--- type: WebPage name: Plug and play nicely with others. id: "https://selfe.ai/solutions/mcp-connectors" url: "https://selfe.ai/solutions/mcp-connectors" publisher: "did:web:selfe.ai" description: "A connector ChatGPT and Claude can add, so what you have left and what it costs come straight from the system you already run." --- # Plug and play nicely with others. > A connector ChatGPT and Claude can add, so what you have left and what it costs come straight from the system you already run. Your Selfe gives you a connector that ChatGPT and Claude can add, so what is left this weekend and what it costs today get answered out of the system you actually run on, without anybody leaving to go and check. Selfe connects to the tools agents already use, so you turn up wherever they're asking. ## Your best facts are the ones that keep changing. What is left for Saturday. What it costs this week. Whether the last one in a 12 went this morning. Those are the answers that settle a sale, they live in a booking engine or a stock system, and no page has ever caught up with them. MCP is how an agent asks a system instead of reading about it, and it is what ChatGPT and Claude use to reach a business that wants to answer for itself. Your Selfe publishes the connector, somebody adds it in a couple of taps, and the question comes to you. Which puts today's answer inside the app where the asking happens. Not a description of your business gathered up from wherever, but your systems, replying, to somebody already halfway to buying. ## What the connector gives you. The assistants people already use can call your systems directly, once there is something for them to call. **Adventure Patch** An outdoor and adventure gear shop in Keswick, connecting through its Shopify shop, via Visit Keswick. **Keswick Cottages** A cottage agency representing around 94 owners around Keswick, connecting through its own booking system, via Visit Keswick. ## You get to answer for yourself, in there. An agent that can ask you gets today's price and this afternoon's availability. An agent that cannot ask you gets a summary of a summary, six weeks old, and has to decide whether to risk it. That difference decides sales, and it is entirely within your gift. The question arrives, your Selfe answers with what is true, and nothing about the reply had to be guessed at. And you are early. The businesses that can answer for themselves inside these apps make a short list at the moment, and it is an advantage with a shelf life. ## Worth reading next The latest on how agents actually work, written as it happens. **Can an agent actually buy from you?** *(coming soon)* The foundational question, answered plainly: what has to be true before an AI agent can complete a booking rather than just mention you. **Being found is not the same as being bought from.** *(coming soon)* An AI agent can mention your business and still never send it a booking. What closes that gap, and where most of the work actually happens. **Your booking button is not the point.** *(coming soon)* A link back to your site is not something an agent can act on. What it actually needs to make the booking happen itself. ## Do we need to understand MCP to use a connector? No. MCP is one way an assistant discovers and calls a tool; maintaining that connection is Selfe's job. You decide which facts and actions are available. The connector turns those decisions into something the assistant can use without exposing the systems behind it. **Do we need to build our own AI agent?** No. Your Selfe is the business-side agent and publishes the identity, tools and terms an outside agent needs. You configure what it may say and do; you do not need to build a separate conversational product or maintain the protocols yourself. **What is an outside agent allowed to access?** Only the facts and actions your Selfe publishes for that purpose. Your playbook controls what may be answered, quoted, held, booked or paid without asking you. The systems behind Selfe are not handed over to an outside agent, and a request beyond the permitted action is refused or escalated. **What stops something hammering our systems?** Requests reach Selfe through Cloudflare and are checked before anything is allowed near a booking or commerce system. Rate limits, identity checks and action permissions separate ordinary discovery from something attempting to transact. Your operational systems see only the requests that pass those controls. **What if all of this looks different in a year?** The assistants and protocols will change. Your underlying record should not need rebuilding every time they do. Selfe keeps the Echo separate from any one channel and maintains the connections around it, so a new surface can read the same business instead of starting the work again. ## Act on this - [Check whether an agent can buy from you](https://selfe.ai/agentic-commerce/buyability-check) — the free readiness scan. - [Discover venues](https://selfe.ai/api/registry/discover) — `POST`, semantic browse across the registry. - [Match a bookable answer](https://selfe.ai/api/registry/match) — `POST` with dates and party size. - [Verify Selfe's identity](https://selfe.ai/.well-known/did.json) — `did:web:selfe.ai`. - [Agent card](https://selfe.ai/.well-known/agent-card.json) — how to connect over A2A or MCP.