Claude Desktop Setup

Connect Context Repo to Claude Desktop and access your prompts, documents, and collections directly from Claude's interface. Setup takes about two minutes.

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "context-repo": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "context-repo-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "CONTEXTREPO_API_KEY": "cr_your_api_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

List my prompts

What you can do

With Context Repo connected, you can ask Claude to:

• List and search your prompts, documents, and collections
• Create new content directly from the conversation
• Use prompt templates with variables filled in contextually
• Search your knowledge base using semantic or keyword queries
• Explore documents chunk by chunk with Deep Search
• Manage versions — view history and restore previous versions

See the MCP Tools Reference for all 26 available tools.

Troubleshooting

Server not starting

Make sure you have Node.js 18 or later installed. Run node --version in your terminal to check. The npx command needs a working Node.js installation to download and run the MCP server package.

node --version
# Should print v18.x.x or higher

Config file not found

On macOS, the config file lives at ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json. You can open the directory in Finder with:

open ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/

If the Claude folder exists but there's no config file, create claude_desktop_config.json with the JSON from the setup step above.

Authentication errors

Verify your API key is correct and hasn't been revoked. You can generate a new key from Dashboard > Settings > API Keys. Make sure there are no extra spaces or line breaks in the CONTEXTREPO_API_KEY value.