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OpenWork Cloud organization setup. This path requires an OpenWork Cloud sign-in and an organization that has made services available to you. To stay local, keep using OpenWork for free and add a custom MCP server to your workspace. Admins can manage team connections with Connectors.
Use Settings > OpenWork Connect for services your organization makes available, including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Slack, Notion, and Linear. This is the recommended setup for everyday integrations.

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Before you start

Connect requires signing in to an OpenWork account and joining an organization that has Connect enabled. This is separate from signing in to an LLM provider such as ChatGPT.
  1. Open the OpenWork desktop app.
  2. Click Sign in, or open Settings > OpenWork Connect and choose Sign in.
  3. Complete sign-in in your browser and return to OpenWork.
  4. Choose the OpenWork organization you want to use if prompted.
If Connect is not available for your organization, ask an organization admin to enable it.

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Connect an account

  1. Open Settings > OpenWork Connect.
  2. Find the service under Needs your sign-in.
  3. Click Connect and approve access on the provider’s sign-in page.
  4. Return to OpenWork. The service moves to Ready to use automatically.
Some connections are managed by your organization. If a service is not listed, ask an organization admin to publish it from the OpenWork Cloud Connectors page and grant you access.

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Ask your agent to use it

You do not need to know an MCP server name or tool name. Ask for the outcome you want, for example:
  • “Summarize my five newest emails.”
  • “Find the Q3 launch page in Notion.”
  • “What meetings do I have tomorrow?”
The agent searches the live capabilities available to your signed-in account, then executes an exact match. If an account still needs attention, it should send you back to Settings > OpenWork Connect with the action to take instead of telling you to add an MCP server.

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Connect, connectors, and connections

  • Connect is the member-facing page in the desktop app for signing in to services and checking connection readiness.
  • A connector is an MCP service your organization adds on its own, without wrapping it in a plugin. Organization admins publish connectors from the OpenWork Cloud Connectors page and grant member or team access.
  • A connection is your own signed-in instance of a connector — one connector, instantiated per user with that user’s account.
  • The MCP Gateway is the hosted endpoint that lets external MCP clients use capabilities from an OpenWork organization. See OpenWork MCP Gateway.
  • Add an MCP server is the advanced path for a custom or local server that your organization does not provide through Connect.
If you are building a custom integration, continue with Add an MCP server. If you are an organization admin, see Sharing MCP connections with your team.