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MCP server — About two minutes to connect (2)

Claude Desktop, Cursor and most other clients take a block of JSON in their settings file: { "mcpServers": { "rowfold": { "type": "http", "url": "https://www.rowfold.com/mcp", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer rfmcp_…" } } } } That is the real address — there is no per-account host to look up. The Developers page prints both blocks with your own key already in them, so it is a copy and a paste. Gemini CLI One command, or the same thing in settings.json: gemini mcp add rowfold https://www.rowfold.com/mcp \ --transport http --header "Authorization: Bearer rfmcp_…" { "mcpServers": { "rowfold": { "httpUrl": "https://www.rowfold.com/mcp", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer rfmcp_…" } } } } Use httpUrl, not url. Gemini CLI defaults to a stdio transport, and a stdio server ignores the headers block entirely — the connection then fails as unauthorised with nothing obviously wrong in the file.
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