Connect AI Assistants to The Dump

The Dump has an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that connects AI assistants — Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, and others — directly to your Dump. Once it's connected, you can tell your assistant "save this conversation to The Dump" and it lands in your notes, automatically titled, categorized, and tagged like everything else you capture. It works the other way too: ask "summarize my notes in the Recipes category" and your assistant pulls the right notes from your Dump and works with them.

Step 1 — Add The Dump by its web address

There's nothing to install. Give your AI app this address:

https://mcp.thedump.ai/mcp

Claude (claude.ai and the Claude desktop app)

Open Customize → Connectors, choose Add custom connector, and paste the address above. Connectors you add here are available in the Claude desktop app too.

Claude Code

Run this one command in your terminal:

claude mcp add --transport http the-dump https://mcp.thedump.ai/mcp

Cursor and other apps

Any app that supports remote MCP servers with sign-in can connect the same way. In Cursor, add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (create the file if it doesn't exist), then restart Cursor:

{ "mcpServers": { "the-dump": { "url": "https://mcp.thedump.ai/mcp" } } }

Step 2 — Sign in (one time)

The first time your app connects, it opens The Dump in your browser. Log in as you normally do, confirm that you want to connect an AI assistant to your account, then choose Allow. That's it — your app stays connected and you won't need to sign in again unless you disconnect it.

Your password is only ever typed into The Dump itself, never into your AI app. You can only ever see notes from the account you signed in with.

Step 3 — Dump away

From any conversation, try things like:

"Save this conversation to The Dump"
"Save a summary of this chat to The Dump"
"Save that last response to The Dump"

The server provides these tools, and your assistant picks the right one automatically:

Tool	What it saves
share_conversation	The full conversation, all messages
summarize_conversation	An AI-written summary of the conversation
share_response	One specific assistant response
share_selection	A highlighted portion of the conversation
send_initial_prompt	Just your opening prompt
conversation_link_and_title	A bookmark — link and title only
create_note	A new note from text or from a file at a web address

Everything saved this way goes through the same pipeline as your other notes — it gets titled, categorized, and tagged automatically.

Step 4 — Ask about your notes, tasks, and routines

Your assistant can also read your Dump. Try things like:

"What categories do I have in The Dump?"
"Summarize my notes in the Recipes category from last month"
"What's on my to-do list in The Dump?"

Your assistant translates what you ask into the right tools:

Tool	What it does
list_categories	Lists your categories and sub-categories
list_notes	Browses or searches your notes — by meaning, category, type, media kind, or date
get_notes	Fetches the full content of specific notes
list_tasks	Lists the to-dos and things to buy that The Dump found in your notes
get_note_tasks	Lists the tasks from one specific note
complete_task	Marks a task done, dismissed, or open again (the note itself is never changed)
list_routines	Lists your routines and how they're running
get_routine_document	Reads a document a routine maintains
list_asks	Lists the questions a routine is waiting for you to answer (you answer them in The Dump)

A note on safety: retrieved notes are handed to your assistant clearly marked as data, not instructions. Still, your notes can contain text you saved from elsewhere (web clippings, screenshots, shared chats) — if you run an AI agent with broad auto-approved permissions over your notes, keep that in mind and leave permission prompts on when in doubt.

On your phone?

No setup needed there — in the ChatGPT, Claude, or any other app, tap the share button and choose The Dump to send text straight to your notes. Connectors you add on claude.ai also work in the Claude phone app.

Prefer to run it on your computer?

If your app doesn't support connecting by web address, or you'd rather run the server locally, you can still install it from npm. You'll need Node.js 20 or newer. Add this to your app's MCP configuration (for Claude Desktop: Settings → Developer → Edit Config):

{ "mcpServers": { "the-dump": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "the-dump-mcp"] } } }

Then say "Log in to The Dump" and give your Dump email and password. Your session is saved on your computer (in ~/.the-dump) and refreshes automatically. The local version can also save files from your computer, which the web version can't reach.

The server is open source at github.com/George-Labs-AI/The_Dump_MCP — the README covers building and running it from source.

Troubleshooting

Your app says it can't connect or asks you to sign in again — remove The Dump from your app's connectors and add it again with the address above.
The sign-in page says the link expired — the confirmation step lasts ten minutes; go back to your app and connect again.
Running it locally and the server doesn't appear — make sure Node.js is installed (node --version in a terminal should print v20 or higher), double-check the config JSON, then fully restart the app.
Still stuck? Contact support — we're happy to help.