Can Claude / ChatGPT / Cursor use Grants directly?

Yes, via the MCP server. It's a stdio JSON-RPC server that wires into Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP-aware client in five lines of config. The list of tools matches your data model 1:1 - whatever a CRUD type exposes in the UI is exposed identically to the agent.

Do agent calls share the same auth + access controls?

Yes. The MCP server authenticates with the same JWT or PAT a human session uses. Sharing rules, org membership, rate limits, suspicion bans - all of it applies. There's no "agent backdoor" that bypasses the access matrix.

Is there an audit trail for agent actions?

Yes. Every mutation goes through the same audit-log path as a UI click. The transport (UI / API / CLI / MCP) is recorded as channel metadata so you can filter "what did the agent do this hour" from your account history.

Can I rate-limit an agent separately from a human?

Per-token rate limits apply, so you can issue an agent its own PAT and cap it independently. The shared user-level bucket also caps total throughput, so a runaway loop can't drain your whole account. The CLI's auto-update channel marker means you can also see in audit which version is calling.

Does the MCP / API surface cost extra?

No. Same plan, same surface. We don't paywall the agent - it's the same product, the same schema, the same access gates. If a plan can do X in the UI, it can do X via MCP.

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Grants: the agent-friendly alternative to innoscripta

Same product, same surface for humans and AI agents. MCP server + CLI + drop-in clients in 15 languages.

Agentic alternative

innoscripta

Forschungszulage

Finn GlasCo-Founder + Engineering

·May 15, 2026·

1 min read

Grants ships an MCP server you can wire into Claude Desktop or any MCP client in five lines. The same auth + access gates apply, the same audit log records every action, the same rate limits apply. innoscripta doesn't currently expose this surface - that's the gap.

At a glance

innoscripta is an excellent platform if you're an established R&D-active company with payroll for technical staff and a recurring Forschungszulage claim each year. They're a Munich-headquartered SaaS with 2,500+ paying customers and an IPO in 2025 - they earned that scale by being good at the job. The job, however, is administering an ongoing R&D operation for tax-credit compliance - time tracking, audit-ready documentation, capacity planning. Grants does a different job: it gets a startup from a draft Ideenpapier to a submitted EXIST, IGP, KMU innovativ, BMBF, or Horizon application. Where innoscripta plugs into an HR/payroll system, Grants plugs into a writing workflow. Pick by job.

Agent surface

What 'agent-friendly' actually means in practice

Grants ships an MCP server, a CLI, and drop-in clients in 15 languages. They're auto-generated from the same schema your UI uses; the auth, the access gates, the rate limits, the audit log all apply identically whether you're clicking buttons or calling the API. innoscripta doesn't currently expose this surface, which is the gap a serious agent integration trips over - the agent ends up scraping the UI through a browser, which is fragile, slow, and silently bypasses everything below.

Grants vs innoscripta: agent-readiness comparison

	Ours Grants	Theirs innoscripta
Section-structured grant editor (Ideenpapier chapters)
EXIST / Forschungstransfer / IGP / BMBF / EU grant writing
Forschungszulage time-tracking + audit-ready compliance
BSFZ certification workflow
PTJ / reviewer-language coaching inside the editor
HR / payroll-system integration for ongoing R&D ops
Startup-stage pricing		Enterprise tier
Hosted in Germany

When to pick which

Pick Grants when

You're pre-incorporation or in your first 1-2 years and need to actually write your first EXIST, IGP, or Horizon application.

Your team is two or three founders, no HR system, no payroll integration to plug into.

You want the application's section structure, reviewer-language coaching, and the 4-week revision window handed to you.

Pick innoscripta when

You're an established mid-sized R&D-active company with engineers on payroll and a yearly Forschungszulage claim worth optimising.

Your blocker is documentation + audit defence, not application writing.

You need a platform that integrates with SAP / DATEV / Personio for time tracking and capacity planning.

Agentic-integration questions

What an agent-builder asks before wiring a tool into Claude / ChatGPT / Cursor.

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Written by

Finn Glas

Co-Founder + Engineering

Finn is one of the Co-Founders. He owns the engineering side, the infrastructure, and most of the late-night fixes that ship before anyone notices.

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