Other AI clients¶

The Connector works with any client that supports local MCP servers — ones launched as a subprocess and spoken to over stdio. kuali mcp setup knows how to configure six of them out of the box.

ChatGPT isn't one of them

ChatGPT (chatgpt.com, the ChatGPT desktop app) only supports hosted MCP servers reachable at a public HTTPS URL — it can't launch a local binary. The Kuali Connector is a local MCP server. Use OpenAI Codex CLI instead if you want an OpenAI model driving Kuali today, or see the FAQ.

OpenAI Codex CLI¶

kuali mcp setup --profile myschool --client codex

Writes ~/.codex/config.toml. Existing entries are preserved.

Test it from within a Codex session with a prompt like "list the first five apps in Kuali."

Google Gemini CLI¶

kuali mcp setup --profile myschool --client gemini-cli

Writes ~/.gemini/settings.json.

GitHub Copilot CLI¶

kuali mcp setup --profile myschool --client copilot-cli

Writes ~/.copilot/mcp-config.json.

VS Code (with Copilot Chat)¶

kuali mcp setup --profile myschool --client vscode

Writes .vscode/mcp.json in the current directory — this one is project-local rather than user-global, so you can scope the Connector to the repo you're working in. Open VS Code in that folder and Copilot Chat will pick it up.

Any other local-MCP client (manual config)¶

The Connector runs as a local MCP server over stdio. For a client that doesn't have a built-in helper but does support launching a local stdio MCP server, add an entry like this to the client's server list:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kuali": {
      "command": "/usr/local/bin/kuali",
      "args": ["mcp", "--profile", "myschool"]
    }
  }
}

Adjust command to the absolute path of your kuali binary (which kuali on macOS/Linux, where kuali on Windows). args accepts the same flags as the standalone kuali mcp command:

Flag	What it does
`--profile <name>`	Which configured profile to use.
`--tools read-only`	Register only read tools — create/update/delete are hidden.
`--insecure`	Skip TLS verification. Local/dev instances only.
`--timeout <seconds>`	Per-command timeout. Default 30.

Don't pass credentials as env vars in the MCP config

Setting KUALI_API_KEY or KUALI_API_URL in the MCP server's environment overrides profile resolution entirely, which defeats named profiles and per-profile read-only setups. Store keys with kuali auth login --profile <name> instead — the Connector looks them up at start.

Verify any of these¶

kuali mcp verify --client codex
kuali mcp verify --client gemini-cli
kuali mcp verify --client copilot-cli
kuali mcp verify --client vscode

Each variant reads the right config file for the client and reports on the entry it finds.