Connect Claude Code

Claude Code is Anthropic’s command-line coding assistant. Once connected to Mereon, it can look up your company’s processes, policies, and owners while it works, and cite where each answer came from.

1. Get a token

   Create a personal access token in Profile → API Tokens in the Mereon app, if you have not already. Keep it handy.

2. Add Mereon as an MCP server

   Run this in your terminal, replacing the token with your own:

   claude mcp add --transport http mereon https://api.mereon.ai/v1/mcp \
     --header "Authorization: Bearer mrn_..."

   That registers a server named mereon. Claude Code now has Mereon’s search and lookup tools available.

3. Confirm the connection

   In Claude Code, run:

   claude mcp list

   You should see mereon listed and connected. Ask it something like “search Mereon for our refund policy” to see it call a tool.

Teach it to use Mereon

Tools are only useful if the assistant knows when to reach for them. Drop this into a CLAUDE.md file in your repository so Claude Code consults Mereon before answering questions about how your business works:

## Mereon knowledge base

This organization's business processes, policies, and institutional knowledge
live in Mereon. When you need to know how the business does something (a
process, a policy, who owns an area), use the `search_mereon` tool first, then
`get_topic` / `get_item` to read details and `get_duties` to find owners.
Cite the `url` field of anything you rely on.

Project vs personal scope

By default claude mcp add registers the server for your user. To share the connection with a project’s collaborators, add --scope project, which writes the server to a checked-in config file. Never commit the token itself: use an environment variable in the header, such as --header "Authorization: Bearer $MEREON_TOKEN".

What it can do once connected

Claude Code gains the full set of Mereon tools: hybrid search, reading a topic or item in full, pulling the text of a source document or transcript, finding who owns a process, and listing data-quality issues, content, and lessons. Everything is read-only and scoped to what your token’s owner can see.

Removing the connection

claude mcp remove mereon

To cut off access entirely, revoke the token in Profile → API Tokens. That stops every tool using it, not just Claude Code.