GLEN FOR CHATGPT
Ask ChatGPT what your team already decided.
Glen keeps what your team's coding agents worked out: the decisions, the incidents, the reasons code is the way it is. Connected to ChatGPT, that memory and the org's shared skills and documents are available in any conversation, with citations you can check.
What you need
- A Glen account. Sign in at app.tryglen.com, or use Start free at the top of this page to create one. Search, skills and artifacts all work on the Free plan.
- A ChatGPT plan and workspace that allow custom apps. Workspace admins can restrict them.
Connect Glen to ChatGPT
- 01Open chatgpt.com/plugins, select +, then Add custom MCP server (or install Glen from the app directory once it's listed).
- 02Name it Glen, choose Public endpoint and paste the server URL. Pick OAuth for authentication.
https://mcp.tryglen.com/mcp - 03Create the app and connect it. Glen's sign-in page opens. Sign in with Google, GitHub, an email link or a password, choose the organization whose memory this connection should use, and approve. The connection reads and writes that one organization; to use a different one, disconnect and connect again.
- 04In a new conversation, type @, choose Glen and ask about your team's past work.
How it works
Recall, on request
When a question needs your team's history, the model calls glen_search. Glen runs the question against the organization's memory and returns an answer with a citation for every claim, so you can open the source.
Nothing is recorded unless you ask
The connector does not capture your chats. It writes only when a tool you approve does: saving a skill or artifact, importing a conversation, forgetting a memory, changing a setting. Each of those tools declares that it changes data, so the client can ask you before it runs.
Your access, nothing more
Every tool runs as you, inside the organization you picked at sign-in. Results include only what you could already see in the Glen dashboard.
Using Codex?
Install the glen plugin for Codex instead. It records your coding sessions into team memory and recalls on every turn.
Try asking
- Why does our API rate limit per workspace instead of per user?
- Who owns payments, and what changed after the double-charge incident?
- Which feature flags are we supposed to clean up?
- Save these steps as a Glen skill called rotate-api-keys.
Tools
Every tool the Glen server exposes. Read-only tools never change anything; tools that write or delete act only on your own account, or on content you wrote. The MCP server reference lists each tool's inputs, outputs, behaviour hints and limits.
| Tool | What it does | Type |
|---|---|---|
Search team memoryglen_search | Answers a question from the org's shared memory, with a citation for every claim. | Read-only |
Trace code to conversationsglen_code_search | Follows a file and line range through git blame to the agent conversations that wrote it. | Read-only |
Search skillsglen_skill_search | Finds a skill in the org's library by what it does or who wrote it. | Read-only |
Use skillglen_skill_use | Fetches a skill's instructions by slug so the agent can follow them. | Read-only |
Search artifactsglen_artifact_search | Finds a saved document you wrote or that was shared with you. | Read-only |
Get artifactglen_artifact_get | Fetches a saved document by slug. | Read-only |
Search dependenciesglen_dependency_search | Finds tools and runtimes the org's skills already declare, so a new skill reuses them. | Read-only |
List organizationsglen_list_orgs | Lists the organizations you belong to and marks the one this connection uses. | Read-only |
Show glen settingsglen_status | Shows your recording mode and whether skill suggestions are on. | Read-only |
Save skillglen_skill_create | Saves a markdown skill to your library, private unless you share it. | Writes |
Share skillglen_skill_share | Shares a skill you wrote with teammates or the whole org. | Writes |
Save artifactglen_artifact_create | Saves a Markdown or HTML document to your library, private unless you share it. | Writes |
Share artifactglen_artifact_share | Shares a document you wrote with teammates or the whole org. | Writes |
Import past conversationglen_import | Adds a past agent conversation to team memory when you ask it to. | Writes |
Forget evidenceglen_forget | Stops a wrong or outdated memory from being recalled again. Reversible with glen_restore. | Writes |
Restore forgotten evidenceglen_restore | Brings back a memory that was forgotten. | Writes |
Invite teammatesglen_invite | Invites people by email to your organization. Owners and admins only. | Writes |
Set glen modeglen_set_recording | Switches your account between on, off, incognito and silent. | Writes |
Set skill suggestionsglen_set_suggestions | Turns Glen's offers to save or reuse skills on or off. | Writes |
Send feedback to Glenglen_feedback | Sends a bug report or feedback to the Glen team. | Writes |
Delete skillglen_skill_delete | Permanently deletes a skill you wrote. Only when you ask for it. | Deletes |
Delete artifactglen_artifact_delete | Permanently deletes a document you wrote. Only when you ask for it. | Deletes |
What Glen sends and stores
- The arguments of each tool call: your search question, or the skill, artifact or conversation you asked Glen to save.
- Your account and organization, from the sign-in token.
- Glen returns answers drawn from your organization's memory, the skills and artifacts you can see, and your settings. It never returns another organization's data.
Everything goes to your organization in Glen and nowhere else. Retention, deletion and the services Glen uses are in the privacy policy and the list of sub-processors.
Turning it off
Disconnect from ChatGPT
Remove Glen under chatgpt.com/plugins. ChatGPT stops calling Glen straight away.
Pause Glen everywhere
Ask the model to set your glen mode to off (glen_set_recording), or change it in the Glen dashboard. Off recalls nothing and records nothing on every machine and agent.
Delete what Glen holds
Forget a single memory with glen_forget, or write to support@tryglen.com to have your account and its data deleted.
Privacy and support
What Glen stores, how long it keeps it and how to have it deleted are covered in the Glen privacy policy. For anything the policy doesn't answer, write to support@tryglen.com. Stuck on setup? The support page says what to include.