# Connect Claude or ChatGPT to Pactto (MCP server)

> Add the Pactto MCP server URL (https://live.pactto.com/mcp) to Claude, ChatGPT, or another assistant as a custom connector, sign in, and click Allow; it needs the Pro plan.

Category: AI and integrations
Web page: https://www.pactto.com/help/connect-ai-assistant-mcp
All guides: https://www.pactto.com/help.md

## What the MCP server does

The Pactto MCP server connects an outside AI assistant, such as Claude or ChatGPT, to your Pactto account. The assistant can read the rooms you belong to (canvas, files, comments, and transcripts) and, if you allow it, add comments and organize boards. It always acts as you, within the role you have in each room. Connecting a new assistant needs the **Pro** plan.

Server URL: `https://live.pactto.com/mcp`

Full setup guide and the list of tools: https://www.pactto.com/mcp

## Connect an assistant

1. In Pactto, open your account menu (your avatar) and go to **MCP server**. Copy the **Server URL** with **Copy**.
2. Add it to your assistant:
   - Claude: **Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector**, and paste the URL.
   - ChatGPT: **Settings → Connectors**.
3. When the assistant asks you to sign in, a Pactto page opens: "{Assistant} wants to access your Pactto account".
4. Review what it can do:
   - **Read your rooms**: canvas, files, comments, and transcripts. Always included.
   - **Comment on and organize boards**: shown when the assistant asks for write access. Untick it to give read-only access.
5. Click **Allow** (or **Deny**). Pactto sends you back to the assistant.
6. Try a prompt such as "List all of my Pactto rooms".

Only approve a request you just started yourself. If the page says **This request has expired**, start again from the assistant.

## See or remove connected assistants

1. Open **MCP server** in your account settings.
2. Under **Connected assistants** you see each assistant, its access (**Read** or **Read and write**), when it connected, and when it was last used.
3. To remove one, click **Revoke**, then **Yes, revoke**. It loses access on its next request.

## Good to know

- Without Pro you see **Connect AI assistants with a Pro plan** and an **Upgrade to Pro** button. Assistants you already connected keep working, and you can always revoke them.
- Guest accounts cannot connect assistants. Create a full account first.
- Changes the assistant makes are visible to everyone in the room, as if you made them.
- A few tools, such as describing an image or the visuals of a PDF, use Pactto AI credits. Reading text, comments, and transcripts does not.
- Prefer a terminal or coding agent? Use the Pactto CLI.

## Related guides

- [Use the Pactto CLI and create an API key](https://www.pactto.com/help/pactto-cli.md): The Pactto CLI lets Claude Code, Codex, scripts, and CI read and update your rooms from the terminal; create an API key in Account settings under API keys (CLI) (Pro plan), then follow the setup at pactto.com/cli.
- [Use the AI assistant in a room](https://www.pactto.com/help/ai-assistant.md): Click the AI Assistant button (sparkle icon, bottom right of the room) or Ask AI on a selected item, then type or dictate a question or instruction; the assistant answers from the room's content and can create notes, docs, images, comments, and more on the canvas.
- [Read the transcript and live captions of a meeting](https://www.pactto.com/help/transcripts.md): Pactto transcribes what each person says while their microphone is on; open the Live captions panel (the CC button at the bottom right of the room) to read the transcript, translate it, or show captions on screen.
- [Leave feedback with comments](https://www.pactto.com/help/comments.md): Click the Comment tool (or press K), then click an item or an empty spot on the canvas, type your feedback, and press Enter to post it.
- [Set a review status on an item](https://www.pactto.com/help/review-status.md): Select a video, image, PDF, Pactto Doc, or board and pick a status (Draft, In progress, Needs review, Needs changes, Approved, or your own) from the status menu in its title bar.