Connecting ChatGPT
Fixes for connecting AdCopilot to ChatGPT — no developer mode switch, "No app tools available yet", ChatGPT searching the web instead of using AdCopilot, and the sign-in tab that keeps spinning.
The full steps are in Connect ChatGPT. These are the places people get stuck.
No developer mode switch
- Developer mode is in Settings → Security and login; scroll down past the other security settings. The link chatgpt.com/#settings/Security opens the panel but does not scroll to it.
- On a Business, Enterprise or Edu workspace, developer mode depends on your workspace's policy. Ask your ChatGPT admin to allow it.
- It works on the Free plan; you do not need to pay for ChatGPT.
No "Create MCP App" button
Go to chatgpt.com/plugins, press + at the top right and choose Create app. In the New Plugin box, ignore the file drop area; Create MCP App is at the bottom left. Don't use Upload plugin. If + only offers other options, check developer mode is on.
No app tools available yet
ChatGPT often shows No app tools available yet on the app's page right after you connect. It is ChatGPT's page catching up; our server has already answered. It does not need fixing. Open a new chat and type @AdCopilot.
If AdCopilot still has no tools in a new chat, reconnect it: open the AdCopilot app in ChatGPT's settings and reconnect, or remove it and create it again with the same URL.
ChatGPT searches the web instead
ChatGPT decides for itself whether to use an app. Make the choice for it: start each new chat by typing @AdCopilot and picking it from the list, then ask. The AdCopilot chip in the message box means it will use AdCopilot.
If AdCopilot is not in the @ list, check the app was created and approved (ChatGPT says AdCopilot is installed.) and that developer mode is still on.
The sign-in tab keeps spinning
After you press Approve on AdCopilot's page, the tab it returns to may spin without finishing. Close it and go back to the ChatGPT tab, which says AdCopilot is installed. The approval has already gone through; the dashboard's AI assistants page shows Connected once ChatGPT makes its first call.
If ChatGPT did not say it is installed, press Sign in with AdCopilot again.
"Elevated risk"
ChatGPT labels developer mode, and every app added through it, Elevated risk, and warns that such apps could change or erase data. It says that of every app outside its directory. AdCopilot cannot delete, and it changes your accounts only when you ask. See It can never delete.
Connecting Claude
Fixes for connecting AdCopilot to Claude — Claude asking permission before every report, Chrome's autofill covering the URL box, no Customize in the sidebar, and custom connectors in a Team or Enterprise organisation.
A tool is missing or out of date
Your assistant keeps the tool list from when it connected. How to tell when it is stale — the "Tools revision" stamp and get_org_context(tools=[…]) — how to reconnect so it picks up new tools, and what a Google product you just connected needs.