--- title: Claude can now delete your production voice agent from a... description: ElevenLabs launched a hosted MCP connector that gives Claude read/write access to production voice agents built with ElevenAgents, letting developers inspect,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/claude-can-now-delete-your-production-voice-agent-from-a-chat-window-qsbx0zaun twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Claude can now delete your production voice agent from a chat window | daily.dev og:description: ElevenLabs launched a hosted MCP connector that gives Claude read/write access to production voice agents built with ElevenAgents, letting developers inspect,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/claude-can-now-delete-your-production-voice-agent-from-a-chat-window-qsbx0zaun og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qsBX0zAUn.png og:image:alt: Claude can now delete your production voice agent from a chat window og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Claude can now delete your production voice agent from a chat window **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary ElevenLabs launched a hosted MCP connector that gives Claude read/write access to production voice agents built with ElevenAgents, letting developers inspect, modify, or delete agents via chat instead of the dashboard. Access uses OAuth rather than local API keys, and destructive actions like agent deletion require approval, with admin-level and per-user tool restrictions available. The piece argues that a chat confirmation only proves a tool call ran, not that the change is correct, and contrasts ElevenLabs' approach with GoDaddy's quote-then-execute model and AWS's Dogwood policy engine. ElevenLabs also offers an agent testing framework, opt-in versioning, and a CLI-based agent-as-code CI/CD workflow as safer alternatives to direct chat edits. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What can Claude do with ElevenLabs' new hosted MCP connector? Claude can inspect and modify production voice agents built with ElevenAgents directly from a chat window, without opening the ElevenLabs dashboard. It can update an agent's system prompt, language, voice, and opening message, retrieve transcripts, explore conversation topics, check knowledge base size, generate sample speech, estimate cost changes from switching LLMs, and even delete an agent entirely. _Teams weighing chat-based AI control over production systems can track these governance patterns on daily.dev._ ### How does ElevenLabs control access to destructive actions like deleting a voice agent through Claude? ElevenLabs offers two layers of access control: administrators can disable specific tools across an entire organization, and individual users can set stricter limits for their own sessions. ElevenLabs explicitly warns that deleting an agent is destructive and recommends reviewing tool calls before approving them, since a chat confirmation does not verify the change actually works as intended. _Anyone designing approval workflows for AI agent tool calls can follow this kind of guardrail comparison on daily.dev._ ### How did ElevenLabs' MCP server change from its original April 2025 release to the new hosted connector? The original open-source ElevenLabs MCP server, released in April 2025 for clients like Claude Desktop and Cursor, required developers to run it locally and paste in an API key to generate speech, clone voices, or transcribe audio. The new hosted connector instead uses OAuth sign-in and focuses on managing agents that already exist in an ElevenLabs workspace, rather than generating audio. _Developers migrating from local MCP servers to hosted OAuth connectors can follow these shifts on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Run Claude Managed Agents with Chat SDK](https://daily.dev/posts/run-claude-managed-agents-with-chat-sdk-oszljvd8k) · Vercel · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [My AI coding workflow runs entirely through Discord, and it's faster than using an editor](https://daily.dev/posts/my-ai-coding-workflow-runs-entirely-through-discord-and-it-s-faster-than-using-an-editor-vkcnawv7n) · XDA Developers · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#mcp](https://daily.dev/tags/mcp), [#claude](https://daily.dev/tags/claude) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/claude-can-now-delete-your-production-voice-agent-from-a-chat-window-qsbx0zaun) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Claude can now delete your production voice agent from a chat window","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/claude-can-now-delete-your-production-voice-agent-from-a-chat-window-qsbx0zaun","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/claude-can-now-delete-your-production-voice-agent-from-a-chat-window-qsbx0zaun"},"datePublished":"2026-08-17T19:56:18.237Z","dateModified":"2026-08-17T19:56:45.076Z","description":"ElevenLabs launched a hosted MCP connector that gives Claude read/write access to production voice agents built with ElevenAgents, letting developers inspect,...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/bef011c56cc6a0e777ca1f85f4535e62?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/bef011c56cc6a0e777ca1f85f4535e62?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The New Stack","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The New Stack","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/newstack","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/newstack"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/claude-can-now-delete-your-production-voice-agent-from-a-chat-window-qsbx0zaun","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai-agents,mcp,claude","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The New Stack","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/newstack"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Claude can now delete your production voice agent from a chat window"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/claude-can-now-delete-your-production-voice-agent-from-a-chat-window-qsbx0zaun#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What can Claude do with ElevenLabs' new hosted MCP connector?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Claude can inspect and modify production voice agents built with ElevenAgents directly from a chat window, without opening the ElevenLabs dashboard. 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