Connect Claude to your Helmley account and it becomes your professor on every course you take: it reads your course and your progress, teaches what's shaky, keeps notes about your learning and sends you plans that wait on Today until you apply them.
What you need
A Helmley account: free until 28 February 2027. Join at helmley.com with Google or your email.
Claude on any plan: on the web, the desktop app or your phone. Connect once and it works everywhere you use Claude.
Connect Claude
From Claude's directory: in Claude, open Customize → Connectors, find Helmley and press Connect.
Or as a custom connector: in Claude, open Customize → Connectors, press Add custom connector, name it Helmley and give it this address:
https://helmley.com/mcp
Press Connect. Helmley's sign-in opens: sign in if you aren't already.
Check the page names Claude and your account, then press Connect Claude.
Back in Claude, start a new chat and ask, for example, "How am I doing on my course?"
On Helmley, My profile → Your AI professor lists the AIs connected to your account and when each last used Helmley. You can also start from there: it gives each AI's steps.
What Claude can do
Read the professor brief read_brief
How a Helmley professor works (the first conversation, teaching, tests, checkpoints and plans), with your course's own part: its camps and hours, what's essential and what can be skipped.
Read your progress read_progress
Your goal, the week you planned and how you like to learn, each camp's status and test score with the topics you missed, your check-ins and study time, the plan in force and its notes.
Read your course read_course
Your course as it stands for you, with your plan applied: every step's videos, readings and exercises.
Send you a plan propose_plan
What to go deeper on, what to skip, extra practice and how your weeks fall. Helmley checks it against the course first. It waits on Today until you open it, see what it changes and tap Apply: nothing about your course changes before that.
Save a note save_note
A short note about your learning (a goal, a struggle, what you agreed, or something you ask it to remember), so Claude in a new chat, or another AI you connect, still knows you.
Mark a note out of date retire_note
When a note stops being true, with a short reason. Claude asks you first. Only you can delete notes.
Things to ask
"How am I doing on my course?"
"Explain the topics I missed in my last test."
"Plan my next two weeks: I have five hours, evenings only."
"Quiz me on this camp before I take the test."
"Remember that I study best on Sunday mornings."
On Helmley, Ask my professor on a step, after a test or on a plan opens Claude with a short question about it.
What it can't do
See anyone else's progress, or anything outside your own learning on Helmley.
Take your tests, or see their questions or answers: tests are taken on Helmley.
Change your account or settings, or change your course without you: a plan only takes effect when you apply it.
Your data
Claude reads your learning from Helmley each time it needs it; Helmley doesn't keep your conversations. Helmley keeps the notes Claude saves (you see every one on My profile and can delete any), the plans it sends, and which AIs you've connected and when each last used Helmley. The privacy page has the details, and Download my data includes all of it.
Disconnect or reconnect
Disconnect: on Helmley, My profile → Your AI professor → Disconnect. Claude loses access at once. Deleting your Helmley account cuts it off too; signing out of Helmley doesn't.
Reconnect: in Claude, open Customize → Connectors → Helmley and press Connect (or Reconnect when Claude offers it in a chat). Don't add Helmley a second time: connecting again replaces the old connection.
The wrong account: if Claude reads someone else's progress, sign out of Helmley, sign in as yourself, and connect again.