Connect Gety to Claude & Claude Cowork

Connect Gety to the Claude desktop app, and Claude can work with all your local files — ask questions in Chat, or use Claude Cowork to create finished presentations, reports, and spreadsheets from your documents.

Claude and Claude Cowork are the same app

The Claude desktop app has two modes you can switch between using the tabs at the top: Chat and Claude Cowork. The setup below connects Gety to both at once. This guide focuses on Claude Cowork, but you can also use Gety in any Chat conversation to ask Claude questions about your local files.

Prerequisites

• Gety is installed and running with at least one folder indexed
• The Claude desktop app is installed on your computer. Download Claude
• Gety must stay running in the background for Claude to access your files

Connect Claude

Step 1: Quit Claude

Quit the Claude desktop app if it is running.

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Quit the Claude desktop app completely before proceeding — minimizing to the dock is not enough.

Step 2: Add Claude in Gety

Open Gety → Settings → AI Integrations and click Claude under AI Apps.

Gety → Settings → AI Integrations: click Claude under AI Apps

Step 3: Launch Claude

Launch the Claude desktop app.

That's it — Gety handles the connection automatically.

Use Gety in Claude

Start a new chat with a small query whose answer you already know. Replace the quoted words with something that is in your files:

Use Gety to search my local files for "research report". List the source files you used.

If Claude does not seem to use Gety, try mentioning "use Gety" or "search my local files" in your prompt.

Create deliverables with Claude Cowork

Claude Cowork lets you describe an outcome, step away, and come back to finished work. Combined with Gety, Claude Cowork can pull context from files scattered across your computer — project folders, Desktop, Downloads, cloud drives — and turn them into a polished deliverable.

Switch to the Cowork tab in Claude, grant access to your working folder, and try a prompt like:

I need to present Project Aurora's launch readiness at next week's executive review. Use Gety to search my files for the latest risk assessments, customer status updates, and budget figures, then create a presentation covering: launch recommendation, top risks by department, Northstar Health and Meridian Bank readiness, and revised budget summary.

Claude Cowork: describe what you need and click Let's go

Claude Cowork will plan the task, call Gety to search your files, and retrieve the full content of each relevant document.

Claude Cowork: searching your files through Gety and pulling the details it needs

To check that Claude Cowork called Gety, look at the Context panel on the right. Claude Cowork called Gety when gety is listed under Connectors, as in the screenshot above.

The finished presentation is built from files scattered across your computer — a risk register in your project folder, an approval memo on your Desktop, a launch recommendation shared via OneDrive, and personal notes you drafted earlier. Every claim is traceable to its source document.

Claude Cowork: the finished 7-slide presentation with real data from your files

Notice the sources listed on the left — they come from across the computer, not a single folder. Gety searched your Desktop, OneDrive, project directories, and everywhere else your files live, then Claude Cowork pulled them together into one coherent presentation.

You control what Claude receives. Choose Ask every time or Always allow in Gety → Settings → AI Integrations → Data Sharing Control. See Privacy and control for details.

Troubleshooting

Claude does not call Gety

• Start the prompt with Use Gety to search my local files.
• Quit Claude completely and open it again. Claude loads Gety's tools only after a full restart.
• Confirm that Claude is listed under Existing Integrations in Gety → Settings → AI Integrations.
• If you are not sure whether Claude called Gety, open Gety → Settings → AI Integrations and click Activity. Every request from Claude is listed there with the words it searched for.

Claude calls Gety but gets nothing back

• Make sure Gety is open. Claude can only reach Gety while it is running.
• If you chose Ask every time, look for a sharing request from Gety that is waiting for your answer. If none appears, see restore sharing confirmations.
• Search for the same words in Gety itself. If Gety cannot find the file either, see Why can't I find a file or folder in search or in the index?