🔌 Chapter 2
Getting started: setting up the Spendesk MCP tools in Dust
Dust has no skill file to download — MCP tools are enabled by your workspace admin, then reused by any agent. Here's how to get started.
Dust works differently from Claude Code — and it's worth knowing why
If you've read the Claude-side guide, forget the "download a file and drop it in a folder" reflex. Dust has no downloadable-skill mechanism — no CLI, no .claude/ folder. Instead, Dust works with agents — assistants configured in Dust's web interface, reusable by your whole team once published.
Second important difference: you don't install MCP tools yourself. They're added by your Dust workspace admin, once, for the entire organization. Once the Spendesk MCP is connected, any agent can use it.
Step 1 — Check that the Spendesk MCP is already connected
Before anything else, ask your Dust admin: "Is the Spendesk MCP server enabled on our workspace?" This is a one-time action done for the whole team — not something each user configures individually.
Step 2 — Use a skill's content as agent instructions
This site's skills library remains useful even without Dust's download mechanism: each skill's content (the instructions, the MCP tools to call, the step order) is already platform-independent. On any skill's detail page, the "How to install" section adapts automatically once you switch the platform selector to "Dust" — copy those instructions.
Step 3 — Create or use an existing agent
In Dust, open the agent builder and paste the copied instructions as system instructions. If a Spendesk agent already exists in your workspace ("published" by a colleague), you can also just ask it your question directly — nothing to configure.
Where's the Doctolib invoice at?
I found the Doctolib invoice in the payment cycle.
Doctolib invoice — €2,400.00
Status: Scheduled for payment
Due date: 2026-07-15
No delay detected.
Would you like me to check whether there are other pending Doctolib invoices?
For CFOs and Controllers: if your workspace already has a published finance agent, check with your team before creating a new one — it's better to enrich an existing agent than to end up with duplicates.
Recap of the differences vs. Claude Code
- Claude Code: you download a
.mdfile, drop it in.claude/, each user repeats the step. - Dust: the admin enables the MCP once for everyone; you copy a skill's content into an agent, then share it with the team.
Once the MCP is available, the next step is learning how to phrase your requests well to an agent: Using an agent in a conversation.
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