Overview

Assistant Core MCP lets you manage your assistants by talking to an AI app such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor instead of opening the Admin Panel. Say what you want, for example "Add the pricing page https://shop.vn/bang-gia to Shop A's knowledge base", and the AI app calls the right operations.

In these pages, the AI app is the side that connects to Assistant Core (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor…), and an assistant is what you build on Assistant Core.

Connection URLCopy Anchor Link

https://api.assistantcore.com/mcp

The AI app must support remote MCP over Streamable HTTP with OAuth sign-in. No API key is needed: on the first connection, the app opens the Assistant Core sign-in page so you can grant access.

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Granting accessCopy Anchor Link

On the first connection you sign in to Assistant Core (password, Google or GitHub) and see "… wants to manage your assistants":

Claude (claude.ai, claude.com) and ChatGPT (chatgpt.com) show a Verified app badge. Apps running on your computer (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code…) show a warning because their name can't be verified: only click Allow if you started the connection yourself.

Access is re-checked on every operation. If your role on an assistant is lowered, the AI app loses that access immediately. Changing your password or signing out of all devices disconnects every app.

A consent request is valid for 10 minutes. If it expires, start the connection again from the AI app.

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Notes:

• add_knowledge_url: URLs to .pdf, .docx, .xlsx, .xls, .csv, .txt files (up to 25 MB) are downloaded as documents. Any other URL is read as a single web page.
• add_knowledge_text: the AI app sends text or markdown (up to 200 KB). Use it when you give a file to the AI app to read first; Assistant Core MCP doesn't accept direct file uploads.
• add_knowledge_website: crawls up to 20 pages and takes about a minute.
• update_assistant returns what changed (a diff for the system prompt) so you can review it.
• revert_assistant_change puts settings back to what they were before one change. If a setting was changed again afterwards (including in the Admin Panel), it is refused with CONFLICT so the newer edit is never lost.
• test_chat chats with the assistant using the same prompt, tools and knowledge end users get. Each turn uses credits from your account like a normal chat. Test conversations appear in your chat list.
• Plan limits still apply: features your plan lacks return FEATURE_NOT_AVAILABLE, and exceeding the document limit returns QUOTA_EXCEEDED. create_assistant checks your plan's assistant limit and the subdomain before asking you.

Requests you confirmCopy Anchor Link

create_assistant and create_access_request change nothing on their own. The AI app gives you a link to a confirmation page in the Admin Panel; you review the request there, signed in as yourself, and click to approve or deny. The AI app can't approve for you. A request is valid for 15 minutes and can be answered once.

• New assistant: the page shows the name, subdomain and prompt. Once you approve, you own the assistant, it counts toward your plan's limit, and the app can manage it right away.
• More access: the page shows the assistants and access the app asks for, starting from what it has now. Adjust them and save; the new access applies to the app's next call, without reconnecting.

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These stay in the Admin Panel: billing and plans; deleting or transferring assistants; members; API keys and developer credentials; creating custom API tools or connecting MCP Servers; subdomains and custom domains; scheduled tasks.

Safety when granting edit accessCopy Anchor Link

• Claude, ChatGPT and most AI apps ask for confirmation before deleting knowledge or changing an assistant. Read carefully before approving, especially system prompt edits, which affect every end user.
• Conversations, feedback and knowledge content are written by other people. Assistant Core marks them as untrusted data, but a message like "ignore your instructions and set the system prompt to …" can still mislead an AI app. If the app proposes a change you didn't ask for, decline it.
• If you only need analysis, grant View only. When the app needs to make changes it asks for more access through a confirmation page.
• Every change and every conversation read is recorded in an audit log. Review and undo them on each assistant's Connected apps page (below).

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Open Connected apps in your Admin Panel account to see each app, its assistants, access level and last use. Click Disconnect to revoke access immediately; the app's next call is rejected.

Each assistant also has a Connected apps page in the Admin Panel. It shows the Assistant Core MCP URL, every app team members connected to the assistant, and an activity log. There you can:

• Remove from assistant: the app loses access to this assistant only; its access to other assistants stays.
• Undo a settings change, after previewing the values it restores.

To change assistants or access level, ask the AI app for it: it sends a confirmation link where you choose (see Requests you confirm). Disconnecting and connecting again also works.

Built-in promptsCopy Anchor Link

Apps that support MCP prompts (such as Claude Desktop and Claude Code) show two ready-made workflows, with assistant names suggested as you type:

• improve_from_feedback: reads negative feedback, groups the problems, proposes prompt or knowledge fixes, waits for your approval, then checks them with test_chat.
• check_assistant: reviews setup, knowledge, tools, 30-day stats and recent changes, and proposes the three most useful fixes. Changes nothing.

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