AI CONNECTOR FOR CLAUDE
Bring your VA claim into Claude.
Connect Claude to VeteranHQ and ask about VA disability in plain language. The VA regulation tools answer for anyone, free, with no account at all. The tools that read your own ratings, claims and documents work only after you say yes.
- Read only, always
- You approve before anything leaves
- Off is one action, and it blocks new requests
- Document text only if you allow it
HOW IT WORKS
WHY MCP
AI forgets. Your record does not.
AI can help you make sense of a VA claim: what a decision letter means, where a claim stands, what to do next. The catch is memory. Every new conversation starts blank.
Without the connector
You are the memory
You upload your decision letter, C-file and exam results again in each new chat, or save notes into the assistant's memory and update them by hand every time VA changes something. Miss an update and the answer is built on an old record.
With the connector
Claude reads your record itself
Through MCP, Claude reads your record straight from VeteranHQ when you ask, in any conversation. VeteranHQ keeps your claims, ratings and appeals synced from VA.gov, so there is nothing to re-upload and no memory to maintain. It reads; it never changes anything.
VA.gov
VeteranHQ
Claude
GETTING CONNECTED
Connect Claude in three steps
No key to copy and nothing to install. When you sign in, VeteranHQ shows you exactly what Claude could read, and nothing is shared until you press Allow.
It reads your record. It cannot change anything at VA.
Step 1: Add VeteranHQ to Claude.
Add to Claude (opens Claude in a new tab)Form empty? Name it VeteranHQ and paste this address.
https://api.veteranhq.app/mcp Step 2: In Claude, press Add, then Connect.
Step 3: Sign in to VeteranHQ and press Allow.
Then ask Claude about your ratings, claims, or documents.
On a phone, do this once on claude.ai in your browser; the Claude app picks it up.
ChatGPT support is coming.
You sign in on veteranhq.app, in your own browser. Claude never sees your password. Access lasts 90 days, then Claude asks you to sign in again.
If it did not work
The sign-in tab showed your dashboard instead of the permission screen.
Press Connect in Claude again.
Claude says it has no VeteranHQ tools.
Turn VeteranHQ on in the chat's tools menu, then ask again.
Claude keeps asking permission.
Set the read-only tools to Always allow in Customize, then Connectors, then VeteranHQ, or pick Allow always on the prompt (that choice lasts only for that chat).
The connector address is public on purpose: it is not a password, and there is no password for you to hold. The free regulation tools answer without a sign-in. The tools that read your record work only after you sign in on veteranhq.app and press Allow. To see its status or turn it off, open Settings.
Using another AI client or building with MCP? See the MCP server page.
WHAT YOU GET
Two sets of tools, and only one of them touches you
The split is the whole design. Everything about VA regulation is free and anonymous. Everything about your record sits behind an account, a membership and your explicit approval, and reads nothing else.
VA regulation tools
Free, no accountThese read public reference data: 38 CFR, VA rate tables, case law, the VeteranHQ guides and help directories. Not one of them can reach a veteran record, so there is nothing to sign in to and nothing to pay for.
- Calculate combined VA rating38 CFR 4.25 math, not estimation
- Compare rating criteriaEvery tier for a diagnostic code
- Analyze a rating gapWhere a current rating falls short
- Check a 12-month absence windowIncapacitating episode thresholds
- Find secondary conditionsConditions linked to a primary
- Check presumptive eligibilityExposure and service era screens
- Search case law and regulations38 CFR plus CAVC and BVA text
- Prepare for a C&P examWhat the examiner asks, and why
- Look up monthly compensation rateCurrent VA rate tables
- Estimate retroactive back payFrom an effective date forward
- Find free and accredited claim helpCrisis line, accredited representatives, state agencies
- Search the VeteranHQ guidesThe guide library, ranked by match
- Read a VeteranHQ guideOne guide, with its sources and review date
- Find veterans benefits to checkBenefits worth checking for your situation
Tools that read your record
VeteranHQ membershipThis is why the connector exists: the free tools can tell you what 70 and 50 combine to, and none of them can answer what your rating is. These can, and they are part of a membership.
- Review my VA profile and claimsYour profile, your rated conditions, and the claims you track in VeteranHQ
- Check my live VA.gov claim statusClaims, ratings, appeals and payment history synced from VA.gov
- Open one of my claims in detailOne claim: its milestones, evidence list and dates
- List my uploaded documentsTitles, types and summaries. Never the files themselves
- Read the text of one of my documentsThe extracted text, one document at a time. Only with the document-text permission
THE CONSENT BOUNDARY
What leaves, and what never does
This explains what the connector can send under the permissions you approve when you sign in. Every read below is bound to your account by the server before it runs.
What leaves, every time your AI client asks
- Your name
- Your service history: branch, service dates, MOS, deployments
- Your combined rating, and each condition rating, diagnostic code and effective date
- Your claim status, claim details, milestones and evidence lists
- Denied and deferred conditions, and any appeals
- Your VA payment history, including dates and amounts
- Your dependents
- Your document titles, types, and the AI written summaries of what is in them, including files in your Medical Vault
- Stored text from documents on your account, including Medical Vault documents and documents added later, but only if you allow document text when your assistant signs in. Your Social Security number, VA file number, date of birth, street address and similar identifiers are automatically redacted by default. Automatic redaction can miss identifiers, so this text may still contain them. Your assistant can also request the full text without a separate approval. We record each such request before reading the text, and refuse the read if we can't record it.
- If you allow document findings when your assistant signs in, it can also receive structured findings, exact quotes from your documents and your condition history across them, including documents added later. These quotes are copied from the text we stored for your documents and are not redacted, so they can include health details and identifiers like your Social Security number.
The files themselves
When you allow document text, the connector gets the extracted or pasted text VeteranHQ stores, one document at a time, and VeteranHQ records an attempt before each read. It never gets the uploaded file, and stored text may not contain everything in the original.
Changes at VA
It reads your record. It cannot change anything at VA.
Filing with VA
VeteranHQ helps you gather evidence. We never prepare or file a claim for you, by deliberate product rule, and the connector is no exception.
Your money
No payment, billing or purchase runs through the connector. It cannot move a dollar.
Every other account
The server binds each personal read to your account before it runs. Nothing your AI client sends can widen that.
PRIVACY AND CONTROL
You hold the switch, and we keep the receipts
The connector is off until you turn it on, it tells you what it will share before you decide, and it stops the moment you say so.
You approve first, in full
Consent is explicit, tied to your account, and versioned. If we ever change what we tell you the connector can read, your old approval stops counting and we ask again rather than let you agree to text you never saw.
Off blocks new requests
Turn the connector off in Settings and it blocks new requests from every assistant you connected. There is no waiting period and no partial state. A request already in progress may finish, and nothing can take back what was already sent.
Access expires on its own
An approval lasts 90 days, then your assistant asks you to sign in again. Revocation is the real control; the clock is the backstop.
Every personal read is logged
VeteranHQ records an attempt before reading your record for your assistant, one row per call, naming the tool and, for document text, the document and the page. If that record cannot be written, the read is not performed. Regulation lookups carry no personal data and write no such row.
Encrypted on our side
Sensitive fields are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM and everything moves over HTTPS. You sign in on veteranhq.app and your assistant receives a short-lived credential we can revoke at any time. It never receives your password, and you never handle a key.
Your account, verified
Only a verified, active VeteranHQ account can open a connector session. A deleted or unverified account cannot, no matter what credential is presented.
What we cannot promise
Once your data reaches your AI client, it is in that conversation and under your agreement with that AI provider. We cannot delete it there, we cannot see how it is used, and we cannot promise it is safe. Our encryption and our retention rules protect your data on our systems. They do not follow it out. Use this connector wisely: share it only with a client you trust, and only for as long as you need it.
QUESTIONS
Straight answers
Not for the free VA regulation tools. Combined rating math, presumptive screens, compensation rates, secondary conditions and legal authority search work for anyone, with no account and no payment, because none of them can reach a veteran record at all. The tools that read your own record need a VeteranHQ account, a membership, and your explicit approval when you sign in.
No. The connector publishes read tools and nothing else. There is no tool to file, submit, edit, upload or delete, so there is no confused turn a model could take that would change your record. Separately, VeteranHQ does not prepare or file claims for anyone: we help you gather evidence, and filing stays yours.
Only if you allow it. Your document list, with titles, types and the summaries VeteranHQ wrote, comes with the document permission, and that list includes Medical Vault documents. Stored text from documents on your account, including Medical Vault documents and documents added later, comes only if you allow document text when your assistant signs in, one document at a time, and VeteranHQ records an attempt before each read. It never gets the file itself, and stored text may not contain everything in the original. Your Social Security number, VA file number, date of birth, street address and similar identifiers are automatically redacted by default. Automatic redaction can miss identifiers, so this text may still contain them. Your assistant can also request the full text without a separate approval. We record each such request before reading the text, and refuse the read if we can't record it. If you allow document findings when your assistant signs in, it can also receive structured findings, exact quotes from your documents and your condition history across them, including documents added later. These quotes are copied from the text we stored for your documents and are not redacted, so they can include health details and identifiers like your Social Security number. If that is more than you want to share, leave the document-text and document-findings switches off, or turn the connector off in Settings.
Settings, then AI Connector, then turn it off. One confirmation, and it blocks new connector requests from every assistant you connected. Requests already in progress may finish, and it cannot take back information already sent. You can turn it back on later; you will read the disclosure again first.
No. You add VeteranHQ to Claude, and when Claude connects you sign in on veteranhq.app in your own browser and press Allow. There is nothing secret to paste and nothing to lose.
Honestly: that part is no longer ours to promise. Once your data reaches your AI client it lives in that conversation, under your agreement with that provider. We cannot delete it there, we cannot see how it is used, and we will not tell you otherwise. Our encryption and retention rules protect your data on our systems. They do not follow it out. Share the connector only with a client you trust, and only for as long as you need it.
No. VeteranHQ is independent software. It is not part of, endorsed by, or affiliated with the Department of Veterans Affairs. Only VA decides ratings, effective dates and payment amounts, and every number the connector returns says so.
VeteranHQ and Claude
Your record, in your own words.
Connect Claude when you want it, and turn it off in Settings the second you do not. Nothing about your record moves until you decide it should.