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Connect your household to Claude, free.
A Free Sivella household can connect to Claude as a custom MCP connector and answer questions about its tasks and members. Free includes four read-only tools and 200 calls per calendar month. Paid plans open the rest of the household, lift the monthly limit and let Claude make changes.

The first question I wanted this connector to answer was not technical. It was the question I ask when the day has already started and the household is moving faster than I am:
What do I need to do today?
Claude can now answer that from the tasks in your Sivella household. You can try it on Free. There is a real ceiling on that access, and I would rather put it up front than make you discover it after connecting: Free gets four read-only tools and 200 tool calls per calendar month.
The useful part is the answer, not MCP
MCP is the connection underneath this. The result is simpler: the household information you already maintain in Sivella can be available in a Claude conversation.
On Free, Claude can list tasks, fetch one task, find a task and list the people
in the household. The four tool names are list_tasks, get_task, find_task
and list_household_members. That is enough to ask what is due today, look up a
task you remember only vaguely, or check who a task can belong to without
copying the household into the prompt.
Claude is reading the live household. It is not working from a pasted checklist that becomes wrong as soon as somebody completes something in Sivella.
Free stops at tasks and household members
Free is deliberately narrow. It is read-only, limited to those four tools and capped at 200 calls in each calendar month. Claude cannot see the household's calendar, money, kitchen, decisions, open items, energy or memory on that plan. It cannot create or change anything either.
Helping Hand and Right Hand open those locked parts of the household, lift the monthly connector limit and let Claude do more than read. The broader paid surface contains 68 household tools across reading, writing and proposing changes. That distinction matters more than the total: Free is useful for checking the work in front of you; paid is where Claude can work across the rest of the home.
You can see the plan boundaries together on the comparison page. There is no trial trick here. If the four Free tools cover what you need, you can keep using them within the monthly limit.
The connection begins in Claude
There is no “Connect to Claude” button inside Sivella. In Claude, add
https://mcp.sivella.ai/mcp as a custom connector. Claude then sends you to
Sivella to approve the connection while you are logged in and belong to a
household.
The approval screen shows what the connector is asking for. A Free household is asked only for read access. Once approved, return to Claude and ask the ordinary question you came with. The step-by-step connector guide has the setup details if you want to follow them alongside Claude.
A proposed change still belongs to you
Paid access can reach more of Sivella and can make changes instead of only reading. That does not mean a proposed change disappears into an agent log. When Claude proposes something that needs confirmation, the same proposal appears in Claude and in Sivella. You can inspect and approve it from either place.
That is the boundary I wanted for a household system: Claude can help from the conversation you are already in, while the people who live with the result keep the final say.
Ask one real question
Start with a Free Sivella household, add the custom connector from Claude, and ask: “What do I need to do today?”
If the answer is useful, keep going. If you later want Claude to work with the calendar, budget, kitchen, decisions or memory—or to change something—choose the smallest plan that opens what you actually need. The Free connection does not need an upgrade to begin.