Use Dori in your coding IDE or chatbot

Query your Dori vault memory directly from Claude Code, Cursor, or any other MCP-compatible AI tool you already use daily.

Dori runs as a local memory server, so your other coding tools and chatbots can query it directly — for example, asking Claude Code or Cursor to read your project decisions or vault notes while you’re coding, without switching windows.

Set this up under Settings → Connections → Use Dori elsewhere, which generates a ready-to-paste snippet for your client:

Copy the generated command and run it in a terminal:

claude mcp add --transport http dori http://127.0.0.1:8002/mcp

Copy the generated JSON and merge it into ~/.cursor/mcp.json under "mcpServers":

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dori": {
      "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8002/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Auth

By default the engine binds to loopback (127.0.0.1) and no token is required — only processes on your own machine can reach it. If you’ve turned on engine host auth, the settings page also shows a bearer token field, and the generated snippet includes an Authorization header once you paste the token in.

Treat that token like a password: it’s the same bearer key that guards the whole engine, not a scoped MCP-only credential.

What external tools can actually do

Whatever calls Dori through this MCP endpoint gets a curated subset of Dori’s own actions — not raw database or filesystem access. This includes calendar and Gmail-backed tools once those are linked (see Connections).