Connecting your own AI

Updated 26 October 2026.

You can let your own AI assistant work with your trips: ask it what's on tomorrow, or have it suggest changes to the plan in the studio. This is what it may do, the address to give it, and how to connect it in the apps people use most.

What a connected AI is

A connected AI is your own AI assistant, such as Claude or ChatGPT, working with your trips through a connection you allow. It is never Kestrel, TripEagle's own planner: TripEagle doesn't run it, choose it or check what it says.

It acts as you, with no more than your role allows. Connected to a trip's site, it sees and does what you could there yourself, on that trip alone. Connected to the studio, it plans the trips you picked when you allowed it, as you plan them.

What it writes in the studio lands in the draft marked suggested, with an undo, and nothing reaches the trip site until you publish. What it asks to do that a suggestion can't take back, such as publishing or inviting someone, doesn't happen: it is a held action, and it waits in your Inbox until you confirm it.

Text other people wrote on the trip reaches it marked as untrusted, so that it treats what a note says as something to read, not an instruction to follow.

What it can do

What it can do depends on where you connect it, and is never more than your role lets you do there yourself: a guest's AI doesn't see the ledger, for one. If you allowed it only to read, it gets the reads alone.

It can make up to 600 reads, 60 changes and 10 requests to ask you first in any hour. Past one of those, it is told when it may try again.

On a trip

It can read:

  • the plan: what's on today, every day and region, the tours and tickets for a day, where your party sleeps, the notes, the emergency card and the packing list
  • the announcements, the album, the comments on a day or a photo, and where everyone is on the map
  • your party's bookings, what it still has to book, and the ledger
  • the Trip Book preview, your conversation with Kestrel, and your own preferences, traveler preferences and pay handles

It can, as you would on the trip site:

  • add, edit or remove a booking, confirm or discard a forwarded booking, and send the trip a confirmation, as a file, a link or text, to be read as a booking, a receipt or places
  • add, edit or remove an expense, with a receipt Kestrel reads for its amount, and record a settlement between parties
  • add photos to the album, change a photo's caption, tags or day, keep a photo out of keepsakes, and comment on a day or a photo
  • ask Kestrel about the trip
  • change your preferences, traveler preferences and pay handles

In the studio

It can read:

  • the trips you plan, and each one's draft, versions and what publishing would change
  • Kestrel's work on a trip: its shape, its day fill, the refine conversation and the AI actions left, and your interview for a new trip
  • the Inbox and its proposals, the trip's people and join requests, its bookings and its money

It can, in the draft, marked suggested:

  • set a day's title, blurb, city or kind, and add, change, move or take off its places
  • set or clear how a day travels and where a night is spent
  • add, rewrite or take off a note, and add to or take off the packing list
  • ask Kestrel for the trip's shape, to fill its days or to change it, which spends the trip's AI actions as it would in the studio
  • take your interview for a new trip with Kestrel, though only you confirm the trip it makes

It asks you first, in the Inbox, to:

  • publish the draft, or roll the trip back to a version
  • invite someone, make a join link, or decide a join request
  • decide a proposal or Kestrel's shape, or settle a conflict

What Kestrel does when it asks lands as Kestrel's work always does: its shape and its day fill in the draft, marked suggested, and a change from refining as a proposal in the Inbox.

The address to give it

Your AI connects to one address, a remote MCP server. Which one depends on what you want it to work with:

  • One trip, as a member: <your trip's address>/mcp, the address you open the trip at with /mcp after it. The trip site shows it on Connected AIs, under More, with a button to copy it.
  • The studio, as a planner: https://app.tripeagle.app/mcp. The studio shows it under Connected AIs on your Account.

You don't need a key or a password to paste anywhere. The app sends you to TripEagle to sign in and allow the connection, and that is where you choose what it may reach.

Claude, on the web and the desktop app

Checked on 25 October 2026. If the screens look different, the fields are still the ones below.

Claude calls an MCP server you add yourself a custom connector. Add it once on the web, and the desktop app has it too. Whether you can add one depends on your Claude plan.

  1. In Claude, open Settings, then Connectors.
  2. Select Add custom connector.
  3. Give it a name, such as TripEagle, and paste the address as its URL.
  4. Select Add, then Connect beside it.
  5. The app opens TripEagle's consent page in your browser. Sign in if you're asked, check the trips it may reach and whether it may only read or also make changes, and select Allow. The app takes it from there.
  6. In a chat, turn the connector on from the tools menu, then ask Claude about your trip.

ChatGPT

Checked on 25 October 2026. If the screens look different, the fields are still the ones below.

ChatGPT adds an MCP server of your own as a connector in developer mode. Whether you can turn it on depends on your ChatGPT plan, and in a workspace, on what its admin allows.

  1. In ChatGPT, open Settings, then Apps and connectors, then Advanced settings, and turn on Developer mode.
  2. Back in Apps and connectors, select Create.
  3. Give it a name, such as TripEagle, paste the address as its MCP server URL, and choose OAuth for its authentication.
  4. Confirm you trust the app, and select Create.
  5. The app opens TripEagle's consent page in your browser. Sign in if you're asked, check the trips it may reach and whether it may only read or also make changes, and select Allow. The app takes it from there.
  6. In a chat, add the connector from the tools menu, then ask about your trip.

Any app that takes an MCP server

Checked on 25 October 2026. If the screens look different, the fields are still the ones below.

Any AI app that connects to a remote MCP server can connect to TripEagle. Wherever it asks for a server:

  1. Add a remote server over HTTP, sometimes called Streamable HTTP, at the address above.
  2. Choose OAuth for its sign-in, if the app asks. There is no client ID or secret to type: the app introduces itself to TripEagle.
  3. The app opens TripEagle's consent page in your browser. Sign in if you're asked, check the trips it may reach and whether it may only read or also make changes, and select Allow. The app takes it from there.

An app that only starts a program on your own computer, and can't reach a server at an address, can't connect.

Seeing and revoking a connection

Each connection is listed where you found its address, Connected AIs on the trip site or on your Account in the studio, with when it was last used and what it covers. Select Revoke to end one: the AI can't reach your trips from that moment.

A connection also ends by itself after 90 days unused. A trip drops out of a planner's connection once they no longer plan it, and a member's ends with their membership.

Signing out everywhere ends every connection you made, on every trip and in the studio, as Signing in on a new device says. Connect an AI again to use it.