This server connects Claude conversations with AnkiConnect, enabling you to interact with your Anki flashcards directly through Claude. You can easily review due cards, create new ones, and manage your spaced repetition system with natural language commands like "Let's go through today's flashcards" or "Make flashcards for this."
Before installing the MCP server, you need:
AnkiConnect can be slow on Macs due to the AppSleep feature. Disable it by running these commands in your terminal:
defaults write net.ankiweb.dtop NSAppSleepDisabled -bool true
defaults write net.ichi2.anki NSAppSleepDisabled -bool true
defaults write org.qt-project.Qt.QtWebEngineCore NSAppSleepDisabled -bool true
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Configure Claude Desktop by editing the configuration file:
~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
%APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Add this configuration:
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-ankiconnect": {
"command": "uv",
"args": ["run", "--with", "mcp-ankiconnect", "mcp-ankiconnect"]
}
}
}
After configuring, restart both Anki and Claude desktop to apply the changes.
The MCP server provides three main tools that Claude can use to interact with your Anki collection:
Gets the number of cards due today.
deck
parameter to filter by a specific deckRetrieves cards that are due for review.
limit
parameter (default: 5) to control number of cardsdeck
parameter to filter by a specific decktoday_only
parameter (default: true) to show only today's cardsSubmits answers for reviewed cards.
card_id
and rating
Here are some prompts you can use with Claude to interact with your Anki collection:
After Claude shows you cards, you can respond with how well you remembered each one, and Claude will submit those ratings to Anki.
If you encounter issues:
To add this MCP server to Claude Code, run this command in your terminal:
claude mcp add-json "mcp-ankiconnect" '{"command":"uv","args":["run","--with","mcp-ankiconnect","mcp-ankiconnect"]}'
See the official Claude Code MCP documentation for more details.
There are two ways to add an MCP server to Cursor. The most common way is to add the server globally in the ~/.cursor/mcp.json
file so that it is available in all of your projects.
If you only need the server in a single project, you can add it to the project instead by creating or adding it to the .cursor/mcp.json
file.
To add a global MCP server go to Cursor Settings > Tools & Integrations and click "New MCP Server".
When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json
file will be opened and you can add your server like this:
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-ankiconnect": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"run",
"--with",
"mcp-ankiconnect",
"mcp-ankiconnect"
]
}
}
}
To add an MCP server to a project you can create a new .cursor/mcp.json
file or add it to the existing one. This will look exactly the same as the global MCP server example above.
Once the server is installed, you might need to head back to Settings > MCP and click the refresh button.
The Cursor agent will then be able to see the available tools the added MCP server has available and will call them when it needs to.
You can also explicitly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.
To add this MCP server to Claude Desktop:
1. Find your configuration file:
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
2. Add this to your configuration file:
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-ankiconnect": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"run",
"--with",
"mcp-ankiconnect",
"mcp-ankiconnect"
]
}
}
}
3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect