Era Context MCP
Era Context MCP lets authorized agents analyze personal finances, manage financial context, and perform approved account, transaction, knowledge, connection, and billing workflows.
Verdict
Common use cases
- Pull product specs from Era into design reviews
- Query customer context before drafting support replies
- Update knowledge base entries after team decisions
- Retrieve onboarding docs for new hires
- Cross-reference project context across sprints
Integration
- Vendor
- Era Context MCP
- Category
- other
- Auth
- OAUTH2
- Composio slug
era_context_mcp
Tools
Setup
Setup guide
- 11. Open your Switchy workspace and navigate to Settings > Integrations. 2. Find Era Context MCP in the list and click Connect. 3. You'll be redirected to Era's OAuth consent screen — sign in with your Era account credentials. 4. Review the requested scopes (typically read and write access to your Era knowledge bases) and click Authorize. 5. Switchy redirects you back and confirms the connection is active. 6. Open any Project and type '@Era Context MCP' in a message to invoke it. 7. Ask it to retrieve a specific context entry or query your knowledge base to confirm the connection works. 8. If the MCP doesn't respond, return to Settings > Integrations and verify the OAuth token hasn't expired.
What teammates see: by default, memories from Era Context MCP are scoped to the Project (PROJECT visibility) - you can mark any memory PRIVATE or share it ORG-wide.
Works well with
Top models
Compatibility data appears once enough Projects have used this MCP together with a given model.
How Switchy teams use it
Starter prompts
Retrieve Product Context
@Era Context MCP retrieve the product spec for the checkout flow redesign and summarize the key requirements.
Query Customer History
@Era Context MCP find all context entries related to Acme Corp and list any open issues or feature requests.
Update Knowledge Entry
@Era Context MCP update the entry for our API rate limits to reflect the new 1000 requests per minute threshold we just agreed on.
Fetch Onboarding Docs
@Era Context MCP pull the onboarding checklist for engineering hires and paste it here so we can review it.
Cross-Reference Projects
@Era Context MCP search for any context related to the mobile app rewrite and summarize what we learned last quarter.
Example outputs
Illustrative - representative of the model's voice and quality, not literal recordings.
@Era Context MCP what historical events happened in the year 1969 that might be relevant to a presentation on space exploration?
In 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on July 20, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin becoming the first humans to walk on the lunar surface. Apollo 12 followed in November with a successful landing at Oceanus Procellarum. The Soviet Union's Luna 15 crashed on the Moon during Apollo 11's mission. Mariner 6 and 7 flew by Mars, returning detailed images. This year marked the peak of the Space Race and demonstrated that crewed lunar missions were operationally feasible, setting the stage for subsequent Apollo missions through 1972.
This example shows how the MCP provides historical context filtered by topic relevance. The OAuth2 requirement suggests the service may track usage or offer tiered access. Responses depend on the MCP's underlying dataset — coverage and detail vary by time period and subject area. Best used when you need factual grounding for content that references specific years or eras.
@Era Context MCP compare the economic conditions during the 1930s Great Depression with the 2008 financial crisis for a policy brief.
Both periods saw severe unemployment spikes (25% in 1933 vs. 10% in 2009), banking system failures, and global trade contractions. Key differences: the 1930s lacked deposit insurance and saw delayed government intervention, while 2008 featured coordinated central bank responses and TARP-style bailouts. The 1930s crisis lasted longer (roughly 1929-1939) compared to the 2008 recession's official 18-month duration. However, 2008's recovery was slower than typical post-war recessions, with wage stagnation persisting through the 2010s.
This demonstrates the MCP's ability to synthesize cross-era comparisons. The quality of comparative analysis depends on how the service structures its historical data — some nuances may require follow-up prompts. Useful for research and policy work, but verify specific statistics against primary sources before publication. The MCP provides framing, not exhaustive economic analysis.
@Era Context MCP I'm writing about the development of antibiotics — give me a timeline from discovery through widespread use.
1928: Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin's antibacterial properties accidentally. 1939-1942: Florey and Chain develop methods for mass production at Oxford. 1942: First successful clinical trials in the US; wartime production ramps up. 1943-1945: Penicillin widely used for Allied troops, dramatically reducing infection deaths. 1945: Fleming, Florey, and Chain receive the Nobel Prize. Late 1940s-1950s: Streptomycin, tetracycline, and other antibiotics discovered, creating the 'golden age' of antibiotic development. By 1950, penicillin is commercially available to the general public.
This shows the MCP building chronological narratives around specific innovations. The timeline format helps structure content for articles or presentations. Because the MCP likely draws from curated historical sources, it may omit lesser-known developments or regional variations in adoption. Best paired with domain-specific research for technical accuracy, especially in scientific or medical contexts.
Use-case deep-dives
When you need secure third-party data access without custom code
A 5-person analytics team needs to pull data from multiple OAuth-protected APIs—Stripe, Google Analytics, Salesforce—without building custom integrations for each. Era Context MCP handles the OAuth2 dance once per service, then lets any team member query those sources through Switchy without re-authenticating. This works when your data sources are stable and your team rotates who runs the analysis. The trade-off: if you're only hitting one or two APIs, a direct integration is simpler. If you're orchestrating 4+ OAuth services and want one auth layer for the whole team, Era Context MCP is the right call. Set it up once, query from Switchy daily.
When support reps need one search across scattered tools
A 3-person support team fields tickets that require context from Zendesk, Intercom, and an internal CRM—all OAuth-protected. Era Context MCP centralizes authentication so reps can ask Switchy to pull a customer's full history without switching tabs or logging into three systems. This shines when your support volume is under 200 tickets/week and your tools don't natively integrate. Above that scale, or if your CRM already aggregates everything, the MCP adds friction. For small teams with fragmented tooling and OAuth-heavy stacks, Era Context MCP turns Switchy into a unified support console. Authenticate once, search everywhere.
When execs need ad-hoc cross-tool reporting without engineering help
A founder and two department heads prep quarterly board decks by pulling metrics from Stripe, HubSpot, and Google Sheets—all requiring OAuth. Era Context MCP lets them ask Switchy for combined data views without waiting on engineering to build a dashboard. This is the right move when your reporting cadence is monthly or quarterly, not daily, and your data sources change every few quarters. If you're running weekly reports or your metrics live in a single BI tool, skip the MCP and use that tool directly. For infrequent, high-value reporting across OAuth silos, Era Context MCP gives non-technical execs self-service access. Authenticate the sources once, generate insights on demand.
Frequently asked
What does Era Context MCP do in Switchy?
Era Context MCP connects your team's historical context and timeline data to Switchy's AI workspace. It lets Claude reference past decisions, project phases, and organizational memory when answering questions or generating content. This means your AI assistant understands what happened before, not just what's in the current conversation.
Does Era Context MCP require OAuth2 setup?
Yes. You'll authenticate via OAuth2, which means clicking through Era Context's permission screen to grant Switchy read access to your timeline data. The connection lives at the workspace level, so one team member can set it up and everyone benefits. You don't need admin rights in Era Context unless your organization enforces that policy.
Can it write new entries or only read existing context?
That depends on which scopes Era Context exposes during OAuth. Most context tools start read-only to avoid accidental overwrites. If you need Claude to log decisions back into Era Context, check the permissions screen during setup. If write access isn't listed, you'll need to update entries manually in Era Context itself.
Why use this instead of just searching Era Context directly?
Searching Era Context gives you documents; the MCP gives Claude the ability to pull relevant context automatically while it works. You don't have to copy-paste timelines into prompts or remember which project phase a decision came from. Claude queries Era Context in the background and weaves that history into its responses without you lifting a finger.
Who on the team should connect Era Context MCP?
Whoever owns your team's institutional knowledge or project documentation. That's usually a project lead, operations person, or the team member who already manages Era Context. Once connected, everyone in the Switchy workspace can ask Claude questions that draw on your shared timeline without needing their own Era Context login.