7.2 Claude Desktop

Claude Desktop reads its MCP server configuration from a JSON file:

macOS

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

Windows

%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

Linux

~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (when supported)

Add OwnSona under mcpServers:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ownsona": {
      "url": "https://your.host/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <OWNSONA_API_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. In any conversation, ask “what tools do you have?” You should see the nine OwnSona tools listed.

7.2.1 Verify

In a fresh conversation:

Please call the recall tool with the query "test".

Claude will invoke recall. Even on an empty store you’ll see the tool call succeed with an empty matches array.