Meet the MCP Server· How Ambient Scribe Works · Ep. 5
Ambient Scribe

Meet the MCP Server

Your clipboards aren't a walled garden. They're open to agentic AI — your own agents, or whatever tool you bring.

"Episode one called the clipboard open. Here's what that means."
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Ambient Scribe

Ambient Scribe is also an MCP server

MCP — the Model Context Protocol — is an open standard that lets AI tools plug into an app, the way a USB port lets any device plug into your computer. Ambient Scribe speaks it natively.

📋 Your clipboards
The backbone — already holds everything.
MCP
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open standard
Claude
ChatGPT
Grok
🤖 Your own agents
No custom integration to build — if a tool speaks MCP, it can connect.
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Ambient Scribe

Your tools can do everything you can

Connected, a tool can read what's on your clipboards and write new things back — always scoped to your own access, never more than you can see yourself.

Read
📥 Everything on the clipboard
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Clipboards & scribe sessions
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Audio, images & transcripts
📝
Notes & structured data
Write
📤 New things, right onto it
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Documents & PDFs
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Summaries & new artifacts
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Messages on the feed
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Ambient Scribe

It bridges your agents to your EHR

The MCP server doesn't stop at clipboards. Connect your EHR and the same tools reach into it — your agent can read the chart and write back, with you approving anything that changes the record. In short: you can chat with your EHR.

🤖 Your agent
🔌
MCP
🏥 Your EHR
📥 Read the chart
DemographicsProblemsMedicationsAllergiesVitalsLabsPrior notes
📤 Write back · you approve
Save a noteVitalsOrdersDx codes
Works over the open FHIR standard and with proprietary EHR systems.
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Ambient Scribe

Connect in seconds — your choice

Two ways in. Standard OAuth for interactive tools, or a personal access token for long-running agents and scripts. Either way, you stay in control.

Option A
🔓 One-click OAuth
👤
Sign in, approve, connected
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Best for interactive tools
Option B
🔑 Personal access token
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read-onlyor read + writeexpiry: you choose
No sign-in — ideal for long-running agents & scripts. Revoke anytime.
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Ambient Scribe

Point your favorite tool at a clipboard

A real example: connect Claude, ask it to pull what it needs and take the next step. It works for clinical tasks and the business side of your practice alike.

Claude
📋 Clipboard
reads · acts · writes back
✉️
Draft a follow-up
From what's on the clipboard
📈
Summarize across visits
Pull the thread together
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Clinical or business tasks
Same access, your workflows
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Stand up an agent that never sleeps

You don't have to be driving it. With a token, an agent can run around the clock — watching your clipboards and acting the moment something lands.

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Your always-on agent
running 24 / 7
Authenticated with a personal access token — no one signing in.
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Watches the clipboards you give it access to.
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Reads each new item as it arrives.
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Acts — and writes the result back to the clipboard.
One of the easiest ways to extend Ambient Scribe — even before you reach for our own built-in agents.
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Same backbone. Open to every tool you use.

The clipboard isn't a walled garden — it's an open integration point, ready for whatever tools you bring and whatever the frontier ships next. Everything stays scoped to your access and fully audited.

🔌 Connect any MCP tool🔑 Personal access tokens🔐 Scoped & audited🤖 Or use Phin, our own agent
Same backbone — now open to every tool you use. And it only gets smarter.
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