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Connect Contentful to Relato with the Contentful MCP

Attach a Contentful MCP account to Relato so your AI Content Agents create and update Contentful entries straight from your projects.

Written by David Baum

Connect Contentful so your Relato AI Content Agents can push work into your content model. Once the account is attached, an agent can create and update Contentful entries from a Relato project without you moving text by hand.

What you can do

With Contentful connected, an agent can:

  • Create a new Contentful entry from a finished Relato project.

  • Update an existing entry when the project changes.

  • Map project fields onto the fields in your Contentful content type.

Connect Contentful

In Relato open Settings > Integrations > MCP > Add account, paste the Contentful MCP URL, approve OAuth, and name the account. The name you choose prefixes Contentful's tools in the agent tool picker. Then attach the Contentful tools plus the Relato query and project tools to an agent, and set a trigger: a project stage change, a schedule, or manual. For the full walkthrough, read Connect any MCP to Relato.

A good first agent

Start with an agent that publishes an approved project as a Contentful entry:

  • Attach the Contentful tools and the Relato query and project tools.

  • Instruct the agent to read the project title, body, and summary.

  • Instruct it to create a Contentful entry in your content type, mapping the project title to the title field and the body to the rich text or long text field.

  • Set the trigger to fire when the project reaches your published stage.

A note on OAuth

Relato's MCP integration is OAuth-based. You can connect Contentful if it runs an OAuth-capable MCP server that Relato can reach. If a public OAuth MCP for Contentful does not exist yet, tell us at [email protected] and we will help you find a path.

FAQ

Can the agent update an entry instead of creating a new one? Yes. Give the agent the entry reference or have it look the entry up, then instruct it to update the fields you care about.

Which fields get written? Only the fields you name in the agent instructions. The agent maps Relato project fields onto your Contentful content type field by field.

Related articles

  • Connect any MCP to Relato

  • The Relato MCP server

  • Build your first AI Content Agent

If you need help, message us in the Relato Slack community or email [email protected].

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