Quickstart guide

Your first 10 minutes with Stash

Add the connector, set up your standing context, create a collection. That's it — you'll use Stash every day after this.

1

Add the Stash connector to Claude

Copy the connector URL and paste it into Claude's connector settings:

https://app.stashlite.com/mcp

In Claude desktop or claude.ai: Settings → Connectors → Add custom → paste the URL above. Claude will prompt you to sign in with Google. Any Google account works — no invite needed.

What just happened Your Stash account is created automatically on first sign-in. No form to fill out, no card required. You're on the free tier: 2,500 records and 300 queries a month.
2

Set up your standing context

This is Stash's flagship feature. It lets Claude load a compact, up-to-date picture of you — your role, your work, your priorities — at the start of every conversation. One cheap call instead of long custom instructions that eat into your context window.

Start a new Claude conversation and say:

you Run context() from my Stash and help me fill it in.

Claude will call context(), see it's empty, and walk you through the setup. Tell it:

It'll write those facts to your context collection automatically.

Tip — use it every session Add a single line to your Claude custom instructions: "At the start of each conversation, call context() from my Stash to load my standing context." Now every new chat already knows who you are.

To check it worked, run:

you Call context() and tell me what you see.
3

Create your first collection

Collections are the building blocks of Stash. Each one is a list of records — anything from tasks to client notes to Notion exports. You drive them entirely by talking to Claude.

Try one of these:

you Create a collection called "tasks" and add three things I need to do this week.
you Stash this meeting note: Acme call on Friday, they want a proposal by end of month. Tag it as client:acme.
you Create a collection called "contacts" and add John Smith, john@acme.com, he's the procurement lead at Acme.

Claude handles the JSON shape automatically — you don't need to think about schema.

4

Search your Stash

The real power is retrieval. Stash uses full-text search — fast, ranked, and token-light. You don't pull your whole collection into the chat, just the relevant rows.

you Search my tasks for anything about Acme. stash Found 2 records matching "Acme" in tasks...
you What do I know about the Acme contact? stash From contacts: John Smith, john@acme.com, procurement lead...
you Show me everything tagged client:acme across all my collections.

If you've been using Notion to store things Claude reads, try the Notion offload flow. That's where the token savings are most visible.

Check your usage Run usage() at any time to see how many records and queries you've used against your free caps. You won't hit them on day one.
5

Browse your data in the viewer

Every collection is also browsable as a clean read-only table in your browser. Visit app.stashlite.com and sign in with the same Google account you used in Claude.

You'll see all your collections listed. Click any one to browse the records, search, and paginate. It's read-only — edits happen via Claude, not here — but it's useful for checking what's been saved or sharing a link with someone.

Where to go from here

You've got the basics down. Here are three things worth trying next:

Guide

Notion offload

Sync a fat Notion database to Stash and search it for a fraction of the token cost.
Pricing

Free → Pro

When you hit your free limits, upgrading takes about 30 seconds. No sales call.
Ideas

More use cases

Mini-CRM, meeting log, decision journal, link archive — what will you stash?
Trust & data

Security page

Where your data lives, how it's isolated, export and deletion policy.