mazdek AI is now a Claude connector: Kurdish spell check, grammar and translation inside Claude

Claude can write, reason and translate — but ask it to proofread a Kurmancî sentence and you quickly find the limits. Kurdish has a century of orthography that general models were never trained to enforce: the diacritics people drop when they type, the izafe, the ergative past tense that trips up even fluent writers.

From today, Claude can hand that work to a tool that was built for it. mazdek AI is now in Claude's connector directory — one click, no API key, no setup.

What Claude can do once it is connected

You do not need to name the tools. Paste a paragraph and say "check this Kurmancî text" and Claude picks the right one.

The part that is hard to fake

Here is a sentence with three mistakes that a general-purpose model usually lets through:

Min duh diçû bazarê û ez sêv kirîn.

Kurmancî splits the past tense in two. An intransitive verb takes the direct case — ez çûm, "I went". A transitive verb takes the oblique — min kirîn, "I bought". The sentence above has them backwards, twice, plus a verb ending that does not agree.

Asked through the connector, Claude returns all three corrections with the reason:

Ez duh diçûm bazarê û min sêv kirîn.

Spell checking behaves the same way. In "Ez dixwazim sibe herim bajer û hevalen xwe bibinim" it flags bajer → bajêr and hevalen → hevalên as the first suggestion, with high confidence — the oblique endings, not just a dictionary lookup.

Connecting it

1. In Claude, open Settings → Connectors (on the web, claude.ai/directory).
2. Find mazdek AI and press Connect.
3. Sign in to your mazdek AI account and press Allow on the approval screen.

That is the whole setup. It works in Claude on the web, on iPhone and Android, and in Claude Desktop with the same account.

If you do not have a mazdek AI account yet, creating one is free and takes about two minutes. The free plan carries 12,000 characters of translation and 10 minutes of transcription a month; spell checking, letter restoration and script conversion are free and unmetered on every plan.

What the connector can and cannot see

A connector is a permission, so it is worth being precise about what this one gets.

• It can call the six language tools above, and nothing else. The access token is refused by every other part of the mazdek API — your billing, your account settings, your saved files.
• It cannot read your Claude conversations, your files or your account settings. It only receives the text you ask Claude to work on.
• Every authorization goes through an approval screen that names the app asking and the address it will return to.
• You can disconnect it at any moment from Settings → API in mazdek AI. Access stops immediately.

Usage counts against your mazdek plan's monthly allowance, the same as using the app yourself. Nothing is charged through Claude.

For developers

mazdek AI is also in the official Model Context Protocol registry as ai.mazdek/mazdek-ai, so any MCP client can reach it — Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT in developer mode:

claude mcp add --transport http mazdek https://api.mazdek.ai/api/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer mazdek_sk_..."

API keys are created in Settings → API, and that path is billed per unit from your credit balance rather than from a plan quota. It also exposes Kurdish text-to-speech, which the directory connector does not; Settings → API lists a second address if you want speech inside Claude as well.

The full tool reference, with parameters and example calls, is in the API documentation.

Why put Kurdish tools inside someone else's assistant

Most people writing Kurdish are not going to move to a new app for one paragraph. They are already in a chat window, drafting an email, a post, a letter to an office. Putting the Kurdish engines inside that window removes the step where the language gets dropped because checking it was inconvenient.

That is the whole argument. The tools were already good at Kurdish; now they are where the writing actually happens.