the alexandria connector, in your chat

Connect the chat app you already use, and it can look up the people in your life from what each of them chooses to share, and keep your own page. Every change to your page waits for your yes in your browser, and your private record never comes here.

what it does

It finds people. Name someone and your chat looks them up among Alexandria’s members, then reads what they share with you. Anyone can read a public page, and a members page opens to people who joined.

It reads exactly what you may read. Each piece keeps its own access, so a piece someone opened only to the people they invited stays closed to everyone else. Your chat can never buy access or accept an invitation for you.

It keeps your page. Ask your chat to write a page about you, for anyone, for members, for people who buy it, or for one of your circles; to let someone into a circle or take them out again; to change your introduction; or to take a page down. It prepares the exact change and gives you a link, you read it in your browser, and nothing changes until you confirm it there. A prepared change lasts fifteen minutes and works once.

connect it

The connector’s address is https://api.alexandria-library.com/mcp.

1. Add it in your chat app, and wherever it asks for a name, use alexandria., lowercase with the period.
   • Claude. Customize, then Connectors, then add alexandria. from the directory (by Alexandria Library, with the a. icon, not the plugin named Alexandria that someone else made), or a custom connector with this address, on the web or in the desktop app. It then shows in the phone app too.
   • ChatGPT, on the web. Plugins, then Add, then Add custom MCP server, with this address. It takes a paid plan until alexandria. is listed in Plugins.
   • Grok. Plugins, then New Connector, then Custom, with the name and this address. It then shows in the phone app too, under Settings, then Connectors.
   • Gemini, on the web, with Keep Activity on. Settings, then Connected apps, then Custom, with this address. It then shows in the phone app too.
   • Poke. Add it at poke.com/integrations/new with this address.
   • Muse can’t add one in its settings, so it takes a key instead, below.
   • Any other app that can add a custom connector takes this address in its own connector settings.
2. Sign in on Alexandria’s page with your email, and press allow. Nothing asks you for a password, and you never type a code into the chat.
3. Ask your chat to show you your Alexandria page, to check it worked.

An app set to another language shows these places under its own words for them. A work or school account may need its owner to allow connectors first, so use a personal account or ask them.

Your chat’s saved instructions, where setup puts the lines every new chat reads first, are in Claude under Settings, then Account, then Instructions for Claude.

Or copy the setup from alexandria.place/chat, paste it into your chat, and it walks you through its own settings.

Some apps, such as Hark, add a connector only with a key, not a sign-in. Make one for that app in your connections, and paste it with the address into that app’s connector settings, named alexandria., never into a chat. For Muse, give Muse its key and the address in a chat instead, and it builds the connector itself. The key shows once and works until you remove it there.

what you need

An Alexandria account, which your first sign-in makes. With the account alone, your chat can read public pages and show you your own. Finding people, reading members pages, and changing your page need membership.

try it

Once it is connected, ask your chat any of these.

• Look up Benjamin a. Mowinckel on Alexandria and tell me what he is building. It finds him among the members, reads what he shares, answers, and names whose page the answer drew from.
• Read the letter Benjamin a. Mowinckel published on Alexandria. It reads that one piece and tells you what it says.
• Show me my Alexandria page. It shows your name, themes, location, contact, links, and the pages you have published.
• Write a public page about how I like to work, from what I tell you now. It drafts the page with you and gives you a link to read it and publish it.
• Take my how-i-work page off Alexandria. It gives you a link to confirm the removal.

what it sees, and what it keeps

Your chat sends Alexandria only what each request needs, such as the handle of the person it looks up. Alexandria never receives your conversation, your files, or your chat app’s memory.

What comes back is other people’s published words, and your chat treats them as information, never as instructions.

Alexandria keeps your chat app’s registration, your approval of it, and hashes of its sign-in tokens, which expire. For a key, it keeps its hash, the name you gave the app, and when you made it, and erases them when you remove it. A prepared change is held encrypted until you confirm it or fifteen minutes pass. The privacy policy has the full list, and trust describes the boundary.

You can remove a connection at any time in your connections, or in your chat app.

help

“Connect your account to use these tools.” The sign-in lapsed or was removed, or the app’s key was removed. Reconnect it in your chat app’s connector settings, with a new key if it used one.

“Active membership is required for this Connector feature.” That ability needs membership. Reading public pages and your own page still work.

The approval page names an account that isn’t the one you meant. Your browser is signed in to another account, perhaps one on a different email. Press not you? on that page, sign in with the right one, and the same request comes back for you to allow.

Your chat says the session expired. Some chat apps stop waiting after a few minutes, so a slow sign-in email can outlast them. Connect again from your chat. You’re signed in now, so it takes one press.

A review link says it is invalid, expired, or disconnected. A prepared change lasts fifteen minutes, works once, and opens only for the account that asked. Ask your chat to prepare it again.

“Your page changed after this proposal.” Your page was edited after your chat prepared the change. Ask it to prepare the change again.

Your chat app can’t add it. Some plans can’t add a connector by address. Claude’s free plan can add one. ChatGPT can on the web on its paid plans, and its free plan only once alexandria. is listed in its plugins. An app that asks for a key instead of a sign-in can use one you make in your connections.

Anything else. Write to benmowinckel@gmail.com and Benjamin a. Mowinckel, who runs Alexandria, writes back.

the tools

Seven tools only read.

• find_person finds someone by the name you used, your own people first, in one call. The name is used for that search and never kept.
• person reads someone’s card, the pieces you can open, and how their public page begins.
• read_artifact reads one piece in full by its exact scope and name.
• my_people lists the people you are tied to here, such as who gave you access or wrote to you.
• directory browses the members who chose to be listed, for members.
• my_profile shows your page and the locations you can choose.
• my_pages lists the pages you have published, and who is in each of your circles.

Five prepare a change, and nothing changes until you confirm it in your browser.

• prepare_page prepares a new page, or a replacement for one you have, for anyone, for members, for people who buy it, or for one of your circles.
• prepare_profile_update prepares a change to your name, introduction, location, contact, or links.
• prepare_page_removal prepares taking a page down.
• prepare_circle_opening prepares letting one person into one of your circles, to read every page in it, including ones you add later.
• prepare_circle_closing prepares taking someone out of a circle.
• prepare_page_arrangement prepares how their pages read on their page: their order, and any page’s title or line.