The conversation pre-dates the connector. Claude Desktop
loads MCP servers at startup; restart it after editing the config.
For Claude Code, restart the current session.
The tool is disabled in the conversation’s tool menu. Some
versions of Claude Desktop let the user toggle which tools are
available per conversation. Re-enable ownsona/*.
The model decided the question didn’t need memory. Nudge
explicitly: “check OwnSona first.” After one or two such nudges in
a conversation, the model tends to stay on-pattern.
Auth failure. If every recall comes back with an MCP
error, the bearer token is likely wrong or the WAR was rebuilt
without the right token. Inspect with
journalctl -u ownsona.service | grep AUTH_FAILED.