Connect your AI assistant

Strive doesn't come with an AI of its own. You bring the assistant you already use, and it coaches with your real data: it reads your programs, schedule and training history, helps you build and adjust programs, guides you through a workout and logs it when you are done.

You add Strive to your assistant as a custom connector: a private link between your assistant account and your Strive account. Nobody else sees it.

Already connected? What to ask your assistant

How it works

In your assistant's settings, add a custom connector with this address:
https://strive.r-ws.net/mcp
The assistant opens Strive's sign-in. Sign in with your Strive account.
Click Allow. The assistant now works with your account, and only yours.

Step by step

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Other assistants work too if they can add a remote MCP server with OAuth sign-in, command-line agents included: add the address as a remote MCP server, then run the agent's MCP login.

What the assistant can and can't do

It sees and changes only your own training data, with the same rules as the app.
It shows you a change before saving it, and saves only after you agree.
Its suggestions are recommendations; you decide. It does not give medical advice.
Strive never calls an AI itself. What your assistant's provider does with the conversation is up to their terms.

Disconnecting

Remove the connector in your assistant's settings, or disconnect every assistant at once under Profile → AI assistants in Strive.

Common problems

I don't see where to add a connector: Custom connectors usually need a particular plan or setting; each guide above says which. On a work or team account an admin may have to allow them.
"Not a permitted redirect domain": Strive only lets known assistants sign in. Write to us with the name of your assistant and we'll add it.
The sign-in window closes but the assistant isn't connected: Remove the connector and add it again. If it keeps happening, try in a private browser window, where no other account gets in the way.
The assistant doesn't use Strive: Check that the connector is switched on for this chat, or mention Strive by name in your message.
It worked before and now asks to sign in again: Its connection ends when you use "Disconnect all" in your profile or change your password from the command line. Connect again.