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Connecting AI Assistants (MCP)

Connecting AI Assistants (MCP)

Sentinel ships a built-in server that speaks the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — the open standard for connecting AI assistants to external tools and data. Because it's standard MCP, it works with any MCP-compatible client: Claude, ChatGPT, and other agents and IDEs. Once connected, you can ask things like "what needs my attention this morning?", "is anything down right now?", "which sites are slowest this week?", or "check if example.com is up from every region" in plain language, and the assistant reads the answer straight from your account.

Read-only & team-scoped

The server is strictly read-only — an assistant can view your monitoring data but cannot create, change, or delete anything. It only ever sees the team you're currently working in. Requires a plan that includes API access. See the MCP Tools reference for everything it exposes.

Connection endpoints

Sentinel offers two ways to authenticate, depending on the client:

  • OAuth (for hosted assistants like the Claude and ChatGPT apps) — one-click sign-in, no token to copy:
https://sentinel.rootstuff.io/mcp/sentinel-oauth
  • Bearer token (for developer tools like Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or your own agent) — send an API token as an Authorization header:
https://sentinel.rootstuff.io/mcp/sentinel

Claude

Claude app (web/desktop) — on a paid Claude plan:

  1. Open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
  2. Name it "Sentinel" and paste https://sentinel.rootstuff.io/mcp/sentinel-oauth
  3. Click Add and approve the consent screen

Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http sentinel https://sentinel.rootstuff.io/mcp/sentinel --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"

Claude Desktop — add to your MCP config file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sentinel": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://sentinel.rootstuff.io/mcp/sentinel",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" }
    }
  }
}

ChatGPT

ChatGPT supports custom MCP connectors on paid plans (Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise). Add a connector in ChatGPT's Settings → Connectors, choose to add a custom/remote connector, and enter the OAuth URL https://sentinel.rootstuff.io/mcp/sentinel-oauth, then authorize when prompted.

Note

ChatGPT's connector UI evolves and may require enabling developer mode to access an MCP server's full tool set. If the menu differs from the above, follow OpenAI's current connector instructions and use the same OAuth URL.

Other MCP clients

Any MCP-compatible client (other agents, IDE extensions, or your own code) can connect over HTTP. Point it at https://sentinel.rootstuff.io/mcp/sentinel with an Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN header, or at https://sentinel.rootstuff.io/mcp/sentinel-oauth if it supports OAuth. Then list and call the tools documented in the MCP Tools reference.

Good to know

  • The token authenticates the assistant to Sentinel only — it has nothing to do with your AI subscription.
  • Hosted-app connectors generally require a paid plan on the AI provider's side; the bearer-token method works with any MCP client.
  • Because every tool is read-only, you can safely "always allow" them to skip per-request approval prompts.
  • Usage is tracked alongside your other API activity, so you always know what's being queried.
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