Claude connector

The BioSkepsis connector lets you run a full research run without leaving Claude. Ask a biomedical question in a Claude chat, and BioSkepsis plans the work, searches and reads the literature, screens for retractions, and hands back a citation-grounded brief, the same brief you would get in the BioSkepsis app.

#What the connector is

BioSkepsis is available to Claude as a remote connector built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Once you connect it, Claude can start a BioSkepsis research run on your behalf, track its progress, and return the finished brief inside your conversation. The run itself executes on BioSkepsis using your account, so it draws on the same 40M+ paper corpus, full-text reading, evidence weighing, and Trust Index you get in the app.

It is your BioSkepsis account doing the work

Claude is the place you ask the question and read the result. BioSkepsis is the engine that runs the research. You sign in with your BioSkepsis account when you connect, and every run counts against your plan just as a run started in the app would.

#Before you connect

A BioSkepsis account. You sign in with your existing account during the connection step. If you do not have one yet, create it at app.bioskepsis.ai.
Available runs on your plan. Each research run uses one of your plan's monthly briefs (Basic includes 1, Plus 4, and higher tiers more). When you are out of monthly runs, Claude will tell you, and you can upgrade or wait for the next cycle.
A Claude surface that supports connectors. Custom connectors can be added on Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, and the Claude mobile apps.

#Connecting BioSkepsis to Claude

You connect once, and Claude remembers it for future chats.

Open connector settings in Claude. Go to Settings, then Connectors, then Add custom connector.
Enter the BioSkepsis server URL. Use https://app.bioskepsis.ai/api/mcp and continue.
Sign in to BioSkepsis. A BioSkepsis sign-in screen opens. Approve access, and Claude is connected to your account. Your BioSkepsis password is never shared with Claude; access is granted through a standard sign-in.
Start researching. Open a new chat and ask Claude to research a biomedical question using BioSkepsis.

Once it is in the connector directory

When BioSkepsis is listed in Claude's connector directory, you can add it from there by name instead of pasting the URL. The connection and sign-in work the same way.

#What you can do from Claude

After connecting, Claude can, on your request:

Start a research run on a biomedical question and get back an id it uses to track the run.
Check a run's progress, including the current phase and how many papers it has gathered so far.
Fetch the finished brief: a headline answer, the brief in full, ranked and tiered sources, sub-question coverage, and a Trust Index score.
Browse and re-open your recent briefs from your BioSkepsis account.

#How a research run works in Claude

A run is not instant. It typically takes several minutes (usually 3 to 8, sometimes longer), because BioSkepsis is reading full-text papers and verifying citations, not returning a list of links. Claude starts the run, checks the status while it works, and returns the brief once it is ready. You can keep chatting in the meantime.

Your runs also show up in the BioSkepsis app

A run you start from Claude is saved to your BioSkepsis account as a research chat, marked as having come from Claude. Open it in the app to read the full brief, inspect every source, and ask follow-up questions with the run's sources already in context.

#Privacy and your data

Runs started from Claude are processed exactly like runs started in the app. Your research questions and briefs are handled to produce the result and are retained under your BioSkepsis account, and your content is never used to train models. See the Privacy Notice for how data is collected, processed, and protected, and for how to delete it.

#Troubleshooting

Symptom	Likely cause and fix
Claude cannot reach BioSkepsis	Confirm the server URL is `https://app.bioskepsis.ai/api/mcp`. If it was connected before, remove and re-add the connector to sign in again.
Claude says you have reached your usage limit	Each run uses one of your plan's monthly briefs. Upgrade your plan or wait for your allowance to reset, then start the run again.
The run seems to take a long time	That is expected. A full run runs for several minutes while it reads papers and verifies citations; Claude checks progress and returns the brief when it is done.
The question was declined	BioSkepsis answers biomedical and life-science research questions. If a request is outside that scope, the run is declined with a short explanation.

#Still stuck?

If the connector behaves unexpectedly after confirming the URL and signing in again, reach the team at [email protected].

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