Bring Contact Management
to Claude Desktop
Learn how to connect folk to Claude Desktop and start using 6 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the folk MCP Server?
Connect your folk CRM account to any AI agent and simplify how you manage your professional relationships, coordinate contact groups, and track interactions through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Contact Oversight — List all contacts and retrieve detailed profile metadata, including custom fields and status.
- Group Management — Coordinate your contact lists by querying and managing specific groups in your folk workspace.
- Interaction Tracking — Retrieve a complete history of emails, meetings, and calls for any contact to maintain context.
- Relationship CRM — Create new contact records and update profile data programmatically via AI.
- Notes & Insights — List and query all notes and comments associated with your contacts to capture important details.
- Operational Visibility — Verify account configurations and monitor your professional ecosystem directly from the agent.
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Enter your folk API Key (found in your account settings)
3. Start managing your professional network from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client
Who is this for?
- Founders & Entrepreneurs — quickly retrieve investor details and track recent interactions via simple AI commands.
- Sales & BD Teams — manage lead groups and verify contact history directly from the workspace.
- Recruiters — track candidate pipelines and monitor interview notes via the AI assistant.
Built-in capabilities (6)
Create a new contact
Get details for a specific contact
List notes for a contact
Optionally filter by group ID. List folk contacts
List folk groups
List interactions for a contact
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect folk to your AI workflow. Add Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 6 tools in the chat interface. ask a question, Claude calls the right tool, and you see the answer. Zero code, zero context switching.
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Claude Desktop is the reference MCP client. it was designed alongside the protocol itself, ensuring the most complete and stable MCP implementation available
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Zero-code configuration: add a server URL to a JSON file and Claude instantly discovers and exposes all available tools in the chat interface
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Claude's extended thinking capability lets it reason through multi-step tool usage, chaining multiple API calls to answer complex questions
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Enterprise-grade security with local config storage. your tokens never leave your machine, and connections go directly to Vinkius Edge network
folk in Claude Desktop
folk and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect folk to Claude Desktop through Vinkius don't need to source, host, or maintain individual MCP servers. Every tool call runs inside a hardened runtime with credential isolation, DLP, and a signed audit chain.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Server catalog | Find and host yourself | 3,400+ managed |
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Sandboxed V8 isolates |
| Credential handling | Plaintext in config | Vault + runtime injection |
| Data loss prevention | None | Configurable DLP policies |
| Kill switch | None | Global instant shutdown |
| Financial circuit breakers | None | Per-server limits + alerts |
| Audit trail | None | Ed25519 signed logs |
| SIEM log streaming | None | Splunk, Datadog, Webhook |
| Honeytokens | None | Canary alerts on leak |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | DNS challenge verified |
| GDPR compliance | Manual effort | Automated purge + export |
Why teams choose Vinkius for folk in Claude Desktop
The folk MCP Server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS — a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts. All 6 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in Claude Desktop only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero maintenance.
* Every MCP server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS - a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts optimized for native MCP execution. See our infrastructure
How Vinkius secures
folk for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the folk MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
Can I see all contacts in a specific folk group via AI?
Yes! Use the list_contacts tool and provide the Group ID. Your agent will retrieve all profiles and metadata for the contacts in that specific group.
How do I add a new person to my folk directory?
Use the create_contact action. Provide the first name, last name, and email address to register the new contact in your folk account instantly.
Is it possible to see the interaction history for a contact via AI?
Absolutely. Run the list_interactions query with the Contact ID. The agent will retrieve a history of emails, meetings, and calls associated with that profile.
How does Claude Desktop discover MCP tools?
When Claude Desktop starts, it reads the claude_desktop_config.json file and connects to each configured MCP server. It calls the tools/list endpoint to fetch the schema for every available tool, then surfaces them as clickable options in the chat interface via the 🔌 icon.
What happens if the MCP server is temporarily unavailable?
Claude Desktop handles disconnections gracefully. if the server is unreachable at startup, the tools simply won't appear. Once the server becomes available again, restarting Claude Desktop will re-establish the connection. There is no timeout penalty or error loop.
Can I connect multiple MCP servers simultaneously?
Yes. You can add as many servers as you need in the mcpServers section of the config file. Each server appears as a separate tool provider, and Claude can use tools from multiple servers in a single conversation turn.
Is there a limit on the number of tools per server?
Claude Desktop can handle hundreds of tools per server. However, for optimal LLM performance, Vinkius servers are designed to expose focused, well-documented tool sets rather than overwhelming the model with too many options.
Does Claude Desktop support Streamable HTTP transport?
Yes. Claude Desktop supports both SSE (Server-Sent Events) and the newer Streamable HTTP transport that Vinkius uses. Simply provide the server URL. Claude auto-negotiates the transport protocol.
Server not appearing after restart
Ensure the JSON is valid (no trailing commas). Check the file path: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\\Claude\\ (Windows).
Authentication error
Verify your Vinkius token is correct. Go to cloud.vinkius.com to regenerate it if needed.
Tools not showing in chat
Click the 🔌 icon at the bottom of the chat input. If it shows 0 tools, the server may still be connecting. wait a few seconds.