ChatGPT

Cranes connects to ChatGPT Plus and Pro as a plugin. ChatGPT’s form can’t be filled in by a link, so Cranes shows each value to copy.

Add Cranes

1. In Cranes, open the account menu, choose Connect your AI, then the ChatGPT card. Keep the steps open beside ChatGPT.
2. Choose Open ChatGPT. In ChatGPT’s Plugins, choose Add, then Create custom MCP server.
3. Name it Cranes, and paste https://usecranes.com/connect/mcp as the Server URL.
4. Leave Authentication on OAuth.
5. Check I understand and want to continue, choose Create as a plugin, then Continue to Cranes.
6. Sign in to Cranes, choose what ChatGPT may use, and choose Allow.

What’s automatic, and what depends on ChatGPT

ChatGPT decides when to call Cranes. Cranes asks it to check before work where your thinking could matter and to stay out of general questions. To be sure it checks, type @cranes; on its own, it checks the work against your thinking. See When Cranes comes in.

To make it more reliable, copy the line under Have your AI use Cranes on its own on Take it with you into a ChatGPT project’s instructions or your custom instructions.

What it can do and keep is the same as any other AI connected at that address. See What your AI can do with Cranes and What connected AIs keep.