OV Hub — AI Integration

Ask an AI assistant about your recipes and versions in plain language.

Prerequisites

• Claude Code installed, with a signed-in Claude account. Install it in the environment where you will run your sessions — if you work in WSL, that means inside WSL, not Windows.
• Your machine is on the factory network and can reach the Hub server.

Turn on the server

Start Hub with the --mcp flag. It is fixed for the life of the process — restart to change.

ov-hub serve --mcp

Hub now serves MCP on its normal API port, plus /mcp:

http://<hub-host>:<hub-port>/mcp

Keep it on the factory network.

Connect Claude Code

Do one of the following, in the same environment where Claude Code is installed.

Either run this command:

claude mcp add --transport http ov-hub http://<hub-host>:<hub-port>/mcp

Or add an mcpServers entry to Claude Code's config file, ~/.claude.json in that same environment's home folder:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ov-hub": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "http://<hub-host>:<hub-port>/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Start a new session — servers load at session start. Claude Code can now answer questions about your recipes.

Claude Desktop's chat does not work

Its Settings → Connectors hands the URL to Anthropic's cloud, which then tries to reach it — and it cannot see inside your factory network. Claude Code connects from your own machine, which is why it works.