Connect your household assistant to Claude with MCP

Update, 15 August 2026. We've opened up the most used tools from the Sivella MCP on Sivella Free. A free household now gets four read-only tools — list your tasks, look one up, search for one, and see who is in your household — at 200 requests a month, with no card and no trial. Helping Hand and Right Hand open the rest of the surface and let Claude make changes rather than only read. The sections below were written before that change and are corrected in place.

If you already spend part of your day in Claude, the household stuff is happening in the wrong window. You are mid-conversation about something else, you remember the car needs booking in, and the choice is to break context or to lose the thought.

The MCP connector removes that choice. Claude reaches into Sivella directly, so the thought becomes a task where the rest of the household will see it, without you going anywhere.

Setting it up

Setup starts on the Claude side rather than in Sivella.

1. In Claude, add a custom connector with the URL https://mcp.sivella.ai/mcp.
2. Log in to Sivella and approve the connection. You need an active session, so have Sivella open in a tab before you begin.
3. Check it by asking Claude for something only your household knows, such as what is on the list for this week.

Every plan can connect, including Free. A free household is granted read access only: four tools, at 200 requests a month. If Claude reports that it cannot change anything, that is the free ceiling rather than a broken connection, and Helping Hand is the first plan that lifts it.

What Claude can reach

Once connected, Claude can read your household's tasks, budget, decisions and memory, and it can create and change items in them.

That is genuine write access, not a read-only view, which is the point: adding a task from wherever you happen to be thinking is most of the value. It is also worth being deliberate about. This is a household's shared record, and anything Claude creates lands in front of the people you live with.

Changes that need confirmation appear in both Claude and Sivella, and you can approve them from whichever you have open. Nothing that requires a decision goes through silently because you happened to be in the other window.

What it is good for, and what it is not

It is good for capture and for questions. Turning a paragraph of plans into tasks with owners, asking what is committed before you agree to something, pulling up what the household decided about a purchase and why, adding six items to the list in one sentence.

It is less useful as your only way in. The dashboard exists because a household runs on things that are better looked at than described: what today holds, where the money is going, who is at capacity. The connector is a second door into the same house, most valuable when you are already standing next to it.

Before you connect it

Remember that this widens who can act on your household's record, and act accordingly if the assistant is shared or running unattended. The security model is the same one Sivella states elsewhere, including that your household content is never used to train any model, and the connector does not change that.

If a member leaves the household or you stop using Claude, remove the connector from Claude rather than leaving an approved connection sitting there. It is thirty seconds and it is the kind of thing nobody remembers to do later.