Connect your AI tools

1. Sign in with GitHub. While signup is open, the first sign-in creates your account. When it’s invite-only, use the signup link you were sent.
2. Open API tokens and create a token. Name it after where you’ll use it, for example “Laptop – Claude Code”. You only see the token once, so copy it straight away.
3. Add the server to your client with the command or JSON shown under the new token.

For Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http nurseshark https://app.nurseshark.org/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer nurse_..."

Add --scope user to make it available in every folder rather than only the current one.

For other MCP clients, add the server to their JSON config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nurseshark": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://app.nurseshark.org/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer nurse_..." }
    }
  }
}

Tokens

Each token has full access to your projects, so treat it like a password. Tokens expire a year after you create them. Revoke one on the API tokens page and every client using it stops working. Each token can make 120 requests a minute, and an account 300 across all of its tokens.

What your assistant can do

Tool	Does
next_name	Hands out the next name from the list you chose on your account
suggest_names	Suggests several unused names, optionally from a given theme
list_name_themes	Lists the name themes
check_name	Says whether a name is free
create_project	Records a new project
get_project	Shows one project and its recent notes
list_projects	Lists or searches your projects
update_project	Changes a project, including renaming it
add_note	Adds a note to a project

There’s also an import_project prompt for recording a project you already have.