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Connect Claude

Add Dawn to Claude as a custom connector. Five minutes, once.

Dawn talks to Claude over MCP, with a full OAuth flow — so you approve the connection once and Claude holds a token, rather than you pasting an API key anywhere.

Settings → Claude connector in the app walks through this and shows your server URL with a copy button. In short:

  1. In Claude: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
  2. Paste your MCP server URL — it is your Dawn address with /api/mcp on the end, and the Connector page shows it exactly.
  3. Press Connect. Claude registers itself and sends you to Dawn's authorization page.
  4. Sign in if you are not already, then press Connect on the authorization screen.

Then ask it something

The first thing worth trying is a whole question rather than a lookup:

What does my week look like, and what am I not making time for?

Claude answers that by calling life_briefing, which returns your commitments alongside your active goals and your rules.

Managing the connection

The Connector page lists every connection you have authorized, when it was made, and lets you revoke any of them. Revoking is immediate: the token stops reading.

A connection also only ever gets the tools your account has switched on — if Idea Manager is off, those tools are neither offered to Claude nor callable by it, even on a connection made while it was on.

If it will not connect

  • Claude requires HTTPS. A connector cannot point at http:// or at localhost.
  • The address has to match exactly. The hostname Claude connects to must be the one Dawn is configured with, because that is what is baked into the discovery documents Claude reads. A different alias for the same app fails at the authorization step.