Setup & Quick Reference

Claude is used across three interfaces:

Interface Purpose Config Location
Claude.ai Web/desktop chat with MCP apps, Cowork, artifacts Browser โ€” MCP apps configured in Settings
Claude Desktop Native app with local MCP servers ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Claude Code CLI agent for coding, file ops, homelab management ~/.claude/settings.json โ€” skills + plugins

Claude Code version: 2.1.63, installed at /Users/bee/.local/bin/claude

Quick Reference
Task Command
Open Claude Code claude
List installed plugins claude plugin list
List marketplaces claude plugin marketplace list
Update marketplace claude plugin marketplace update [name]
Install a plugin claude plugin install NAME@MARKETPLACE
Check version claude --version
Local MCP Servers (22 active)

Configured in claude_desktop_config.json. See MCP Servers for full details.

Custom-built (at ~/.mcp-servers/):

Server Purpose
Farm Data PostgreSQL farm database โ€” 19 tools, 772 species
Homelab Snapshot Cached Docker/ZFS/Proxmox state, fast reads
Structured Exec Shell execution with argv arrays, reliable SSH/pct chains
Docs Search Site-scoped search of Hugo/Caddy/Anthropic docs
Wallabag Read-later article management (wallabag.edmd.me)
iNaturalist Plant + pollinator observations near Brownsville
USDA PLANTS Taxonomic + native-status data
NWS Weather NOAA forecast at Brownsville coords

Community/third-party:

Server Purpose
Tana Local Tana node search, read, create
Life Archive Personal document RAG search
Obsidian Obsidian vault read/write
Sequential Thinking Structured multi-step reasoning
Memory Persistent knowledge graph across sessions
Exa / Brave Search / Kagi / Tavily Retired โ€” rotated out as keys lapsed; web search now uses the built-in WebSearch tool
Firecrawl Web scraping and structured extraction
Navidrome Music library queries (Subsonic API)
TIDAL TIDAL streaming discovery + playlists
YouTube Transcript Fetch video transcripts
Voicemode Voice conversation