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Set up & make your first document

From zero to a published document

A complete, click-by-click walkthrough — no technical background needed. Follow it top to bottom and in about 10 minutes you'll have connected Claude, made a real document, and seen it live. Nothing here can break anything.

The idea in one line: you make documents by chatting with Claude; you and the people you invite read them in a web browser. Two tools, two jobs. (More on that in How it works — but you don't need it to follow along here.)

What you need first

  • A Claude account. A paid plan (Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise) lets you add the connector in step 1. Free plans can add one connector too.
  • A work email that's already been invited to your company's rooms. If you're not sure, ask whoever sent you here — they add your email in one step.
On a Team or Enterprise plan and don't see "Add custom connector" in step 1? Your Claude administrator has to approve custom connectors once for the whole org. Send them this address — https://mcp.rooms.engineering11.com/mcp — and ask them to add it; then you can connect.

Step 1 · Connect Engineering11 rooms to Claude (one time)

  1. Open Claude — the Claude desktop app or claude.ai in your browser.
  2. Find Customize. In the left sidebar, click Customize. (Newer Claude versions moved these settings here.) Then click Connectors.
  3. Add the connector. Click the + next to Connectors, then Add custom connector.
  4. Fill in the box. For the name type Engineering11 rooms (any name is fine). For the URL, paste exactly:
    https://mcp.rooms.engineering11.com/mcp
    Then click Add.
  5. Sign in with your work email. A window asks you to confirm — enter your work email, and Claude emails you a 6-digit code. Type it in. No password, no new account to create.
  6. You're connected. Back in a chat you'll now have an Engineering11 rooms set of tools. You only ever do this once.

Optional, but it makes Claude noticeably better at building polished, on-brand documents. Skip it if you like — everything still works without it.

  1. Turn on code execution (skills need it, one time). Go to Settings → Capabilities and switch on code execution. On Team/Enterprise an admin enables this for the org.
  2. Download the skill: rooms-authoring.zip. Leave it zipped — Claude wants the ZIP file as-is.
  3. Add it: in the left sidebar → Customize → Skills, click + → Create skill → Upload a skill, and pick the ZIP you downloaded.
  4. Done. It turns on automatically. From now on Claude follows your house style when it writes documents.

Step 3 · Set your company brand (admins, one time)

Every document automatically uses your company's theme — its colors, fonts, and logo — so everything looks consistent without anyone formatting anything. New companies start with a clean default theme already applied to all documents; if you're an admin, set your real brand now so everything you create looks like you. (Not an admin? Skip to step 4 — your docs are already on the default brand.)

"Set our company theme from yourcompany.com."

Claude proposes colors, fonts, and a logo pulled from your site; confirm or tweak them, and the brand is applied to every document — new and existing — at once. The logo header appears on its own; you never add it. Full detail: Brand & themes.

Step 4 · See what you can access

Start a normal Claude chat and type this. Every company starts with a Getting Started room — a safe place to practice.

"What rooms can I see?"

Step 5 · Make your first document

Just describe it in plain words. Claude writes it, shows you a live preview right in the chat, and only saves it to your room when you say so. Try something real:

"Create a one-page product flyer for our new spring campaign and save it to the Getting Started room. Use a bold headline, three benefit bullets, and a call to action."

Don't like something? Say so — it updates as you talk:

"Make the headline punchier and add our logo at the top. Then save it."

Step 6 · View it in the app (this is the "reading" side)

When Claude saves a document it gives you a link (it looks like rooms.engineering11.com/your-company/getting-started/…). That link is the real, published page — the same thing your audience will see.

  1. Click the link Claude gives you (or paste it into your browser).
  2. Sign in with your work email — the same 6-digit-code step as before. (Readers do this too; it's how only invited people can open a room.)
  3. There's your document, live and on-brand. This browser view — not the Claude chat — is what people read.

Step 7 · Share it with someone outside the room

Need to send one document to a client or partner who isn't on your team? Ask for a public link — it opens with no sign-in, shows only that one document, and you can switch it off anytime.

"Share the spring campaign flyer as a public link I can send to a client."
"Stop sharing that flyer."

That's the whole loop

Make it in Claude → view it in the browser → share it. From here you can organize documents into rooms, invite teammates (see Access & people), and lean on the Recipes for ready-to-paste requests. Your brand is applied to everything automatically — see Brand & themes.

If you get stuck

  • No "Add custom connector" option? You're likely on Team/Enterprise — your admin must approve it once (see the note up top).
  • Can't add the skill? Turn on code execution in Settings → Capabilities first (step 2).
  • The email code never arrives? Check spam, wait a minute, request it again. Still nothing? Your email may not be invited yet — ask whoever set up your rooms.
  • Claude says it can't do something? Ask "why can't I do that?" — usually it's a permission only an admin has, or a room that doesn't exist yet. You can't break anything.