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8 Connecting OpenAI ¶

There are two integration paths to OpenAI’s products and they are independent of each other:

1. ChatGPT (consumer) — add OwnSona as a custom connector in ChatGPT’s settings. Most common path for day-to-day use.
2. OpenAI API (developer) — pass OwnSona as an mcp tool when calling the Responses API. The path for scripts and applications.

You can use either, both, or neither.

• ChatGPT connector
• The auth gap and how to bridge it
• Custom Instructions for ChatGPT
• Responses API
• Rotating the bearer token