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Your Claude Desktop connectors are reusable MCP servers
It turns out Claude Desktop connectors are just plain MCP servers sitting on disk, and Claude Code can run the same server from its own config. Install once and both clients get the integration. I had Fantastical, my calendar app, talking to Claude Code in about 10 minutes.
Where the servers live
I already had the Fantastical connector installed in Claude Desktop, which raised the obvious question: where does Desktop keep the server it actually runs? The answer is that each installed connector lives here:
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How symbolic and hard links work on Unix
Unix file systems support 2 kinds of link: hard links and symbolic links.
Both come from the same command, ln, but they work in very different ways.
This post explains how each kind works. It then covers where Linux and the
BSDs, including macOS, disagree.
Inodes first
A file on disk is not really a name. It is an inode: a numbered record that holds the file’s metadata and points to its data blocks. The inode stores the owner, the permissions, the timestamps, and the size. It does not store the file name.
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