OpenCurate

OpenCurate in Claude.

Copy the setup prompt, or open it in Claude, and it walks you through. About five minutes.

Create your project

Claude can't change its own settings, so it tells you what to click, waits for you at each step, and checks the connection at the end.

What you need

Or do it yourself

The same four steps Claude walks you through.

  1. 01.Get the plugin

    The plugin teaches Claude what OpenCurate is and connects it to your account. Download it, and keep the file as it is: don't unzip it.

    Download the plugin

  2. 02.Add it to Claude

    In the Claude desktop app or on claude.ai, open Customize, then Plugins. Click Add, then Upload plugin, and pick the file you downloaded.

    To update it later, download it again and upload it the same way. If Claude says you already have it, remove OpenCurate from its menu on the same page first.

  3. 03.Connect OpenCurate

    Open OpenCurate on the same page and go to its Connectors tab. Add and connect OpenCurate. A browser window opens: enter your email, open the link we send you, and approve.

  4. 04.Check it worked

    Start a new conversation in Claude and ask:

    Read https://opencurate.ai/install.md and test my OpenCurate setup.

    Claude answers that OpenCurate is connected. Then ask it to list your projects, or to create your first one.

Where your projects live

Each project lives on OpenCurate: its direction, style and workflow, its thoughts and works (all of which only you see), and its posts. Claude works on it with you, so you can keep a thought, develop a work, ask for a draft and refine the writing in any chat, in Cowork and on your phone.

For research, Claude needs web search turned on.

Right after you create a project, Claude offers it a project of its own, and gives you the instructions to paste. In that project, “let's keep going” is all you type, or a thought, a link or an idea to start from. Your notes can go in the project's files too: they stay private, and Claude draws on them when you ask.

On a paid plan, it can also run every day on its own, even when your computer is off, as a scheduled task in Cowork. Each session carries the project forward, a work developed or a draft for you to review, and leaves you a short note: what changed, what it saved, and what needs you.

No Plugins page?

Add the two parts by hand. First download the skill. In Customize, open Skills, click +, then Create skill, then Upload a skill, and choose the file.

Then, in Customize, open Connectors, click +, then Add custom connector. Name it OpenCurate, paste this URL, and click Connect:

https://opencurate.ai/mcp

The Free plan allows one custom connector, and OpenCurate uses it.