Connector

Connect Claude to Typetoe

If you have a Claude or ChatGPT subscription and you are used to working in them, you can work on your Typetoe manuscript from inside them. Claude and ChatGPT can reach your project, read chapters, character sheets and locations, and follow the rules you set in the charter, to help you write and edit your novel. They can suggest research to do, points to check, things to keep an eye on. They can revise your text, give you editorial judgement and propose additions. None of this needs an API key, there is no token counter, and the costs and limits are the ones of your plan. You never have to paste your text into Claude or ChatGPT, or paste anything back.

Before you start

What you need

All you need is a Typetoe account with at least one project in it, and a browser. Claude’s iOS app has no section for adding a custom connector from a URL, which is what Typetoe requires, but you can open Claude in a browser — Safari, Chrome, whichever you prefer — and add Typetoe in a few steps.

Ten steps

Adding the connector

  1. Open Claude in your browser and open the sidebar.

    Claude's home screen in the browser. The icon that opens the sidebar is at the top left.
    The icon that opens the sidebar, top left.

  2. Click your account icon.

    Claude's sidebar, open. Your account name sits at the foot of the column.
    Your account, at the foot of the sidebar.

  3. Go to Settings.

    The account menu, open, with Settings at the top of the list.
    The Settings entry.

  4. Scroll to the “Connectors” tab and click “Add”. A submenu opens. Click “…Add custom connector”.

    The Connectors tab in Claude's settings, with the Add menu open on Add custom connector.
    Connectors → Add → Add custom connector.

  5. On the next screen, give the connector any name you like (“Typetoe”, “Typetoe App”, whatever suits you) and the exact address Claude needs in order to reach your Typetoe account:

    https://app.typetoe.com/mcp
    The Add custom connector form, with the name field filled in as “Typetoe” and the address field as https://app.typetoe.com/mcp.
    Any name you like, the exact address.

  6. The settings on the following screen are detected by Claude on its own. Leave them as they are and scroll to the bottom.

    The Authentication section, with “Always required” already selected and marked as detected.
    Always required is already detected: leave it alone.

  7. Click “Add” to start the connection.

    The foot of the form: the Advanced section with the Streamable HTTP transport selected, and the Add button.
    The Add button, at the foot of the form.

  8. Once it reaches the address, Claude asks you to connect to Typetoe. Click “Connect”.

    The newly created Typetoe connector, reading “You are not connected to Typetoe yet”, with a Connect button.
    The connector exists, but is not linked yet.

  9. You are sent to the Typetoe sign-in. Sign in with your credentials.

    The Typetoe sign-in screen, with Apple and Google buttons and a field for an email address.
    The Typetoe sign-in.

  10. Authorise Claude to reach your account.

    The authorisation screen: the list of what Claude will be able to reach, with Deny and Allow buttons.
    Here you see exactly what Claude will be able to reach.

If you change your mind

Disconnecting or removing

You can of course disconnect Typetoe whenever you need to, and remove it from the list of connectors altogether.

The connected Typetoe connector, with the Disconnect button and the list of tool permissions.
Disconnect breaks the link and leaves the connector in the list.
The three-dot menu, open on Remove.
The three-dot menu holds Remove, which takes it away entirely.

This is where it begins

The first question

Once connected, open a new chat and ask it to reach your Typetoe project. The best opening question is something like: What projects do I have on Typetoe? Claude will ask you for access. You decide how much permission to grant.

Claude is connected to your account, not to one project, so it is worth saying which project you mean inside a chat.

From here you can use Claude as your best reader, your editor, your proofreader, or however you prefer to use a model — including having it write or rewrite passages on your instructions. What these tools can do changes at a speed that is hard to predict, and so does what they make possible.

The in-chat permission request for the Typetoe:list_projects tool, offering Allow once, Always allow and Don’t allow.
Permission is granted once or for good, one tool at a time.