Connect an AI assistant

Connecting lets your assistant read and update your ScholarQuestor data directly — projects, workstreams, tasks, notes, events, documents and your Zotero-linked library — instead of you copying things back and forth.

It runs on your own assistant subscription. There is no API key to buy and nothing extra to pay for on the ScholarQuestor side.

Wherever your assistant asks for a custom connector URL, this is the value:

https://mcp.scholarquestor.com/mcp

Claude

1. 1Open Claude's settings and find Connectors.
2. 2Choose Add custom connector and paste the address above.
3. 3Claude sends you to ScholarQuestor to sign in and approve the connection. Read that screen — it says exactly what access you are granting.
4. 4Back in Claude, ask it something about your projects. It will use ScholarQuestorautomatically.

ChatGPT and Gemini

ScholarQuestor uses an open standard (MCP), so the same address works in any assistant that supports custom connectors — add it wherever that product lists them. Where custom connectors sit, and which plans include them, differs between assistants and changes often, so follow your assistant's own documentation for that step; everything on the ScholarQuestor side is identical.

• “What's overdue across my projects, and what should I deal with first?”
• “Summarize where the fellowship workstream stands, then create tasks for everything still open.”
• “Read my notes from this week and draft a research output that pulls the main threads together.”
• “Which sources in my library relate to this note? Link the relevant ones.”
• “Plan next week: show me what's due and move anything unrealistic.”

A connection covers every project you are a member of, with permission to create, edit and delete. It cannot reach projects you are not a member of, and it cannot reach other people's accounts — the assistant acts as you, with exactly your permissions and nothing more.

Two things stay out of reach entirely: your integration credentials (the Google Calendar connection, your AI provider key) are never exposed to an assistant, and the Zotero library credential can only be used by the project's owner.

You decide what to connect and what to share. ScholarQuestor and Dontscroll Agency are not responsible for how a connected AI provider handles data you send it — that is governed by that provider's own privacy policy and terms, which are worth reading before you connect.

Our own handling is described in the privacy policy.

Open Account settings → AI configuration in ScholarQuestor. Every connected assistant is listed there with a Disconnect button, which revokes its access immediately — it cannot read or change anything afterwards unless you approve it again.