ChatGPT
Add your Wire container to ChatGPT as a custom MCP connector in developer mode.
What You Need
Section titled “What You Need”- A paid ChatGPT plan, used on the web. OpenAI’s developer mode guide says developer mode is “Available to Pro, Plus, Business, Enterprise, and Education accounts on the web.” ChatGPT Free cannot add a custom MCP connector, and the mobile apps cannot either.
- Workspace approval, if you are on Business, Enterprise, or Edu. An owner or admin turns developer mode on for the workspace under Workspace Settings → Permissions & Roles before members see the option. Enterprise and Edu admins can scope access to selected roles. See Developer mode and MCP apps in ChatGPT.
- Your container’s MCP URL, from the container’s detail page in the Wire dashboard.
Full MCP support in ChatGPT, including write actions, is in beta. OpenAI describes developer mode as meant for people who understand how to configure and test a connector safely, and names prompt injection, model mistakes on write actions, and malicious MCP servers as the risks to watch for.
Turn On Developer Mode
Section titled “Turn On Developer Mode”- Open Settings → Security and login
- Turn on Developer mode
Add Your Container
Section titled “Add Your Container”- Open Settings → Plugins. OpenAI has called this surface Connectors and Apps at different times, so the label may differ on your build.
- Select the plus button. It only creates developer-mode apps once developer mode is on.
- Create a developer-mode app pointed at your container’s MCP URL.
Save the app once the URL is in.
Authorize
Section titled “Authorize”The first time you use a Wire tool, ChatGPT opens Wire’s OAuth flow in the browser. Sign in with the Wire account that has access to the container and approve.
Tokens are issued per client, so authorizing ChatGPT leaves your other clients alone and revoking one does not sign the others out. See Authentication for token details and for the container-scoped API key alternative.
Verify It Works
Section titled “Verify It Works”Developer-mode apps are selected per conversation rather than switched on for every chat. Start a new conversation, pick the Wire app under the Developer mode tool in the composer, then ask:
Use my Wire container to run wire_explore and tell me what is in it.You should get back the container’s top-level structure. If ChatGPT answers from general knowledge instead, the app was not selected in that conversation.
Read and Write Tools
Section titled “Read and Write Tools”Developer mode “provides full Model Context Protocol (MCP) client support for all tools, both read and write,” so all five standard tools are reachable: wire_explore, wire_navigate, wire_search, wire_write, and wire_delete.
Write actions require confirmation by default. ChatGPT shows you the tool input before it runs and waits for your approval, which is the moment to check that the entry about to be written says what you meant. You can tell ChatGPT to remember an approval for the rest of a conversation; a new conversation asks again.
To take writes off the table entirely, turn wire_write and wire_delete off for MCP on the container’s Tools page in the dashboard. A tool that is switched off is absent from tools/list, so ChatGPT never sees it. See Tools for the per-transport controls.
Finding Your Container URL
Section titled “Finding Your Container URL”Copy the MCP URL from your container’s detail page in the Wire dashboard.