ChatGPT

What you get

ChatGPT can bring your thinking into a conversation when you ask, and save to Cranes when you say so. Cranes connects to ChatGPT Plus and Pro as a plugin.

Set up

ChatGPT’s form can’t be filled in by a link, so Cranes shows each value to copy.

1. In Cranes, choose Use in other AIs in the sidebar.
2. Under Add an AI, on the ChatGPT card, choose Show the steps. Keep them open beside ChatGPT.
3. Choose Open ChatGPT. In ChatGPT’s Plugins, choose Add, then Create custom MCP server.
4. Name it Cranes, and paste https://usecranes.com/connect/mcp as the Server URL.
5. Leave Authentication on OAuth.
6. Check I understand and want to continue, choose Create as a plugin, then Continue to Cranes.

Sign in

ChatGPT sends you to Cranes. On Connect ChatGPT to Cranes, check what ChatGPT may use, choose whether to Keep my own ideas, and choose Allow. You’re sent back to ChatGPT. See Choose what it can use.

What’s automatic, and when you ask

• Your thinking comes in when you ask. Type @cranes, or ask what your thinking, the team’s, or a group’s says. @cranes on its own checks the work in front of ChatGPT against your thinking. ChatGPT shows what Cranes guided and where each part came from.
• Saving waits for your yes. Ask ChatGPT to save something, or say yes when it offers.
• To skip typing @cranes, copy the line under Have your AI use Cranes on its own on Use in other AIs into a ChatGPT project’s instructions or your custom instructions.

See When Cranes comes in.