Connecting Claude

Connect Claude Code to a client's map, import a project, and read what the import will do before it does it.

1. What Claude can do with VSTA

   Who can connect Claude, what it can read and change in a client's map, and what an import is.

2. Connect Claude Code to a client

   Make a connection on the Connect Claude page, run the command it gives you, and check that Claude Code can reach VSTA.

3. Install the import skill

   Download the vsta-import skill into Claude Code once, so it knows how to turn a project's files into a VSTA import.

4. Import a project

   Ask Claude to import a project's map into VSTA, check the preview it shows you, and say yes when you are happy.

5. Read the import preview

   What each part of the import report means, which parts stop an import, and what to do about anything VSTA will not apply.

6. Remove a connection

   Stop Claude on one computer working with a client, and know what else removes a connection.

7. When something goes wrong

   What Claude Code shows when it cannot reach VSTA or VSTA refuses a change, and what to do about each one.