# Making a Gantt chart with Claude

**Can you make a Gantt chart with Claude?** Yes. Connect Claude to PalmaPlan, a scheduling tool that is also an MCP server, and describe your project: Claude builds the schedule — phases, rows, dated blocks, dependencies, milestones —, you watch it fill in live, and the Gantt chart opens in the conversation, where it can be edited.

## In short

- **One command** for Claude Code: `claude mcp add --transport http palmaplan https://palmaplan.com/mcp`.
- **Your consent** in the browser: Claude receives a token in its own name, which you can see and revoke.
- **One sentence** for the schedule: "Build me the redesign schedule: scoping in October, six weeks of development, acceptance testing before Christmas."
- **A real Gantt chart**, not a picture: you can also drive it with the mouse, share it, export it.
- **By invitation** during the beta; the data is hosted in France.

## Step by step

1. **An account on `palmaplan.com`.** Access is by invitation during the beta — [request yours](/en/request-an-invitation/).
2. **Connect Claude.** In Claude Code, the command above. In Claude, a custom connector to `https://palmaplan.com/mcp`. No package to install, no key to paste: Claude registers itself with PalmaPlan.
3. **Give your consent.** Your browser opens on a page that names the client and what it asks for (read, write, or both). You accept or refuse; if you accept, Claude leaves with a named token, valid for thirty days, visible in *Settings › Connections and agents › Connected applications*.
4. **Describe the project.** In plain language, with your dates, your phases, your constraints. Claude builds the whole schedule; your screen, if it is open, watches it fill in without reloading.
5. **Look and correct.** In Claude, the Gantt chart appears in the conversation (an MCP App): move a block, change a date, by hand or by asking. Elsewhere, Claude gives you the schedule's link.

## What Claude can do next

- **Answer about the schedule**: what is late, the critical path, what changed since Monday.
- **Try without breaking**: "What if acceptance testing slipped two weeks?" — the answer comes without a single date moving; you apply it afterwards, or not.
- **Track progress**: split a block into actions, assign them to a person or to an AI, tick them off — the block's progress computes itself.
- **Get the schedule out**: in the v23 exchange format, as CSV, a spreadsheet, an image or a PDF.

## What stays yours

Everything Claude writes is **signed in its name** in the schedule's History. `Ctrl+Z` stays yours. It acts with **your rights**, never more: a reader only gives it a reader. And it does not touch your account — no password, no profile, no export, no deletion: those gestures stay yours.

## What has not been tried yet

The view in the conversation was played in Claude, the desktop app, through a connector to `https://palmaplan.com/mcp`. **Not tried yet**: claude.ai in the browser, the mobile app, the kanban and the agenda in the conversation. The [embedded view](/docs/en/agents/embedded-view/) guide keeps this list up to date.

## Going further

- [Connecting Claude Code](/docs/en/agents/claude-code/) — the authorisation step by step, and what to check when it gets stuck.
- [The embedded view](/docs/en/agents/embedded-view/) — the Gantt chart in the conversation, its options.
- [A schedule an AI can edit](/docs/en/faq/schedule-an-ai-can-edit/) — the safeguards, in detail.
- [Project management and MCP](/docs/en/faq/project-management-and-mcp/) — why an open protocol rather than an integration.
- [The website's MCP page](/en/mcp/) — the command, and what an agent can do.