Claude Desktop Integration

Add OpenContext MCP to your Claude Desktop configuration.

Configuration

Edit your claude_desktop_config.json file:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "opencontext": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "opencontext-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Steps

1

Open Claude Desktop config

Navigate to the config file location for your OS.

2

Add MCP configuration

Add the mcpServers section as shown above.

3

Restart Claude Desktop

Quit and reopen Claude Desktop to load the MCP server.

Verify

After restarting, Claude Desktop will have access to OpenContext tools. Try asking:

example
"List all available context topics"
"Save our coding conventions under topic coding_rules"