Guides on Claude and Claude Desktop — memory, MCP connectors, and getting auditable, private context into your assistant.
Why Claude Desktop, claude.ai, and Claude Code report MCP servers as disconnected, and how to fix each cause: PATH problems, config errors, the SSE content-type error, OAuth expiry, and the July 2026 spec change. With log locations and reproduced error strings.
Since July 2026, Claude's memory entries survive the conversations that created them: deleting a chat does not remove its memories. What Anthropic's docs actually say, how this inverts ChatGPT's problem, and what the monthly recap reads.
Three ways to add MCP servers to Claude Desktop as of July 2026: one-click .mcpb extensions, remote custom connectors by URL, and the manual JSON config. Steps, snippets, and troubleshooting.
Claude has had persistent memory across all tiers since March 2026. Here's how to see what it remembers, what you can't audit, and how to export it.
Auditable AI memory, tasks, calendar, and notes. Self-hostable, BYOK, free tier.
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