For people who want Claude or another AI app to read their kitchen. You connect it once from the Circle, and every change it suggests waits for someone in your Circle to approve it. Names like The Rao Kitchen below are examples.
This is a Beta: it works today, and a few details may still change (see the end of the page).
Every AI app that supports custom connectors (also called MCP servers) asks for one web address. Use this one:
https://mcp.mykitchentalk.app/mcpSign-in happens on KitchenTalk's own page. You never paste a password or a key into the AI app.
Mom is the Circle admin, so she is the only one who can connect an assistant.
Claude opens KitchenTalk in a browser.
Enter your Circle code and your name. You'll come straight back here.
Enter my Circle codeOnly shown if Mom isn't signed in on that browser. After the code, she comes straight back.
Claude will join your Circle as an Assistant.
"The Rao Kitchen" is an example Circle name.
You can pause or remove it any time from Members.
Nothing has changed in your kitchen.
The name comes from the AI app, so a different app shows its own name.
Members can't connect assistants today. Dad can still approve what an assistant suggests (below).
Claude checks the kitchen with KitchenTalk and answers in its own words.
Claude writes its own replies; the last one is KitchenTalk's message to the assistant.
Kitchen suggestions · Waiting for you to review: 2 suggestions — Spinach, Green chilies
From Claude
Spinach marked used. · Green chilies added to your kitchen.
Anyone in the Circle can approve, not just Mom. Untick a row to leave it as it was. Suggestions expire after 7 days. The date is an example.
Pause · Reading only · ✕ Remove
Pause stops the assistant on its very next request; Resume brings it back. Remove is permanent. An assistant takes a place in the Circle, like a person.
| Ask it | What KitchenTalk gives it |
|---|---|
| "What do I have?" | What's in the kitchen right now, most urgent first. |
| "Do I have oat milk?" | Whether one thing is in the kitchen, by name. |
| "What needs using up?" | What goes off in the next few days (3 unless you say otherwise). |
| "What can I cook?" | Dishes from what's actually in the kitchen, optionally by cuisine. Limited to 10 an hour and 50 a day per assistant. |
| "What's on my shopping list?" | What still needs buying, then anything saved for later. |
| "We finished the milk" | A suggestion for the Circle to approve. Nothing changes until someone taps Approve. |
It reads one kitchen: the Circle's main kitchen. It can't delete anything, change members, or do anything only the admin can do.
| App | Status | How |
|---|---|---|
| Claude | Tested | Add a custom connector with the address above. Works in the Claude apps; on the phone app the address can't be edited later, so paste it exactly. |
| Muse | Connected | Same address. Connected from an iPhone in September. |
| ChatGPT | Not tested yet | Should work where ChatGPT accepts custom MCP connectors; its sign-in hasn't been checked end to end. |
| Other MCP apps | Should work | Any app that supports remote MCP with sign-in. Developers using Claude Code on a computer can instead add a key from Members → "+ Add an assistant". |
Connecting an assistant is new. Today only the Circle admin can connect one, and every change it suggests goes through Approve. The wording of these screens, the limits above and the list of apps we have tested may change as we learn from people using it.
What you say to the assistant is handled by the company that runs it, under its own terms. KitchenTalk's own AI step for an assistant follows the Circle owner's choice once the owner has made a choice in Account → AI providers. See Privacy.