Claude Desktop reads its MCP server configuration from a JSON file:
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
~/.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.
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.