How to connect ContentScout with Claude or ChatGPT

Updated September 18, 2026

From Connect, the Connect entry at the bottom of the sidebar, you can link ContentScout to your AI assistant so it works with your own data: your brand context, your ideas, your outliers, your trends, the hashtags and audios that are performing, the viral formats we curate, what you've saved and, if your plan includes them, your campaigns with their analytics. It's read-only and tied to your account, so your assistant reads your information but never changes it. It's a paid feature: you have it from the moment your card-backed trial starts. It only stops answering if the account ends up with no plan.

Connect your tool

On the page you'll see a card for each tool. Tap it to copy its config, then follow the steps for the one you use.

Claude (web & desktop)

1. 1

   Open Customize → Connectors.

2. 2

   Click "+", then "Add custom connector".

3. 3

   Paste the URL and confirm.

4. 4

   Sign in with your ContentScout account.

5. 5

   In any chat, open "+" → Connectors and switch ContentScout on.

You add it once to your Claude account and it shows up in both the web app and the desktop app. On the Free plan you can only keep one custom connector. In Team and Enterprise, an organization Owner has to add it first; everyone else then switches it on from Connectors.

Claude Code

1. 1

   Paste and run the command in your terminal.

2. 2

   Type /mcp and pick "contentscout".

3. 3

   Click "Authenticate" and sign in.

ChatGPT

1. 1

   Open Settings → Apps → Advanced settings.

2. 2

   Turn on Developer mode.

3. 3

   Add a connector using the URL.

4. 4

   Sign in with your ContentScout account.

What you can ask it

• Cross what's trending with my pillars and give me 5 hook-driven ideas in my voice.
• Take a post from a creator I track that's blowing up and rewrite it in my style, without sounding copied.
• Read my audience's comments, spot their doubts, and turn them into content that answers them.
• Explain why my best-performing posts worked and give me a repeatable formula.
• Cross the topics I'm not covering with what's rising and build my 2-week calendar.
• Tell me which hashtags and which audio to use for my next reel, and why those.
• Take one of the curated viral formats and adapt it to my niche with a full script.

What your assistant can read

These are the 24 tools your assistant sees when it connects. All of them are read-only: none writes, runs a new analysis or spends your credits. The ones marked as paid answer with a clear notice if your plan doesn't include them, and the rest keep working.

• list_workspaces: your workspaces and which one is primary. The first step if you have more than one.
• get_workspace_briefing: a workspace's summary in one call: who you are, how your channel is doing, your competitors and their best posts. The starting point of a conversation.
• get_brand_context: your brand profile and voice: summary, pillars, CTAs and samples of your own posts.
• get_channel_overview: how your own channel is doing: recent posts with metrics, followers per network and your own outliers.
• get_competitor_outliers: the best-performing posts from the accounts you track, measured against each account's own median.
• get_competitor_analytics: the per-competitor summary: followers, pillars, hook types and their outliers.
• get_sentiment: the topics and sentiment in the comments of your audience and your competitors' audience.
• search_comments: finds specific comments by text, account or likes, with author and date.
• get_content_ideas: your generated ideas, and one idea's expanded outline if you pass its id.
• get_saved_items: your saved library as one timeline.
• get_post_transcript: the full transcript of a post you already unlocked. It never spends credits.
• get_trending_topics: emerging topics for your niche, with their opportunity angle.
• get_trending_hashtags: a niche's hashtag leaderboard, with sample posts.
• get_trending_audios: the audios performing in your niche or in TikTok's global trending feed.
• get_viral_trends: the viral formats we curate, with examples.
• get_help: this help center, so the assistant can explain how ContentScout works without making it up.
• get_recipes (paid plan): your style recipes and the shared presets.
• search_viral_library (paid plan): the global library of viral posts, filtered by niche, text, network or account size.
• get_keyword_searches (paid plan): your keyword listening searches, with their evolution.
• get_tracked_posts (paid plan): the posts you watch daily and how far they moved since you added them.
• get_insights (paid plan): the findings we detected that you haven't acted on yet.
• get_campaigns and get_campaign_analytics (higher plan): your campaigns and one campaign's full analytics.
• get_deep_search (higher plan): your deep searches and one search's full report.