How do I use shapeTerrain from Claude or ChatGPT?

Connect your AI to The Cloud at https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp and sign in once. Then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "raise the cloud plot", and it calls shapeTerrain.

Is shapeTerrain safe to let an AI call?

shapeTerrain changes your workspace. What an AI creates is Private until you share it.

Terrain

`shapeTerrain`

Shape Terrain

Shape the owner's Terrain: raise or lower a project's plot, recolour it, or set the whole world's biome, weather or time of day, or give a district a name of its own.

write

Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "raise the cloud plot", and it calls shapeTerrain.

Example call

The MCP tools/call params, with the required arguments only.

{
  "arguments": {
    "change": "<change>"
  },
  "name": "shapeTerrain"
}

Arguments

amountintegeroptionalHow many steps to raise or lower, 1 to 4. Defaults to 1.
biomestringoptionalFor change: biome.
changestringrequiredWhich single change this call makes.
colorstringoptionalFor change: recolor or defineSector.
districtIdstringoptionalFor change: nameDistrict. A district id from readTerrain (`<plotKey>::<machineId>`).
namestringoptionalFor change: nameDistrict or defineSector. Up to 64 characters; an empty district name gives the district its machine name back.
projectKeystringoptionalFor change: raise, lower, recolor or placeInSector. A plot key from readTerrain.
revisionintegeroptionalFor change: undo. The revision of the sculpt to take back.
sectorstringoptionalFor change: removeSector or placeInSector. A sector's name or id from readTerrain.
spacestringoptionalA Space id. Works on that Space's shared terrain layout instead of your own: its members read it, its editors shape it. Omit for your own terrain.
timeOfDaystringoptionalFor change: timeOfDay.
weatherstringoptionalFor change: weather.

Returns

The registry does not declare a return shape.

Declared limits

amount: minimum 1
amount: maximum 4
districtId: maximum length 128
name: maximum length 64
projectKey: maximum length 128
revision: minimum 1
revision: maximum 9007199254740991
sector: maximum length 64
space: maximum length 128

Ask for it

The Cloud routes these requests to this verb.

raise the cloud plot
make my terrain snowy
set the map to night
call that district the Forge
colour the pastry plot amber
make a Marketing sector
put the cloud project in Marketing
undo that change to the map

Pair it with

The verbs that finish the job.

Questions

What does shapeTerrain do?
Shape the owner's Terrain: raise or lower a project's plot, recolour it, or set the whole world's biome, weather or time of day, or give a district a name of its own. It is one of the tools The Cloud MCP server gives every connected AI.
How do I use shapeTerrain from Claude or ChatGPT?
Connect your AI to The Cloud at https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp and sign in once. Then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "raise the cloud plot", and it calls shapeTerrain.
Is shapeTerrain safe to let an AI call?
shapeTerrain changes your workspace. What an AI creates is Private until you share it.

Connect

One endpoint gives your AI this tool and every other one: connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Gemini, read what The Cloud is, or see pricing.