Getting started

Connect your AI tool

Copy-paste MCP config for every major client.

Shortcut

Your AI can do this for you: paste the prompt from Install & run and it connects itself.

Paathshala exposes its tools through an MCP server. The app’s own Connect AI page (/connect) shows these snippets filled in with your real paths. Below are the equivalents using npx.

Settings → Developer → Edit Config (claude_desktop_config.json), then restart Claude.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "paathshala": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "-p",
        "paathshala",
        "paathshala-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Zed, Cline and Continue use the same stdio command; see each tool’s MCP settings for where to paste it.

Pointing both at the same library

If you use a non-default library file, set PAATHSHALA_DB for both the app and the MCP server, otherwise they will see different data. See Environment variables.

Check it works

Ask your AI: “Use Paathshala to get my overview.” It should call get_overview. The Connect page shows when your AI last did something.

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