Drive NVS from Claude

The AI Assistant is the AI inside NVS. This page is the other direction: letting Claude Desktop or Claude Code- an agent outside the app - read and build your project by driving NVS's tools. That connection is a plugin.

What a plugin is

A Claude plugin is a small bundle with three parts:

• A name tag (plugin.json) - "this is NVS."
• A connection card (.mcp.json) - how Claude reaches NVS's tool server. That server runs inside your installed app, so this card holds your machine's specific paths.
• Skills (SKILL.md) - plain-English instructions that teach Claude to use the tools well: open a hidden sandbox first, ask before running paid analysis, and never touch your live writing window.

You write the skills. The app writes the connection card - it's the one thing only your installed app knows.

The flow

Why the app generates the connector

The connection card can't be a public download you clone and run. It bakes in this machine's paths - where the app binary and its tool server live - and the server is compiled against the app's own runtime. So there is no "use NVS from Claude without installing NVS." The app hands you a connector built for your install, via the Generate plugin action.

What's public, what's private

• Private / per-install - the connector. Generated locally; nothing about your machine leaves.
• Public / shareable - the skills (so anyone can read exactly what the agent will and won't do before trusting it) and nvs-parser, the one standalone piece that needs no app at all.

Isolation - the agent never touches your writing

The plugin is built so an outside agent cannot disturb your live session:

• It opens its own hidden instance (a sandbox) to render or capture anything visual - your window never moves.
• It reads from that sandbox or a headless copy - never your open app.
• Anything that spends money (analysis) is ask-first.

Get your plugin

In NVS, use Generate plugin to save the .zip, then in Claude Desktop Plugins Upload local plugin. The skills surface as /nvs-sandbox, /nvs-query, /nvs-plan, /nvs-graphics, and /nvs-transcribe.