Tell your story. Tell an AI agent about your family. It can add relatives, connect the generations, and help you explore your Banyan tree.
Connect your agent Works with MCP-compatible agents · Beta
A conversation becomes a tree Maya, speaking to her agent “I’m Maya. Add my partner, Daniel, to my family tree.” Maya and Daniel are connected.
The Carter family Read the conversation “I’m Maya. Add my partner, Daniel, to my family tree.”
Maya and Daniel are connected.
“My parents are Helen and James Carter.”
Helen and James are added as your parents.
“Helen’s parents are Rose and Arthur. They’re my grandparents.”
Another generation, connected through Helen.
“And Daniel and I have a son, Noah.”
Noah is connected to both of you. Seven people, one family.
An example conversation. Use voice or text in your own compatible agent.
Connect once. Your agent connects to Banyan through MCP. Choose yours to see its setup.
Open agent settings Choose your agent
Web, desktop and mobile Add Banyan once as a custom connector. It then works in Claude on the web, in the desktop app and in the mobile apps.
Create your key Open Settings → Connect an AI agent. Name the key “Claude”, create it, and copy it when it appears. Treat it like a password.
Open agent settings Add a custom connector In Claude, open Customize → Connectors, choose + Add, then Add custom connector. Name it Banyan and paste this URL.
https://banyan.family/api/mcpCopy
Add your key Set Authentication to No sign in. Under Request headers, add a header named Authorization with this value, with your key in place of YOUR_KEY.
On Team and Enterprise plans, an Owner adds connectors for everyone, and everyone would act with your key. Use Claude Code or a personal plan instead.
Tell it about your family Share the names and how they’re related. Your agent can build the tree and answer questions about the connections.
Anthropic’s agent for your terminal. One command connects Banyan in every project.
Create your key Open Settings → Connect an AI agent. Name the key “Claude Code”, create it, and copy it when it appears. Treat it like a password.
Open agent settings Add Banyan to Claude Code Run this in your terminal, with your key in place of YOUR_KEY.
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user banyan https://banyan.family/api/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"Copy
Start a new Claude Code session, then run /mcp to check that banyan is connected.
Tell it about your family Share the names and how they’re related. Your agent can build the tree and answer questions about the connections.
Use Banyan’s app in ChatGPT. You sign in with your Banyan account, so you don’t need a key.
Open Banyan in ChatGPT Open Banyan’s listing in ChatGPT and add it to your account.
Open in ChatGPT Sign in and allow access Sign in to Banyan and allow the connection. ChatGPT sees adult profiles only; relatives under 18 stay in Banyan.
More about Banyan in ChatGPT Tell it about your family Share the names and how they’re related. Your agent can build the tree and answer questions about the connections.
OpenAI’s coding agent. The Codex CLI, the IDE extension and the ChatGPT desktop app share this setup.
Create your key Open Settings → Connect an AI agent. Name the key “Codex”, create it, and copy it when it appears. Treat it like a password.
Open agent settings Save your key in an environment variable Codex reads your key from BANYAN_API_KEY. Run the command for your computer, with your key in place of YOUR_KEY.
macOS or Linux
echo 'export BANYAN_API_KEY="YOUR_KEY"' >> ~/.zshrcCopy
Windows (PowerShell)
setx BANYAN_API_KEY "YOUR_KEY"Copy
If your shell is bash, use ~/.bashrc instead of ~/.zshrc.
Add Banyan to Codex Add this to ~/.codex/config.toml.
[mcp_servers.banyan]
url = "https://banyan.family/api/mcp"
bearer_token_env_var = "BANYAN_API_KEY"Copy
Open a new terminal and start Codex, or restart the app or extension. Run /mcp to check that banyan is listed.
Tell it about your family Share the names and how they’re related. Your agent can build the tree and answer questions about the connections.
Add Banyan to Cursor’s MCP configuration.
Create your key Open Settings → Connect an AI agent. Name the key “Cursor”, create it, and copy it when it appears. Treat it like a password.
Open agent settings Add Banyan to Cursor Add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json, with your key in place of YOUR_KEY.
{
"mcpServers": {
"banyan": {
"url": "https://banyan.family/api/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KEY"
}
}
}
}Copy
To keep the key out of the file, write Bearer ${env:BANYAN_API_KEY} instead and set that environment variable.
Turn it on Open Customize in Cursor’s sidebar and switch Banyan on. If it doesn’t connect, open the Output panel and check MCP Logs.
Tell it about your family Share the names and how they’re related. Your agent can build the tree and answer questions about the connections.
Use Banyan with GitHub Copilot’s agent in VS Code. VS Code asks for your key, so it isn’t written in the file.
Create your key Open Settings → Connect an AI agent. Name the key “GitHub Copilot”, create it, and copy it when it appears. Treat it like a password.
Open agent settings Add Banyan to VS Code Run MCP: Open User Configuration from the Command Palette and add Banyan.
{
"inputs": [
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "banyan-key",
"description": "Banyan API key",
"password": true
}
],
"servers": {
"banyan": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://banyan.family/api/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer ${input:banyan-key}"
}
}
}
}Copy
Start it Run MCP: List Servers, start banyan and paste your key when VS Code asks. Then use Copilot Chat in Agent mode.
Tell it about your family Share the names and how they’re related. Your agent can build the tree and answer questions about the connections.
Formerly Windsurf. Add Banyan to its MCP configuration.
Create your key Open Settings → Connect an AI agent. Name the key “Devin Desktop”, create it, and copy it when it appears. Treat it like a password.
Open agent settings Open the MCP configuration In the Cascade panel, open the … menu, go to MCPs and choose Open MCP config file.
Add Banyan Add Banyan to the file, with your key in place of YOUR_KEY.
{
"mcpServers": {
"banyan": {
"url": "https://banyan.family/api/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KEY"
}
}
}
}Copy
Refresh the MCPs list and check that Banyan shows its tools.
Tell it about your family Share the names and how they’re related. Your agent can build the tree and answer questions about the connections.
Google’s agent in the Antigravity editor and CLI. It replaces Gemini CLI for personal Google accounts.
Create your key Open Settings → Connect an AI agent. Name the key “Antigravity”, create it, and copy it when it appears. Treat it like a password.
Open agent settings Add Banyan to Antigravity Add this to ~/.gemini/config/mcp_config.json, with your key in place of YOUR_KEY. In the editor, open it from the agent panel’s … menu → MCP Servers → Manage MCP Servers → View raw config.
{
"mcpServers": {
"banyan": {
"serverUrl": "https://banyan.family/api/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KEY"
}
}
}
}Copy
In the CLI, run /mcp to check that banyan is active.
Tell it about your family Share the names and how they’re related. Your agent can build the tree and answer questions about the connections.
Any agent that can add a remote MCP server with a custom header can connect. Agents that only offer sign-in can’t use a key.
Create your key Open Settings → Connect an AI agent. Name the key “My agent”, create it, and copy it when it appears. Treat it like a password.
Open agent settings Add Banyan to your agent Add this remote MCP server in your agent’s connection settings.
https://banyan.family/api/mcpCopy
Send your key Send your key in the Authorization header on every request.
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEYCopy
Tell it about your family Share the names and how they’re related. Your agent can build the tree and answer questions about the connections.
