Connect Onplana to ChatGPT (from the directory)

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Onplana is approved in OpenAI’s official ChatGPT connector directory, so you can add it to ChatGPT in a few clicks without minting a personal access token or pasting a config snippet. After a one-time browser sign-in, ChatGPT can ask Onplana about your projects, list your tasks, post comments, and update work on your behalf, all while you stay in the ChatGPT conversation.

If you prefer the manual setup (or you are connecting Claude, Cursor, Codex, or another non-directory agent), the Connect an external AI agent article covers the token-based path.

Quick reference

Where to add it	URL
ChatGPT connector directory (web)	`https://chatgpt.com/discover`, then search `onplana`
Onplana endpoint (set by the directory automatically)	`https://mcp.onplana.com/mcp`
Authentication	Browser sign-in (OAuth), valid for 90 days

What you get

When you connect Onplana from the ChatGPT directory, ChatGPT can:

Find work across the projects you have access to, projects, tasks, sprints, milestones, issues, proposals, and people.
Read task descriptions, comments, attachments, status, and AI-generated risk reports.
Update by creating and editing tasks, posting comments, capturing baselines, moving work between sprints, and proposing schedule changes for human review.

ChatGPT acts within your own permissions, anything you can do as a member of your organization, the connector can do; anything you cannot do, it cannot do either. Every action it takes is recorded in the activity log and attributed to a clearly-marked ChatGPT agent persona, so you always know what was done by ChatGPT versus a person.

The Onplana app detail page in the ChatGPT connector directory: title Manage your project portfolio, Productivity category, capabilities File Search and Writes, developer Devsoft Solutions, and a Start chat button.

Add Onplana to ChatGPT

In ChatGPT, open Discover (or the Apps & connectors panel, the entry point depends on your ChatGPT client version) and search for onplana.
Select Onplana in the results, then choose Connect (or Start chat if your version of ChatGPT prompts you to connect on first use).
ChatGPT redirects you to Onplana’s sign-in page. Sign in with your normal Onplana credentials (email + password, Google, Microsoft, or your organization’s SSO). If you are already signed in to Onplana in the same browser, the redirect completes automatically.
Approve the connection. The consent screen lists what ChatGPT is about to be able to do (read your projects, post comments, update tasks, and so on); select Allow. ChatGPT receives a 90-day access token directly from Onplana, you never see it, and you are returned to your ChatGPT conversation.
Confirm the connection landed: ChatGPT shows Onplana as a connected app in the conversation header, and Onplana shows a ChatGPT agent persona in People with a small bot badge next to its name.

Verify the connection

In your ChatGPT conversation, ask something only Onplana can answer. Concrete questions land much better than abstract ones, ChatGPT picks which Onplana tool to call based on what you ask:

“What are my open tasks in Onplana, sorted by due date?”
“Summarize the active risks on the Payments project.”
“Post a comment on task XYZ-123 saying I will pick it up tomorrow.”
“Create a task in the Migrations project: ‘Validate column mapping for ECF7’, priority medium, due Friday.”

ChatGPT will show a small panel (“Onplana is looking up…”) while it calls the tool, then summarize what it found and let you act on the result. The first time it calls a tool that updates data, ChatGPT asks you to confirm.

The Onplana connector inside ChatGPT shown as connected, with the connection date and a Disconnect option in the connector settings panel.

Permissions and what ChatGPT can see

The connection inherits your permissions in Onplana, no more, no less:

ChatGPT can see only projects you are a member of (or all projects in the org if you are an org admin). It cannot read or update projects you cannot reach yourself.
It can act on plan-gated features only at the tier your organization is on. The connector itself is on every plan, including Free; what scales by tier is the number of concurrent ChatGPT (or other agent) connections, and the AI token bonus that powers any AI-assisted features.
It cannot escalate privileges, mint API tokens, change your password, or read security settings. Those surfaces are off the agent path by design.
Conversations with ChatGPT are stored by OpenAI under your ChatGPT account’s data settings, the same way any other ChatGPT chat is. The Onplana data ChatGPT sees in a chat (project names, task titles, comments) becomes part of that chat history; if that matters for your organization’s data policy, treat the ChatGPT connector like any other third-party SaaS handling that data.

Managing the connection

From inside ChatGPT: open the Onplana connector entry in ChatGPT’s apps panel and choose Disconnect. The token is revoked immediately on Onplana’s side, so ChatGPT loses access right away.
From Onplana: open Settings → Agents. Every active connection lists its label (ChatGPT shows up with the label ChatGPT by default), the last time it called the server, and a revoke button. An org admin can revoke any member’s connection from the same panel for incident response.
Token rotation: ChatGPT’s token expires after 90 days. The re-auth is one click, ChatGPT prompts you to sign back in next time it tries to call a tool with the expired token. You do not have to reconnect on a schedule.
Org admin kill switch: an org admin can disable all agent connections org-wide from Org Settings → AI agents. Use this if you suspect a compromised account or want a clean state during a security review.

Troubleshooting

ChatGPT says it cannot reach Onplana The token has been revoked (from either side) or expired. Disconnect the Onplana entry in ChatGPT and reconnect; the browser sign-in mints a fresh token. If sign-in itself fails, your session on Onplana has ended, sign back in at app.onplana.com first.

The connector shows the wrong organization You signed in to a different org than the one you wanted. Disconnect from ChatGPT, sign in to Onplana in the same browser, switch to the right org from the org switcher, then reconnect from ChatGPT, the consent screen will then carry the correct org name.

ChatGPT only sees some of my projects Same rule as the rest of Onplana, ChatGPT sees what you see. If a project is missing, you are probably not a member of it yet; ask the project owner to add you (or your org admin to add org.project.view.all to your role) and try again. Project membership is live, no need to reconnect after being added.

The activity log attributes my actions to “User”, not to ChatGPT The action was taken inside the Onplana app or another agent, not via the ChatGPT connector. Anything ChatGPT does through the connector shows up under the ChatGPT persona in the People list and is tagged with that persona in Logs → Activity. If you are sure ChatGPT made the change, refresh the log, the persona row appears the first time the connection calls a tool.

ChatGPT keeps asking for confirmation before every update That is by design, the directory connector defaults to “ask before write” so that an LLM hallucination cannot silently mutate your data. You can answer Allow to a class of actions in a conversation, but each new conversation starts from a clean confirmation state.

FAQs

Do I need a paid plan to use the ChatGPT connector? No. Agent connections, including the ChatGPT directory connector, are available on every plan, including Free. The number of concurrent connections scales with tier (Free 2, Starter 2, Pro 3, Business 5, Enterprise 10, Enterprise+ unlimited), and the AI token balance bounds any AI-assisted features. See Understand your AI token budget for the full picture.

Is this different from using ChatGPT through MCP manually? The end behaviour is the same, ChatGPT calls Onplana’s MCP server in both cases. The directory path is just easier: OpenAI’s directory pre-configures the endpoint and runs the browser sign-in for you, so you skip the personal access token, the JSON config snippet, and the client restart that the manual path needs. Power users who prefer the explicit setup can still use the external-agent flow.

Can I use the ChatGPT connector on the mobile or desktop ChatGPT app? The connector is supported wherever OpenAI exposes the connector directory. Coverage on mobile and desktop has historically trailed web by a few releases; if you cannot see Onplana under apps or connectors, the most likely cause is a client version that does not yet support directory connectors, update to the latest ChatGPT app.

What does the ChatGPT agent persona count as in my org? An agent persona, not a paid seat. Agent personas are excluded from Stripe seat billing and from your AI token per-seat budget denominator. The cap that limits how many you can have is the per-plan concurrent agent connection count above, not your paid seat count.

Can I connect more than one ChatGPT account? Yes. Each teammate who connects ChatGPT mints their own connection under their own ChatGPT account, with their own Onplana permissions. The connections are independent, one teammate revoking does not affect another, and the audit log distinguishes them by connection label.

Does ChatGPT have any data ChatGPT does not need? No. The MCP transport is request-response, ChatGPT asks for specific projects and tasks as the conversation goes; Onplana does not push data, does not stream the full org, and does not send analytics to OpenAI. What ChatGPT sees is what it explicitly fetched in that chat.

Is the connector certified by OpenAI? Yes. Onplana is listed in OpenAI’s official ChatGPT connector directory, which means the OpenAI team reviewed the integration and approved it for public distribution. The Onplana MCP overview on the main marketing site has the directory link and the visible “verified in the ChatGPT connector directory” badge.

Connect an external AI agent (MCP) The manual / personal-access-token path, for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, and other MCP clients that are not in OpenAI's connector directory.

Install the Onplana agent skills Two short instruction files that teach a connected agent (ChatGPT or otherwise) how to plan and run an Onplana project end to end.

Talk to agents in task threads Comment back and forth with a connected agent on a specific task, the [Agent] tab on every task that an agent has touched.

Understand your AI token budget Where the one-time AI bonus comes from, how purchased credit stacks on top, and what to watch for once you are close to zero.

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