Connect Claude or ChatGPT
to ShareAndGo
Bring your own AI assistant into ShareAndGo via the Model Context Protocol. Ask questions, search across every room you have access to, and (with write scope) let your AI create rooms and upload documents on your behalf. All without copying a single file.
Two consent gates, by design
AI access in ShareAndGo is controlled at both the connector level (you decide what your AI can do globally) and the room level (each owner decides what AI can do in their specific room). Your AI can only act when both gates are open.
Token scopes (yours)
When you connect your AI, the consent screen shows two checkboxes:
- Read access: list rooms, read documents, search, ask questions
- Write access: create rooms, upload, move, delete documents
Write defaults to OFF. It's a deliberate opt-in.
Per-room toggles (theirs)
Each room has separate Read access and Write access toggles, controlled by the room owner from the Insights tab. Recipients can request read access; owners must enable write themselves.
Workspace defaults live at Settings → Workspace.
How to connect
From start to working connector in under a minute.
Generate your MCP URL
Add the connector to your AI
Approve scopes on the consent screen
Enable AI on a specific room
Try it
list_data_rooms and show the rooms you've granted access to.What your AI can do
Read tools work as soon as a room owner enables AI read access. Write tools additionally require AI write access on the room AND the write scope on your token.
list_data_roomsreadlist_documentsreadsearch_documentsreadread_documentreadask_roomreadcreate_data_roomwriteupload_documentwritecreate_folderwritemove_documentwritedelete_documentwriteWhat works in which client
The MCP transport itself is universal, but each AI client's sandbox has different limits. Here's what's reliable today.
| Client | Read / search / Q&A | Small writes (rooms, folders, metadata) | File uploads |
|---|---|---|---|
| claude.ai (web) | ✓ | ✓ | ⚠ Slow / unreliable |
| Claude Desktop | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ChatGPT Desktop | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ when MCP ships generally |
| Custom MCP clients | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Why claude.ai web is slow on uploads: Anthropic's web sandbox blocks external HTTPS hosts, so the only file-upload path is inline base64 in the tool-call argument. Claude has to materialise the file character-by-character. Fine for a few KB, painful past ~75KB, unreliable past ~150KB. We'll lift the limit when Anthropic improves the sandbox transport. For now, the ShareAndGo web UI is the right place to upload files; let your AI handle everything else.
Example prompts to try
Real prompts that work cleanly in claude.ai web today.
For bulk uploads, document moves at scale, and similar byte-heavy operations, use Claude Desktop, ChatGPT Desktop, or a custom MCP client. See the table above.
Every action is audited
Every tool call your AI makes is recorded in two places: ShareAndGo's global ai_query_logs collection, and the affected room's tamper-evident audit log. Look for actions starting with ai_mcp. in the room's Audit Log tab.
AI-issued tokens can be revoked instantly from Settings → Integrations → AI Assistants. Revocation takes effect on the next request, with no propagation delay.
Troubleshooting
My AI says "no rooms accessible" but I have rooms
This is the per-room consent gate working as designed. Open the room → Insights tab → flip the Read access toggle on. Your AI will see it on the next call.
My AI says "this connector does not have write scope" when creating a room or moving files
You only granted read scope when you authorized the connector. Revoke it from Settings → Integrations → AI Assistants and re-add it, ticking the Write checkbox on the consent screen.
Uploading a file via claude.ai is taking forever or fails
That's a known Anthropic-sandbox limitation, not a ShareAndGo issue. Claude.ai's web client has to base64-encode the file into the tool-call argument character-by-character. Files past ~75KB get slow, past ~150KB get unreliable. For uploads at any size, use the ShareAndGo web UI directly, or switch to Claude Desktop / ChatGPT Desktop / a custom MCP client where uploads work normally.
"AI write access not enabled for this room"
Your token has write scope but the room owner hasn't turned on the room-level write toggle. Open the room → Insights tab → enable Write access (admin only). Both gates must be open.
claude.ai shows "Sign in to ShareAndGo first"
Open shareandgo.com.au, sign in, then re-add the connector in claude.ai. Sessions are scoped to the frontend domain so the consent flow needs an active ShareAndGo session.
Privacy posture
ShareAndGo doesn't train any models on your data. The MCP server simply hands off document content to whichever AI you've connected (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.); that AI's own privacy policy applies to anything it sees. The connection is identical in privacy posture to downloading a document and pasting it into the AI yourself, except more secure: no laptop copy, no email forwarding, full audit trail. The room owner controls whether AI access is even possible.
Ready to bring your AI to ShareAndGo?
Set up takes about 60 seconds. Read access is on by default; write is opt-in. Revoke any time.
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