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Ask Claude about your guitar practice

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor to your Riff Quest account. It reads what you actually practised, plans your next session and writes exercises with tabs, then saves them to your account when you say so.

Become a supporterHow to connect

A supporter perk: any donation unlocks it. Practising, logging and everything else in Riff Quest stays free.

Example conversation in Claude

What have I been neglecting this month?

Read riff.quest: practice history, weak spots, tempo goals

You've practised 9 h 20 min this month, and 8 h of it was technique. Ear training got 12 minutes and theory none at all.

Your alternate picking goal has sat at 120 BPM for two weeks. Want me to plan a 30-minute session that warms up on intervals and then pushes the picking drill from 116 BPM?

Yes, save it.

Saved to riff.quest: “30 min · Intervals + picking”

How to connect

Three steps, about a minute

No keys to copy around and nothing to install. You sign in to Riff Quest from inside Claude, the same way you log in anywhere else.

  • Become a supporter
    Any donation puts the supporter badge on your account. That's what unlocks AI assistants.
  • Add riff.quest as a connector
    In Claude: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste the address below. ChatGPT, Cursor and Claude Code take the same address.
  • Sign in and press Allow
    Claude opens a riff.quest page. Reading your practice is always included; switch on Allow changes if it may save plans, goals, songs and exercises too.

The address to paste

https://riff.quest/api/mcp

The same for everyone. Your account comes from signing in, not from the address.

What to ask

Talk about your playing, not about the app

Ask the way you'd ask a teacher who had read your practice log. The assistant finds what it needs in Riff Quest on its own.

  • “What have I been neglecting this month?”
    It reads your practice history, skills and weak spots, and answers from what you actually logged.
  • “Plan a 30-minute session around my weakest skill.”
    It picks exercises from the library and, if you agree, saves the plan to your account.
  • “Set a goal of 140 BPM on my alternate picking drill.”
    It creates a tempo goal you then climb in the app, a few clean runs at a time.
  • “Turn this riff into an exercise I can practise.”
    Paste a riff and it writes the tab, checks it, shows you a preview with playback and saves it as your own private exercise.

Your account, your call

Nothing changes behind your back

By default Claude asks before each change it wants to save, and if you don't allow changes when you connect, it can only read.

It can read

Your profile, practice history, calendar, skills, weak spots, tempo goals, songs and recent scored runs, plus the exercise library and the wiki.

It can save, if you allow it

Practice plans, tempo goals, songs on your list and private exercises with tabs. Up to 35 changes a day, 10 of them new exercises.

It can't

  • see other players' data
  • post anything or message anyone
  • log practice time or change your points
  • join rankings, guilds or duels for you

Riff Quest runs no AI for this: the thinking happens in your assistant. What it reads is covered in the privacy policy, and Settings → AI assistants → Disconnect ends access at once.

Why it's a supporter perk

A thank-you to the people who keep it free

Riff Quest is free and runs on donations. Practising, logging, the library and the rankings stay open to everyone, and that isn't changing.

Connecting your own AI assistant is something extra, so it goes to supporters, next to the roadmap board, the gear votes and the rest of the supporter panel.

Michael Apfel

Michael Apfel

Guitarist & Creator of Riff Quest

Frequently asked questions

Every step and every setting, in the wiki: Connect Claude or another AI assistant

Do I need to be a supporter?

Yes. Any donation unlocks it for your account. Practising, logging, the library and everything else in Riff Quest stays free for everyone.

Which AI apps work?

Claude (add the connector on the web or desktop, then it works on mobile too), plus anything that supports remote MCP connectors, such as ChatGPT, Cursor or Claude Code. Apps that can't sign in take a personal key you create in Settings → AI assistants.

Will it change things without asking?

By default Claude asks before each change it wants to save, unless you tell it to always allow that kind. If you don't switch on Allow changes when you connect, it can only read.

Does Riff Quest run an AI for this?

No. All the thinking happens in the assistant you connect. Riff Quest only hands it your practice data and saves the changes you approve.

How do I disconnect?

Settings → AI assistants → Disconnect. Access ends at once, whatever the AI app still shows.

Your practice log, in a conversation.

Become a supporter

Any donation unlocks it. Everything else stays free.