Povver MCP Server
Connect AI Assistants to Your Training Data
Povver's MCP server lets AI assistants read your training history, analyze progress, and answer questions about your workouts. Works with Claude Desktop and any MCP-compatible client.
Compatible clients
- Claude Desktop — add it as a custom connector (OAuth).
- Claude.ai — via the connector directory.
- Any MCP-compatible application — using OAuth or an API key.
What you can do
- Pull your workout history into a conversation.
- See your Strength Climb — how much your lifts are climbing and which are leading.
- Ask about progress on specific exercises ("am I getting stronger on bench press?").
- Analyze your training volume by muscle group.
- Give an AI assistant context about your training when you ask for advice.
- Build custom analysis or exports on top of your own data.
Example prompts
Once connected, you ask in plain language — the assistant calls the right tools, chains them, and reasons over the results. 44 ways to put it to work, across the whole coaching loop:
Use it as a coach (it chains tools for you)
- Act as my strength coach: review my recent training, find my biggest weakness, and update my program to fix it.
- Every Sunday, review my week and adjust next week’s plan.
- Audit my whole program against my goals and flag anything that’s off.
Track strength & spot plateaus
- How’s my bench press trending over the last 8 weeks — am I still progressing or have I plateaued?
- Which of my main lifts are stalling, and which are still moving?
- What are my current estimated 1RMs across all my lifts?
- Did I set any personal records this month?
- Compare my squat and deadlift progress over the last 12 weeks.
Understand volume & muscle balance
- Break down my weekly training volume by muscle group.
- Which muscle groups am I under-training, and where am I doing junk volume?
- Is my chest-to-back volume balanced? What about quads vs hamstrings?
- Show my chest effective volume and hard sets over the last 8 weeks.
- Am I doing enough direct arm work?
Manage fatigue, recovery & deloads
- Am I overreaching anywhere? Check my acute-to-chronic workload.
- Do I need a deload this week, and for which muscle groups?
- Which muscles are carrying the most fatigue right now?
- Has my effort (RIR) been creeping up — am I grinding sets?
Plan your next session
- What should I train today?
- Give me today’s workout with target weights, sets, and reps.
- I’ve only got 45 minutes and dumbbells today — adapt my session.
- What weight should I use on bench next session?
Build & adjust programs
- Build me a 4-day upper/lower routine with the equipment I have.
- My rear delts are lagging — add targeted volume to my current split.
- Swap barbell back squat for a knee-friendly alternative across all my templates.
- Turn my current routine into a 5-day push/pull/legs.
- Design a 6-week arm specialization block.
Act on Povver’s recommendations
- What is Povver recommending for me right now, and why?
- Walk me through the rationale before I apply any progression changes.
- Accept the recommendations you agree with and tell me which you skipped.
Work around injuries & constraints
- My left shoulder hurts on overhead pressing — log it and stop progressing those lifts.
- Why didn’t my bench press get a progression last week?
- My knee feels better now — mark that injury resolved.
- Rebuild this week’s leg day to avoid loaded knee flexion.
Weekly & monthly reviews
- Review my training week: volume, adherence, fatigue, and what to change.
- How consistent have I been over the last 3 months — sessions vs my goal?
- Summarize how my training has progressed since I started.
- When did I last train each muscle group?
Export & custom analysis
- Export every squat set I’ve logged this year as a table.
- What’s my total training volume (tonnage) this month?
- Pull all my chest sets above 80% of my estimated 1RM.
- Build a CSV of my top set per workout for deadlift.
Explore the exercise library
- Find cable exercises for rear delts.
- What are good hamstring exercises I can do with just dumbbells?
- List alternatives to barbell bench press for a tweaked shoulder.
Requirements
The MCP server requires an active Povver Premium subscription, and you sign in with the same account you use in the iOS app. Requests from non-premium accounts are rejected.
Available tools
16 tools, grouped by what they do. Read tools are safe to call freely; write tools change your data.
Read (safe to call freely)
get_contextStart here. Who you are and where your training stands: a snapshot (profile, active routine, next workout, last 10 sessions, strength records), your coaching profile (goal, experience, days per week, equipment, units), or a connection check.
read_plansYour routines and workout templates: the full prescription (sets, reps, weight, RIR, coaching notes, supersets), plus Povver's evidence-based starter programmes.
read_workoutsYour finished workouts: recent summaries with volume, or one session with set-level data and your own notes.
analyze_trainingPovver's analysis, by question: the Strength Climb (are you getting stronger?), weekly insights, muscle-group volume and fatigue, one lift's progress and bests, raw set queries, the lifts you train, adherence, and pending recommendations.
exercisesSearch the exercise catalog in plain language, or read one exercise's muscles, equipment and execution notes.
read_memoryWhat you asked Povver to remember (injuries, preferences, goals), and which progressions an injury held back.
read_periodizationYour periodization plan, or a preview of a plan before it is saved.
read_live_workoutThe workout in progress right now: every exercise and set, the next set, and the version to send with a change.
whats_newWhat Povver has shipped and what is planned, the same text as povver.ai/updates: the newest App Store versions with their release notes, and the roadmap.
Write (change your data)
save_planCreate or edit routines and templates, or set the active routine. Returns the saved routine or template.
log_workoutRecord finished workouts (a session you just did, or history imported from another app; safe to retry) or correct one.
live_workoutStart a workout, then act on it: log sets, swap or add an exercise, change a planned set, pair a superset, finish the session. Several actions in one call (start runs alone).
manage_periodizationAuthor a periodization policy that steers your routine, or pause and resume it.
manage_memoryReport an injury, update its status, or accept or reject a recommendation.
deletePermanently delete a workout, routine or template.
submit_feedbackSend a bug report, feature request or feedback to the Povver team, to the same inbox as the app's Contact form. Your assistant should show you the text before it sends.
Guidance and reference (MCP resources)
povver://guide/toolsHow to use the tools well: importing history, correcting workouts, editing templates, live sessions, reading volume.
povver://guide/periodizationPeriodization plans: the policy shape, deloads and progression.
povver://rules/{rule_id}The evidence behind one of Povver's training rules, from the same cards the in-app coach answers with; an unknown id lists every topic.
Setup
Claude Desktop & Claude.ai (OAuth — recommended)
- In Claude, open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
- Enter the server URL:
https://mcp.povver.ai/mcp
- A Povver sign-in page opens. Sign in with the same Apple, Google, or email account you use in the app.
- Approve access. Tokens are handled automatically (OAuth 2.1 with PKCE); nothing to copy or paste.
API key (scripts & other clients)
- In the Povver iOS app, open Profile → Integrations → Advanced → Developer access and generate an API key (it starts with
pvk_ and is shown only once).
- Configure your client to send it as a bearer token:
Authorization: Bearer pvk_…
- Point the client at
https://mcp.povver.ai/mcp
Server endpoints
- MCP protocol —
https://mcp.povver.ai/mcp (bearer auth; POST for JSON-RPC, SSE supported)
- OAuth discovery —
https://mcp.povver.ai/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
- OAuth flow —
/authorize, /token, /register
- Health —
https://mcp.povver.ai/health
- This page —
https://mcp.povver.ai/
- Plain-text summaries —
/llms.txt, /llms-full.txt
New to Povver?
Povver is an AI strength coach for iOS — log your lifts, get post-workout analysis across 10 muscle groups, and auto-progressions that tell you exactly what to lift next. The MCP server connects that data to your AI assistant.
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