Deckberry

Workflow3 / 3

In this guide

Workflow

Authoring with your AI

Advanced: bulk-authoring decks through the MCP server.

On this page

Advanced, and optional. This page is for creators comfortable with a command line and an AI coding assistant (Claude, and similar). You never need it — the editor makes every deck by hand. It’s here for when you’re building at volume.

What & why

Deckberry offers a bring-your-own-AI authoring path: an MCP server your AI assistant connects to, so you can turn notes, a CSV, or a rough list into cards by describing what you want. Your own assistant does the writing; Deckberry just exposes the tools it drives. There’s no generation UI and no AI cost on our side — it’s your assistant, working against your account.

It’s built for scale: seeding a large deck, reshaping many cards at once, importing from existing material. For a handful of cards, the editor is faster.

The one safeguard to know

Publishing is never automated. The tools can create decks and add or revise cards, but nothing can flip a deck public — that stays a deliberate human click in the editor. So you can let an assistant draft freely, then review and publish yourself, without any risk of half-finished work going live.

Setting it up

  1. Your account must be a creator account.

  2. In the editor, open the API tokens page and generate a personal access token. It’s shown once — copy it somewhere safe.

  3. Add the server to your AI client. In Claude Code, for example:

    claude mcp add --transport http deckberry \
  https://studio.deckberry.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer <your-token>"

Your assistant can now see your decks and author into them. Revoke the token any time from the same page.

Etiquette

The AI is a fast typist, not a deck designer — every rule in this guide still applies. One fact per card, fronts that ask, answers you can grade: the assistant won’t enforce them, so you do, on review. Treat its output as a first draft, read every card, and run the publish checklist before you go live. Be reasonable with volume, too — the server is rate-limited, and a good deck is edited, not just generated.

Ready to make your own deck?You’ve got the craft — now put it to work. Apply to become a Deckberry creator.Apply to create