OpenClaw MCP Setup Guide: How to Connect Third-Party Tools to Your AI Assistant

A complete OpenClaw MCP setup guide using MCPorter to connect tools like TAPD, Figma, and Exa, extending your AI assistant with the latest 2025 MCP workflow.

Mar 4, 2026 · 1 min read · 160 Words · -Views -Comments · Programming

I needed to call TAPD MCP in OpenClaw, but found that it doesn’t natively support MCP. A third-party solution is required. The official recommendation is to use MCPorter as a middleware layer.

Install MCPorter

npm i mcporter


which uvx

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

source ~/.bashrc  # or source ~/.profile

Add MCP

npx mcporter config add mcp-server-tapd
–stdio “uvx mcp-server-tapd”
–env TAPD_ACCESS_TOKEN=xxxx
–env TAPD_API_BASE_URL=https://api.tapd.cn
–env TAPD_BASE_URL=https://www.tapd.cn

The config file is located at /root/config/mcporter.json.

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Run this command to check the MCP status:

mcporter list

Usage

When using it, you can explicitly tell OpenClaw to use the mcp-server-tapd under MCPorter at the beginning. Once it’s saved to memory, you can simplify it afterward by just sending the ticket link directly.

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