Connect BCD to Claude
BCD lets Claude work on a computer you own: files, commands, documents and apps. This page covers setting it up, what Claude can do there, and how to turn it off.
1. Before you start
A BCD account. One computer is free.
BCD installed on the Mac, Windows (beta) or Linux computer you want Claude to use. Sign in to your dashboard on that computer, run the install step, and choose Approve in the browser page that opens. BCD then runs in the background and starts when you sign in to the computer.
2. Add the connector in Claude
In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors, and add a custom connector with this address: https://bcd.snack-wrap.com/mcp
Claude opens a BCD sign-in page. Sign in to the same BCD account and choose Allow.
Then ask in plain words, for example “List the files in my Downloads folder.” With several computers, name the one you mean.
3. What Claude can do, and what you control
A new computer starts read-only: Claude can list, search and read files. In your dashboard you turn on, for each computer, writing files, running commands, controlling apps and the browser, and the clipboard.
Changes to files made through BCD are recorded, and Claude can undo one when you ask.
On a Mac or Linux, bcd folders limits BCD to the folders you choose.
4. Your data
Requests go from Claude to BCD’s server and on to your computer, and the results come back the same way. What BCD keeps and for how long is in the privacy policy; how the connection is protected is on the security page.
5. Disconnect or remove
In Claude, remove the BCD connector in the same Connectors settings.
In your BCD dashboard you can remove a computer, which ends its access at once. On a Mac or Linux, bcd uninstall removes BCD from the computer.
Something not working?
If Claude says no computer is online, see When your AI can’t find your computer. For anything else, tell us what Claude answered.