ChatGPT openalex mcp server Prompt/openalex_literature_review
How to: ChatGPT openalex mcp server openalex_literature_review
Add openalex mcp server to ChatGPT
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Open Settings → Connectors → Advanced → Developer mode and merge this in. Keep any servers already there.
https://openalex.caseyjhand.com/mcp-
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Save the file and restart ChatGPT.
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openalex_literature_review 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.
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If it does not appear, check that openalex mcp server 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
openalex mcp server will not start until these are set, so it never reaches ChatGPT.
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OPENALEX_API_KEY -
OPENALEX_MAILTO -
OPENALEX_BASE_URL -
MCP_LOG_LEVEL
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.