Architecture & Pedagogy

Two partners, each doing what it does best

An AI assistant is quick, tireless, and ready whenever you sit down. But without guardrails, it hallucinates pesukim, guesses at grammar, and forgets where you were. Chavruti provides the ground truth and lasting memory underneath.

Your Assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, Muse)

The Sparring Partner

  • Reads with you: Lets you try each line first instead of lecturing.
  • Asks before explaining: Prompts you with the textual tension the commentators saw.
  • Sparring on logic: Challenges assumptions, tests chakirot, and spots contradictions.
  • Labeled lenses: Historical, literary, traditional, and humanist readings clearly labeled.
  • Voice mode ready: Speaks aloud using your tradition's pronunciation in compatible apps.
Chavruti (Over MCP)

The Ground Truth & Memory

  • Verified texts: Vocalized Hebrew, morphology, Rashi, and translations from open scholarly editions.
  • Your pronunciation: Every word phonetically rendered according to your tradition.
  • Spaced-repetition memory: Tracks roots, words, and sugyot you've mastered across conversations.
  • Keeps you on track: Remembers where you paused, manages reviews, and prevents study fade.
  • Visual reader & maps: The web app at app.chavruti.ai shows the fading reader and progress maps.
The Learning Loop

Read, challenge, stay on track

  1. Open your assistant. Say what you want to learn: a perek of Mishnah, this week's parsha, twenty minutes of Hebrew roots, or a sugya of Gemara. The assistant fetches the text from Chavruti with your known vocabulary flagged.
  2. The give-and-take. You try the line or challenge the premise. The assistant helps where you're stuck, tests your logic, and brings relevant rishonim or historical context.
  3. Permanent record. When you stop, the assistant logs what you covered and schedules new lemmas into your spaced repetition queue. If you step away for a week, review is dynamically replanned when you return—no guilt, no broken streaks.
  4. The fading page. In the web app, the page transforms as your mastery grows: vowels fade, transliterations drop, and translation disappears for lines you can read alone.

No artificial streaks, no gamification badges, no patronizing tests. Just the text, your intellect, and a partner ready whenever you are.

Connection Guide

Connect in two minutes

Chavruti connects to Claude, ChatGPT, Muse and any other assistant over MCP (Model Context Protocol). No proprietary lock-in. Every tool it offers is listed in the connector reference.

Works in the assistant you already use

Keeping you on track, wherever you learn.

Open MCP Connector

Chavruti lives inside Claude, ChatGPT, Muse and any assistant that speaks the open Model Context Protocol (MCP). Your assistant acts as your chavruta—sparring on logic, holding your place, and keeping your learning rhythm steady across weeks and months.

Desktop & Web

Claude with Chavruti

Setup: 2 minutes
"Ready whenever you sit down. Claude picks up exactly where you left off, recalls the open question from last session, and keeps your learning on track."
How it keeps you on track

When you open a session, your assistant knows your exact place in the text, what's due for spaced review, and where you paused—resuming smoothly without missed-day guilt.

Tools Chavruti equips it with
  • get_text (verified texts & Rashi)
  • get_word (pronunciation, root & meaning)
  • record_learning (spaced review)

How to connect your assistant

Claude (web, desktop and phone)

  1. In the Chavruti app, open Settings → Assistants and press Add to Claude. It opens Claude's Add custom connector, filled in.
  2. Press Add, then Connect. Sign in to Chavruti and approve.
  3. Start a chat: "Let's learn with Chavruti."

ChatGPT (web and desktop)

  1. In ChatGPT, open Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced and turn on Developer mode (if your plan offers it).
  2. Create a connector named Chavruti with the server URL https://api.chavruti.ai/mcp and OAuth.
  3. Sign in to Chavruti and approve. In a new chat, turn Chavruti on and say hello.

Muse

  1. Ask Muse: "Connect to Chavruti at https://api.chavruti.ai/mcp."
  2. Sign in to Chavruti when it asks, and approve.
  3. Muse holds your place and offers short reviews when they're due.

Claude Code and other MCP assistants

  1. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http chavruti https://api.chavruti.ai/mcp --scope user, then /mcp and Authenticate.
  2. Any other assistant: give it https://api.chavruti.ai/mcp; it signs in with OAuth.
  3. If it can't sign in, make a key in Settings → Assistants and keep it private.

Your learning data stays private. Chavruti does not sell data, display ads, or train public AI models on your personal study sessions. Revoke access to an assistant anytime in Settings.