Connect Claude Desktop with an access token

Connect Claude Desktop to LMSable, so Claude can read your courses without you pasting them. It takes about five minutes.

Before you start

• Claude Desktop is installed on your computer.
• Node.js is installed. The connection runs through npx, which comes with Node.js.
• You are signed in to LMSable and AI chat connection is enabled on your account.
• Reading your courses works on every plan. Editing a course from the chat is part of the Pro plan.

Create a connection token

1. In LMSable, open the account menu in the top right corner and choose AI chat connection.
2. Under New connection, type a Name you will recognise later, for example "Claude Desktop, work laptop".
3. Choose Access: Read only, or Read and edit if you have the Pro plan.
4. Click Create connection.
5. Click Copy token. The token is shown only once: "Copy it now. We store only a fingerprint and cannot show it again."

Right under the token, LMSable shows the ready entry for Claude Desktop with your token already filled in. Pick Windows or macOS / Linux above it.

Add LMSable to the Claude Desktop configuration file

1. In Claude: Settings → Developer → Edit Config. This opens the file claude_desktop_config.json.
2. Add the entry inside the existing "mcpServers" object. Do not paste it after the closing brace: the file must stay one JSON object.
3. Quit Claude from the tray icon and start it again.

On Windows the entry runs through cmd /c:

"lmsable": {
  "command": "cmd",
  "args": ["/c", "npx", "-y", "mcp-remote", "https://lmsable.com/mcp", "--header", "Authorization:${AUTH_HEADER}"],
  "env": { "AUTH_HEADER": "Bearer lms_YOUR_TOKEN" }
}

On macOS and Linux:

"lmsable": {
  "command": "npx",
  "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://lmsable.com/mcp", "--header", "Authorization:${AUTH_HEADER}"],
  "env": { "AUTH_HEADER": "Bearer lms_YOUR_TOKEN" }
}

Replace lms_YOUR_TOKEN with your token. Keep the word Bearer and the space after it.

If your configuration file is empty, the whole file looks like this (macOS example):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lmsable": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://lmsable.com/mcp", "--header", "Authorization:${AUTH_HEADER}"],
      "env": { "AUTH_HEADER": "Bearer lms_YOUR_TOKEN" }
    }
  }
}

What you should see

• After the restart, Claude lists LMSable among its connected tools.
• Ask Claude "List my courses." It answers with the titles of your LMSable courses.
• In LMSable, under Your connections, the connection shows when it was last used.

If something goes wrong

• 401 Unauthorized. The token is missing or wrong, or the header is missing the "Bearer " prefix. Check the AUTH_HEADER line.
• JSON error after editing the config file. The file has to stay one JSON object. Check that the entry sits inside "mcpServers", not after the closing brace. A second pasted { ... } block at the end of the file causes the same error.
• 404 Not Found. AI chat connection is not enabled for this account yet.
• "Editing ... is part of Pro". The connection or the account is read only. Editing needs the Pro plan and a connection created with Read and edit.
• The connection stopped working after a long break. A connection expires after 90 days without use. Create a new one. You can have up to 5 connections per account.

To cut the access, click Revoke next to the connection under Your connections.

Next

Connect Claude on the web with a connector.