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What You Can Do

Claude excels at processing very long text. Using Linkly AI’s outline tool, Claude can first view the table of contents of a manuscript or report stored on your computer, then use read to carefully read key chapters — far more efficient than pasting the entire text, and without hitting context limits.
Let Claude use Linkly AI’s search tool to retrieve relevant notes, then use read to read them carefully before generating technical proposals, analysis reports, or meeting minute drafts — content sourced from your actual local materials, grounded and verifiable.
Claude Projects is Claude’s built-in knowledge base that can store a small number of documents. Combined with Linkly AI, you can keep your most frequently used documents in a Project and store less-used documents in a local directory, then access them through Linkly AI during conversations.

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Prerequisites

  • Claude Pro or Team subscription (free plan does not support MCP)
  • To read documents on your computer: completed remote access configuration, with the desktop tunnel showing ● Connected
  • To use only cloud libraries: no tunnel needed, and the desktop app doesn’t have to be running

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Configuration Steps

1

Open Claude settings

On claude.ai, click your avatar in the bottom-left corner and select Settings.
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Add a Connector

Linkly AI is listed in Claude’s connector directory: search for “Linkly AI” in the directory under Connectors and add it. You can also click Add Custom Connector and fill it in by hand: - Name: Linkly AI - URL: https://mcp.linkly.ai/mcp
3

Complete OAuth authorization

After adding, you will be automatically redirected to linkly.ai for OAuth authorization: a new account signing in for the first time sets a display name and username first; the authorization page states which domain you’ll be redirected to after you allow access; once it looks right, click Allow, then return to Claude to start using it. To stop using it later, revoke it under Authorized apps on the Integrations page of the dashboard.

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Getting Started

Once configured, ask questions directly in a Claude conversation. Claude will automatically call Linkly AI’s tools to search and read your local documents. For example:
  • “Search my documents for content about API design”
  • “Find my project requirements document and summarize the key points”

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FAQ

Make sure the desktop tunnel is in a connected state. While the tunnel is disconnected, Claude can only use cloud libraries and can’t read the documents on your computer.
Try deleting the Connector in Claude settings and adding it again. Make sure your browser is logged in to linkly.ai.