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title: Cascades in ChatGPT
description: "Cascades in ChatGPT: config, install command and the scopes your API key needs for the Cascades MCP server."
canonical_url: "https://cascades.crscreditapi.com/docs/mcp/install/chatgpt"
doc_version: "1.0.0"
last_updated: "2026-10-09T14:37:54Z"
source: docs/mcp/tools.json
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# Cascades in ChatGPT

1. ChatGPT connectors only speak **remote** MCP (a hosted Streamable-HTTP endpoint with OAuth). The Cascades server ships as a local stdio binary today, so there is nothing to paste yet.
2. A hosted endpoint with per-user authorization is on the roadmap; this page will carry the connector URL when it exists.
3. In the meantime, use Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code or Windsurf — all of which run the local server.

## Notes

- Do not expose the server's HTTP mode (`MCP_TRANSPORT=http`) to the internet to work around this: it serves every caller with one process-level key and has no per-request auth.

## Other clients

- [Claude Code](https://cascades.crscreditapi.com/docs/mcp/install/claude-code.md)
- [Claude Desktop](https://cascades.crscreditapi.com/docs/mcp/install/claude-desktop.md)
- [Cursor](https://cascades.crscreditapi.com/docs/mcp/install/cursor.md)
- [VS Code](https://cascades.crscreditapi.com/docs/mcp/install/vscode.md)
- [Windsurf](https://cascades.crscreditapi.com/docs/mcp/install/windsurf.md)

## Sitemap

See the full [sitemap](https://cascades.crscreditapi.com/sitemap.md) for all pages.