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Wenlan Workflow for Claude Desktop
Use Claude Desktop with Wenlan MCP memory for planning, research, and handoff context that later coding agents can reuse.
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Claude Desktop users who plan or research before coding
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Use Claude Desktop for planning while Wenlan stores durable decisions locally.
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Capture research outcomes that coding agents should use later.
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Recall captured decisions or existing distilled pages instead of asking future sessions to reread everything.
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Quick answer
Claude Desktop works best with Wenlan after it is connected to the same local daemon and relevant space as your coding clients. Capture planning outcomes and project decisions that later coding sessions should inherit.
Wenlan makes planning output available through the local daemon. A later coding agent can recall the same decision record or existing distilled page when it is configured against the same daemon and space.
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When this problem appears
Planning often happens in Claude Desktop, while implementation happens in Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex. Without shared memory, the handoff depends on manual copy-paste.
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Capture planning context
Use Claude Desktop for high-level reasoning, then save the durable results.
- First connect Claude Desktop with npx -y wenlan setup, ~/.wenlan/bin/wenlan mcp add claude-desktop, a Claude Desktop restart, and doctor/capture/recall verification.
- Capture selected plans and rejected alternatives.
- Capture constraints that implementation agents must respect.
- Distill repeated research into a page when page synthesis is configured and the topic will guide future work.
- Recall from the coding client before implementation begins.
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What to check next
Do not capture every paragraph of a planning conversation. Save the outcome, assumptions, and consequences.
Try the local memory loop
Install Wenlan, connect your AI client, and verify that capture, recall, and handoff work on your machine.
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