Connect your assistant

If you already use Claude, ChatGPT, or another AI assistant, you can bring your family's Mavo into that conversation. Ask your assistant to "add the dentist Thursday at 3 to our family calendar" and it lands on the same shared calendar everyone sees.

Before you start

• Connecting assistants is free with every Mavo membership.
• You need a Mavo account that belongs to the family you want to use.
• Your assistant needs to support a secure remote custom connection. The assistant provider's own availability and plan requirements still apply.

Open Connected assistant settings, or keep reading for the connection steps.

Claude

1. In Claude, open Settings → Connectors and add a custom connector.
2. Name it Mavo and paste https://mavolife.com/mcp.
3. Sign in to Mavo and approve the connection.

Claude currently offers custom connections on supported paid plans. Check Anthropic's current availability.

ChatGPT

1. In ChatGPT on the web, open Settings → Apps and turn on developer mode if your plan provides it.
2. Create a custom app named Mavo and use https://mavolife.com/mcp as its connection address.
3. Connect the app, then sign in to Mavo and approve access.

ChatGPT's custom-app access and read/write capabilities vary by plan. Check OpenAI's current availability.

Another compatible assistant

1. Add a secure remote custom connection or MCP server and paste: https://mavolife.com/mcp
2. A Mavo sign-in opens. Sign in and approve. Your assistant registers itself and handles the access token from there.
3. If your Mavo account belongs to more than one family and a tool asks which family to use, give it your family name for connections. It's shown in Settings → Connected assistant, and can also be sent as the x-mavo-family-slug header in manual setups.

Advanced clients that want the raw sign-in details can read the discovery addresses listed on the same Settings → Connected assistant page; most assistants find them automatically from the MCP address.

What your assistant can do

Dozens of household actions, split into reads and writes:

• Calendar: query events across every family calendar; add, update, move, or remove events. Ask to "show our family week" for a compact schedule-and-responsibility view in assistants that support MCP Apps; every other client receives the same result as text and structured data.
• Plans: read the things the family is planning; start a plan, link calendar events, write and edit notes, open a date poll and reword its question or its choices, cast and take back your own vote, settle the poll, and turn a plan's public share page on or off.
• Lists and meals: read and change items in any collection (groceries, meals, custom lists), and manage the collections themselves.
• People: list and manage the household's people.
• Notifications: read recent notifications, send one, and manage notification preferences and routines like the digest.
• Outside calendars: list, link, refresh, or remove external calendar feeds, and manage calendar share links.
• Webhooks: manage outbound webhook destinations.
• Checks: look up weather, search the web, read a page, and schedule a pre-event check.

If your account belongs to one family, Mavo uses it automatically. If your account belongs to more than one family, calls can name the family by slug so one connection works across any family you belong to.

Good to know

• Your assistant acts as you, without an extra confirmation step inside Mavo. In Mavo's own chat, Mavo previews changes before saving; a connected assistant is trusted with your access once you approve the connection. Keep an eye on What Changed and your notifications, and disconnect anytime from your assistant's settings.
• Your assistant subscription stays separate. Mavo does not charge an extra connection fee, but your assistant provider controls which plans can add custom connections and how usage is counted.
• Scripts and automations can reach the same actions through the REST API. See Build on the API.