Connecting Claude

Connect tela to Claude — claude.ai (web) or the desktop app — as a custom connector, so Claude can search, read, and (with permission) write your wiki. For Claude Code and the PAT details, see [[Agents & MCP]].

[!IMPORTANT] claude.ai reaches your server from Anthropic's cloud, so this needs a paid Claude plan and a publicly reachable tela. Auth is OAuth — you authorize through tela, no token to paste.

1. Open Connectors (now under "Customize")

Anthropic moved connectors out of Settings. In the left sidebar open Customize → Connectors — the old Settings → Connectors page now just points you here.

Claude → Customize → Connectors, with tela connected

2. Add the tela connector

Click ＋ Add connector → Add custom connector, and fill in:

Claude "Add custom connector" dialog — Name and Remote MCP server URL

Field	Value
Name	`tela`
Remote MCP server URL	`https://telawiki.com/api/mcp`
OAuth Client ID / Secret (Advanced)	leave blank — tela handles OAuth

Click Add, then Connect and sign in to tela to authorize.

3. Choose what it can do (tool permissions)

On the connector's page each tool can be allowed, set to ask first, or disabled. Set write tools (create_page, delete_page, …) to ask if you want a confirmation step before Claude changes anything.

Claude per-tool permissions for the tela connector

4. Use it in a chat

Unlike ChatGPT, a connected connector is on by default in new chats. You can toggle it per conversation from the composer "+" → Connectors — just make sure Tela is checked:

Claude composer "+" → Connectors — Tela toggled on

Then ask in plain language and Claude calls tela's tools.

Other Claude surfaces

Connectors live at the account level, so once tela is connected on claude.ai it's available wherever you sign in with the same Claude account — you don't reconnect it per app:

Claude Code (terminal) — it's already there. Run claude mcp list and you'll see claude.ai Tela ✔ Connected, with no claude mcp add needed. Only add it by hand if you run Claude Code without a Claude account (e.g. API-key mode) or against a different / self-hosted tela:
```
claude mcp add --transport http tela https://telawiki.com/api/mcp
```
then /mcp → Authenticate. See [[Agents & MCP]].
Claude desktop app — the same account connectors appear there too.

[!NOTE] A surface may ask you to authenticate the connector the first time you use it (you'll see Needs authentication until you do).

Verify

Ask Claude to list your spaces or create a test page, then confirm it appears in tela.

See [[Agents & MCP]] for the complete tool surface, and [[API & personal access tokens]] for token-based auth.