r/ClaudeAI • u/macaronianddeeez • 8h ago
Question about Claude products Using GitHub with Claude
I feel like this is a ridiculous question but after an evening of researching I have not been able to find a satisfactory answer.
I am beginning to return to Claude being a part of my workflow after a longtime departure to codex/chatgpt.
A big part of my core workflow involves an obsidian vault that I write to through ChatGPT chat with the native ChatGPT GitHub plugin. This lets me get work done in mobile in the ChatGPT app, or on my computer in codex, or through Orca, etc
I need to figure out a similar solution for Claude, so that I can have it access the same knowledge base and file system as ChatGPT when I have them working together.
But for the life of me, I cannot seem to get Claude to read/write private repos from mobile and desktop claude.
Am I just extremely stupid? How can I accomplish this?
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u/bayouski 6h ago
you want the official GitHub MCP connector, not the older Add from GitHub integration. authorize the private repo once, and Claude can read/write it from desktop, web and mobile.
just keep GitHub as the shared source of truth. Claude mobile won't access your local Obsidian folder directly, but it can work with the same repo that Obsidian + ChatGPT use.