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Your Claude Desktop connectors are reusable MCP servers

It turns out Claude Desktop connectors are just plain MCP servers sitting on disk, and Claude Code can run the same server from its own config. Install once and both clients get the integration. I had Fantastical, my calendar app, talking to Claude Code in about 10 minutes.

Where the servers live

I already had the Fantastical connector installed in Claude Desktop, which raised the obvious question: where does Desktop keep the server it actually runs? The answer is that each installed connector lives here: