document access controls an integration has to handle, over a deterministic corpus you control — so you build and test against the official vendor SDKs with no vendor account, no OAuth approval, no secrets in CI and no network.

  • ai-agents
  • amazon-s3
  • api-mock
  • enterprise
  • fastapi
  • github
  • gmail
  • google-drive
  • jira
  • mcp

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How do I install the Backlot MCP server?

Add the command uvx backlot to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Backlot free?

The server is open source under the Apache-2.0 license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Backlot actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 26, 2026. The latest release is v0.1.0, published Oct 23, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.