Access tokens
ChatGPT and Claude sign in with your Shopify account. Editors and terminal assistants can't — they have no browser to send you to — so they use an access token instead: a long string you paste into the client's config once.
A token carries full access: a client holding it can read your SEO data and change it — edit meta tags, create redirects, include or exclude sitemap URLs, start optimization runs. There is no permission screen in the way, so treat a token like a password.
Create a token
Open the MCP page
In the Avada SEO Suite app, click MCP in the left menu and find the Access tokens card.
Click Create token
Give it a Name you'll recognise later — the name is how you find the right token to revoke, so Claude on my laptop beats token 1. A Description is optional and shows in the list.
Copy the token
The token appears once. Copy it now and paste it into your client's config — see the guide for Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI or any other client.
Once you close this dialog the token is never shown again. If you lose it, revoke it and create a new one — there is no way to look it up.
Where tokens live
The Access tokens card lists every token you've created, with its Name, a masked Value so you can tell them apart, its Access level and when it was Created. Use the search box if the list gets long.
Revoke a token
Click the delete icon on the token's row and confirm. Any client using it loses access to your store straight away, and revoking cannot be undone.
Revoke a token when:
- you no longer use the client it was for
- it was on a computer you no longer have
- you pasted it somewhere it shouldn't be — a shared config file, a screenshot, a chat message
Keeping a token safe
- One token per client, per machine. Sharing one token across several places means revoking it cuts off all of them.
- Don't commit it. A token in a config file in a git repository is a token everyone with repo access has.
- Don't paste it into a chat. Paste it into the client's config file, not into a conversation with the assistant.
Trouble connecting? See Troubleshooting.