Connect an AI Assistant to Your Journal (MCP)In beta

Use Pensio inside the AI tools you already use. Through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), your assistant can read and search your journal to answer questions about your own life — no copy-pasting. Read-only, Pro, and currently in Beta.

In beta: open to a small group of accounts first.

Works with your AI tools

Add Pensio to Claude with one address, or run the server yourself for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Your journal becomes a source your assistant can actually read.

Read-only by design

A connected assistant can read and search — it can never create, edit, or delete your entries. Read-only is enforced on our servers, not just promised.

Answers from your real history

It uses 20 of the intelligence functions that power Explore. Ask "who do I mention most, and how do I feel about each?" and get a ranked, emotion-scored answer in a single call.

Private, and yours

Every connection is one you approved, with a reading limit you chose, and it stops from Settings on its next request. Self-host Pensio with a local model (like Ollama) and your entries never leave your machine — zero third-party egress.

Connect an AI assistant (MCP)

Bring your journal into Claude, Cursor, and the AI tools you already use — read-only

You can ask the assistant you already use about your own journal, without pasting your journal into it. It can look things up. It can never write anything down.

An example

You ask Claude, on a Tuesday

“Have I been sleeping badly the weeks I see my father?”

It read 6 entries
It could not change any of them

It searches your entries, finds the six that mention him, and answers from what you actually wrote — in a chat where you never pasted a single line of it.

What you can do

Choose how much it may read: You pick one of the three above when you connect it. It applies to every answer, not just the first.
See how much it has read: How many entries it was given in the last 30 days, and on which days. A sudden spike is the thing to look for.
Stop it: From Settings, or from the link in the email — that one works without signing in, in case the session it was connected from was not yours.
Connect more than one: Each keeps its own limit and its own history. Stopping one leaves the others alone.

How It Works

1

Copy the address

Connecting an AI assistant is a Pensio Pro feature, currently in Beta. Open Settings → Connected apps → Connect an AI assistant: it shows one address, ending in /mcp, with a Copy button.

2

Add it in your assistant

In Claude, open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, paste the address, and let it register itself. Prefer to run the server on your own machine, for Claude Desktop or Cursor? That path is on the same page.

3

Approve it on Pensio

Your assistant opens a Pensio screen that names it and asks how much it may read: totals only, short excerpts, or full entries. Nothing is shared until you press Connect it.

4

Ask your journal anything

Your assistant can now read and search your entries to answer questions grounded in your own words — "what have I been feeling this month?", "what did I write about this project?", and more.

Use Cases

MCP turns your journal into something your AI assistant can actually read. Here are common ways people use it. (Currently in Beta.)

Talk to your journal from your desktop

While you work in Claude or Cursor, ask "what did I write about this project last month?" without leaving the tools you already live in.

A weekly self-review with your AI

Ask your assistant to summarize how you have been feeling this month and which themes keep coming up — answered from your real entries, not guesswork.

People and relationships

Ask "who do I mention most, and how do I feel about each?" and get a ranked, emotion-scored answer drawn from months of entries — in a single call.

Fully private and self-hosted

Run Pensio with a local model (Ollama) and connect them, so nothing ever leaves your own machine — the privacy-maximalist option nobody else offers.

Related Features

Explore AI

Memory

Relationship Tracking

Privacy & Security

Frequently Asked Questions

Can Claude read my journal?

Yes. Add Pensio as a custom connector in Claude, approve a screen that says how much it may read, and it can search and quote your entries from then on. It is a Pensio Pro feature, currently in Beta, and it is read-only — Claude can never write, edit or delete anything.

Can ChatGPT read my journal?

It needs ChatGPT Plus or above with Developer Mode turned on — neither ChatGPT Free nor ChatGPT Go can add a custom connector at all, which is an OpenAI limit rather than a Pensio one. Pensio walks through the setup, including where the Developer Mode switch has moved to. Claude is the one we have connected end to end ourselves.

Can I connect Gemini to my journal?

Not from the Gemini app. Google offers custom MCP connections in Gemini Enterprise, where a team administrator adds them for a whole workspace — there is no equivalent for a personal account. If you have Claude or a paid ChatGPT plan, either of those works today.

Do I need a paid plan for this?

On Pensio, yes — connecting an assistant is part of Pensio Pro. On the assistant"s side it depends: Claude works on any plan that has connector settings, while ChatGPT needs Plus or above with Developer Mode on. ChatGPT Go is a paid plan and still cannot, which catches people out.

Can an AI assistant change or delete my entries?

No, and it is not a setting you could get wrong. Read-only is enforced in the database: a connection that could write is a row Pensio refuses to store. The assistant can look things up and quote them back, and that is all.

What is MCP?

The Model Context Protocol — an open standard for letting an AI assistant read from a source you choose. Pensio speaks it over Streamable HTTP and registers your assistant automatically, so connecting means pasting one address rather than copying a client ID and a secret.

Can I use this without my writing leaving my computer?

Yes — run the Pensio MCP server on your own machine and point it at a local model. Nothing reaches a third party. That is also the route for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor, and it needs a connection token rather than an address.

Your entries leave Pensio and reach your assistant's company

That is the whole trade. What it reads is handled under their terms, not ours, and we cannot take it back for you. It is why this is off until you turn it on, and why you can stop it in one click.

It can never write, edit or delete anything

Not a promise about how it behaves — the database refuses to store a connection that could.

Drafts never reach it, not even by name

Unfinished writing is the least finished thing you have. It stays out of searches, out of the entries linked to others, and cannot be opened even if something knows its address.

What you wrote about another person never leaves, at any setting

The notes on someone's page are about a person who never agreed to any of this and cannot stop it. They do not cross at the highest setting either, and they cannot be searched.

It is paused if it reads too much in one hour

500 entries, then it waits for the next hour. Every single request can be within its limits and still add up to a copy of your journal by evening.

We record how much it read, never which entries

A list of which entries an assistant read would be a map of what you have been dwelling on — and keeping one to reassure you would create exactly the thing this is built to protect. Counts are kept 90 days, then dropped.