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About Rarefriend

Rarefriend connects your Microsoft Outlook contacts and calendar to a full relationship layer — notes after every meeting, tags to organise your network, and instant recall on anyone in your Microsoft ecosystem.

Access it from your AI assistant, the web app at rarefriend.com, or Hops — Rarefriend's AI on WhatsApp.

Setup Detection Protocol

1. Call list_connected_integrations.
   • Tool not available → MCP not connected. Present these steps inline to the user:
     1. Sign in at rarefriend.com → Settings → Integrations → MCP → copy the Client ID and Client Secret
     2. Claude Code / Codex: run claude mcp add rarefriend -e RAREFRIEND_CLIENT_ID=your_id -e RAREFRIEND_CLIENT_SECRET=your_secret -- npx -y @rarefriend-ai/mcp
     3. Cursor: add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json under mcpServers.rarefriend with command: npx, args: ["-y", "@rarefriend-ai/mcp"], and the two env vars
     4. Claude Desktop: add the same block to claude_desktop_config.json
     5. Restart the client, then try again
   • No Microsoft integrations → offer to connect. Ask which they need: microsoft_contacts, microsoft_calendar, or microsoft_email.
   • Microsoft integrations present → proceed directly.