Manage your server from ChatGPT
AskYourStack is a remote MCP server. Add it to ChatGPT as a custom connector and ChatGPT can look at your Linux server, read logs, run commands and fix what is wrong, while anything destructive waits for you.
Free plan: one server, read-only. No card needed.
Connect ChatGPT to your server in four steps
- STEP 1
Connect your server
Sign up free, name your server in the dashboard and paste the one-line install as the user who owns your sites, or as root for the whole server. No port is opened and no SSH key or password is stored.
- STEP 2
Turn on developer mode
In ChatGPT, open Settings, Apps & Connectors, Advanced settings, and turn on Developer mode. It is needed for custom MCP connectors.
- STEP 3
Add AskYourStack and sign in
Back in Apps & Connectors, press Create, name it AskYourStack, paste https://askyourstack.com/mcp and choose OAuth under Authentication. Press Create: an AskYourStack page opens, sign in if it asks and press Allow.
- STEP 4
Ask
In a chat, choose AskYourStack from the tools menu and ask: What runs on my server, and is anything wrong?
What you can ask ChatGPT
Describe the outcome in plain words. ChatGPT looks at the server first, explains its plan, and asks you before anything risky.
More in the prompt library, and for SEO see technical SEO with ChatGPT.
The tools ChatGPT gets
Built for running Linux servers, PHP shops and their SEO, with built-in playbooks for fresh servers, Magento, WordPress, hardening, backups, check-ups, malware cleanup, migrations, bot attacks and technical SEO.
Commands and files
run, read_file and write_file on any of your servers, with every overwritten file kept.
Long jobs
start_job runs installs, compiles and imports in the background; job_output follows them.
Magento and WordPress
list_sites, magento and wp run bin/magento and wp-cli as the site's owner.
Databases
db_query and db_dump use the site's own credentials, so the password never reaches the chat.
Snapshots and rollback
snapshot before risky work, rollback to undo it, and the rollback can be undone too.
Malware scan
Looks for backdoors, skimmers in the database, disguised PHP and suspicious cron entries.
Health
health_report covers disk, memory, failed services, certificates, updates and Magento cron.
Server moves
transfer copies a site straight from one of your servers to another, never through the chat.
Search Console, GA4 and SEO
Google Search Console, Analytics 4, Core Web Vitals, page audits and your access logs, read-only, next to the server.
Server access, with you holding the keys
A change window you open
Nothing changes on a server until you open changes on it, for 1 to 8 hours, never for good. Outside that window ChatGPT can look, diagnose and plan, and is told to ask you.
Approvals only you can give
Deleting data, dropping databases, touching SSH or the firewall: ChatGPT gets a link and waits. Approving needs you signed in on askyourstack.com, so text planted in a log or web page cannot approve anything.
An open-source agent you can verify
The only thing on your server is public code (github.com/shopwhizzy/askyourstack-agent). Every release names its source commit, so you can rebuild it and compare the hash. It runs as an ordinary Linux user unless you choose root, and one command on the server locks it to reads.
Every action logged
Each command, file write and result, with its risk level, in your activity log. Pause one server or all of them in one click.
How windows, approvals and modes work · Check every claim yourself
Tested on real servers
From our own test runs with Claude Code on fresh Rocky Linux 10 servers.
raw Rocky Linux 10 box to a live Mage-OS shop with OpenSearch, Valkey, cron and Let's Encrypt
maintenance window when a live shop was moved to a second server (21 minutes in all)
planted attacks found by the malware scan in a 40,000-file shop, with no false positives
Questions about AskYourStack and ChatGPT
Which ChatGPT plans support custom connectors?
Custom MCP connectors and developer mode are an OpenAI feature and depend on your ChatGPT plan. If you can turn on developer mode under Settings, Connectors, AskYourStack works.
Does ChatGPT get my server password?
No. The agent on your server calls out to AskYourStack; ChatGPT only ever talks to AskYourStack. Database passwords stay on the server too: db_query and db_dump read them from the site's own config.
What stops ChatGPT from breaking something?
Every action is sorted by risk. Reads run at once, changes run after /etc is saved, and destructive actions wait until you approve them signed in on askyourstack.com. A server can also be read-only, or paused.
Is it the same as using AskYourStack with Claude?
Yes. The tools, playbooks and safety rules are the same for every client, and the same sign-in works in all of them.
Also works with Claude, Claude Code and Cursor, and any client that supports remote MCP servers.
Connect ChatGPT to your first server
Start free with one server in read-only mode. Upgrade when you want ChatGPT to fix things.
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