AI Integrations
Griply's MCP server lets an AI app such as Claude or ChatGPT read your goals, projects, habits and tasks and, if you allow it, make changes to them. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard AI apps use to connect to outside tools, which is why one Griply server works in several different AI apps.
Think of it as a way to work in Griply from the chat you already have open. You say what you did or what you want to plan, in a normal sentence, and the AI app looks it up or records it. Larger changes come as a proposal first and are saved only once you confirm.
To find it on iOS and Android, tap your profile icon, then MCP server under Integrations. On Desktop, open Settings → Integrations → MCP server.
Note: The MCP server is a premium feature and is in beta.
Connecting an AI App
The MCP server screen has a card for each AI app you can connect. The connection itself is set up inside your AI app: Griply gives you the server URL and the steps.
Open the MCP server screen.
Tap (mobile) / click (desktop) the card for your AI app: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Mistral Le Chat, Grok, or Other AI app.
A dialog such as Connect Claude opens with the Server URL, a copy button, and numbered steps for that app. Copy the URL and add it in your AI app as a connector or custom MCP server.
Your AI app sends you to Griply. Sign in, choose the level under Access, and press Allow access.
Once the app is connected, its card in Griply shows Authorized, the access level, when you connected it and when it was last used. To check that it works, ask the AI app something only Griply knows, such as "What's on my agenda today?"
The connection belongs to your Griply account, not to one device. An AI app you connect from Desktop also shows as connected on your phone.
Other AI App
Other AI app is for any AI app that supports remote MCP servers, which many apps call custom connectors. If your AI app isn't in the list but lets you add a custom connector, pick Other AI app and use the server URL from that dialog.
ChatGPT
ChatGPT only accepts a custom MCP server when Developer mode is switched on in ChatGPT's settings. The ChatGPT dialog in Griply walks you through it, so follow the steps there.
Choosing What the AI App May Change
You pick one of two access levels under Access while you connect:
Read only: the AI app reads your data and answers questions, and changes nothing.
Read and change: it can also create, update, complete, log and delete.
On the MCP server screen, the app's card shows Read and change as Read and write.
Even with Read and change, the limits under What It Can't Do below still apply.
To move an app from Read only to Read and change later, disconnect it and connect it again with the other choice.
Disconnecting an App
Tap (mobile) / click (desktop) Disconnect on the app's card on the MCP server screen. That revokes its access to Griply. Your other connected AI apps keep theirs.
What You Can Ask
The AI app works with the same goals, habits and tasks you see in Griply. It also reads your profile for your time zone and today's date, so "tomorrow" means tomorrow in your time zone.
What It Reads
This works with both access levels.
You ask for | What the AI app does |
|---|---|
An overview of your plan | Reads your life areas and their visions, goals and subgoals, projects, habits, tags and Smart Lists |
What's planned | Reads your agenda for a day or a date range: tasks, habits, focus blocks and the events from your connected calendars |
How a goal is going | Reads its progress, its pace against the deadline, and where that pace will take it |
A specific task | Searches your tasks by name, or by goal, project, life area, tag, Inbox or overdue |
What you finished | Lists completed tasks, habit entries, goal progress and focus blocks, up to 12 months back |
How your habits are going | Reads each habit's completion rate, skips and perfect weeks |
A weekly or monthly review | Reads an overview of each week or month, then looks up the details |
What It Changes
This needs Read and change access.
You ask for | What the AI app does |
|---|---|
A new goal, project or habit | Proposes one plan with vision text, goals, projects, habits and their first tasks |
New tasks | Creates them, with a goal or project, a date, a start time and duration, a priority and tags |
Changes to tasks | Reschedules, relinks or time-blocks them, and completes or uncompletes them |
A change to a habit | Changes its schedule, daily target, start time, reminders or links. Entries you already logged stay as they are |
A change to a goal, project or life area | Changes its name, deadline, target or impact, adds vision text, or completes or archives it |
A habit you did, skipped or missed | Logs a habit entry as completed, skipped or failed |
A new number for a goal | Logs progress on a goal with a Unit-based goal metric. Goals measured by completed tasks or subgoals update on their own |
Time on the calendar | Creates, moves and resizes focus blocks for a goal, project, life area, tag or Smart List |
Removing something | Moves it to Trash |
Getting something back | Restores it from Trash |
Whatever the AI app writes shows up in Griply right away. If you sync tasks to your calendar, its tasks and focus blocks reach Google Calendar or Outlook too.
How Changes Work
Before a larger change, the AI app shows you what it plans to do. New structure (vision text, goals, projects, habits and their first tasks) comes as one plan, shown as a tree with each item under the one it belongs to. Nothing is saved until you confirm the proposal you saw. A yes given before you saw it doesn't count, so "go ahead and set it all up" still gets you the tree first.
For each new goal or project, the AI app creates at most 3 first tasks. Ask for more if you want them.
When you mention that you did, skipped or missed something, the AI app records it, even if you didn't ask it to. Depending on what you said, that's a habit entry, goal progress, or a completed task. Habits never move goal progress.
Where a target, an amount or a deadline is missing, the AI app proposes one and labels it as a suggestion. It's set only once you confirm it.
The AI app answers in the language of your latest message but keeps your item names exactly as they're stored. Ask in Spanish about a goal called "Run a half marathon" and you get a Spanish answer that still says "Run a half marathon".
Whenever it talks about dates, it states the time zone it used.
Ready-Made Prompts
The MCP server comes with 12 ready-made prompts for planning, reviews and setting up. Your AI app lists them where it keeps prompts, such as the prompt menu in Claude or the slash commands in Claude Code. Each one runs a guided conversation and asks before it changes anything. If your AI app doesn't list them, ask for the same thing in your own words.
Prompt | Use it to |
|---|---|
| Plan today, or the best use of a free hour, around your most important goals and the ones falling behind |
| Go through your Inbox and give each task a goal or project, a date and a priority |
| Look back on the week, see which work served a goal, and plan the next one |
| See what you finished in a quarter and which goals made no progress |
| Check the pace of every goal and decide what to do about the ones behind |
| Find out why goals make no progress, and what to change |
| Find what's missing in your plan: steps, habits behind a result, timelines that don't fit, more work than time |
| Check whether each goal has habits or regular actions behind it |
| Check one life area against its own vision |
| Turn a braindump into a vision, goals, projects, habits and first tasks |
| Split one goal into subgoals, projects, habits and first tasks |
| Turn a life area's vision into goals that make it concrete |
With Read only access, every prompt still works but skips the steps that make changes.
Example Prompts
Type these the way you would say them out loud, and swap in your own goal and habit names.
🧠 Setting Up From a Braindump
Put everything on your mind in one message and let the AI app sort it:
"I want to run a half marathon in under 2 hours by April, read 20 books next year and save $5,000 for a trip to Japan by July. I also want to meditate for 10 minutes every morning. Set this up in Griply."
The AI app reads your current structure, proposes where each goal and habit goes, adds up to 3 first tasks per goal, and shows the whole plan as a tree. Ask for changes until it looks right, then confirm.
"Add to my Sport & Health vision: I want energy left for my kids."
"Give the half marathon goal five first tasks."
"Make Plan race weekend a project under Run a half marathon."
📅 Planning Your Day or Week
"What's on my agenda today?"
"I have 30 minutes before my next meeting. What should I work on?"
"Find 2 hours this week for Write my first eBook, around my meetings."
"Add a task to call the accountant tomorrow at 9:00, 30 minutes."
"Move the dentist call to Thursday at 10:00."
"Block every Friday afternoon for Money & Finance." → one block per Friday, 4 weeks ahead
✅ Logging What You Did
"Did my workout and skipped meditation today."
"Ran 8 km this morning."
"Finished the pitch deck and sent the invoice."
"Put another $400 in the Japan savings goal."
"I haven't sent the invoice yet after all, untick it."
🔍 Reviewing a Week or Month
These work well as the start of a weekly review.
"How did my week go?"
"Review October: what did I finish, and how are my goals doing?"
"How consistent was I with my habits this month?"
"Am I on track for Run a half marathon?"
🧹 Changing and Tidying Up
"Change the target of Read 20 books to 25."
"Move my gym habit to Monday, Wednesday and Friday."
"Rename Plan race weekend to Plan Berlin race weekend."
"Archive Learn Spanish for now."
"Delete the task Book a hotel."
"Bring back the task you just deleted."
What It Can't Do
Some changes still happen in the Griply app. When you ask for one of them, the AI app tells you so and points you to Griply. It doesn't work around the limit.
Repeating tasks → create them in Griply.
Rewriting a vision → do it in Griply; the AI app only adds text.
Turning a goal into a project, or back → do it in Griply.
Changing a goal's metric → do it in Griply; the AI app changes only the target.
Changing your settings → do it in Griply.
Creating, changing or answering calendar events → use your calendar app.
Deleting something for good → empty Trash in Griply on Desktop.
Focus blocks don't repeat. Ask for a weekly block and the AI app creates one for each of the next 4 weeks. After the fourth week, ask again or duplicate a block in Griply.
Deleting is easy to undo. Everything the AI app deletes goes to Trash, including goals, projects, life areas, tags and Smart Lists. A deleted goal takes its subgoals and tasks with it, and restoring the goal brings them all back still linked. Restore items from Trash in Griply, or ask the AI app to bring them back.
Best Practices
Start with Read only → see how it reads your plan before it can change anything.
Try a ready-made prompt first →
weekly_revieworplan_my_dayshows what it can do.Give numbers and dates → "Save $5,000 by July" sets a target and deadline you chose.
Read the tree before you confirm → confirming saves every goal, habit and task in it.
Treat suggestions as drafts → a suggested target is the AI app's estimate, not your decision.
Mention the goal's number too → a habit entry never moves goal progress.
Review per week or month → start broad, then ask about the goal that stands out.
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