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title: "Use Chat Thing from your AI assistant"
description: "Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or another AI assistant to Chat Thing and build, test and manage your bots by chatting with it."
canonical_url: "https://chatthing.ai/docs/mcp"
last_updated: "2026-09-25"
---

# Use Chat Thing from your AI assistant

You can build and manage your Chat Thing bots by chatting with the AI assistant you already use, such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex. Ask it to "build me a support bot from my help centre" and it creates the bot, adds your website as knowledge, attaches power-ups, sets up the website widget and tests the answers for you. You don't need to write code: you connect your assistant once, approve access in your browser, and then describe what you want in plain words.

This works through MCP (the [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io)), an open standard that lets AI assistants use tools in other apps. Your assistant can only do what your own Chat Thing account can do.

Start with [Connect your AI assistant](https://chatthing.ai/docs/mcp/connect). It takes a couple of minutes.

## Most common tasks

- [Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or another assistant](https://chatthing.ai/docs/mcp/connect)
- [Build a support bot with your assistant](https://chatthing.ai/docs/mcp/build-a-bot)
- [See everything your assistant can do](https://chatthing.ai/docs/mcp/tools)
- [Give your AI agent step-by-step recipes](https://chatthing.ai/docs/mcp/agent-recipes)
- [Connect a script or CI job with an API key](https://chatthing.ai/docs/mcp/authentication#use-an-api-key)
- [Revoke an assistant's access](https://chatthing.ai/docs/mcp/authentication#revoke-access)

## In this section

- [Connect your AI assistant to Chat Thing](https://chatthing.ai/docs/mcp/connect): Add the Chat Thing MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed or Cline and approve access in your browser.
- [Control what your AI assistant can access](https://chatthing.ai/docs/mcp/authentication): How AI assistants sign in to Chat Thing, what they can read and change, how to use an API key for scripts and CI, and how to revoke access.
- [What your AI assistant can do in Chat Thing](https://chatthing.ai/docs/mcp/tools): Every tool the Chat Thing MCP server gives your AI assistant, from creating bots and adding knowledge to webhooks, tests and conversations.
- [Build a bot with your AI assistant](https://chatthing.ai/docs/mcp/build-a-bot): Go from one prompt to a tested support bot using your AI assistant and the Chat Thing MCP server, and learn what a good build looks like.
- [Recipes for AI agents using the Chat Thing MCP server](https://chatthing.ai/docs/mcp/agent-recipes): Step-by-step tool call sequences for AI agents using the Chat Thing MCP server, with the checks to run after each one.

## Related

- [Connect your AI assistant to Chat Thing](https://chatthing.ai/docs/mcp/connect): Add the Chat Thing MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed or Cline and approve access in your browser.
- [Build your first bot](https://chatthing.ai/docs/get-started/build-your-first-bot): Create a Chat Thing bot that answers from your own content, either by letting Otto set it up with you or step by step in the dashboard.