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HVAC Scout
Connect an assistant

Use HVAC Scout from your AI assistant

The assistant is a separate app you install and run yourself — Claude, ChatGPT's desktop app, Cursor, or anything that speaks streamable HTTP. Nothing downloads from HVAC Scout: you add this app's address to the assistant, and it reads your own records on your behalf.

Server address Sign-in required
Resolving this app's address…

Paste this into your assistant's connector settings. Every client asks you to sign in to HVAC Scout and approve access before it can read anything.

Claude

Desktop or web app on your own computer

  1. Add connector. The button below opens Claude's custom-connector form with this app's name and address already filled in.Resolving this app's address…
  2. If the address field came through empty, paste the server address from the top of this page.
  3. Click Add.
  4. Approve. Claude opens HVAC Scout's consent page — sign in with your own account and approve, then ask it something about your equipment.

ChatGPT

Desktop app — settings live in the app itself

  1. Open the ChatGPT desktop app and go to Settings, then Plugins.
  2. Open the MCPs tab and click Add server.
  3. Name it HVAC Scout, set Type to Streamable HTTP, and paste the server address.
  4. Save, then Restart the app and switch the server on.
  5. Approve. Sign in to HVAC Scout on the consent page it opens, and approve access.

On the ChatGPT website, custom MCP servers are added through Developer mode instead.

Cursor

Editor on your computer — servers live in mcp.json

  1. Open Customize, then the MCPs tab, and click New MCP Server. Cursor opens mcp.json.
  2. Add an entry whose url is this app's server address:
    {
  "mcpServers": {
    "hvac-scout": {
      "url": "<server address above>"
    }
  }
}
  3. Save the file and toggle the server on.
  4. Approve. Sign in to HVAC Scout on the consent page it opens, and approve access.

Anything else

Any client that supports streamable HTTP

  1. Copy the server address from the top of this page.
  2. Add it as a streamable HTTP MCP server. Name and address are all most clients ask for.
  3. Reload or restart the client so it picks up the new server.
  4. Approve. Sign in to HVAC Scout on the consent page, and approve access.

It acts as you, not as us

The assistant can only reach what your own HVAC Scout account can — the properties, systems and estimates you already see here, under the same permissions. It cannot see anyone else's records, and it never gets your password: the consent page hands it a scoped approval you can revoke by disconnecting the connector in the assistant.

When things change

Assistants cache the list of things they can do, so after HVAC Scout ships new capabilities, reconnect or refresh the connector in your assistant. If the address does not answer at all, the app has not been published since the connection was set up — publish it, then authorize once more.