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ChatGPT mcp Prompt/explain_error

How to: ChatGPT mcp explain_error

client:ChatGPT transport:streamable-http prompt:explain_error

Add mcp to ChatGPT

  1. 01

    Open Settings → Connectors → Advanced → Developer mode and merge this in. Keep any servers already there.

https://mcp.doc.cheap/mcp
  1. 02

    Save the file and restart ChatGPT.

  2. 03

    explain_error is surfaced in the connector's menu once the server is linked. Unlike a tool, you invoke it deliberately — ChatGPT will not call it for you.

  3. 04

    If it does not appear, check that mcp is connected and that you are looking at its prompts rather than its tools.

Custom connectors are a paid-plan feature and take a remote URL only. ChatGPT cannot run a packaged server locally. ChatGPT docs

Set these first

mcp will not start until these are set, so it never reaches ChatGPT.

  • DOC_CHEAP_API_KEY
  • DOC_CHEAP_API_BASE

Same prompt, other clients

Read from the server itself, by connecting to it and calling prompts/list on 24 September 2026. A listing does not declare its prompts, so asking is the only way to know them, and this is what the server actually offers rather than what its listing claims. Names only are stored; connect the server for each prompt's arguments.