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ChatGPT

Add the Mindola connector in ChatGPT's developer mode and turn a profile you approve into a shareable lens.

The Mindola connector lets ChatGPT create a lens from a profile you approve in the conversation. ChatGPT summarizes what it knows from the current chat and any personalization context available to it, shows you the proposed profile, and only sends it to Mindola after you confirm.

Mindola creates a real lens from that profile: name, greeting, starter questions, style, and the facts you approved. If you are not connected to a Mindola account, the lens is created unclaimed. It is live immediately at its share link, with a claim link so you can review it and make it yours. Unclaimed lenses expire after 30 days if nobody claims them.

Set it up

ChatGPT uses its own endpoint, https://app.mindola.ai/mcp. This is a ChatGPT Apps SDK variant of the same server with the same create tool. Do not use the generic /mcp/lens URL here.

  1. Open Settings, then Apps & Connectors.
  2. Enable developer mode.
  3. Create a connector with the URL https://app.mindola.ai/mcp.

No sign-in or API key is required.

What ChatGPT sends

The connector accepts structured fields like:

  • Public display name and short bio.
  • Intended audience.
  • Confirmed areas of expertise or interest.
  • Boundaries the lens should respect.
  • Concrete facts you approve.
  • Starter questions and tone.

It does not import all of your ChatGPT history, hidden memory, or private account data. ChatGPT must ask for your confirmation before it creates the lens.

After creation

Open the returned lens link to test it. The banner grows a live map of the approved knowledge, and the expand icon opens it as the full-screen 3D brain. If it shows floating words at first, give it a few seconds and refresh while the knowledge settles in.

If the lens is unclaimed, use the claim flow on that page to attach it to your Mindola account. Once it is yours, you can edit its scope, knowledge, profile, appearance, and visitor settings like any other lens. A claimed lens can no longer be changed through the anonymous connector; further changes go through the app or the developer API.

Privacy notes

  • Lens visitors see an AI disclosure before chatting.
  • The lens only answers from the material scoped to it.
  • If the approved material does not support an answer, the lens refuses instead of guessing.
  • Unclaimed lenses expire automatically if nobody claims them.

If the connector does not show up or calls fail, see Troubleshooting.