ChatGPT

Patalyze connects to ChatGPT and Codex. You add the connectors in ChatGPT on the web (chatgpt.com); they live on your ChatGPT account, so once added they are also available in the ChatGPT mobile apps. Codex is set up separately through its CLI.

There are two MCP servers, and they do different jobs:

• Global Patents MCP (https://search.patalyze.com/mcp) gives ChatGPT eyes: read-only search over the global patent corpus and CPC/IPC classifications, through four tools. It never touches your research databases.
• Patalyze MCP (https://api.patalyze.com/mcp) gives ChatGPT hands: full read and write access to your research databases (products, patents, claim mappings, dashboards and notes) through about 40 tools, acting with your permissions.

Install Global Patents first. It is read-only, so there is nothing to configure and nothing it can break, and patent search is usually the first thing you want from ChatGPT anyway. Add the Patalyze server when you are ready for ChatGPT to work inside your databases.

Both servers authenticate with your Patalyze account over OAuth, so you approve access in the browser with no API key to manage. See MCP for each server's full tool list and scopes.

ChatGPT on the web#

ChatGPT reaches the servers through developer mode, which registers a remote MCP server as a custom connector and exposes all of its tools. ChatGPT renamed connectors to apps in December 2025, so you will see both words in its settings; they are the same thing. Developer mode is available on the Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans, but not on Free or Go.

In a conversation, click the "+" button in the chat composer, open "More" (shown as "Developer mode" on some plans), and toggle the servers on for that chat. Naming a server in your prompt helps ChatGPT pick the right tools, as in a request to use Global Patents to find recent lidar patents from Bosch. Before any Patalyze tool that modifies data runs, ChatGPT shows a confirmation you must accept; Global Patents is read-only and never triggers one. Expect memory to switch off in these chats; that is developer mode working as designed.

On Business plans, only workspace admins can use developer mode. On Enterprise and Edu, an admin must first allow it under Workspace settings > Permissions & roles > Connected data; authorized members can then switch it on in their own settings, and an admin can publish a vetted connector to the whole workspace.

This is ChatGPT's full MCP connector path, separate from its deep-research connectors. Deep research expects tools named search and fetch, which Patalyze does not expose; developer mode has no such requirement.

ChatGPT desktop apps#

OpenAI documents developer-mode connectors for the web and mobile apps only. If they do not show up in the macOS or Windows desktop apps, open chatgpt.com in a browser, where they are always available.

ChatGPT mobile apps#

There is nothing to install on iOS or Android. Connectors added on the web are available on your phone automatically; enable them for a chat from the "+" menu, the same way as on the web. To add a new server, use chatgpt.com.

Codex#

Codex keeps its own MCP configuration, so connectors you added in ChatGPT do not carry over. Add the servers with the CLI:

codex mcp add global-patents --url https://search.patalyze.com/mcp
codex mcp add patalyze --url https://api.patalyze.com/mcp

Then authenticate: run codex mcp login global-patents (and the same for patalyze). A browser window opens for you to sign in to Patalyze and approve access. Confirm the connection with codex mcp list, or run /mcp inside a session to see each server and its tools.

The entries are written to ~/.codex/config.toml and apply to all your projects; the Codex IDE extension reads the same file, so the servers appear there too. To limit a server to one project, put its entry in that project's .codex/config.toml instead.