# Connect your AI assistant to GAMS

> Plain-text version of https://open.gamstandards.com/use-with-ai/setup.

GAMS has two connectors (MCP servers over Streamable HTTP). Add one once and your assistant reads GAMS content as tool results, word for word, without fetching web pages. Without a connector, an assistant can still read any open.gamstandards.com page you share.

## GAMS Standards

- **Connector URL**: https://open.gamstandards.com/mcp
- **Who it is for**: Anyone
- **What it does**: Reads the public library: every published collection, template, reference document, data schema, FAQ and glossary, word for word.
- **Sign-in**: No account needed to browse and read. The search and ask tools ask you to sign in with a GAMS account the first time you use them.

### Add it to your assistant

#### Claude

All plans (Free allows one custom connector). Team/Enterprise: an Owner adds it in Admin settings.

1. In claude.ai or the Claude desktop app, open **Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector**
2. Fill in these fields, leave **Advanced settings** empty and click **Add**
   - Name: `GAMS Standards`
   - Remote MCP server URL: `https://open.gamstandards.com/mcp`
3. In a chat, open the tools menu and turn on **GAMS Standards**

#### ChatGPT

Plus, Pro and business plans, via developer mode (web only). Business workspaces: an admin creates and publishes the app.

1. Open **Settings → Security and login** and turn on **Developer mode** (older builds: **Settings → Apps → Advanced settings**)
2. Go to **chatgpt.com/plugins** and click **+** (older builds: **Settings → Apps → Create**)
3. Fill in these fields, review the tools it finds and click **Create**
   - Name: `GAMS Standards`
   - MCP Server URL: `https://open.gamstandards.com/mcp`
   - Authentication: **No authentication**
4. In a new chat, type **@** and pick **GAMS Standards**, or open the tools menu

#### Gemini Enterprise

An administrator adds GAMS Standards once for everyone, with no authentication. The search and ask tools need a GAMS sign-in, so through this connection the assistant browses and reads instead.

##### Gemini Enterprise: Business edition

Gemini Enterprise Business, at business.gemini.google (custom MCP servers are in preview there). A team administrator adds it.

1. At **business.gemini.google**, open **Settings & help**, choose your team, then **Manage team → Connected apps → Add MCP Server**
2. Under **MCP info**, fill in these fields and click **Next**
   - Server URL: `https://open.gamstandards.com/mcp`
   - Name: `GAMS Standards`
3. Under **Auth**, choose **No authentication** and click **Add**
4. Choose a **Multi-region** location, fill in the name and click **Add**
   - Your data connector name: `GAMS Standards`
5. The connection starts switched off: turn it on in **Connectors** so your team can use it

##### Gemini Enterprise: Standard edition

Gemini Enterprise Standard (and Plus), set up in the Google Cloud console by an admin with the Discovery Engine Editor role.

1. If your organisation restricts custom MCP data stores, ask your Google Cloud admin to allow them and to add this domain to the allowed egress domains
   - Connector domain: `open.gamstandards.com`
2. In the Google Cloud console, open **Gemini Enterprise → Apps**, choose your app, then **Connected data stores → New data store**. Search for **Custom MCP Server** and click **Add MCP server**
3. Under **Authentication settings**, choose **No authentication**, fill in the URL and click **Continue**
   - MCP Server URL: `https://open.gamstandards.com/mcp`
4. Choose the location, fill in the name and click **Create**
   - Your data connector name: `GAMS Standards`
5. When the data store is **Active**, open **Actions → Reload custom actions**, select every tool except **search** and **ask**, and click **Enable actions**

#### Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Cowork reach MCP servers through an app package or a Copilot Studio agent; the GAMS plugin is that package, ready-made. Consumer Copilot does not support custom connections. Your admin must allow custom app uploads, and you need a work or school account.

1. Easiest: download the Microsoft Copilot plugin above and upload it. In Cowork: **+ → Customise → Plugins → Upload plugin**. In Teams or Copilot: **Apps → Manage your apps → Upload a custom app**
2. Or a Copilot Studio maker adds GAMS Standards to an agent: **Tools → Add a tool → New tool → Model Context Protocol**, fills in these fields, then publishes the agent to the Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot channel
   - Server name: `GAMS Standards`
   - Server description: `Global Asset Management Standards: published collections, templates, reference documents, data schemas, FAQs and glossaries, word for word.`
   - Server URL: `https://open.gamstandards.com/mcp`
   - Authentication: **None**

### Or install the GAMS plugin

Each package connects the assistant to the connector above and adds a skill on using the library well. Install steps and checksums: https://open.gamstandards.com/api/ai/plugins

- **Claude**: https://open.gamstandards.com/api/ai/plugins/gams-standards-claude-1.1.9.zip — Claude desktop app (Cowork) and Claude Code, on paid plans.
- **ChatGPT**: https://open.gamstandards.com/api/ai/plugins/gams-standards-chatgpt-1.1.9.zip — ChatGPT desktop app and Codex, on any plan with plugins.
- **Microsoft Copilot**: https://open.gamstandards.com/api/ai/plugins/gams-standards-copilot-1.1.9.zip — Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Cowork, with a work or school account.

## GAMS Publisher

- **Connector URL**: https://publishers.gamstandards.com/mcp
- **Who it is for**: Working-group members and publishers
- **What it does**: Works with your groups: group files and discussions, actions, draft collections and engagement figures for your collections.
- **Sign-in**: Sign in with your GAMS account. It works as you: it sees only what you can see in the Publisher Console, and makes changes only if you allow them when you connect.
- **Setup**: step-by-step instructions for each assistant are in the Publisher Console after you sign in: https://publishers.gamstandards.com/settings/ai

## Without a connector

- Share any collection link with your assistant. Each page has Markdown and JSON versions: add `?format=markdown` or `?format=json` to the page URL.
- Short index for AI tools: https://open.gamstandards.com/llms.txt; the full AI API guide: https://open.gamstandards.com/api/ai/guide.md
- Index of every AI endpoint: https://open.gamstandards.com/api/ai