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 Web search and content extraction
Brave Search Web search via Brave API
Kagi Kagi search and summarization
Tavily Web search and research
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