Mac and Windows app
Use Forkmate in Claude Desktop
Claude Desktop uses the same connectors as claude.ai, so there’s no config file to edit and nothing to install. Connect Forkmate from Claude’s directory once and Claude Desktop can log your meals.
Opens Forkmate’s listing on claude.ai. Connectors you connect there show up in Claude Desktop too.
No Forkmate account yet? Create one free first. It takes under a minute, and Claude Desktop sends you there on first connect anyway.
I had two eggs and toast for breakfast.
Logged. Want me to total today so far?
Set up Forkmate in Claude Desktop
- Open Forkmate in Claude’s connector directoryOpen Forkmate’s listing and click Connect to Claude. Or, in Claude Desktop, go to Customize → Connectors → Discover, search “Forkmate” and click Connect.
- Sign in to Forkmate onceClaude opens the Forkmate sign-in. Sign in, or create your free account (Google is one tap), and approve access. That one-time step connects Claude to your diary and nobody else’s.
- Check it’s connectedForkmate now shows under the Yours tab in Customize → Connectors.
- Give your OK onceThe first time you log, Forkmate asks once for your OK to store your food diary. Agree the way it asks, in the chat or through the link it gives you to agree on the web, then log the meal again if it wasn’t saved.
- Log your first mealIn a new chat (turn Forkmate on under + → Connectors if it’s off), say “I had two eggs and toast for breakfast.” It logs the meal with calories and macros to your Forkmate diary.
Or add it by URL
If you can’t find Forkmate in the directory, add it as a custom connector instead.
https://mcp.forkmate.ai/- Add a custom connector. In Customize → Connectors, click Add custom connector and paste
https://mcp.forkmate.ai/. Leave the OAuth fields empty: Claude identifies itself automatically. - Connect and sign in. Click Add, then Connect on the Forkmate connector, and sign in to Forkmate once. On Team and Enterprise an Owner adds it under Organization settings → Connectors first.
What you need
- A free Forkmate account (sign up). There is no paid plan.
- Claude Free, Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise. Free accounts can add one custom connector. On Team and Enterprise an Owner adds it under Organization settings → Connectors, then you click Connect.
- You don’t need claude_desktop_config.json or a .mcpb desktop extension. Those are for servers that run on your computer; Forkmate is a remote server, and Claude connects to it from Anthropic’s cloud.
Checked against these sources: Claude docs: add a connector by URL, Claude docs: install links. Claude Desktop changes its menus often; if yours looks different, trust what it shows.
What to say first
Talk to Claude Desktop the way you’d tell a friend:
- “I had two eggs and toast for breakfast.”
- “How many calories have I had today?”
- “Make the toast two slices.”
- “What did I eat this week?”
It logs the meal with calories, protein, carbs and fat to your diary at app.forkmate.ai.
Good to know in Claude Desktop
- Claude Desktop runs on your computer, but Forkmate is set up and reached through your Claude account, not your machine.
- Connectors you add in Claude Desktop also work in Cowork.
- To stop Claude using a Forkmate tool you don’t want, set that tool to Blocked under Customize → Connectors.
If something goes wrong in Claude Desktop
- “Unexpected error while invoking tool”
- Forkmate is connected but one call failed. Email hello@forkmate.ai with the tool name and the time it happened.
Checked against Claude help: about custom connectors, Claude docs: add a connector by URL, Claude docs: connector troubleshooting.
Forkmate shortcuts
Forkmate comes with ready-made requests for the everyday jobs: log a meal, fix the last entry, see what’s left today, log your usual, hit your protein, a weekly check-in. In a chat, open the + menu at the bottom left of the message box, go to Connectors, then Forkmate, and pick a shortcut.
- Log a meal (log-meal)
“Log this to my Forkmate diary: two eggs and toast with butter” - Fix my last entry (fix-last-entry)
“Fix the last thing I logged in Forkmate: it was 2 eggs, not 3” - What's left today (today-so-far)
“Show me today so far in Forkmate: my calories, protein, carbs and fat.” - Log my usual (log-my-usual)
“Log my usual breakfast to Forkmate.” - Hit my protein today (hit-protein)
“How much protein have I had today in Forkmate, and how far am I from my target of 120 g? Suggest a few foods for my remaining meals and snacks that would close the gap, using my food profile and the foods I usually eat.” - Weekly check-in (week-review)
“Give me a check-in on my last 7 days in Forkmate (get_range): calories, protein, carbs and fat per day and on average, how many days I logged, and the foods I ate most.” - Move my MyFitnessPal history (import-myfitnesspal)
“How do I move my food diary history from MyFitnessPal to Forkmate? Walk me through exporting my data for free and importing it with the guided importer described at https://forkmate.ai/migrate-from-myfitnesspal/. Don't log anything yet.”
Shortcut or not, Forkmate sends Claude Desktop the same logging rules when it connects: log your own words, keep your amounts, and look foods up before estimating.
The same shortcuts as a Claude Skill
A skill is a set of instructions Claude loads when your request matches it, so Claude follows these shortcuts even when you just type.
Download forkmate-quick-tools.zip (one file, SKILL.md)
- In Claude, open Customize › Skills and upload the ZIP as a new skill.
- Turn the skill on. If Skills isn’t in your menu, check that code execution is on in Claude’s settings.
- Claude Code: unzip it into
~/.claude/skills/.
Fueling for a run or ride
With Strava’s own connector added in Claude Desktop as well, Claude Desktop can read your training there and your food in Forkmate, side by side. Forkmate doesn’t sync with Strava or Garmin and never receives your activities.
- Help me fuel for a PR on my local route. Use Strava to look at the route and my best efforts on it, and Forkmate to read my food diary for the last week. Ask me what you need first.
- How have I been eating, and how should I fuel for a 10K? Read the last 14 days of my Forkmate diary, and use Strava to look at my recent runs. Ask me the race date and anything else you need.
- What should I eat before, during and after my long ride? Use Strava to look at my most similar recent rides, and Forkmate to read what I've eaten the last three days. Ask me what you need first.
More, including Garmin through Apple Health and a free Claude Skill: Use Forkmate with Strava or Garmin.
Start logging from Claude Desktop
Create your free account, connect once, and your next meal is one sentence away. No card, no paid plan.