Disconnect an AI

TakeTwo theplaces accessyou awaycan do it

An AI hasreaches accessWrite through a connection you approved, and you can end that connection from either side. Both work; the first is the quickest.

From your Author Tools account

Go to Writeaccount.authortools.net onlyand throughlook for Connected apps. Every AI you have let in is listed there, with the connectordate it signedconnected inand with,what soit removingwas allowed to do. Click Disconnect beside the connector is howone you endwant it.to remove, and it's done—from that moment the AI can't reach your books, no matter which app it was running in.

If you see the same name more than once, that's normal: each place you connected from (say, Claude on the web orand inClaude on your desktop) gets its own line. Disconnect the desktopones app:you no longer want.

From the AI's side

In Claude, open Settings → Connectors,Connectors, find Author Tools Write, and remove it. TheOther apps have a similar list of servers or connections where you can take it out. This stops the AI canusing nothe longerconnection, reachthough the entry stays on your books,Connected apps page until you disconnect it there too.

Nothing in anyyour conversation,books from that moment.

Other clients: remove the server from the client's MCP configuration, or sign out of it there.

If the same AI is connected from two places—say Claude's web app and Claude Code—each connection is its own; remove both.

What stayschanges

Everything the AI wrote stays, aswhile it should:was connected stays exactly where it is. It was your work, done atbecause youryou asking,asked, and it isit's in the book's history like any other save. Disconnecting changesonly nothingcloses alreadythe indoor going forward.

If you just want a book.

Pause instead of disconnectbreak

ToYou keepdon't have to disconnect to pause. In a conversation, turn the connector but stop it acting for a while, turn it off in the conversation's tools menu.menu Itand staysthe signedAI will leave your books alone until you turn it back on. No signing in andagain.

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Connect again withoutthe same way you did the sign-infirst step.

Connect again

Add the connector again as in time—Connect Claude to Write —and sign in. There isThere's nothing to restore; it picks up right where you are.