docs/integrations/claude-desktop

How to connect the Context Pruner MCP Tool to Claude Desktop

Intelligently ranks and filters file relevance against your active task using keyword overlap. This guide provides the exact configuration required to load the context_pruner tool inside Claude Desktop.

Step 1: Open the configuration file

Locate and open your Claude Desktop configuration file at the following path:

macOS / Linux~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Windows%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

Step 2: Add the server config

Copy and paste the following JSON snippet into the file. Save the file and restart Claude Desktop.

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agenticstore": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["agentic-store-mcp", "--tools", "context_pruner"]
    }
  }
}

Step 3: Try it out

Once restarted, ask Claude Desktop something like this to trigger the tool:

"Prune my current file list to only show things relevant to database migrations."

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