Use HouseChief from Claude, ChatGPT and other AI assistants

What your assistant can do

Once connected, your assistant works inside your family's HouseChief as you, a parent. It can answer "what's on our calendar this week?" or "what's for dinner Thursday?" from the real data, and it can help with small, reversible additions. It has seven tools:

• Calendar: events between two dates (the next seven days if you don't say).
• Meals: planned breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks.
• Chores: who has which chore on a day, and whether it's done.
• Lists: the family's lists and what's still unchecked on them.
• To-dos: open to-dos with due dates, owners and priority, for one person or everyone.
• Add to a list: puts items straight on a list such as Grocery or To-do, skipping anything already there. To-dos can carry a due date, an owner and a priority.
• Send to the Inbox: hands free text ("soccer Tuesdays at 5 for Leo, taco night Friday") to HouseChief, which turns it into events, chores, list items or meals that wait in the Inbox until a parent taps Approve.

What it can't do

The connector is deliberately small. Your assistant can't edit or delete calendar events, change the meal plan directly, remove list items, send email, change settings, or see your Chief of Staff chats. Anything bigger than adding to a list goes through the Inbox, where a parent approves it in HouseChief. Only parents can connect an assistant; kids can't.

This is separate from HouseChief's own AI Chief of Staff, which lives inside the app and also asks before it changes anything. You don't need an outside assistant to use HouseChief; the connector is for families who already spend their day in one.

How to connect it

1. Copy the connector address

   In HouseChief, open Settings → AI assistants and tap Copy next to the address. It's https://housechief.app/api/mcp.

2. Add a custom connector in your assistant

   In Claude, go to Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector. In ChatGPT, go to Settings → Connectors (custom connectors use developer mode). Paste the address. Other assistants that support custom MCP connectors work the same way.

3. Sign in to HouseChief

   Your assistant opens HouseChief's sign-in page. Sign in as a parent, the same way you sign in to HouseChief.

4. Tap Allow

   HouseChief asks whether to allow that assistant to use HouseChief. Tap Allow. The assistant now shows up under Settings → AI assistants with the date you connected it.

5. Ask something

   Try "What's on the HouseChief calendar this weekend?" or "Add eggs and paper towels to our HouseChief grocery list."

Menu names in Claude and ChatGPT change from time to time, and some plans may not offer custom connectors. If you can't find the option, check your assistant's help pages for "custom connectors".

Disconnecting and privacy

Settings → AI assistants lists every assistant you've connected. Tap Disconnect and it stops working right away; you can connect it again later. Each parent connects their own assistant.

When you ask your assistant about your family, the answers it gets from HouseChief go to that assistant, and what it does with them is covered by its own terms and settings. HouseChief's side is in the privacy summary, and privacy and safety explains how HouseChief keeps family data to your household.