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Review an MCP connector before connecting

Reviews an MCP server or connector before the team connects it: who runs it, each tool sorted read or write, sign-in, data, approvals, and a decision. Use it when someone wants to add a connector or MCP server URL to the team's AI.

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Have your AI check a connector before your team adds it

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Works in Claude, ChatGPT, and coding agents. On Team and Business, the official skill in your pod updates itself when we improve it.

When to use it

What you give it

What you get

A one-page review: tools typed read, write or run with a setting each, sign-in, data, conditions, and connect or not.

How it works

  1. Name the job
  2. Identify who runs it
  3. List every tool and sort it
  4. Check sign-in and scope
  5. Follow the data
  6. Set approvals
  7. Decide
  8. Record it

Example

What you give it

Our support lead wants to connect HelpDocs' MCP server to Claude so it can draft replies from our help center. URL from HelpDocs' site. Tools listed: search_articles, get_article, create_article, delete_article. Sign-in is with your HelpDocs account. Their data page says they log requests for 30 days in the EU.

What you get back (the start of it)

Connector review: HelpDocs MCP server

Job: Let Claude read our help center articles to draft support replies. Publisher: HelpDocs · Official for HelpDocs? Yes · Hosted: remote URL Decision: Connect with conditions — the job needs only the two read tools; the write tools are off.

Tools

ToolWhat it doesTypeSetting
search_articlesSearches help center articles by keywordReadAllow
get_articleReturns one article's textReadAllow
create_articlePublishes a new articleWriteOff
delete_articleDeletes an articleWriteOff

Sign-in and access

  • Sign-in: OAuth with each person's HelpDocs account
  • Each person sees: only what their HelpDocs role allows

The rest of this output, the full steps and the checks the AI runs before it answers are in your pod once you add the skill.

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Changelog

Sources

  1. Specification - Model Context Protocol (Security and Trust & Safety) (read 2026-11-04)
  2. Getting started with custom connectors using remote MCP - Claude Help Center (read 2026-11-04)
  3. Connecting custom MCP servers in ChatGPT - OpenAI Help Center (read 2026-11-04)
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