Connecting an AI Assistant

You can connect an AI assistant, for example ChatGPT or Claude, to your Slipmat account. Then you can manage your artist profile, schedule events, check your stats, and search release notes and documentation in plain language. For example, ask “Schedule a set for next Friday at 10pm” or “How did my last event do?”.

This tool is for people who want to experiment with LLMs. You can do everything that the assistant does yourself, on your artist Dashboard.

What is MCP?

The connection uses MCP (the Model Context Protocol), a standard way for AI assistants to talk to services like Slipmat. You do not need to understand it. When a guide mentions a “connector” or an “MCP server”, it means this connection.

The assistant is not part of Slipmat

The AI assistant (ChatGPT, Claude, or another app) is a third-party tool from another company. Slipmat does not run or control it. Slipmat only gives the secure connection that lets your assistant work with your artist data after you approve it. The company that makes the assistant decides how it behaves, what it costs, and how it handles your conversation.

What you need

• A Slipmat account that owns at least one artist. The assistant works only with the artists that you own.
• An AI assistant that supports MCP connectors, for example ChatGPT or Claude, in a desktop app, on the Web, or in a terminal.

What the assistant can do

• Your artist profile: show and update your artist profile.
• Your events: list your events, schedule new ones, edit upcoming ones, and work with drafts.
• Proposed events: propose an event with some candidate times, and let your listeners vote.
• Shows: create and update your Shows, add, skip and restore episodes, and add past events to a Show. See how Shows work.
• Your stats: show how a past event did (audience, chat, hype, song requests, tips and follower changes), trends across your events, and your follower growth.
• Your chats: read your artist, event and crew chats, and post messages to them. It can also read the chat of a past event: all of it, or only the links, the shared music, or the system messages.
• Tips: list the tips that your artist got. See how tips work.
• Your sli.pm page: edit, preview and publish it, if sli.pm is turned on for your artist.
• Your audience: list the fans of your artist, and find a public user profile by username.
• Your activity log: read your own or your artist’s activity log from the last 30 days.
• News: search the Backstage community forum, and read the latest artist news and release notes.
• Bug reports: help you file a bug report. It looks for duplicates first, and can attach a screenshot.

Set the assistant’s permissions

When you connect the assistant, it gets full access to read and change your data, and to post in your chats. It cannot delete your profile or your events, but it can change them permanently. Set the permissions in your assistant so that it cannot change things that you did not ask for. You cannot undo a change. Reading your data changes nothing.

What the assistant cannot do

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

• Start, stop or cancel a live event, or control your stream
• Run ad hoc events or soundchecks
• Delete an event or your profile. It can delete only a proposed event.
• Upload profile or event photos. New events use your default event photo. Bug report screenshots are the only uploads.
• Do anything that you cannot do yourself. It works with your own permissions.

For these, use your artist Dashboard.

Connect

The URL to connect to is:

https://api.slipmat.io/mcp

The first time you connect, Slipmat asks you to log in and approve access. This is your normal login, and your assistant never sees your password. On the approval screen, grant the Read and edit artist data permission. You can remove this access from Slipmat at any time.

ChatGPT

The Slipmat MCP server is not yet an official ChatGPT app, so you must turn on Developer mode to use it in the Web client.

1. Open Settings → Security and login → Turn Developer mode on.
2. Go to Plugins and click the + button to add a plugin.
3. Enter https://api.slipmat.io/mcp as the connection URL. Keep OAuth authentication.
4. Authenticate the plugin and complete the Slipmat login and approval screens.

It is easier in the ChatGPT or Codex desktop app.

Claude (desktop app or 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

In a terminal:

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. After you approve, /mcp shows the server as connected.

Codex CLI

In a terminal:

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

First steps

When the MCP server is connected, ask something simple, for example “What new features did Slipmat add in the past month?” or “Show me my Slipmat artist details”. You do not need to name the connector. Usually it is enough to mention Slipmat.

The MCP server is new. Post your questions, comments and ideas on Backstage.

If something goes wrong

• You logged in, but the assistant sees no artists. The artist tools work only for artists that you own. If you are a member of an artist but not its owner, the assistant does not see it. Make sure that you use the correct account.
• The assistant cannot edit your profile. To edit profile details, you need the manage the artist permission and ownership.
• The assistant cannot edit an event. It can edit only upcoming events: drafts and scheduled events. It cannot edit live, finished or cancelled events. Setlists are different: it can update a setlist at any time.