Get started

Each page here takes you from nothing to a first working call with one client. Pick the one you use:

• Claude Desktop: the app starts the server on your machine.
• Claude Code: the plugin, or a command Claude Code starts for you. The same page connects it to a server that already runs.
• A remote server: someone gave you a URL, and you want claude.ai or another client to use it.
• Installation: every way to install the server, and how to check what you installed.

A first setup is the moment to decide what the server may touch. What it can reach, what it changes and who gets in is set out in the security model; each tutorial says which of that its setup allows.

Start read-only: search for papers on a topic you know and follow their citations. PDF download and conversion need write mode and a docling-serve, so add them once the basics work.