←Odyssey

Use Odyssey from Claude or ChatGPT

Odyssey is a shared trip planner. Connect it to Claude or ChatGPT and your own assistant can read your trips and plan them with you.

Your assistant does the research: finding places, comparing options, reading a booking email you paste in. Odyssey keeps the plan: days, stops pinned on a map, journeys, times and costs, shared with everyone on the trip. Ask in plain words and it makes the change in Odyssey.

Any Odyssey account can connect.

The address

Both assistants ask for the same one:

https://mcp.odyssey.vbi.dev/mcp

Connect Claude

  1. In Claude, open Settings, then Connectors.
  2. Add Odyssey. To add it by address, choose to add a custom connector and paste the address above.
  3. Select Connect. Odyssey’s sign-in page opens.
  4. Sign in with the Google or Apple account you use for Odyssey, and approve the access screen.
  5. Back in Claude, ask it to list your Odyssey trips.

Connect ChatGPT

  1. In ChatGPT, open Settings, then Plugins. Until Odyssey is listed there, this needs ChatGPT’s developer mode turned on.
  2. Choose Add, then Create custom MCP server, paste the address above, and choose OAuth for sign-in.
  3. Select Connect. Odyssey’s sign-in page opens.
  4. Sign in with the Google or Apple account you use for Odyssey, and approve the access screen.
  5. Back in ChatGPT, ask it to list your Odyssey trips.

What your assistant can read

  • List trips: the trips you are a member of, with their dates, and which Odyssey account is connected.
  • Get trip: one trip in full: its days, stops, journeys, notes, visit times and stays.

Only trips you are a member of. It never sees anyone else’s.

What your assistant can change

  • Add stops: adds places to a day. Odyssey looks each one up and pins it on the map itself.
  • Update stop: changes a stop’s name, address, kind, times, notes, or a stay’s check-in and check-out dates.
  • Delete stop: removes a stop.
  • Reorder stops: sets the order of a day’s stops.
  • Move stop to day: moves a stop to another day, or to Ideas.
  • Add day: adds a day to an undated trip.
  • Update day: sets a day’s title or notes.
  • Set stop times: sets arrival and departure times, or check-in and check-out on a stay.
  • Replace notes: rewrites the notes on a stop, a day or the trip.
  • Set trip dates: sets the trip’s start and end dates, and the days follow.
  • Add journey: adds a booked flight, train, ferry or coach between two places, and pins both ends.
  • Update journey: changes a journey’s times, places or booking details.
  • Delete journey: removes a journey.
  • Add expense: records something the trip cost, in the currency it was paid in.

The tools that delete or overwrite are marked that way, so your assistant asks you before using them unless you have told it not to. Every change shows up on the trip, in a read-only conversation called Connected apps, saying which app made it and for whom, and it can be undone from there. Everyone on the trip sees those changes, as they see any other edit.

What it cannot do

  • Search for places on Odyssey’s account. Your assistant finds places itself, and Odyssey only pins what it is given.
  • Choose a stop’s photo, invite or remove people, publish a trip, or delete a trip.
  • Act on a trip you are not a member of.

There is a limit on how many places can be added in one request and in one day, so a runaway request stops early instead of filling a trip.

Things to ask

  • “List my Odyssey trips.”
  • “What is planned for day 3 of my Japan trip?”
  • “Find three good ramen places near our hotel in Shinjuku and add them to day 2.”
  • “Move the museum to the morning and set it for 9:30 to 12:00.”
  • “Add our flight from Sydney Airport to Tokyo Haneda on 12 September, departing 21:40.”

Disconnecting

In Odyssey, open Settings and choose Disconnect all under Connected apps. Every connected app loses access straight away; reconnect the ones you still use. Removing Odyssey in Claude’s or ChatGPT’s settings also stops that assistant using it. Deleting your Odyssey account ends every connection.

Privacy

Your assistant receives what it asks for from your trips, and what you tell it goes to Anthropic or OpenAI under your own Claude or ChatGPT account. The sign-in for connected apps is handled by WorkOS. The privacy policy lists exactly what each service receives.

Help

Something not working, or want an invite? Email support@vbi.dev.