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title: Connect your AI tool
description: Let Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or VS Code write and schedule posts for you — with one link and no API key, or with an API key.
---

# Connect your AI tool

Schedule & Chill works inside the AI tools you already use. Once connected, you can ask in plain language, for example *"write a LinkedIn post about what I shipped this week and schedule it for tomorrow at 9"*.

Open **Connect AI Tool** in the left menu to start.

## Option 1 — connect with one link (recommended)

No API key and no config file.

1. On **Connect AI Tool**, copy the connection URL in **Connect with one link**.
2. Add it to your tool:
   - **Claude:** Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste the URL.
   - **ChatGPT:** Settings → Connectors → Add. This needs a paid ChatGPT plan with developer mode on.
   - **Cursor or VS Code:** add it as an MCP server. They open an approval page in your browser.
3. Your tool opens a Schedule & Chill approval screen. Approve it.

Your password is never shared with the tool.

## Option 2 — connect with an API key

Use this for tools that want a key in a config file.

1. On **Connect AI Tool**, under **Create a key**, click **Create key**.
2. Copy the key right away. **You won't see it again.**
3. Under **Add it to your tool**:
   - click **Add to Cursor** or **Add to VS Code** — both ask you to confirm before anything is written, or
   - copy the **Claude Code** command and run it once in your terminal.
4. For Claude Desktop, Gemini CLI, Codex, Windsurf, Zed and others, follow the developer guide [Connect Your AI Tool](/docs/mcp/connect).

## Try it

Paste this into your AI tool:

> Using Schedule & Chill, list my connected social accounts. Then write a short LinkedIn post about what I shipped this week and schedule it for 5 minutes from now — show me the draft first so I can approve it.

The tool reads your accounts first, so nothing is published until you approve.

## Good to know

- The AI tool can do the same things you can: schedule, publish, edit, delete and restore posts, and use your media library.
- Ask it to show you the post before it publishes. Publishing cannot be undone.
- The AI tool uses the same channels, limits and platform rules as the app.
- To stop a tool that uses an API key, revoke the key. See [API keys](/help/ai-tools/api-keys).

## For developers

The full tool reference, REST API and setup for every client are in the [developer docs](/docs).