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Setup guides

JB PARCEL becomes a tool inside whatever you already work in. Pick yours. Each guide is a short set of steps, not a manual.

Everything here needs a Professional plan. The chat apps sign you in directly. Everything else takes an API key, which you generate on your account page under API access. It starts with jbp_ and is shown once, so copy it when it appears. Everywhere below, replace jbp_your_key with it.

Chat apps, no key needed

Claude web, Desktop and Cowork →Paste one URL and sign in. Nothing to copy, nothing to install.

Editors and terminals

Claude Code →One command. The quickest way in. Cursor →One block in mcp.json. VS Code →Copilot agent mode, via mcp.json. Gemini CLI →One command or one settings block. Windsurf →Cascade, via mcp_config.json.

Scripts and spreadsheets

Plain REST API →curl, Python, Sheets, Excel, or any language.

The same three tools everywhere

Whichever client you pick, you get search_parcels, get_parcel and get_account, running against the same live database this site runs on. Budgets are shared across the site, the API and the connector, so there is no second allowance to track.

The full parameter reference and the ground rules are on the API documentation page.