# Connect your AI tools with MCP

> Use the General Input MCP to give Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok access to every integration, workflow, and skill in your workspace.

The General Input MCP connects your workspace to the AI tool you already use. Once it is paired, your agent can reach every integration you have authorized, run and build workflows and skills, and use the business context behind them, without leaving that chat window.

## Why bother

- **Depth.** Most native connectors cover the popular actions of an API. General Input documents the whole surface, which works out to roughly three times more tools per integration.
- **One place to manage access.** Integrations stay in your General Input vault. Connect a service once and every AI tool you pair can use it.
- **Credentials stay yours.** Secrets are injected at runtime inside the sandbox and stripped before anything returns to the model.

<Callout type="note">
  The connector is not read-only. It exposes the full agent toolset, so you can
  build workflows, create skills, and write results back to your workspace from
  the chat window.
</Callout>

## Get your connector details

<Steps>
  <Step>Open **Settings** and find the **MCP** section.</Step>
  <Step>
    Copy the **Server URL** and the **Connector name**. You will paste both into
    whichever AI tool you are connecting.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Connect Claude

<Steps>
  <Step>
    In settings, click **Manage connectors**. That opens your Claude settings
    page.
  </Step>
  <Step>
    Go to **Connectors** and click **Add**, then **Add custom connector**.
  </Step>
  <Step>
    Paste the connector name and the server URL, then click **Continue**, scroll
    down, and click **Add**.
  </Step>
  <Step>
    Authenticate: click **Connect**, then **Allow**. This pairs that workspace
    to your Claude account.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Callout type="tip">
  Pairing is per workspace. If you work across more than one General Input
  workspace, add each as its own connector.
</Callout>

## Connect other tools

The same server URL works with anything that speaks MCP. The **MCP** section in settings has copy-paste steps for:

- **Claude** on the web and in the desktop app
- **ChatGPT** desktop app
- **Claude Code** as a single command
- **Codex CLI**

Gemini, Grok, and other MCP clients use the same server URL and connector name.

## Try it

Ask for something that needs more than one system. A good first prompt:

> Using the General Input MCP, pull everything you can find on our largest customer and summarize where the account stands.

The agent searches your connected integrations, calls the operations it needs, and answers from live data rather than guesswork.

<Callout type="tip">
  Work that spans several systems can take real time, sometimes twenty minutes
  or more. Give it a task worth waiting for rather than something you could
  answer in one click.
</Callout>

## Save what works

When the agent produces something you will want again, have it write the process back into your workspace:

> Now that you understand how to build this, create a skill in General Input with the template and process.

The skill lives in your workspace from then on, so the next run is consistent instead of improvised.

## Related

- [Connect an integration](/getting-started/connect-an-integration). Authorize the services the MCP will reach.
- [Install Token Tunnel](/getting-started/install-token-tunnel). Run automations on the AI subscriptions you already pay for.
- [Create a skill](/getting-started/create-a-skill). Build reusable procedures by hand.