dropdat MCP server for Claude Desktop

Give Claude Desktop long-term, cross-session memory. Recall past conversations, save the current one, drop context into any AI client — all from inside Claude Desktop. Anthropic's chat app supports MCP via a single JSON config file. Drop dropdat in once and every Desktop conversation can recall your capsules.

Hybrid semantic recall

Vector cosine + BM25 fused with RRF. Asks in any phrasing, finds capsules that used different words.

Five MCP tools

dropdat_recall, dropdat_read, dropdat_list, dropdat_capsule, dropdat_autocapsule — all the surface an agent needs.

Cross-AI capsules

The same capsule library is reachable from Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini.

Owned data

Capsules live in your dropdat library. Postgres + pgvector. Export anytime.

Install in Claude Desktop

Two steps. Under a minute. No fork, no proxy.

  1. 01

    Get a dropdat API key

    Sign in at capsule.dropdat.app/api-keys and create a token (shape dk_live_…).

  2. 02

    Install @dropdat/mcp

    # Claude Desktop launches the server itself via npx — no manual install needed.
    # Optionally pin a global copy:
    npm install -g @dropdat/mcp
  3. 03

    Drop config into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (Windows)

    {
      "mcpServers": {
        "dropdat": {
          "command": "npx",
          "args": ["-y", "@dropdat/mcp"],
          "env": {
            "DROPDAT_API_KEY": "dk_live_xxx",
            "DROPDAT_API_BASE": "https://dropdat.app"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  4. 04

    Verify

    Restart Claude Desktop. Click the hammer icon in the chat input — the dropdat tools (recall, read, list, capsule, autocapsule) appear in the list.

What you can ask Claude Desktop now

Once wired in, any of these prompts route through dropdat tools.

Related guides

Wire Claude Desktop into your dropdat library.