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Connecting an AI Assistant ​

Slipmat lets you connect an AI assistant — like ChatGPT or Claude — to your artist account, so you can manage your profile, schedule shows, check your stats, and search release notes and documentation just by asking in plain language. Instead of clicking through your dashboard, you can say "Schedule a set for next Friday at 10pm" or "How did my last show do?" and let the assistant do the work.

This tool is meant for those who are interested in hacking with LLMs. Everything the assistant can do, you can also do yourself in your Artist Dashboard. Think of it as a hands-free way to get to the same place.

What is MCP?

The connection uses a shared standard called MCP (the Model Context Protocol) — a common way for AI assistants to talk to services like Slipmat. You don't need to understand the technology to use it. When a guide mentions a "connector" or an "MCP server," it's talking about this same connection.

The assistant is not part of Slipmat

The AI assistant itself — ChatGPT, Claude, or whichever app you use — is a third-party tool made by another company, not something Slipmat runs or controls. Slipmat only provides the secure connection that lets your assistant work with your artist data once you approve it. How the assistant behaves, what it costs, and how it handles your conversation are up to that company.

What you need ​

  • An account on Slipmat. The connection only works for authenticated Slipmat accounts — the assistant needs to be able to sign in.
  • An AI assistant that supports MCP connectors, such as ChatGPT or Claude (desktop app, on the Web, or in a terminal.

What the assistant can do ​

Once connected, the assistant can help you with:

  • Your artist profile — view it and update your artist profile details.
  • Your events — list your shows, schedule new ones, edit upcoming ones, and work with drafts.
  • Proposed events — propose a show with a few candidate times and let your listeners vote on when it should happen.
  • Your stats — review how a past show did (audience, chat, hype, song requests, tips, and follower changes) and look at trends across your shows and your follower growth over time.
  • Staying in the loop — search Slipmat's Backstage community forum and catch up on the latest artist news and release notes.
  • Reporting bugs — walk you through filing a bug report, checking for duplicates first.

Use proper assistant permissions

When you authenticate the assistant you give it full access to read and write your data. Assistant cannot directly delete your data but it can, for example, permanently edit your profile data. Set your assistant permission settings in the tool you are using so that you are comfortable that it won't accidentally change things you didn't mean to. Remember that there is no undo! Reading your data never changes anything.

What it can't do ​

The connection is deliberately limited to keep your account safe. The assistant cannot:

  • Start, stop, or cancel a live show, or control your stream
  • Run ad hoc shows or soundchecks
  • Delete events or your profile
  • Upload profile or event photos — new events use your default event photo
  • Do anything a member of your artist team couldn't already do — it works within your existing permissions

For any of these, use your Artist Dashboard as usual.

Connecting ​

The address to connect to is:

https://api.slipmat.io/mcp

The first time you connect, you'll be sent to Slipmat to log in and approve access. This is the same login you always use — your assistant never sees your password. On the approval screen you'll grant the Read and edit artist data permission, and then you're connected. You can revoke this access from Slipmat at any time.

ChatGPT ​

As Slipmat MCP Server is not yet an official ChatGPT App, you need to enable Developer mode to use this from the Web client.

  1. Open Settings → Security and login → Turn Developer mode on
  2. Then go to Plugins and click the +-button to add a new Plugin
  3. Put https://api.slipmat.io/mcp as the Connection url (keep OAuth authentication) and any extra details you like
  4. Authenticate the plugin once and complete the Slipmat login and approval screens.

Doing this from the ChatGPT/Codex desktop app is easier, and we are submitting this as an official ChatGPT app which will make the process much smoother.

Claude (desktop app or on the Web) ​

  1. Open Settings → Connectors.
  2. Add a custom connector with the URL https://api.slipmat.io/mcp.
  3. Click Connect and complete the Slipmat login and approval screens.

Claude Code ​

If you use Claude Code from a terminal:

bash
claude mcp add --transport http slipmat https://api.slipmat.io/mcp

Then run /mcp, choose slipmat, and select Authenticate. A browser window opens for the Slipmat login and approval. Once you approve, /mcp shows the server as connected.

Codex CLI ​

From a terminal:

bash
codex mcp add Slipmat --url https://api.slipmat.io/mcp

First Steps ​

After you get the MCP server connected, try asking something simple like "what new features have been added to Slipmat in the past month" or "show me my Slipmat artist details". You don't need to specify the connector in any special way, just mentioning Slipmat will most likely just work.

This MCP server is in very early stages of development, do post your questions, comments and suggestions on Backstage!

If something goes wrong ​

  • You logged in, but the assistant sees no artists. Your account signed in fine but isn't a member of any artist. Ask a teammate to add you, or check that you're using the right account.
  • The assistant can't sign in at all. The account you're connecting must be an artist account.
  • The assistant can't edit an event. Some actions need the right permission on your artist team, and only upcoming (planned or scheduled) events can be edited — live, finished, or cancelled shows can't.