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Connect Extrovert to an AI assistant (MCP)

Run Extrovert from Claude or ChatGPT with plain-language prompts: what the AI can set up, how it can work through your comment and DM queue, why the tool list shows three tools, and how to connect each client.

Written by Denis Bauer

Extrovert has an MCP server, so you can connect it to an AI assistant like Claude or ChatGPT and run it with plain-language prompts - no code. Ask it to launch a campaign, fill in a voice, review the comments waiting for you, or reply to a prospect, and it works directly on your Extrovert account.

You set this up on the Connect to AI page in Extrovert (left menu). The steps below cover the main tools.

What you can do with it

Set up and manage

  • View your campaigns, prospects, topics, and voices

  • Create, start, stop, duplicate, share, or transfer campaigns

  • Create and fill in voices, including talking points, selling points, DM templates, and comment examples

  • Manage prospects and prospect lists, and the topics you monitor

  • Pull in a LinkedIn profile, someone's recent posts, or their recent comments to work from

  • See your plan's features and quotas, and your team members

Work through your queue

  • List the comments waiting for you and read any one of them

  • Generate or improve a comment draft, or set its exact text

  • Choose whether approving posts a comment, a reaction, or both

  • Approve a comment, cancel one that's queued, skip it, or unskip it later

  • List your DM conversations and read one

  • Prepare a reply, improve it, edit the exact text, and send it

A few prompts to try once you're connected:

  • "Show me my active campaigns."

  • "Create a nurturing campaign for senior PMs in NYC."

  • "Go through my pending comments and approve the ones that mention a concrete result."

  • "Draft a reply to the last message from Anna, keep it short."

How much of your day it can take over

More than it used to. The AI can now do the review work itself: read the drafts, adjust them, approve comments, and send DM replies. So you can run your daily engagement from your chat rather than from the Extrovert feed, if that suits you better.

What it doesn't do is run on its own. It has no schedule and no background mode - it acts only while you're prompting it, and it stops when the conversation stops. Nothing is approved or sent unless you asked for it in that conversation. If you want comments going out without you present, that's a different feature: see auto comments.

A sensible habit when you let it act: ask it to show you what it's about to approve or send before it does.

Why you only see three tools

When you look at the tool list in Claude or ChatGPT, Extrovert shows three: list_tool_names, describe_tools, and call_tool. That's expected and nothing is missing.

Everything above is still there. The AI asks for the list of available actions, reads the details of the ones it needs, and calls them through those three. Loading dozens of full tool definitions into every conversation wastes the AI's context, so we hand them over on demand instead. You don't have to do anything differently - just ask for what you want.

If you connected Extrovert before and your chat still lists many separate Extrovert tools, that chat is holding an old copy of the list. Refresh the connection (toggle Extrovert off and on in your AI tool, or reload the window) and start a new chat.

Before you start

  • Works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, or any other MCP-compatible tool.

  • Claude Desktop needs Claude Pro or Max (custom connectors are a paid feature).

  • ChatGPT Developer Mode is available on Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education accounts on the web.

How to connect

First, open Connect to AI in Extrovert (left menu) and copy the MCP URL with the Copy button - you'll paste it into your AI tool. Then follow the steps for the tool you use.

Claude Desktop

  1. Open Claude Desktop and go to Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.

  2. Paste your Extrovert URL into the connector URL field.

  3. Approve access - your browser opens a consent page, click Allow.

Claude Code

  1. Install Claude Code if you don't have it yet (see docs.claude.com/claude-code).

  2. Copy the command shown for Claude Code on the Connect to AI page and run it in your terminal - it already includes your URL.

  3. The first tool call opens a browser for one-time approval - click Allow.

ChatGPT

  1. Open chatgpt.com, go to Settings → Security and login, and turn on Developer Mode.

  2. Open chatgpt.com/plugins, click +, and create a developer-mode app using your Extrovert MCP URL. Approve access on the consent page (Allow).

  3. Start a chat, click + → Developer mode, and choose Extrovert.

  4. Open with a prompt that names it: "Use Extrovert only and show my campaigns."

Codex

  1. Run the add command shown for Codex on the Connect to AI page - it already includes your URL.

  2. Run the login command and approve Extrovert in the browser.

  3. Open Codex and run /mcp, or just ask it to list your Extrovert campaigns.

Cursor

  1. Go to Cursor Settings → Tools & Integrations → MCP.

  2. Add a server named extrovert and paste your Extrovert URL.

  3. Click Connect, sign in to Extrovert, and approve access.

  4. Ask Cursor to list your Extrovert campaigns, or run agent mcp list in the Cursor CLI.

Any other MCP tool

  1. Open your AI client's MCP or Connector settings.

  2. Add a new HTTP server using your Extrovert URL. Transport: HTTP / StreamableHTTP.

  3. Follow the browser consent prompt to approve access.

The sign-in is standard OAuth (the same flow as signing into an app with Google), so you log in with your Extrovert account, not your LinkedIn login. The connection URL itself isn't a secret - your account is identified when you sign in.

What it can't do

  • See your LinkedIn password or session cookies

  • Change your billing, or add and remove teammates

  • Act on its own - it only does something while you're prompting it, never on a schedule or in the background

  • Do anything you couldn't do yourself - it works inside your account, your permissions, and your daily limits

Comments and DMs the AI approves go out under the same rate limits, working hours, and safety rules as anything you approve in the dashboard. Each teammate connects with their own account - you can't share one connection across a team.

Good to know

  • Sign-in is OAuth, not your API key. You connect by logging into your Extrovert account in the browser. Your Extrovert REST API key is a separate system and won't work here. The API covers the same ground if you'd rather script it than chat.

  • The AI works in the team you have selected. It sees the campaigns and prospects in your currently selected team - the same as your dashboard. If something lives in another team, switch teams in Extrovert first.

  • Connecting a tool that isn't listed? Point it at the server URL mcp.goextrovert.com over HTTP (StreamableHTTP), then approve the same browser sign-in.

If the AI doesn't see your Extrovert tools

The most common issue isn't the connection itself - it's that the connector is added but its tools aren't active in the chat. If you ask about your campaigns and the AI says it can't see them:

  1. Make sure the Extrovert connector's tools are enabled in the conversation (not just connected in settings).

  2. Start a fresh chat. Connectors enabled in the middle of a conversation often don't register until you do.

  3. Check you finished the browser consent (clicked Allow) and approved with the right Extrovert account.

Seeing exactly three Extrovert tools is not this problem - that's how the connection is meant to look. See Why you only see three tools above.

If it still doesn't work, reach out in support and we'll help.

ChatGPT says "This conversation does not support developer MCPs"

This is a ChatGPT limitation, not an Extrovert block or a limit on your account - even if Extrovert was answering a moment earlier. ChatGPT's Developer Mode, which custom MCP apps need, only runs in a plain new chat. It's switched off inside Projects, Custom GPTs, Agent mode, Deep Research, and some older chats. When you hit one of those, ChatGPT stops sending the request to Extrovert at all and shows this error itself.

To get working again:

  1. Start a brand-new normal chat at chatgpt.com - not inside a Project, Custom GPT, Agent, or Deep Research.

  2. Confirm Developer Mode is on: Settings → Security and login.

  3. In the new chat, open + → Developer mode and select GoExtrovert.

  4. Prompt: "Use GoExtrovert and continue configuring my campaigns."

  5. Still stuck? Recreate GoExtrovert from chatgpt.com/plugins using your Extrovert MCP URL, then open another chat.

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