DriveBridge
Setup
DriveBridge needs three one-time steps and one short step at the start of each trip. This page describes the app as it works today, in closed testing.
Where things stand
DriveBridge is in closed testing. The app is not on Google Play. The current tester build is 0.11.10 (72).
The app has 32 languages. On the first launch you choose one, and you can change it later from the header on the main screen. Where this guide names a button, the label you see in the app follows in quotation marks.
You connect the connector yourself, in Claude or in Grok. The “DriveBridge authorization” page asks for your DriveBridge account's email address, then for a code that arrives by email.
Tool permissions and the steps at the start of a trip are written for Claude, the assistant DriveBridge has been measured with. Adding the connector is described for Claude and for Grok.
What you need
- An Android phone with Android 13 or newer. Dictation uses the phone's own speech recognition for the language you chose. If the phone cannot read or dictate in that language, the app uses English for both.
- A car or a headset that plays your phone's audio over Bluetooth and has media buttons.
- A Claude account or a Grok account. In Claude, a custom connector can be added on every plan; the Free plan allows one.
- A browser, once, to add the connector: Claude on the web or Claude Desktop, or Grok. Afterwards the connector is also available in the assistant's app on your phone.
- An internet connection on the phone while you drive.
One-time setup
1Install the app and allow two permissions
- Download the installer and open it on the phone. Android asks you to allow installing apps from this source; allow it. If Play Protect warns you, that is expected for an app that is not on Google Play. Continue with the choice that installs the app anyway. The exact labels depend on the phone.
- Start DriveBridge. It asks for two permissions: the microphone, which dictation needs, and notifications, which show the media controls outside the app. Allow both. Then choose the app language. You can change it later from the header on the main screen.
- Before you add the connector, sign in to a DriveBridge account in the app, or at https://mcp.pandaonthemoon.io/login, with the email address you will enter on the approval page. There is no password. A code arrives by email.
2Add DriveBridge as a connector in Claude or in Grok
- In Claude (on claude.ai or in Claude Desktop) open Settings, then Customize: Connectors now lives there. Choose + Add, then Add custom connector.
- In Grok, open the Connectors list and scroll all the way to the bottom of the offered (Featured) connectors. The option to add your own custom connector is only visible there.
- Name: DriveBridge. Server URL: https://mcp.pandaonthemoon.io/mcp. On Claude's form this field is Remote MCP server URL.
- The browser opens the “DriveBridge authorization” page. Enter the email address of the DriveBridge account you registered in the app beforehand.
- A 6-digit code arrives by email. The subject is “DriveBridge connector code”. The code is valid for 5 minutes. You can request a new one after 60 seconds, at most 5 an hour, and a new code invalidates the previous unused code. If it does not arrive, check Spam and Promotions.
- Type the code on the same page. The browser then returns to Claude or Grok, and the connector is connected.
- If the page says “There is no DriveBridge account for this address.”, register in the app first, then try again.
- After it connects, DriveBridge appears among your connectors, and it is available in the assistant's app on your phone as well.
- The menu names belong to Claude and to Grok, and they may change.
3Let the DriveBridge tools run without asking
- In Settings, then Customize, Connectors, select DriveBridge and open Tool permissions. Set every DriveBridge tool to Always allow. There are six: drivebridge_csatlakozas, drivebridge_varakozas, drivebridge_valasz, drivebridge_ertesites, drivebridge_kulso_muvelet_elhalasztasa, drivebridge_visszajelzes.
- This matters: if Claude asks for permission while you drive, nobody can tap the answer and the conversation stops.
- Claude may reset these permissions after a connector update, or when a new tool appears. Set them again before the next trip.
- Leave the tools of your other connectors, such as email or issue trackers, on Needs approval. DriveBridge tells Claude not to run such actions while you drive and to keep them pending until you have stopped.
At the start of each trip
- Connect the phone to the car over Bluetooth, as you would for music.
- Open DriveBridge and tap Connect (“Connecting”). The app copies a ready-made sentence with a 6-digit code to the clipboard and shows how long the code is valid.
- Open Claude on the phone and open the conversation you want to work in. Check that the DriveBridge connector is switched on for it: the + button, then Connectors.
- Paste the sentence and send it. Claude connects and starts waiting for your first question.
- DriveBridge switches to its control panel (“Controls”) and is ready (“Ready”). You can lock the screen and put the phone away. Press Play to dictate.
The conversation you paste the sentence into is the one DriveBridge works in. Its project, instructions and documents apply, and the conversation is still there when you sit down at your desk.
The code is valid for 5 minutes. You can request a new one after 60 seconds, at most 5 an hour, and a new code invalidates the old one. If it has expired, tap New code (“New code”) and paste the new sentence.
Keep DriveBridge the only thing playing. If you start music or video in another app, DriveBridge loses the audio and its silence countdown begins.
When a session has closed, the phone starts a new one and copies a fresh code to the clipboard.
After the trip
- End the session with the End conversation button (“End conversation”), pressed twice, or let the silence countdown close it.
- DriveBridge keeps a transcript of each session on the phone for 7 days. Open Transcripts (“Transcripts”) to read it or to save it to a folder of your choice. After 7 days it is deleted.
- Anything Claude was asked to do that needs your approval, such as sending an email, waits in the conversation as a pending item. Approve it there once you have stopped.
If something does not work
- Claude says the code is wrong or has expired.
- Tap New code (“New code”) and paste the new sentence. Five wrong attempts within 10 minutes lock pairing for 15 minutes.
- DriveBridge says the AI is not listening.
- Claude has stopped its turn. When you have stopped the car, open Claude and tap Continue, or ask it to carry on. The same session goes on; no new code is needed.
- DriveBridge says the AI took the question but does not answer.
- Claude is most likely waiting for a permission. When you have stopped the car, approve it in Claude, then set that tool to Always allow.
- DriveBridge shows that it cannot reach its server.
- Check the phone's internet connection and tap Connect again.
- Dictation does not start.
- Check that DriveBridge has the microphone permission and that the phone's speech recognition supports the language you chose. If it does not, the app uses English for reading and dictation. Dictation needs Android 13 or newer.
- DriveBridge says the sign-in ended.
- The phone must stay signed in to the DriveBridge account. Closing the app does not sign you out. If the sign-in has ended, sign in again with your email and a new code.
- The session closed while you were quiet.
- After 4 minutes of silence, DriveBridge says the connection will close in 1 minute. Press Play to keep it open. If the countdown ends, the session closes and the phone prepares a new code.
Feedback
Testers can send feedback from their own AI client, in any language. For example: “Send this as feedback to the DriveBridge developer: dictation did not start after the second button press.” The developer receives it.
Where your words go
Everything you dictate and every reply passes through the DriveBridge server on its way between the phone and Claude. It is not stored there permanently.
Your speech is turned into text by the phone's speech recognition service, not by DriveBridge.
The conversation itself lives in your Claude account. DriveBridge has no access to your Claude sign-in, your list of conversations or the contents of your project.