AI Integration

Your Vault, Summoned into Claude

The Grimoire MCP plugin gives Claude Desktop direct access to your notes through the Model Context Protocol — search, read, write, and follow backlinks without leaving the conversation, and without your vault leaving your machine.

↓ Download MCP Plugin

Free · Requires Grimoire and Claude Desktop · Double-click to install

What Claude can do with your vault

  • search_notes Full-text search across the vault
  • read_note Read the contents of any note
  • write_note Create or update a note
  • list_notes Browse the vault structure
  • get_backlinks Find every note linking to a given note

Ask Claude to summarize a week of research notes, find every note that mentions a topic, draft a new note from a conversation, or trace how an idea connects across your vault through backlinks.

How it works

  1. Download grimoire-mcp.mcpb and double-click it. Claude Desktop installs the plugin — no configuration needed.
  2. Keep Grimoire running; the plugin talks to it locally on your machine.
  3. Ask Claude about your notes. It uses the tools above to search, read, and write in your vault.

MCP questions

What is MCP?

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI assistants like Claude connect to external tools and data sources. The Grimoire MCP plugin implements this protocol for your vault, so Claude can work with your notes directly.

Do my notes get uploaded to train AI models?

No. The MCP plugin runs locally and talks to Grimoire on your machine. Notes are only shared with Claude when you ask it to read or search them within a conversation, subject to Anthropic's data policies for Claude Desktop. Grimoire itself never uploads your vault.

What do I need to use it?

Grimoire (free) running on your Mac, Claude Desktop, and the MCP plugin. Download the plugin and double-click to install — no configuration files to edit.

Does the MCP plugin cost anything?

No. The plugin is free, and works with the free tier of Grimoire.

Add Claude to Your Toolkit

Install Grimoire first if you haven't — both downloads are free.

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