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ChatGPT Linked API Prompt/performance_guidelines

How to: ChatGPT Linked API performance_guidelines

client:ChatGPT transport:streamable-http prompt:performance_guidelines

Add Linked API to ChatGPT

  1. 01

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

https://mcp.linkedapi.io/mcp
  1. 02

    Save the file and restart ChatGPT.

  2. 03

    performance_guidelines 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 Linked API 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

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

  • LINKED_API_TOKEN
  • IDENTIFICATION_TOKEN

Same prompt, other clients

Read from the server itself, by connecting to it and calling prompts/list on 5 November 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.