Like some of you I’m not a top fan of AI-shing everything everywhere at once, but since Tinderbox 11 has this MCP thing going on officially, I’ve used command-line client from Google to do the same (so it’s Gemini instead of Claude). Given the following default config in ~/.gemini/settings.json like that:
{
"mcpServers": {
"tinderbox": {
"command": "/Applications/Tinderbox 11.app/Contents/MacOS/Tinderbox 11",
"args": [],
"enabled": true
}
},
"security": {
"auth": {
"selectedType": "gemini-api-key"
}
}
}
(notice you guys might have some key set, by default there is no need for that as of yet)
When you launch gemini… Tinderbox magically pop-out (when it’s AI-enabled of course) just like in the case of Claude Desktop. And if you list capabilities of configured MCPs, you get that:
> /mcp list
Configured MCP servers:
🟢 tinderbox - Ready (8 tools, 1 prompt)
Tools:
- create_link
- create_note
- do
- evaluate
- get_document
- get_notes
- set_document
- set_value
Prompts:
- magic_word
Magic!
Sources and documentation of that client are to be found here GitHub - google-gemini/gemini-cli: An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.
Just be sure to make use of sandboxing as such apps are known to wreak havoc when maliciously crafted inputs manage to evade built-in filters; just like in the fun days of Windows with VBA macros that had no security measures at all 
PS. it doesn’t work very well though, since every invocation produces this error:
✕ [API Error: {“error”:{“message”:“{\n “error”: {\n “code”: 400,\n “message”: “schema at top-level requires
unspecified property ‘action,note’”,\n “status”: “INVALID_ARGUMENT”\n }\n}\n”,“code”:400,“status”:“Bad Request”}}]
Of course no problems with Claude, but with Gemini there is (and think about Ollama in the future).