docs/integrations/claude-desktop

How to connect the System Log Seeker MCP Tool to Claude Desktop

Efficiently tails and seeks through large system logs with keyword filtering. This guide provides the exact configuration required to load the tail_system_logs 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", "tail_system_logs"]
    }
  }
}

Step 3: Try it out

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

"Tail the last 100 lines of my app.log containing 'Error'."

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