Install Notanda (Beta) in Claude Code

What you need first

• Claude Code, installed.
• uv, which gives the uvx command the server starts with.
• Your own values for YOUR_HARVESTER_OPENALEX_API_KEY,YOUR_EVIDENCE_DIR.

Steps

1. Run this in a terminal, in the project folder. It adds the server for you in that project; put --scope user after claude mcp add to have it in every project.

claude mcp add --env HARVESTER_OPENALEX_API_KEY=YOUR_HARVESTER_OPENALEX_API_KEY --transport stdio notanda -- uvx notanda-mcp==0.1.0b3 --evidence-dir YOUR_EVIDENCE_DIR

2. Replace YOUR_HARVESTER_OPENALEX_API_KEY,YOUR_EVIDENCE_DIR with your own values.
3. Start Claude Code and type /mcp: the server is listed with its state.

Check it worked

Ask Claude Code: List the tools of notanda.

If it does not start

spawn uvx ENOENT

uv is not on the PATH that Claude Code sees. Install it, or write the full path of uvx in the config.

The server starts, but its tools fail

A YOUR_… placeholder is still in the config, or its value is wrong.