Introducing the UserTesting MCP (Open beta)

Learn what the UserTesting MCP is and how to get started creating, launching, and reading UserTesting tests from your AI client.

 

Product: UserTesting
Experience: New

 

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About the UserTesting MCP

Note: The UserTesting MCP is in open beta. Your account needs to be enabled or opted in and needs access to Generative AI features. Contact Alison Held at aheld@usertesting.com to request access. See Who can use the UserTesting MCP.

The UserTesting MCP is a connector, built on the Model Context Protocol, that lets your AI client work with your UserTesting account. Once you connect it, you can describe a test in plain language, create it as a draft, launch it to participants, find your existing tests, and read the AI summary for a completed test without leaving the AI client you are already working in.

All clients connect to the same server URL: https://ai.usertesting.com/mcp

The UserTesting MCP works with Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Figma Make, GitHub Copilot CLI, Cursor, Visual Studio Code, Amazon Kiro, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity IDE. For step-by-step configuration for each, see Connect the UserTesting MCP to your AI client (Open beta)

 

What you can do today

The UserTesting MCP exposes nine actions to your AI client. You do not call them by name — you describe what you want, and the AI client selects them.

What you want to do What the UserTesting MCP does
Pick where to work Lists the UserTesting accounts and workspaces you have access to, and your permission level in each workspace
Choose participants Lists the saved panel audiences available in a workspace
Turn a description into a test Converts a plain-language description into a structured set of tasks and questions
Create the test Creates the test as a draft in UserTesting and returns a link to the test builder
Launch the test Launches an existing draft to participants, subject to your permission and workspace approval status
Check approval Reports whether your workspace approval status currently allows you to launch
Find a test Searches tests in a workspace by title, or lists them with filters
Read results Returns the AI-generated summary for a launched test, with links back to the source tasks

 

Creating and launching a test are always two separate steps. Describing a test never launches it - see Create and launch a test with the UserTesting MCP (Open beta)

 

What the UserTesting MCP cannot do yet

These are current limits of the UserTesting MCP, not of UserTesting:

  • Session-level data is not available. The UserTesting MCP returns the test-level AI summary only. Individual session transcripts, task-level responses, and quantitative data cannot be retrieved through it. The UserTesting API already exposes those today.
  • You cannot query past research across tests. There is no cross-test or knowledge-repository search through the UserTesting MCP.
  • Live Conversation is not supported. You cannot create, schedule, or launch a Live Conversation test through the UserTesting MCP.
  • It cannot build an audience or a screener for you. For a panel test, you select an audience that already exists in the workspace.
Capability Status
Create and launch think-out-loud, survey, and interaction tests; read test-level AI summaries Available now (open beta)
Session-level data: transcripts, test plan, task-level responses Not available yet - In development
Agentic cross-study queries on past research Not available yet - In development

 

Who can use the UserTesting MCP

Two things determine whether you can use the UserTesting MCP. 

Your account must have access to Generative AI features. The UserTesting MCP generates tests and summaries using AI, so accounts that have turned Generative AI features off are excluded. If your account has opted out, your AI client reports No Accounts with Generative AI and MCP access enabled when it tries to list your accounts. Ask your UserTesting account admin whether Generative AI features are enabled.

Your workspace permissions decide what you can do. The UserTesting MCP gives you exactly the access you already have in UserTesting.

Your permission in the workspace What you can do through the UserTesting MCP
WRITE or ADMIN for the test type Create a draft and launch it, subject to workspace approval
READ Find tests and read AI summaries; cannot create or launch
DENY No access to that test type in that workspace

Permissions are held separately for think-out-loud tests, surveys, and interaction tests, so you may be able to create one type and not another in the same workspace.

If your workspace requires reviewer approval before a test can go live, the UserTesting MCP creates the draft and stops there until an admin approves you.

 

How your data and credentials are handled

Authentication is per user. You sign in with your own UserTesting credentials — customer login and employee SSO both work — and authorize your AI client once. There is no shared login and no service account.

Your credentials are never stored in the AI client. The client holds only a short-lived access token issued after you sign in.

Sessions expire. Your session ends based on your organization's token settings. If your AI client reports that it cannot reach UserTesting data, authenticate again.

 

FAQ

Does my account need to be opted into the beta?

Yes. To request access to the MCP, contact Alison Held at aheld@usertesting.com

Is the UserTesting MCP the same as the UserTesting API?

No. They are separate. Test creation is available through the UserTesting MCP only. Reading results — session transcripts, session details, and quantitative data — is available through the UserTesting API today and is not yet in the UserTesting MCP.

Does it cost anything to connect?

Launching a test consumes participant sessions the same way launching from UserTesting does, but it does not cost to connect to the MCP. 

Who do I contact about a problem with the UserTesting MCP?

Email support@usertesting.com.

 

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