Claude O’Reilly connectorWhat Claude can do in your O’Reilly account.
The Claude O’Reilly connector exposes exactly 1 tool, and it reads. 0 write tools, 0 tools left undescribed. You say what you want to learn, Claude searches the O’Reilly catalog and comes back with recommendations. Here is what that covers, and where the sources go quiet.
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Why plug the O’Reilly catalog into Claude
Skip the keyword box and the manual sorting. You describe the gap in plain words (a topic, a level, a format you like) and Claude queries O’Reilly’s technical and professional learning catalog for you. What comes back is a short list of resources picked for that request, inside the same conversation where you were already working.
Books and video courses on a topic. You say what you need to learn and at what level, and search_oreilly_content returns matching titles from the catalog.
Upcoming live events. The directory sheet lists upcoming live events among what the search recommends, alongside the written and video material.
Curated learning plans. The sheet also names curated learning plans, so a request can point at a ready-made path rather than a single title.
Where it works. The directory lists the connector for Claude, the Claude API, Claude Code and Claude Desktop. O’Reilly Media publishes it as a partner, and the catalog it searches is described as technical and professional skills development material, which is the scope of every recommendation you get back.
What the sheet does not list: any tool that saves a title, registers you for an event or edits your profile. Nothing runs on its own either; Claude only acts while it answers you. For other connectors documented on this site, start from the Integrations hub, or compare with a sheet built the same way, all listed in the Claude connectors hub.
Five words before you connect
The Claude vocabulary you will meet around this connector.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and an account you already have, so Claude can use it while answering you.
- Tool
- One named capability a connector opens to Claude. Claude decides when to call it; the directory sheet shows its exact name.
- Authorization
- O’Reilly’s own sign-in screen, where you hand Claude the access it will use. Granted once per person, and you can take it back.
- Approval
- The go-ahead Claude asks you for in the chat before it changes anything in an account on your behalf.
- MCP
- The shared standard every connector runs on: it is what lets an assistant talk to an outside service at all.
Set up the Claude O’Reilly connector in three steps
- 01
Find O’Reilly in your connectors
Open Claude’s settings, go to Customize, then Connectors, and search for O’Reilly. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner has to enable it for the organization first, before each member can connect.
- 02
Sign in on O’Reilly’s side
Hit Connect on its row. The directory sheet flags that sign-in is required: O’Reilly opens its own window, and that is where your credentials go, never into the chat itself.
- 03
Read the authorization screen
Check what O’Reilly’s screen lists before you accept. The access is granted once, for you alone, and can be taken back the same way. The sheet flags sign-in as required.
The one tool this connector exposes
O’Reilly gives Claude 1 tool: 1 that read your account, 0 that change something in it.
A single tool, filed under reading: it queries the catalog and hands back suggestions. The name stays exactly as Claude shows it.
- 1 read
What Claude reads (1)
1 toolOne tool that searches the O’Reilly catalog and returns resources, without changing anything.
search_oreilly_content
You tell Claude what you are after, and it returns top recommendations from O’Reilly: books, video courses, upcoming live events and curated learning plans.
What Claude asks before it acts
By default, Claude stops and asks you before every action it takes on an account for you. The request shows up in the conversation, right when it matters.
No source says whether Claude checks with you before running a catalog search, so that general rule is what applies here. On Team and Enterprise, workspace owners decide whether a member can let some actions through without being asked again. They can also cap what a connector may do for the whole organization, and nobody overrides that from their own account. And Claude works with your rights only: whatever your O’Reilly account can’t reach, Claude can’t reach either.
Which plans include it
None of the 819 sheets in the official directory shows availability by plan. For any single connector, that answer is simply not published anywhere: it is a real gap in the catalog.
What is published is the general rule: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner turns the connector on for the organization before members connect. For O’Reilly’s current status, check its sheet in the official directory through the button on this page. Worth knowing: only the publisher and the sheet document this connector; no Claude help article covers it.
Where this connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls the tool while it answers you: nothing fires on its own when a new book or event lands in the catalog.
By default its sheet only exposes reading, which is a floor, not a promise: an admin can open writes that no public sheet shows. The partner badge in the directory is not a security audit either, and Anthropic notes on every sheet that it does not pick a publisher’s tools or guarantee how they behave. Here the publisher is O’Reilly Media itself, so connect it only if you know and trust that publisher.
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