Connect your AI assistant via MCP to certificate.tips

Custom connectors require a paid Claude plan. On Team and Enterprise plans an organization owner may need to add the connector first.

1. Open Settings → Customize (or Connectors) and click Add → Add custom connector.
2. Enter the name "Certificate Tips" and the MCP server URL https://www.certificate.tips/mcp, then click Continue.
3. Confirm the detected authentication settings ("Sign in now" and "Register automatically") and click Add.
4. Sign in to certificate.tips in the opened authentication window and approve access.

Official Claude (Desktop & Web) documentation

1. Run the commands below in your terminal to add the server and complete OAuth sign-in in your browser.
2. Alternatively, inside Claude Code run /mcp, select certificate-tips-mcp and choose Authenticate.

claude mcp add --scope user --transport http certificate-tips-mcp https://www.certificate.tips/mcp
claude mcp login certificate-tips-mcp

Official Claude Code documentation

ChatGPT web uses remote MCP servers through plugins. Plan and workspace permissions can block this. If you only need the desktop app, use the ChatGPT desktop & Codex card instead.

1. Create a plugin that connects to the server URL https://www.certificate.tips/mcp (OAuth), then install and connect it under Plugins → Personal → Created by you.
2. Sign in to certificate.tips and approve access, then pick the plugin with @ in a new task.

Official ChatGPT (Web) documentation

1. Open Cursor Settings (Ctrl+, / Cmd+,) → Features → MCP.
2. Click "+ Add New MCP Server", choose type "sse" (or "streamable-http"), enter name certificate-tips-mcp and URL https://www.certificate.tips/mcp.
3. Alternatively, save the JSON configuration snippet below to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or .cursor/mcp.json in your project root).
4. Click Connect next to certificate-tips-mcp, sign in to certificate.tips and approve access in the browser.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "certificate-tips-mcp": {
      "url": "https://www.certificate.tips/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Official Cursor documentation

1. Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P) and run MCP: Add Server.
2. Select "HTTP (HTTP or Server-Sent Events)" and enter https://www.certificate.tips/mcp.
3. Enter server ID certificate-tips-mcp, then select "Global > Copilot Global" (or Workspace).
4. Approve access in the browser when the sign-in prompt appears.
5. If no sign-in prompt appears (or when adding via .vscode/mcp.json), run MCP: List Servers, select certificate-tips-mcp and choose Authenticate.

{
  "servers": {
    "certificate-tips-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.certificate.tips/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Official VS Code (GitHub Copilot) documentation

1. Add the configuration to ~/.gemini/config/mcp_config.json.
2. Reload the MCP servers list. A browser window opens for sign-in and OAuth approval.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "certificate-tips-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://www.certificate.tips/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Official Google Antigravity documentation

1. Add the server to ~/.gemini/settings.json.
2. Start Gemini CLI, run /mcp auth certificate-tips-mcp and approve access in the browser.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "certificate-tips-mcp": {
      "httpUrl": "https://www.certificate.tips/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Official Gemini CLI documentation

The ChatGPT desktop app, Codex CLI and Codex IDE extension share one setup. Custom MCP servers need a plan that supports them, and workspace permissions can block them.

1. Option A, no terminal (recommended): open Plugins in the sidebar → Add → Add custom MCP server.
2. Name: Certificate Tips · Server URL: https://www.certificate.tips/mcp · Authentication: OAuth. Confirm the warning and create it.
3. Sign in to certificate.tips in the browser and approve access, then pick Certificate Tips with @ in a new chat.
4. Option B, config file (for Codex CLI users): it requires Codex CLI (works on Windows, macOS and Linux). Install it in a terminal with npm i -g @openai/codex.
5. Add the server to ~/.codex/config.toml (Windows: C:\Users\<you>\.codex\config.toml) or to .codex/config.toml in a trusted project.
6. Then run codex mcp login certificate-tips-mcp in a terminal (PowerShell on Windows, Terminal on macOS and Linux) and approve access in the browser.
7. Without Codex CLI the codex command is not available, so use Option A.

[mcp_servers.certificate-tips-mcp]
url = "https://www.certificate.tips/mcp"

Official ChatGPT desktop & Codex (CLI, IDE) documentation

Use this only if your client supports local stdio servers but not remote HTTP servers with OAuth. Requires Node.js.

1. Add this stdio server to your client MCP config. A browser window opens for sign-in.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "certificate-tips-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://www.certificate.tips/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Official Any other client (via mcp-remote) documentation