Your Essential account
Connect your
assistant.
Choose your service, copy Essential’s URL and add it in your assistant’s connection settings. Then sign in to Essential and approve access.
Setup status
Checking availability…
No connection has been made by this page.
Checking your Essential sign-in…
1. Choose your assistant
2. Copy this URL
Paste into your service’s connection settings, not the ordinary chat box. A copied link does not grant access.
3. Add it to ChatGPT
- Open ChatGPT Plugins → Add → Add custom MCP server.
- Name it Essential, paste the URL into Server URL and choose OAuth. Review the request, then create the plugin.
- Sign in to Essential and choose the access you want. Install/select Essential in your chat before using it.
- Open Claude Connectors → Add → Add custom connector.
- Name it Essential, paste the URL and continue. Choose sign-in authentication and finish adding it.
- Connect/sign in to Essential, review access, then enable Essential in the conversation’s connector menu.
- If your dot uses ChatGPT’s plugins, choose ChatGPT above and follow those steps.
- Otherwise, open your dot host’s supported remote-MCP connection settings and add the Essential URL. Sign in to Essential and review access.
- Ask your dot to read your Essential routines. If your host has no connection setting, ask Essential for help; pasting the URL into a message is not a verified connection method.
Connection controls vary by account and service. If asked for client details that Essential has not supplied, stop and contact Essential. Do not guess them or paste passwords into chat.
4. Check it works
Ask: “Use Essential to read my saved routines.” Then ask it to save one routine you choose and check your account. A chat saying it is connected is not proof that a record was saved.
Only the access you approve is available. You can review or revoke it. Your journal, dated preference log and referral details are excluded. Nothing here schedules reminders or marks an action done.
Need a little help?
Essential’s connection must be enabled before these steps can finish. If your sign-in changes or status cannot be checked, sign in again or choose Check again. Existing members can connect when ready even if new-account email is still pending.
If the consent screen asks to keep the connection available, review that renewal permission separately. It does not authorize extra actions or create a schedule.