Install Ownly in Claude Code

What you need first

  • Claude Code, installed.
  • Node.js, which gives the npx command the server starts with.
  • Your own value for YOUR_OWNLY_DATA_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 OWNLY_DATA_DIR=YOUR_OWNLY_DATA_DIR --transport stdio ownly -- npx -y @ownly-app/[email protected]
  1. Replace YOUR_OWNLY_DATA_DIR with your own value.
  2. Start Claude Code and type /mcp: the server is listed with its state.

Check it worked

Ask Claude Code: List the tools of ownly.

If it does not start

spawn npx ENOENT
Node.js is not on the PATH that Claude Code sees. Install it, or write the full path of npx in the config.
The server starts, but its tools fail
A YOUR_… placeholder is still in the config, or its value is wrong.

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