# Backlot (MCP server)

> 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.

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.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/brekkylab/backlot |
| GitHub stars | 259 |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Language | Python |
| Transport | stdio |
| Packages | pypi: backlot |
| Remote URL | none |
| Needs API key | no |
| Official | no |
| Works with | Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code |
| Category | Productivity |
| Latest release | v0.1.0 (Oct 23, 2026) |
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
| MCP registry name | io.github.brekkylab/backlot |

## Install

### Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

```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

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

### Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json)

```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)

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "backlot": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "backlot"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

Config formats checked against the official docs on 2026-10-07.

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