Connector

Connect ChatGPT to Typetoe

If you have a ChatGPT subscription and you are in it every day anyway, you can work on your Typetoe manuscript without leaving it. ChatGPT reaches your project, reads the chapters, the character sheets and the locations, and follows the rules you set in the charter. No API key is needed and there is no token counter: the costs and limits stay the ones of your ChatGPT plan.

Before you start

What you need

A Typetoe account with at least one project in it, and either the browser or ChatGPT's desktop app. The iPhone app has no section for adding a custom plugin from a URL, so from a phone you go through the browser anyway.

And there is a switch to flip first, or the “Plugins” entry does not appear at all: developer mode. It is off by default, and the first four steps below exist only to turn it on. ChatGPT marks it as elevated risk, and that is fair in general: it is the switch that lets you add connectors OpenAI has not vetted — Typetoe among them. The usual rule applies, add only the ones you trust.

About your plan: custom plugins need a paid subscription — Plus, Pro, Business or Enterprise. That is the main difference from Claude, which accepts one custom connector on the free plan too.

Ten steps

Adding the plugin

  1. Open ChatGPT in your browser and open the sidebar.

    ChatGPT in the browser, with the icon that opens the sidebar at the top left.

  2. Click your account icon, then Settings.

    ChatGPT's account menu, open, with the Settings entry.

  3. Scroll the tabs along to “Plugins”, then scroll to the bottom of that tab.

    ChatGPT's settings, with the Plugins tab between Personalization and Voice.

  4. At the bottom you will find “Developer mode”. Turn it on.

    The Developer mode switch, marked by ChatGPT as elevated risk, turned on.
    This is the switch ChatGPT itself marks as elevated risk.

  5. Back to the sidebar: the “Plugins” entry is there now.

    ChatGPT's sidebar with the Plugins entry between Scheduled and More.

  6. Click the + beside the search field.

    The plugin list, with the plus button beside the search field.

  7. Give the plugin a name — “Typetoe”, “Typetoe App”, whatever suits you — and paste the exact address ChatGPT needs in order to reach your account:

    https://app.typetoe.com/mcp
    The New Plugin form: the icon field, the name filled in as Typetoe, the optional description, and the address https://app.typetoe.com/mcp with OAuth authentication.
    The icon field wants a PNG of 256×256 or larger, under 10 KB. Ours is ready at typetoe.com/typetoe-connector.png

  8. Scroll to the bottom, agree to continue and click “Create”.

    The foot of the New Plugin form, with the warning about custom MCP servers and the Create button.

  9. Click “Sign in with Typetoe” to link your account.

    The newly created plugin, with the Sign in with Typetoe button.

  10. You are sent to the Typetoe sign-in: sign in with your credentials, then authorise ChatGPT to reach your account.

    The Typetoe sign-in screen, followed by the authorisation for ChatGPT.

If you change your mind

Disconnecting or removing

The link breaks whenever you want, and the plugin comes off the list entirely.

The connected Typetoe plugin, with the options to disconnect and to remove it.

This is where it begins

The first question

Open a new chat and ask it to reach your project. A good opening question is: Can you reach Typetoe? What projects do you see? ChatGPT will ask your permission before using the tools.

ChatGPT is connected to your account, not to one project: inside a chat it is worth saying which project you mean.

ChatGPT listing the Typetoe projects after the access request.

What it is good at

Why ChatGPT in particular

Writers used to thinking out loud tend to prefer it: in long brainstorming sessions, the kind where a scene gets taken apart and put back together ten times, many find it the most comfortable.

It is not a fixed ranking. On subtext Claude still seems ahead, and these things move with every release — which is the reason Typetoe ties you to neither.