Connect Claude
Copy your workspace URL from Settings → Connect to Claude, then pick where the connection should live. See Work from Your Own AI for how connecting works and what a connected assistant can do.
Where the connection lives
Claude offers two shapes, and the choice is not which product you use but whose connection this is.
| In your account | In a project | |
|---|---|---|
| Set up in | Claude's settings | a file in the repository |
| Works | everywhere you sign in, on every device | in that folder |
| Belongs to | you | the team, once committed |
| Several workspaces | add one connector per workspace | one per folder |
Neither holds a credential, so the project file can be committed and shared.
In your account
Open Settings — your name at the bottom left, the File menu, or Ctrl , — then Connectors → Add → Add custom connector.
- Name it
xpt_<your-workspace>and paste the URL. Press Continue. - Leave the next screen alone: authentication stays Always Required, and the OAuth client stays No client ID. Press Add.
- Claude opens XPT Tracker in your browser. Sign in if you are not already, confirm on the page that appears, and the connection is live.
One connector covers Chat, Cowork, Code and claude.ai alike, on every device you sign in to. Several can run at once, one per workspace, and each brings only its own workspace's tools and workflows.
In a project
Run this in the project folder:
claude mcp add --scope project --transport http xpt-tracker https://mcp.xpt.ai/<your-workspace>/mcp
This writes a .mcp.json into the repository. It holds no credential, so it can be committed — everyone who clones the project gets the same connection and authorizes it as themselves.
Drop --scope project and Claude is connected for your machine instead, writing nothing into the repository:
claude mcp add --transport http xpt-tracker https://mcp.xpt.ai/<your-workspace>/mcp
Either way, start a Claude session, type /mcp, pick xpt-tracker and authorize in the browser to make the connection active.