# Connect your assistant

> Bring Mavo's household actions into Claude, ChatGPT, or any assistant that speaks remote MCP, with your family's real plan behind them.

If your family already lives in an AI assistant, Mavo can show up there as a set of household actions. Ask your assistant to "add the dentist Thursday at 3 to our family calendar" and it lands on the same shared plan everyone sees.

## Before you start

- Connecting assistants is included with the Builder plan.
- You need a Mavo account that belongs to the family you want to use.
- Your assistant needs to support remote MCP over HTTP with sign-in (Claude and ChatGPT connectors do, and most MCP-capable tools work the same way).

## Connect

1. In your assistant, add a connector 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 slug. It's shown in Settings → Developer, 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 → Developer page; most assistants find them automatically from the MCP address.

## What your assistant can do

Around thirty household actions, split into reads and writes:

- **Calendar**: query events across every family calendar; add, update, move, or remove events.
- **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.
- Scripts and automations can reach the same actions through the REST API. See [Build on the API](/docs/guide/build-on-the-api.md).