Quick disclosure: I do marketing at TextExpander. The engineering team built this, I worked on it from the user side and made the walkthrough video. Posting here because I've been using it daily and want feedback from people who actually know MCP.

If you don't know TextExpander: You save Snippets like email replies, signatures, support templates, anything you retype constantly, and recall them with short abbreviations anywhere you can type. Type ;sig and your signature shows up. That kind of thing.

The MCP server connects your Snippet library to Claude. Once it's set up, Claude can list your Snippet Groups, read what's in them, search the library, create new Snippets and Groups in a conversation, and edit existing ones in bulk. The library becomes context Claude can pull from.

It's [free to try](https://textexpander.com/get-started). Any TextExpander plan works including the Individual tier. No paid upgrade needed for the MCP server.

**Setup:**

1. Claude Settings, then Connectors, then Add Custom Connector
2. Name it TextExpander
3. URL: [https://mcp.textexpander.com/mcp](https://mcp.textexpander.com/mcp)
4. Sign in with your TextExpander credentials
5. Authorize

It takes about 3 minutes, and it works in Claude Desktop, Cowork, and Claude.ai.

**The thing I didn't expect to like:**

TextExpander Snippets can do more than insert text. You can build them with fill-in fields, dropdown menus, and dates that update on their own. Normally you build those in the TextExpander app, which is fine but takes a minute. With the MCP server you just describe what you want and Claude builds it. I asked for a customer support template with a priority dropdown, a ticket ID field, and today's date. Got it on the first try.

**Permissions:**

Whatever your TextExpander account can see is what shows up in Claude. Org members don't get extra access through the MCP. Same scope as the app.

If you try it and something's broken or weird, tell me. If you find a use case that works really well, also tell me. I'm tracking real usage to help prioritize what we do before general release.

We connected TextExpander to Claude through a custom MCP server. Walkthrough below.