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Getting Started with SynContext

Get Claude and other MCP-compatible clients sharing project context in under 5 minutes.

1. Create your account

  1. Go to syncontext.dev/app
  2. Click Sign Up and enter your email + password (min 8 characters)
  3. Check your email for a verification link
  4. After verification, log in and open Settings to generate and reveal your API key

Save your API key immediately. It is shown only once when generated or regenerated. If you lose it, generate a new one in Settings — but the old key will stop working.

MCP API-key access requires email verification. Dashboard sessions may have an onboarding grace window, but API-key clients cannot connect until verification is complete.

2. Connect your first AI

Choose your MCP-compatible client and follow the connection guide:

You can connect multiple MCP-compatible clients. They all work from the same SynContext project memory.

3. Store your first context

Once connected, ask your AI to store something:

Store this context in SynContext:
Project: my-app
Title: Tech stack decision
Content: We're using React + Vite for the frontend and Python + Starlette for the backend API.

The AI will call hub_store_context and confirm the entry was saved.

4. Verify sync works

Open a different AI client (e.g., if you stored from Claude, now open ChatGPT) and ask:

Search my SynContext for "tech stack"

You should see the entry you just stored. That's cross-AI sync working.

5. Explore the dashboard

Visit syncontext.dev/app to:

  • Browse your projects and context entries
  • Use keyword search for titles and tags (plus categories on PostgreSQL), or dashboard semantic/hybrid search for context-entry content
  • View retained edit history and roll back to saved versions
  • Export data as JSON
  • Manage your account and API key

See the Dashboard Guide for a full walkthrough.

6. Understand your plan

The free tier includes:

Resource Limit
Projects 3
Context entries 100
Decisions 50

Need more? See Plans & Billing to upgrade.

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