--- title: "Connect TextIt to Anthropic - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New contact\" fires in TextIt, your agent runs \"Create message batch\" in Anthropic." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/textit-to-anthropic" --- # Connect TextIt to Anthropic When **New contact** fires in [TextIt](https://apiant.ai/connections/textit), your agent runs **Create message batch** in [Anthropic](https://apiant.ai/connections/anthropic). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. TextIt **2** triggers TextIt **12** actions Anthropic **9** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want TextIt and Anthropic to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What TextIt can start in Anthropic - When **New contact** in TextIt then **Create message batch** in Anthropic - When **New message** in TextIt then **Send model a message** in Anthropic Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with TextIt and Anthropic ## Triggers and actions 2 triggers · 21 actions - Trigger **New contact** Triggers when a new contact is added to your TextIt workspace, optionally only contacts in a chosen group. - Trigger **New message** Triggers when a new message is sent or received in your TextIt workspace, optionally limited to a folder or label. - Action **Add broadcast** Creates and sends a new message broadcast to contacts, phone numbers/URNs or contact groups. - Action **Add contact** Creates a new contact in your TextIt workspace with a name, language, URNs (phone, email, etc.), groups and contact field values. - Action **Add contact field** Creates a new custom contact field in your TextIt workspace. - Action **Add group** Creates a new contact group in your TextIt workspace. - Action **Delete contact** Deletes a contact, identified by its UUID or one of its URNs. - Action **Find contacts** Finds contacts by UUID, URN, group or modification date and returns the matching contacts. - Action **Find messages** Returns messages in your TextIt workspace, filtered by message, folder, label or creation date, most recent first. - Action **List broadcasts** Returns the broadcasts sent from your TextIt workspace, most recent first, optionally filtered by broadcast id or creation date. - Action **List contact fields** Returns the custom contact fields defined in your TextIt workspace, with each field's key, name and data type. - Action **Perform contact action** Performs a bulk action on up to 100 contacts: add to or remove from a group, block, unblock, interrupt active flow runs, or permanently delete. - Action **Start Flow** Starts contacts, groups or URNs down a TextIt flow and returns the created flow start. - Action **Update contact** Updates an existing TextIt contact, identified by its UUID or one of its URNs. Only the values you fill in are changed. - Action **Anthropic agent message** Runs one AI agent turn on Anthropic and returns the model's reply. The turn is billed to the Anthropic account connected on this step, and the agent can call the account's AI tool automations. - Action **Cancel message batch** Cancel a Message Batch that is still processing. - Action **Count tokens in a message** Count the number of input tokens a Messages API request would use, without creating the message. - Action **Create message batch** Submit a batch of Messages API requests for asynchronous processing. - Action **Get message batch** Retrieve the status and request counts of a Message Batch by id. - Action **Get model** Retrieve details for a specific Claude model by id. - Action **List message batches** List Message Batches in the workspace, most recently created first. - Action **List models** List the available Claude models, most recently released first. - Action **Send model a message** Send a message to a Claude model and return its response. Supports the full Messages API: model, system prompt, multi-turn messages, max_tokens, tools, and adaptive thinking. ## Each app on its own - [ **TextIt** TextIt provides a way of automating conversational interactions over SMS, messaging bots and phone calls.](https://apiant.ai/connections/textit) - [ **Anthropic** Anthropic builds Claude, a family of large language models.](https://apiant.ai/connections/anthropic) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from TextIt - [ **TextIt to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/textit-to-trello) - [ **TextIt to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/textit-to-zoom) - [ **TextIt to Twilio** Cloud communications platform for sending SMS/MMS messages, making and managing voice calls, and looking up...](https://apiant.ai/connect/textit-to-twilio) - [ **TextIt to Typeform** Build and publish online forms, surveys, and quizzes with Typeform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/textit-to-typeform) - [ **TextIt to Webflow** Webflow is a professional website builder and CMS for designing, building, and launching responsive...](https://apiant.ai/connect/textit-to-webflow) - [ **TextIt to Wix** The Wix website builder gives businesses of any size the tools to create, manage and grow a fully integrated...](https://apiant.ai/connect/textit-to-wix) ## More into Anthropic - [ **HubSpot to Anthropic** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-anthropic) - [ **Salesforce to Anthropic** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-anthropic) - [ **Mailchimp to Anthropic** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mailchimp-to-anthropic) - [ **Stripe to Anthropic** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/stripe-to-anthropic) - [ **Shopify to Anthropic** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/shopify-to-anthropic) - [ **QuickBooks Online to Anthropic** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/quickbooks-online-to-anthropic) Questions ## TextIt and Anthropic, answered ### ### What can start an automation from TextIt? Any of TextIt's 2 triggers in the catalog, including New contact and New message. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Anthropic when something happens in TextIt? Any of Anthropic's 9 actions, including Create message batch, Send model a message, Anthropic agent message and Count tokens in a message. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Anthropic to TextIt? Anthropic has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in TextIt. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Anthropic's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for TextIt or Anthropic? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use TextIt and Anthropic without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.