Connect Claude Desktop

Connect Claude Desktop to The Cloud in about five minutes. Add one custom connector, sign in once, and Claude reads your memory and acts in your workspace.

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Connect Claude Desktop

Claude Desktop connects through a custom connector. You paste one address, sign in through your browser once, and Claude can read your Memory and work in your Pages, Tasks, Calendar, Files, and the rest of the workspace. No secret is copied or stored on your side.

Before you start

A Cloud account. Create one at thecloud.so. The connection signs in as you, so the account has to exist first.
Claude Desktop installed and signed in to your Anthropic account. Custom connectors are a Claude Desktop feature, not a Cloud one.

The one address

There is a single MCP server address. It speaks HTTP JSON-RPC 2.0. You will paste it once:

https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp

Steps

Open the connector settings In Claude Desktop, go to Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector.
Paste the address Paste the MCP server address into the URL field. Leave the name as you like it; The Cloud does not read it.
```
https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp
```
Sign in when the browser opens The first time Claude Desktop uses the connector, your browser opens to sign in to The Cloud. Approve it once and the connection stays live. This is OAuth, so there is no API key to paste.

Verify it worked

Start a new chat and send one word: sync. The Cloud answers with its Charter, your memory, and a line confirming the sync. If you get that back, the connection is live and every other tool is available to that chat.

Troubleshooting

The connector will not connect. Confirm the address is exactly the one above, with no trailing slash and no extra path. Then remove the connector and add it again, which runs the browser sign-in once more and refreshes the session.
The tool list looks stale. Reconnect the server, or restart Claude Desktop, so it re-reads tools/list. The Cloud adds tools often and a client caches the list from its last handshake.
Gmail or Calendar shows an "unverified app" warning. Google verification for The Cloud is still in review. You can continue past the warning, or skip the Email and Calendar tools. Every other tool works either way.
You want the same setup on claude.ai. The web app takes the same custom-connector path. See Connect into The Cloud.

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Steps

Open the connector settings In Claude Desktop, go to Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector.

Paste the address Paste the MCP server address into the URL field. Leave the name as you like it; The Cloud does not read it.

https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp

Sign in when the browser opens The first time Claude Desktop uses the connector, your browser opens to sign in to The Cloud. Approve it once and the connection stays live. This is OAuth, so there is no API key to paste.

Troubleshooting

The connector will not connect. Confirm the address is exactly the one above, with no trailing slash and no extra path. Then remove the connector and add it again, which runs the browser sign-in once more and refreshes the session.

The tool list looks stale. Reconnect the server, or restart Claude Desktop, so it re-reads tools/list. The Cloud adds tools often and a client caches the list from its last handshake.

Gmail or Calendar shows an "unverified app" warning. Google verification for The Cloud is still in review. You can continue past the warning, or skip the Email and Calendar tools. Every other tool works either way.

You want the same setup on claude.ai. The web app takes the same custom-connector path. See Connect into The Cloud.

Connect Claude Desktop