Connect an AI assistant

The desktop app includes a small built-in connector (an MCP server, in the jargon) that offers your installed tools to any compatible AI assistant or agent — Claude Desktop, ChatGPT/Codex, Claude Code, Cursor and others. Your assistant does the orchestrating; your computer does the Yiddish work.

It listens on your own machine only, and offers exactly the tools whose models are installed — download a model and it becomes available without a restart:

• yiddish_translate — translate text between Yiddish and English (direction detected).
• yiddish_nikud — add nikud, with automatic or forced Yiddish/Hebrew modes.
• yiddish_speak — read text aloud to a .wav file, slow/normal/fast (needs Speak and Nikud).
• yiddish_transcribe — transcribe a local audio file, Yiddish or English.

Settings → AI agents. The MCP server toggle is on by default. Below it you will see the server address — copy it if a client asks for one.

Press Connect next to Claude Desktop, or next to ChatGPT / Codex. The app registers itself in that program’s configuration (leaving everything else in it untouched) — restart the assistant afterwards and the Yiddish tools appear in its tool list. If the Yiddish Tools app is not running when the assistant calls, it starts quietly in the background.

Then just ask: “Translate this supplier letter into Yiddish and read it to me.” You will see the assistant use Translation and Speak on your computer, and answer.

Point it at the server address from Settings. For Claude Code, for example, one command is enough:

Some assistants (Claude custom connectors, for instance) insist on a secure https address. Flip Secure connection (HTTPS) in the same settings card: the app installs a local certificate for this computer only — Windows asks once — and the address becomes https://localhost:7171/mcp.

This is for people who already use an AI assistant and want it to speak Yiddish. If that is not you, leave the card alone — every tool works exactly the same from the app and the keys.