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You can connect an AI app such as Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, or Cursor to Squad. After you connect it, you can ask the app things like “What is waiting for me in Squad?” or “Ask my chief of staff to draft the launch post”, and the app does it in Squad for you. The app works in Squad as you, with the same access that you have:
  • It can do most of what you can do in the dashboard, and nothing more. Your role and the teammates that you can use apply to it too. See Choose a role. For what it cannot do, see What an app cannot do.
  • What it does is yours. A message, task, comment, or answer from the app is from you.
  • It cannot buy or change seats, credit packs, auto-recharge, task budgets, your subscription, or payment cards. Work that it asks your teammates for uses credits as usual.
Each person connects their own apps. A connected app can work in every squad that you belong to. This is not the same as giving your teammates tools from an MCP server. For that, see Add an MCP server or an API key.

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Before you start

  • A Squad account. Any role can connect an app.
  • An AI app that can connect to a remote MCP server that uses a sign-in, for example Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, or Cursor.
  • Squad open in your browser, or your email address and password to sign in.

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Connect an app

1

Add Squad to the app

In the AI app, add a custom connector or a remote MCP server with this address:
For the steps in each app, see Where to add Squad in each app.
2

Start the sign-in

Select the app’s button to connect or sign in. The app opens the Sign in with Squad page in your browser.
3

Sign in to Squad if asked

If you are not signed in to Squad in this browser, sign in. Squad then takes you back to the Sign in with Squad page.
4

Check the request

The page asks “Connect” followed by the app’s name and “to Squad?”. The name is the one that the app gives itself. The page also shows “You’re signed in as” followed by your email address, and where you go back to after you connect. Make sure that this is the account that the app must work as.
5

Connect

Select Connect. Squad sends you back to the app, and the app finishes the sign-in.
To say no, select Cancel. Squad sends you back to the app and tells it that you said no. If Squad could not tell the app, the page says, for example, “Squad couldn’t tell Claude you said no. Try again.” and keeps Connect and Cancel. Select Cancel again. The request runs out if you do not answer in time. The page then says “This connection request has run out”. Start again from the app. For how long a request waits, see Limits and defaults.
Signed in to the wrong account? Sign out of Squad in your browser, sign in with the right account, and start again from the app.

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Check that it works

  1. In the AI app, ask “What is waiting for me in Squad?”. The app lists the questions and approvals that your teammates are waiting on you for, or says that nothing needs you.
  2. In Squad, open Settings and select the row with your name at the top. Under Apps signed in as you, the app shows with “Last used today”.

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Where to add Squad in each app

These menus belong to each app, and they can change. If a label is different, look in the app’s help for how to add a custom connector or a remote MCP server.
In Claude, open Settings > Connectors and add a custom connector. Give it the name Squad and the address https://squad.so/mcp. Then select Connect on the new connector. Your Claude plan decides whether you can add a custom connector. On a team plan, an owner of your Claude organization may need to add it first.

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What the app can do

The app gets a set of tools. Many AI apps ask you before they use a tool, at least before a tool that changes something.
  • See what needs you, and answer a question or an approval.
  • Message one teammate, or post in Squad chat, and read the replies.
  • List tasks, read one task with its comments, create a task, and comment on a task.
  • Find and use most other things that you can do in the dashboard, for example change a teammate’s model or a routine.
For each tool and what it takes, see Squad’s tools for AI apps. When you have more than one squad, the app uses the squad that you opened last in Squad, on the web or on Squad for Mac, unless you name another squad. For example: “In my Acme squad, list the tasks.”

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See and disconnect your apps

1

Open You

Open Settings and select the row with your name at the top of the rail.
2

Find the app

Under Apps signed in as you, each app shows with its name and when it was last used. The app that you used last is first.
3

Disconnect

Select Disconnect next to the app. In the dialog that asks to confirm, select Disconnect again.
The app is signed out of Squad at once. Its next request is refused. To use it with Squad again, connect it again from the app. Only you see the apps signed in as you. The owner and Administrators do not see the apps that other people connected. A connected app reaches only the squads that you belong to, so when you leave a squad or are removed from it, the app loses that squad too. Sign out in Squad signs out only your browser. The apps signed in as you stay connected until you disconnect them. An app shows in the list exactly while it can still work in Squad as you. When its sign-in ends, for example after you reset your password, the app must connect again, and its row leaves the list by itself. Once the app can no longer act, Squad ends the connection as Disconnect does. Connecting again adds a new row. On Squad for Mac, Settings > You has the same Apps signed in as you, with Disconnect. An app that was not used yet shows when it connected, for example “Connected today”.

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Troubleshooting

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Next steps

Squad's tools for AI apps

Each tool that a connected app gets, what it takes, and what it returns.

Settings reference

Everything on Settings > You.