IIT Expert

Get the IIT expert

IIT Expert has two parts, and your assistant needs both. The connector gives it the primary IIT literature; the skill tells it to read those sources before answering, instead of relying on what it already believes about IIT.

IIT Expert is a work in progress: the corpus and glossary are still being checked against the sources.

claude.ai and Claude Desktop

These add the connector and the skill separately. For the connector, no account or install is needed:

  1. Open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
  2. Paste this URL: https://mcp.learniit.org
  3. Save. There is no login step; the server is public and read-only.

For the skill, download the skill, then open Settings → Skills → Add and upload the file.

Claude Code, Codex and Cursor

One plugin installs the skill and the connector together.

Claude Code

claude plugin marketplace add wmayner/iit-expert-plugin
claude plugin install iit-expert@iit-expert

Codex

codex plugin marketplace add wmayner/iit-expert-plugin
codex plugin add iit-expert@iit-expert

Cursor

Open Customize → From GitHub Repository and enter wmayner/iit-expert-plugin.

The connector on its own

Any MCP client can use the connector at https://mcp.learniit.org. In Cursor, this link adds it in one step.

Computing with PyPhi

To compute IIT quantities, use PyPhi's own MCP server alongside IIT Expert. Its documentation covers both: https://pyphi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howto/ai-assistants.html.