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Connect Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, and Claude Code to the Kernel MCP server

Our remote MCP server isn't compatible with the method Free users of Claude use to add MCP servers.

Pro, Max, Team & Enterprise (Claude.ai and Claude Desktop)

  1. Go to Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
  2. Enter: Integration name: Kernel, Integration URL: https://mcp.onkernel.com/mcp, then click Add.
  3. In Settings → Connectors, click Connect next to Kernel to launch OAuth and approve.
  4. In chat, click Search and tools and enable the Kernel tools if needed.
On Claude for Work (Team/Enterprise), only Primary Owners or Owners can enable custom connectors for the org. After it's configured, each user still needs to go to Settings → Connectors and click Connect to authorize it for their account.

Claude Code CLI

Using Kernel CLI (recommended):

kernel mcp install --target claude-code
# Then in the REPL run once to authenticate:
/mcp

Manual setup:

claude mcp add --transport http kernel https://mcp.onkernel.com/mcp
# Then in the REPL run once to authenticate:
/mcp

Authentication

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