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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 works through your comment and DM queue, why the tool list shows three tools, how to connect each client, and how signing in works (OAuth, not your API key).

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, find new prospects, 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, how much room your team has left in its prospect and topic limits, and your team members

Find new prospects with Lead Finder

  • Search the B2B database by job title, seniority, company, location, industry, technologies and more

  • Preview the first 20 matches to check the filters are right

  • Add people to a Prospects campaign, either everyone the filters match up to a number you choose, or people picked from the preview

Each prospect added costs 1 Extrovert Credit. Before it adds anyone, the AI tells you how many people, into which campaign and list, and what it costs, and waits for your yes. See Lead Finder.

Work through your queue

  • List everything waiting for you for one of your accounts, across all of its campaigns at once, and read any one of them

  • Look back over what already went out for that account: queued, posted, skipped, and failed comments

  • 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

  • Approve a number of the most relevant comments in one go, across one account's Main Feed or inside one campaign, and get back how many went through

  • List your DM conversations and read one

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

One thing to expect: what's waiting for approval only covers campaigns that are running and not set to comment automatically. If all your campaigns are on Auto, the AI will report nothing waiting even though your posted history keeps filling up. That's correct, because auto campaigns publish without asking you.

A few prompts to try once you're connected:

  • "Show me my active campaigns."

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

  • "Find VPs of Sales at US SaaS companies with 50 to 200 employees that use HubSpot."

  • "Show me everything waiting for approval across all my campaigns."

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

  • "Approve the 10 most relevant comments in my Main Feed."

  • "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. Bulk approve is the exception: it approves the top of the feed without listing each draft, so use it only when you already trust the voice's drafts.

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. In Claude, toggle Extrovert off and on or reload the window, then start a new chat. In ChatGPT, toggling doesn't clear it, follow the Refresh steps in ChatGPT says a tool wasn't found below.

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 supports custom MCP servers on eligible Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education accounts on the web. A separate Developer Mode toggle is no longer required. Workspace permissions may control who can add custom MCP servers.

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/plugins in your browser. Click Add → Create custom MCP server. You do not need to enable Developer Mode first.

  2. Fill in the form:

    • Name: Extrovert.

    • Icon (optional) and Description (optional): you can leave both blank.

    • Connection: select Server URL, not Tunnel, and paste the MCP URL copied from Extrovert's Connect to AI page.

    • Authentication: select OAuth. Leave Advanced OAuth settings at their defaults; you do not need to enter a client ID, client secret, or Extrovert API key.

  3. Read the warning and, if you trust Extrovert and agree to connect it, check I understand and want to continue. Click Create as a plugin.

  4. Complete the browser sign-in with your Extrovert account and approve access on the consent page (Allow).

  5. Start a new normal chat, select the connected Extrovert plugin in ChatGPT, and ask: "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

  • Set up Intent Signals campaigns, which you create in the app

  • 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, your daily limits and your credit balance

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 most of the same ground if you'd rather script it than chat, but Lead Finder is only available here.

  • 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, open Guides and support in the left menu, then Chat with support, and we'll help.

ChatGPT says "This conversation does not support developer MCPs"

ChatGPT no longer requires a separate Developer Mode toggle to connect custom MCP servers. If you see this message in an existing conversation, try a new normal chat and select your connected Extrovert plugin there.

  1. Start a brand-new normal chat at chatgpt.com, outside a Project or Custom GPT, without Agent mode or Deep Research, to rule out conversation-specific compatibility.

  2. Select the connected Extrovert plugin and ask: "Use Extrovert only and show my campaigns."

  3. If Extrovert is missing, open chatgpt.com/plugins and check that it is connected. If needed, add it again with Add → Create custom MCP server and follow the ChatGPT setup steps above.

  4. If Create custom MCP server is missing from the Add menu, check that you are using the intended account and workspace. In a managed workspace, ask your admin to check your permission to create custom MCP servers. Send support a screenshot of the Add menu if you are still blocked; do not include passwords or tokens.

ChatGPT says a tool wasn't found

If ChatGPT still sees Extrovert but every action fails with MCP error -32602: Tool ... not found, ChatGPT is working from a saved copy of the Extrovert tool list that it took when you connected. We update the tools from time to time, and ChatGPT doesn't pick that up on its own, so it keeps calling names that no longer exist.

Refresh the saved copy:

  1. Open chatgpt.com/plugins.

  2. Select Extrovert.

  3. Click Refresh.

  4. Wait for the tool list to update.

  5. Start a new normal chat and select the connected Extrovert plugin again.

Disconnecting and reconnecting the app doesn't clear the saved list, and neither does starting a new chat on its own. Only Refresh replaces it.

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