---
title: "How to connect Claude to Tarkle"
description: "Add Tarkle to Claude as a custom connector with the server address, sign in, allow access, test the connection and remove the connector to disconnect."
canonical: "https://tarkle.com/help/ai-and-automation/how-to-connect-claude-to-tarkle"
last-updated: 2026-11-04
---

# How to connect Claude to Tarkle

Add Tarkle to Claude as a custom connector, sign in, allow access and test it by listing your workspaces.

Claude can work with your Tarkle files through the [MCP server](/features/mcp-server). You add Tarkle to Claude as a custom connector, sign in to your Tarkle account and allow access once. This article follows those steps in the order you do them.

Claude signs in through your browser, so you do not need an API key for it.

## What Claude can do with Tarkle

Once you allow access, Claude can list the workspaces you belong to and browse their files. It can upload files into a workspace, create a public share link, create a [file request](/help/file-requests/what-are-file-requests-in-tarkle) with a public link, and list the files sent to a file request. It also works with brand pages, contacts, team folders and members.

Claude acts as you, and each action follows your role in each [workspace](/help/getting-started/what-is-a-tarkle-workspace). The [roles article](/help/team-and-clients/teams-roles-and-sharing-files-with-your-team) explains what each role can do. Links that Claude creates are public. Tarkle sends no email when Claude creates a link, so you give the link to the person yourself.

## Add Tarkle to Claude

The server address is `https://mcp.tarkle.com/mcp`.

1. In Claude, add a custom connector (MCP server) with the address `https://mcp.tarkle.com/mcp`, then finish adding it.
2. If you are not signed in to Tarkle, Tarkle opens its sign-in page. Sign in to your Tarkle account.
3. On the page that asks whether to allow the app to use Tarkle, click **Allow**. Click **Deny** to refuse.
4. Tarkle sends you back to Claude.

The approval page lists what the connection can do: list your workspaces and files, upload files into a workspace you can share from, and create public share links for those files. Only continue if you started this connection. The app chose its own name; Tarkle has not verified it.

## Test the connection

1. Back in Claude, ask: "List my Tarkle workspaces."
2. A list of your workspaces means the connection works.

## Upload file size in Claude

Tarkle treats an app that signs in through the browser, such as Claude, as a chat assistant. A chat assistant can send files up to 5 GB through Tarkle. For a larger file, Claude gives you a link to an upload page in Tarkle, where you choose the file in your browser.

Your plan's limit applies on top of that. Free supports files up to 1 GB each, and Pro and Agency support files up to 200 GB each. The [plans and pricing page](https://tarkle.com/pricing) lists the plans.

## Disconnect Claude

To disconnect, remove the Tarkle connector in Claude. Connecting with browser sign-in creates no API key, so there is no key for Claude in [Settings, API](/dashboard/settings/api). That page belongs to your organization and is visible to its owners and admins. A team member who needs an API key for another tool asks an owner or admin to create one.

## What happens next

To connect again, add the custom connector again with the same server address and sign in. Once Claude is connected, you can ask it to find, upload or share files in the workspaces you belong to.

## Related articles

- [What are file requests in Tarkle?](/help/file-requests/what-are-file-requests-in-tarkle)
- [Teams, roles and sharing files with your team](/help/team-and-clients/teams-roles-and-sharing-files-with-your-team)
- [What is a Tarkle workspace?](/help/getting-started/what-is-a-tarkle-workspace)

Source: https://tarkle.com/help/ai-and-automation/how-to-connect-claude-to-tarkle