Connecting your AI

You can connect an AI assistant to your StitchPress account and ask it to build diagrams for you — for example, “start a new crochet diagram with a magic ring and six rounds of increases”. The AI uses the same tools you do, one step at a time, and you can watch its changes appear in the editor.

Which AI apps work

You can connect:

• claude.ai, including the Claude desktop app
• ChatGPT (Developer mode, available on paid plans)

Other AI apps, including Claude Code, are not supported yet.

Connecting

Everything you need is on the Connect your AI page of Settings. There is no client ID or API key to copy — you sign in with your StitchPress account.

1. Open Settings → Connect your AI and select Copy next to the MCP endpoint to copy the address.
2. Follow the steps for your AI app below.

claude.ai and the Claude desktop app

1. In Claude, go to Settings → Connectors and add a custom connector.
2. Name it StitchPress and paste the MCP endpoint as the URL. No OAuth client ID or secret is needed.
3. Select Connect and sign in with your StitchPress account.

ChatGPT

1. In ChatGPT’s settings, turn on Developer mode.
2. Create a new app, name it StitchPress, and paste the MCP endpoint as its URL. Choose OAuth for authentication — no client ID or secret is needed.
3. Connect the app and sign in with your StitchPress account.
4. In a chat, add StitchPress from the + menu so ChatGPT can use it.

Note

If you connected StitchPress with a client ID before, remove that connection and add it again using the steps above — client IDs are no longer used.

What the AI can do

Once connected, the AI can work with your crochet diagrams and knit charts:

• List, create, rename, and duplicate your diagrams, and delete one when you ask (it must name the diagram exactly).
• Read a diagram to understand what is already there.
• Build crochet diagrams round by round or row by row, and add and fill guides such as lines, circles, arcs, and curves.
• Build knit charts row by row and set individual cells, including stitch colors.
• Undo its own last change.

The AI cannot work on patterns, and it can only turn off sharing — it never creates share links or shows them to anyone.

The AI acts as you, on your own diagrams only. It never touches anyone else’s work.

Working alongside the AI

• With the diagram open, you see each AI change arrive in the editor. While a change is being applied, the save status shows AI editing… and the canvas briefly pauses your input so the two of you don’t collide.
• With the diagram closed, the AI can still make changes. You will see them the next time you open the diagram.
• The AI makes one change at a time. If you have edited part of the diagram since the AI last looked at it, the AI’s change to that part is refused rather than overwriting your work, so nothing you did is lost.

Undoing AI changes

Each AI change is a single step in the diagram’s history, so Cmd/Ctrl + Z in the editor undoes it like any of your own changes. You can also ask the AI to undo its last change: that removes only the AI’s step and keeps any edits you made afterward.