Connect your own AI to Strama: ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor

What you need before you start

• Your Strama account, with at least one project in it.
• The AI app you want to connect. ChatGPT connects only on plans that support custom connectors.
• The Strama server address: https://strama.tech/api/mcp. It's also on your account's AI page, with a copy button.

There are two ways to connect:

• Sign-in (Claude, ChatGPT). Your AI app opens Strama's sign-in page, you sign in and review what it's asking for, and you allow it. You don't copy anything but the address.
• Token (Cursor, Claude Code). You create a personal access token on your account's AI page, choose its access and when it expires, and paste it into the app once.

Connect Cursor or Claude Code

Cursor and Claude Code use a personal access token instead of a sign-in. If you've never used a code editor or a terminal, connect Claude or ChatGPT instead. You don't need these two.

Create a token

1. In Strama, open your account's AI page and create a new token.
2. Name it after where you'll use it, for example “Cursor on my laptop”. Choose Read only or Read and write, and choose when it expires. It expires after 90 days unless you pick another option.
3. Copy the token now. Strama shows it once and keeps only a scrambled fingerprint of it, so it can't show it again. If you lose it, revoke it and create a new one.

Treat the token like a password. Anyone who has it can act in your projects with the access you chose, so don't paste it into a chat, a shared document or a group message.

Cursor

1. In Cursor, open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new MCP server. This opens a file called mcp.json.
2. Paste this in, replacing PASTE_YOUR_TOKEN_HERE with your token. If the file already lists other servers, add only the "strama" part inside "mcpServers".

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "strama": {
      "url": "https://strama.tech/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer PASTE_YOUR_TOKEN_HERE" }
    }
  }
}

3. Save the file. In Cursor's MCP settings, Strama should show as connected.
4. In Cursor's chat, ask: “List my Strama projects.”

Claude Code

1. In a terminal, run this, replacing PASTE_YOUR_TOKEN_HERE with your token:

claude mcp add --transport http --scope user strama https://strama.tech/api/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer PASTE_YOUR_TOKEN_HERE"

2. Start claude and type /mcp. Strama should be listed as connected.
3. Ask: “List my Strama projects.”

What to ask first

Ask in plain words, the way you'd ask a groupmate. For example:

• “List my Strama projects and tell me which matrices are still drafts.”
• “Read my EFE and list the factors that don't cite a source.”
• “Here are three articles about the coffee industry. Add each one as a source, then suggest opportunities and threats from them as factors that cite those sources.”
• “Read my SWOT in the TOWS matrix and draft WO strategies from it. Add the ones I pick as strategies.”

New to these matrices? Start with the EFE matrix and TOWS matrix guides.

Your AI decides which Strama actions to take, and it can misread a request. After it changes anything, open the project in Strama and check what changed.

What your AI can and can't do

Your AI acts as you, so it can reach only the projects you can open, and only with the access you gave it.

With read and write access, it can:

• Read your projects: sources, factors, matrices, strategies, your recommendation, comments and the financial model.
• Make the changes listed under “What your AI can change” in the next section.

It can't:

• Type a total or a score. Strama calculates them from the inputs, with the method named on screen.
• Write the things listed under “What only you can change” in the next section.
• Get past your plan. A feature that needs a paid plan in Strama needs one when your AI uses it too.
• Upload statements for Strama to read, export files, or use Strama's own AI tools.
• Change billing, team members, invites or your account.
• Change anything at all with a read-only token.
• Read or change what's inside a project that has AI switched off.

How your AI's work is labeled

Your AI can write sources, factors and strategies, and Strama labels them AI-assisted, the same as a suggestion from Strama's own AI that you accepted. It can also change the structure around them, which isn't labeled. It can't write your weights, ratings, recommendation, comments or financial figures.

Your program's rules come first

Strama doesn't write your paper, and connecting an AI doesn't change who answers for it. You do. Labels make your AI's part visible to you and to anyone reading your exports, but they don't make it allowed.

Before you connect anything, check your program's policy on AI tools. If it limits what AI may do, keep to that limit. A read-only token, for example, lets an AI read your project and give feedback in its own chat without changing anything in Strama.

Your panel will still ask where a number came from and why you weighted a factor the way you did. An AI can help you draft. The answers in your defense have to be yours.

What your AI sees, and who keeps it

When your AI reads your project, that content goes to the company that runs your AI, under your account and your terms with them. Strama's notice on what we send to AI covers Strama's own AI tools, not an assistant you connect. Strama receives the actions your AI asks it to take, not the rest of your conversation.

Disconnect or revoke access

Open your account's AI page. Apps you connected with a sign-in, such as Claude and ChatGPT, are listed with when each was last used, and tokens are listed by name. Revoke one and that app loses access to your account. Removing Strama in Claude's or ChatGPT's settings stops it on their side as well.

Questions about connecting your AI

Does connecting an AI cost extra?

Not in Strama. Connecting is included on every plan, including Free. Your AI app's plan is separate, and ChatGPT connects only on plans that support custom connectors.

Which AI should I use?

Strama doesn't rank them. Use one your program allows and you already know. Scores are calculated and AI work is labeled the same way whichever you connect.

Will my AI get it right?

Not always. It can misread your project or your request, or write a factor your sources don't support. Check every change in Strama before it goes into your paper, the way you'd check a groupmate's work.

Can my groupmates connect their own AI to our project?

Yes. Each person connects from their own account, and their AI can do only what that person can do in the project.

Does it work with other AI apps?

Apps that support remote MCP servers with a sign-in or a token may work. This guide has steps for four of them, and we can't promise how any other app behaves.

What if my project has AI switched off?

Your connected AI can't read or change what's inside it, though it can still see that the project exists. AI off means no AI works in the project, Strama's or yours. Switch AI back on in the project's settings if you want to connect one.

Is Strama affiliated with Anthropic, OpenAI or Cursor?

No. Strama is independent of Anthropic, OpenAI and Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, and none of them sponsors it. Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor are their owners' trademarks, named here only so you can find the right steps. Strama's own AI tools use Anthropic as a processor, as the notice on what we send to AI explains, and that is separate from any assistant you connect.