Connect Opera Neon to MCP Servers

We’re introducing the ability to use Opera Neon as an MCP client, and connect it to other remote MCP servers. This means that you can now connect Neon to an app, service or database that supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

At the moment only interactions in Neon Do are able to utilize a remote MCP server, and thus be used as an MCP client. This functionality supports the OAuth protocol for authorizing Opera Neon to connect with third-party services.

This update follows the prior introduction of Opera Neon’s capability to become an MCP server to which you can connect other AI clients (such as Claude MCP client). Now you can also connect Opera Neon (as the client) to an MCP server.

In the below setup and examples we’ll be configuring and using the Notion app’s MCP server (the note taking app notion.com). But this is only one out of many possible servers you can connect to.

How to set it up

First of all, you’ll need to open Opera Neon and make sure to be logged into the browser. After that:

• Enter the AI settings by going to the start page -> “hamburger menu” to the top left -> Settings.
• There is an “MCP Servers” icon, from which you can manage the MCP Servers.

• To add an MCP server, you need to give it a name (your choice) and the MCP Server URL found in the app you are trying to connect (sometimes in the format https://mcp.notion.com/mcp - but there are many variations) and click Save. If the server requires authorization, a login dialogue will appear.

• When ready to use, a green chip will appear for said MCP Server (saying Authenticated or Connected).

• You can also inspect which tools and enable or disable them individually.

Once connected, here’s how you start using it

It might be confusing to think about which app is the client and which one is the server. In this case you can think of the client as the app that performs an action on the server.

So, you’ll be using Neon Do to read or perform actions on another service/MCP server. To do so you need to:

• Use Neon Do, either by selecting it from the hamburger menu, selecting the @do mode on the start page, or from the AI button’s side panel.
• Then prompt something that Neon Do would benefit from using the tools from the MCP server; e.g “list all my Notion projects,” or something like the example we mentioned at the beginning.
• The result will appear in Neon Do’s chat interface.