Dropbox Dash MCP Server for Claude

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The Dropbox Dash MCP server connects Claude and other MCP-capable clients to Dropbox Dash through Dropbox's managed remote endpoint at https://mcp.dropbox.com/dash. It is built for company knowledge workflows where an assistant needs to search connected sources, read document content, resolve original URLs, inspect available sources, and bring relevant file or workspace context into an active coding, support, sales, or operations task.

Dropbox also publishes a local dropbox/mcp-server-dash repository, but the official help article recommends the remote server because it is easier to use and updated more frequently. This entry therefore treats the remote HTTP server as the primary setup path and the GitHub repository as source context for teams that need a local stdio option.

Features

• Remote HTTP MCP endpoint at https://mcp.dropbox.com/dash.
• Dynamic Client Registration support for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Claude Web/Desktop, and Cursor.
• Company content search with optional filters for file type, source, and source-specific labels.
• Document metadata and text retrieval by UUID or URI.
• Markdown document reading with chunked transfer support for larger files.
• Visual page rendering for PDFs and presentation slides.
• Binary content reading for images, video, and audio as base64-encoded data.
• Source discovery, filter examples, current-user identity lookup, and original URL resolution.
• Read-only source actions for connected systems through Dash's native source integrations.

Use Cases

• Ask Claude to find the latest spec, brief, or runbook across Dropbox Dash before changing code.
• Pull a specific document by Dash UUID or original URL and summarize the implementation requirements.
• Search only approved source types, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Confluence, GitHub, Jira, Slack, or Microsoft 365, for task-specific context.
• Read a PDF page or slide image when the exact visual content matters.
• Resolve a shared document URL to Dash metadata before asking an agent to use it as context.
• Give support, sales, or operations assistants access to current company knowledge without switching tabs.

Installation

Claude Code

1. Confirm your Dropbox Dash account can connect MCP clients.
2. Add the remote MCP server:

claude mcp add --transport http DropboxDashMCP https://mcp.dropbox.com/dash

1. Complete the Dropbox OAuth or client-specific authentication flow.
2. Start with a narrow prompt that names the source, file type, label, or URL you want Claude to inspect.

Claude Web/Desktop

1. Confirm your Claude plan includes custom connectors.
2. Open Claude settings, then Connectors.
3. Add a custom connector named Dropbox Dash MCP.
4. Use https://mcp.dropbox.com/dash as the server URL.
5. Complete the OAuth flow and test with a non-sensitive document first.

Cursor

1. Open Cursor settings, then Tools and MCP.
2. Create a new MCP server using the configuration below.
3. Authenticate with Dropbox when prompted by the client.

Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Dropbox Dash MCP": {
      "url": "https://mcp.dropbox.com/dash"
    }
  }
}

Codex CLI bearer-token setup

For clients that need a bearer token, Dropbox documents a Dropbox app setup flow and a bearer-token environment variable:

export DROPBOX_DASH_MCP_TOKEN="YOUR_DROPBOX_DASH_ACCESS_TOKEN"
codex mcp add dropbox-dash-mcp \
  --url https://mcp.dropbox.com/dash \
  --bearer-token-env-var DROPBOX_DASH_MCP_TOKEN

Examples

Search approved sources

Search Dropbox Dash for the latest onboarding runbook in Confluence or Dropbox only. Return the document title, source, owner, and updated date before summarizing.

Read a specific document

Use Dropbox Dash to read this document URL and summarize only the deployment requirements that affect the current code change.

Resolve a shared URL

Resolve this shared project brief URL through Dropbox Dash, then tell me which source it came from and whether the content appears current.

Inspect a visual page

Read page 3 of the product launch PDF through Dropbox Dash and summarize the visible checklist items without guessing beyond the page image.

Source notes

• Dropbox's official help article describes the Dropbox Dash remote MCP server as available to Dropbox Dash users and lists https://mcp.dropbox.com/dash as the server location.
• The help article documents tools for Dash search, document reading, markdown reading, visual page rendering, binary content reading, source discovery, examples, identity lookup, URL resolution, and read-only source actions.
• Dropbox documents Dynamic Client Registration support for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Claude Web/Desktop, and Cursor, plus bearer-token setup for clients that need a manually created Dropbox app.
• The Dropbox app setup instructions call for scoped access, Full Dropbox access type, and permissions including account_info.read, dash/content.read, and dash/content.write.
• The official dropbox/mcp-server-dash repository provides a local stdio MCP server, documents Python 3.10+, uv, Dropbox app setup, OAuth flow tools, company search, file details, token storage, and Apache-2.0 licensing.

Duplicate check

Checked current content/mcp/, content/tools/, guides, skills, agents, open pull requests, and repository-wide content for Dropbox Dash, DropboxDashMCP, dropbox/mcp-server-dash, mcp-server-dash, mcp.dropbox.com/dash, dash_search, dash_read_document, dash_get_sources, cloud storage MCP, file collaboration, company content search, and related generic file/storage MCP entries. Existing Filesystem, Cloudinary, Cloudflare, Plaid, Jira/Confluence, and other source-specific MCP entries do not duplicate Dropbox Dash's cross-source company search and document-reading MCP server. No dedicated Dropbox Dash MCP entry, Dropbox Dash source URL duplicate, or open duplicate PR was found.

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