Claude Code & Desktop

Claude Code is the recommended client — and the only one that gets everything: MCP tools, skills, and hooks.

The easy path

There are two steps:

Run the Rook installer (Install Rook). It sets up the Rhino plug-ins and the local MCP server, and registers the MCP server for Claude Code automatically. Restart Rhino after this step.
Add the marketplace plugin to get the skills and session-start hook in Claude Code:

This provides the / skills and the session hook. Then verify.

Loading the plugin manually

If you need to re-add or update the plugin at any time:

Manual MCP configuration

If you need to register the server by hand, add this to ~/.claude.json under mcpServers:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rook": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "<path-to-python>",
      "args": ["-m", "rook"],
      "cwd": "<path-to-mcp_server-directory>",
      "env": {
        "PYTHONPATH": "",
        "PYTHONHOME": "",
        "ROOK_INSTALL_ROOT": "<install-root>",
        "ROOK_DATA_DIR": "<data-directory>",
        "ROOK_MODE": "release"
      }
    }
  }
}

For a release install:

Placeholder	Value
`<path-to-python>`	`%LOCALAPPDATA%\Rook\venv\Scripts\python.exe`
`<path-to-mcp_server-directory>`	`%LOCALAPPDATA%\Rook\app\mcp_server`
`<install-root>`	`%LOCALAPPDATA%\Rook\app`
`<data-directory>`	`%LOCALAPPDATA%\Rook\data`
`ROOK_MODE`	`release`

Claude Desktop (the Claude Code desktop app) uses the same structure in its config.

Verify

Hand your agent the Set Up & Verify page.