MCP Academy · Lesson

Wire It into Claude Desktop

Edit the config so Claude loads your server.

From Script to Real Host

Your server runs, but nobody is talking to it yet. Let’s connect it to a real host: Claude Desktop. 🖥️

It Reads a Config File

Claude Desktop discovers servers from one JSON file named claude_desktop_config.json. You list each server there, and it loads them on start.

All lessons in this course

  1. How stdio Transport Works
  2. Wire It into Claude Desktop
  3. Explore with MCP Inspector
  4. Debug a Server That Won't Start
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