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Claude Desktop and Claude Code are Anthropic’s AI assistant applications. Both support MCP servers and can connect to the data.gouv.fr endpoint.

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Setup for Claude Desktop

Claude Desktop uses a JSON configuration file to manage MCP server connections.

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1. Locate the configuration file

The configuration file location depends on your operating system:
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

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2. Add the MCP server configuration

Open the configuration file in a text editor and add the following configuration:
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "datagouv": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.data.gouv.fr/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
If you already have other MCP servers configured, add the "datagouv" entry inside the existing "mcpServers" object.

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3. Restart Claude Desktop

Close and reopen Claude Desktop to apply the changes. The data.gouv.fr tools should now be available in your conversations.

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Verify the connection

You can verify the connection by asking Claude:
“What tools do you have available for data.gouv.fr?”
Claude should list the available tools like search_datasets, get_dataset_info, etc.

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Self-hosting

If you’re running your own instance of the MCP server instead of using the hosted endpoint, replace https://mcp.data.gouv.fr/mcp with your server’s URL. For local development, the default endpoint is http://127.0.0.1:8000/mcp.

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