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MCP: How to connect folk to ChatGPT

folk MCP lets you connect your favorite AI tools — like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and more — directly to your folk workspace. Once connected, your AI assistant can read and write to folk just like you can: searching contacts, updating records, moving deals through your pipeline, all from a simple prompt.
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MCP (the Model Context Protocol) is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to the tools and data they need. folk MCP is our hosted server: you connect it once through a secure OAuth flow, and your AI tool gets the same access to your workspace that your account already has.

For more infos, also visit our developer hub.

What you can do

Once folk is connected, you can simply ask your AI assistant to work with your workspace. A few examples:

👉 “What do we know about Acme Corp? Give me a quick summary.”

👉 “Add Jane Doe from Acme as a new contact in my Sales group.”

👉 “Move the Acme deal to the Negotiation stage.”

👉 “I’m meeting Antoine from Coca-Cola tomorrow — remind me what’s happened recently.”
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Behind the scenes, your tool uses folk MCP to:

  • Find the right contacts → search across your people, companies and groups

  • Keep your CRM up to date → create and update contacts, notes and custom fields from natural language

  • Manage your pipeline → move deals through your pipelines and keep statuses in sync

  • Build reports → generate relationship summaries and pipeline updates from your data
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Before you start

  • The folk MCP endpoint is: https://mcp.folk.app/mcp

  • Connecting uses OAuth — the first time your tool uses folk, you’ll be prompted to sign in and authorize access to your workspace.

  • Your AI tool gets the same access as your folk account, based on your role and permissions.

⚠️ Always make sure you’re connecting to the official endpoint above — see Security best practices at the end of this article.​

ChatGPT

Go to Settings → Apps

Turn on Developer mode by going in Advanced settings.

Click Add Connector and enter the URL: https://mcp.folk.app/mcp and check the box

Complete the OAuth flow to connect your folk workspace.

And that's all. folk MCP is connected.
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Codex

Add the folk server to your Codex configuration at ~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.folk]
url = "https://mcp.folk.app/mcp"

Then authenticate by running:

codex mcp login folk

Complete the OAuth flow to connect your folk workspace.
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