Connect BARK to Claude
Read-only access to the EU regulatory corpus, over OAuth 2.1
BARK’s connector puts the EU regulatory corpus directly inside Claude. Ask a question in plain language, and Claude retrieves the actual provision — the article text, the version in force on a date, the reference chain, the EBA and SFSA guidance behind it — instead of answering from memory.
The connector is read-only. It retrieves regulation. It cannot change anything in BARK, and it never reaches into your own systems.
Before You Connect
You need:
- a BARK account at an organisation with the BARK MCP module enabled — if you are not sure, ask your BARK administrator or contact us; and
- Claude — claude.ai on a plan that supports connectors, Claude Code, or Codex CLI.
Everyone connects with their own BARK account. Credentials and tokens are never shared between users, and your BARK permissions carry over: the connector can retrieve exactly what your account is entitled to retrieve.
Connect
The server URL is the same everywhere:
https://mcp.barktechnologies.tech/mcp
Claude.ai
- Open Settings → Connectors.
- Choose Add custom connector.
- Set Name to
BARK. - Set Remote MCP server URL to the URL above.
- Leave OAuth Client ID and OAuth Client Secret blank.
- Select Add. You are sent to BARK to sign in with your BARK account and approve the connection, then returned to Claude.
On Team and Enterprise workspaces an owner adds the connector once for the workspace; each teammate then signs in with their own BARK account.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http bark https://mcp.barktechnologies.tech/mcp
Then run /mcp in a session and choose Authenticate.
Codex CLI
codex mcp add bark --url https://mcp.barktechnologies.tech/mcp
codex mcp login bark
What You Can Ask
The connector gives Claude eleven retrieval operations over two sources: the EU regulation graph, and BARK’s library of EBA and SFSA documents. You do not need to name the operations — ask the question, and Claude picks the route.
Read a provision as it stood on a date
Retrieves the article and its version chain.
Follow a reference chain
Traces dependencies and resolves the definitions behind them.
Find the guidance behind a requirement
Searches the document library and returns the passage with page and source.
Map a concept across regulations
Maps the concept across the corpus.
See what recently changed
Sweeps recent amendments corpus-wide.
A tip that improves every answer: tell Claude to use BARK rather than its own knowledge, and to keep BARK’s warnings and citations intact. BARK returns provenance with every result — the source, the version, and any caveat about coverage — and that is what makes an answer checkable.
What BARK Sees
To answer, the connector receives the search terms and identifiers your question produces, and which BARK account is asking. That is what it needs to find the provision.
It does not receive your Claude conversation, your files, or anything from your own systems. BARK’s corpus is published regulation — EU legislation and supervisory guidance — so no customer data is involved on either side.
The service runs in the EU (Google Cloud, europe-north1). Access uses OAuth 2.1; you can revoke the connection at any time from Claude’s connector settings or by contacting us, and revoking it immediately ends the connector’s access to your BARK account.
How BARK handles personal data is described in our Privacy Policy.
If Something Does Not Work
“BARK connector access is not enabled”
Your BARK organisation does not have the MCP module enabled, or your account is disabled. Contact your BARK administrator or us.
The connector cannot reach the URL
Check that you used the exact URL above, with no trailing path and no redirect in front of it.
“Client ID not found”
Remove the connector and add it again. Claude registers a fresh client on the next connection.
Sign-in loops or fails
Confirm you are signing in with the BARK account that belongs to the organisation with MCP enabled, not a personal account.
Support
Email info@barktechnologies.se.