How to Give Claude Persistent Context with MCP

Claude is brilliant and forgetful. Every new conversation starts cold, so you re-explain your project, your company, your preferences — or paste the same background document for the hundredth time.

The fix is the Model Context Protocol (MCP): an open standard that lets Claude connect to outside tools and data sources. Point Claude at an MCP server that holds your knowledge, and it can search and read that knowledge on demand in any conversation — no pasting, no stale exports.

What you need

A place your knowledge actually lives — structured enough for an AI to search. That's what HeedForge provides: a "brain" that captures notes, emails, texts, contacts, and calendar events as clean markdown, with an MCP server built in.
Claude Pro, Team, or Enterprise — custom connectors are available in Claude's paid plans (web and desktop).

Step by step

Create your brain. Register and add a few documents — or connect Gmail so capture starts automatically. Name the brain; naming it mints its permanent connector URL.
Copy your connector URL. In HeedForge, open Settings → AI Access. Your brain's MCP endpoint looks like https://heedforge.com/api/mcp/your-brain-name.
Add it to Claude. In Claude, go to Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, paste the URL, and approve the OAuth sign-in with your HeedForge account.
Use it. Ask Claude things like "search my brain for the kitchen renovation budget" or just talk normally — Claude discovers tools like search_documents, list_events, and list_tasks and calls them when your question needs your context.

What changes in practice

No more context dumps. Claude pulls exactly the documents a question needs instead of you front-loading everything.
Citations, not vibes. Answers reference real paths in your knowledge base ("per projects/acme/scope.md…").
Write-back, with permissions. With a write-scoped connection Claude can also capture notes, log events, and create tasks in your brain — every change attributed and revocable.

Frequently asked

Does this train Claude on my data? No. MCP is retrieval at conversation time, under your account's permissions. Revoke the connector and access ends.

Can my whole team share one context? Yes — a corporate brain gives every member (and every AI tool they use) the same MCP endpoint, so the company's context stops living in one person's chat history.

Does it work with ChatGPT and Copilot too? Yes — the same brain exposes the same MCP endpoint to any MCP-aware client, so every assistant works from one source of truth.