---
title: "Connect Channels to ChatGPT"
canonical: https://workspace.socra.com/docs/channels/integrations/chatgpt
---

# Connect Channels to ChatGPT

Use a custom MCP connection in ChatGPT on the web to access Channels. You need permission to add custom MCP servers in your ChatGPT workspace and manage OAuth clients in your Cloud Project.

## 1. Start the connection in ChatGPT

Open [ChatGPT Plugins](https://chatgpt.com/plugins). Choose **Add → Add custom MCP server**. Name the connection **Socra Channels** and enter this Server URL:

```url
https://channels.socra.cloud/mcp
```

Choose **OAuth → Advanced OAuth settings**. The discovered form uses **User-Defined OAuth Client**. Keep it open while you prepare the client. Its callback is:

```url
https://chatgpt.com/connector_platform_oauth_redirect
```

There is no final slash. If custom MCP is unavailable, ask your ChatGPT workspace owner about its policy. These controls follow [OpenAI's custom MCP guide](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/custom-mcp-server).

## 2. Select the Project and enable Channels

Open [Cloud Projects](https://platform.socra.com/projects) in another tab and choose your Account. In **Manage Cloud Projects**, choose **Switch Projects**, search for your Project and select it. The manager closes. Confirm the active Project in **Switch Cloud Project**.

Create a Project if needed. If you opened a Project's inspection details, use **Back to list → Switch Projects**. Close the manager if the intended Project is already active.

Open **Enabled services**. Continue if Channels is listed; otherwise choose **Enable service → Channels** and confirm it appears. Keep that Project selected. Service enablement and your ChatGPT connection's authorization are separate steps.

## 3. Register ChatGPT's OAuth client

In the selected Project, open **OAuth → Overview**. If needed, choose **Set up OAuth**, enter **Channels for ChatGPT**, complete the required consent information and save. Preserve an existing configuration.

Open **OAuth → Clients → Create client**. Name it **Channels for ChatGPT** and choose **Web**. Add `https://chatgpt.com/connector_platform_oauth_redirect` as the Redirect URL, matching the ChatGPT form exactly. Leave JavaScript origins empty, then create the client.

Copy its client ID from the details. Choose **Create client secret** and copy the secret immediately into ChatGPT's secret field. Socra shows it once. Keep it private; do not paste it into a chat or a screenshot. Close the secret dialog when the handoff is complete.

If secret creation reports access needed, use **Copy access request** and send it to the Project owner. Include your Account and membership identity so the owner can identify the recipient. Use **Check access again** after access is resolved. Ordinary client creation permission does not establish permission to create secrets.

## 4. Authorize and install

Return to ChatGPT's **Advanced OAuth settings** and enter the client ID and secret. Set **Token endpoint auth method** to **client_secret_post** for this Web client; the default **none** does not send its required secret. Leave **Base scopes** empty and keep the discovered authorization and token URLs. Review its warning, choose **I understand and want to continue**, then **Create as a plugin**. Find the resulting connection in your personal or workspace plugins and install it.

Complete Socra sign-in when prompted, choose the Account you use in Channels and approve access. If interrupted, return to the same connection and reconnect. Keep the registered client and Project; compare the callback, client ID and enabled Channels service before retrying an error.

## 5. Enable a read and verify

Open the connection's details and enable **Channels List**. Start a new conversation, type `@`, and select **Socra Channels**. Review any tool approval ChatGPT requests. [OpenAI documents these tool and conversation controls](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/custom-mcp-server).

Send:

```text
Use Socra Channels to make exactly one channels_list tool call with limit 1. Do not read messages or send, create, update or delete anything. Report whether the call succeeded. An empty list is valid.
```

Expand the tool details. Confirm `channels_list` ran with `limit: 1` and returned a result. An empty list is valid. A conversational answer without tool execution does not verify the connection.

If no tool runs, confirm the connection is installed, selected in this conversation and Channels List is enabled. If the tool returns an error, keep its text and check the authorized Account and service in the client's Project. Ask the Account or Project owner to resolve a denied permission before retrying. Refresh the connection's tools if its details are stale.

## See also

- [Connect Channels to Grok web](/docs/channels/integrations/grok)
- [Conversations and access](/docs/channels/concepts/conversations-and-access)
- [Use the Channels CLI](/docs/channels/reference/cli)