Connect Claude

Steps

1. 1

   On claude.ai or in the Claude desktop app, open Settings → Connectors and choose Add custom connector. On Team and Enterprise plans, an owner may need to allow custom connectors first.

2. 2

   Name it GlobalBrain and paste this address. If it offers advanced settings (an OAuth client ID and secret), leave them empty. Choose Add, then Connect.

   https://mcp-staging.global-brain.ai/mcp

3. 3

   The GlobalBrain sign-in page opens. Enter your email and choose Email me a sign-in link. Then either follow the link in the email or type the code from it on the page. On a phone, type the code: the link opens in your phone's browser, not inside the app, and the connection won't finish.

   New to GlobalBrain? The email creates your account, and you set up your brain in about a minute. Then name the connection (such as “Claude”; its saved thoughts are labelled with it) and choose Approve.

4. 4

   Tell Claude how to use it. In Settings → Profile, paste this into your personal preferences:

   GlobalBrain is my shared memory across all my AI tools. Use its tools without waiting to be asked. This tool's name is: Claude.
   
   Search first. Before answering about my work, decisions, preferences or plans, call search_thoughts.
   
   Capture. When something is worth keeping (a decision, insight, plan, open question, how-to or preference), search first to avoid duplicates, then call capture_thought with:
   - content: self-contained, readable by another AI later
   - kind: observation, hypothesis, decision, preference, question, procedure or reference
   - title: 5 to 10 words
   - producer_client: Claude
   
   Link. If a thought builds on, backs up, contradicts, replaces or duplicates another, call add_relationship with relationship_type derived_from, supports, contradicts, supersedes, elaborates or duplicate_of.
   
   Flag for use. To mark a thought for later work, call add_use with purpose task, research_input, reference, architecture_proposal or blog_candidate.
   
   Retire. When a decision is replaced, call update_lifecycle on the old thought with lifecycle_status superseded and a short reason.

5. 5

   Check it works: in a new chat, ask “What's my GlobalBrain connection status?” It answers with your brain's name and the name this connection saves under.

Good to know

• Connect on a computer if you can. The connector then appears in the Claude app on your phone too, already connected.
• Claude's apps share the one connection, so their thoughts are labelled with its name. When an app's instructions give its own name (as producer_client), that's added in brackets, such as “Claude (Claude-Code)” from the desktop app's Code tab.
• Removing the connector in Claude doesn't tell GlobalBrain. Disconnect it on the Connections page as well, under Signed-in tools.