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Claude Desktop is Anthropic’s native app for macOS and Windows. It supports MCP servers through a config file you edit manually — register Cognee and Claude Desktop can remember, recall, and forget against your Cognee Cloud tenant.

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1. Open the config file

Find claude_desktop_config.json for your platform (create it and any parent directories if it doesn’t exist):

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2. Add the Cognee server

Point the entry at your tenant using your API Base URL and a key from the API Keys page:
This is the stdio form the in-product Integrations page generates. Cognee runs via uvx (requires uv) — no separate install. Make sure --api-url has no trailing slash and the token has no surrounding quotes or whitespace.

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3. Restart Claude Desktop

Fully quit and reopen the app. On macOS use Cmd + Q (not just closing the window) so it reloads the config.

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4. Verify

Open a new conversation and ask:
What Cognee tools do you have available?
Claude should list remember, recall, and forget. You can then prompt explicitly:
  • “Remember this in Cognee: we use PostgreSQL for the main database”
  • “Recall what you know about our database choices from Cognee”
If no Cognee tools appear, Claude usually can’t find uvx on its PATH — run which uvx and use that absolute path as the command value in the config.

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