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Claude Desktop Alphafold annotations

How to: Claude Desktop Alphafold annotations

client:Claude Desktop transport:streamable-http tool:annotations

Add Alphafold to Claude Desktop

  1. 01

    Open ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json and merge this in. Keep any servers already there.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alphafold": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/alphafold/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
  1. 02

    Save the file and restart Claude Desktop.

  2. 03

    Ask for something annotations does. Claude Desktop lists the server's tools on connect and calls annotations itself — you do not invoke it by name.

  3. 04

    If nothing happens, check the server is running and that Alphafold's identifier in your config matches the one above exactly.

Claude Desktop has no remote transport in its config file, so this bridges through mcp-remote. Restart the app after saving. Claude Desktop docs

Same tool, other clients

This list was read from the server itself, by connecting to it and calling tools/list on 24 September 2026. It is what the server actually exposes, not what its listing claims.

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