Use Paper with your AI

Let Claude or ChatGPT find, open and edit your papers, with you in charge of what it can touch. You choose the access, you approve the risky changes, and you can switch it off at any time.

Add Paper to your AI

Paper's connector address is:

https://paper.primitiveai.com.au/mcp

Claude

1. Open Claude and go to Settings, then Connectors.
2. Choose Add custom connector.
3. Paste the address above and add it.
4. Sign in to Paper when asked, then approve on the consent card (below).

ChatGPT

1. Add Paper by its address (the same URL) from ChatGPT's apps and connectors settings.
2. Until Paper is listed, ChatGPT needs Developer mode turned on to use it in chat.
3. Sign in to Paper when asked, then approve on the consent card.

You can also copy the address from Connected AI in Paper's account menu, where Add AI shows it with a copy button. You need a Paper account to connect.

What the AI can do

• Find your papers and open them to read.
• Create and edit documents, sheets, slides, forms and sites, if you allowed editing.
• Read form responses, only if you ticked that box.

It cannot move items to the bin, and it can only work on the kinds of paper you choose.

The consent card

When an AI app connects, Paper shows a card where you decide, not the app. It shows the app's name and where it returns to. Paper has not verified the name, so check it is the app you meant to connect.

• Which papers: any of documents, sheets, slides, forms and sites.
• Access: Read only, or Read and edit. It starts on Read only.
• Form responses: a separate box, unticked to start. Tick it only if the AI should see what people entered in your forms.
• How long: 1, 7 or 30 days.

Press Approve to connect, or Cancel to send you back to the app with nothing granted.

Approvals

Some changes are never made on the AI's say-so alone. Removing content, every rewrite of a document, and every undo wait for you in Paper. The AI is given a link, you see what it proposed in plain words, and you approve or decline. Nothing is saved until you approve.

The AI can check where a request stands with approval_status: pending, approved, declined or expired. It cannot approve for you.

Receipts and undo

Every change the AI saves comes with a receipt. If you ask it to undo its latest change to an item, it uses that receipt. Undoing needs your approval in Paper, like the other risky changes. Only the latest change by that connection to an item can be undone, and older receipts are cleared after 30 days.

Disconnect

Open Connected AI in Paper's account menu. It lists each app with what it was allowed, when it was added and when it was last used. Press Disconnect and the connection and all its tokens end straight away. You can also let a connection simply expire at the end of the time you chose.

Your own AI in the corner

You do not have to connect an outside app. In Paper's corner chat you can use your own Anthropic or OpenAI key instead. The key stays on your device, kept in your browser for that Paper account. Paper never receives it, and calls go straight from your browser to Anthropic or OpenAI. You can remove it whenever you like.

Your privacy

When an AI app reads your papers, they go to that app and its provider, and the provider's own policy covers what happens next. Connect only apps you trust, and give each only the access it needs. The full details are in the Paper privacy policy.

Help

Questions, or something not working? Email hello@primitiveai.com.au.