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Connect ChatGPT to Airtable

ChatGPT reaches Airtable through one Flowplane address. You add Airtable once in Flowplane, add that address to ChatGPT, and sign in. Read the tables and records of the Airtable bases you share, and add or update records with your approval.

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Tools
4 read · 3 change
Sign-in
Your own account
Approval, by default
Changes wait for you
MCP server
Flowplane’s tools
  1. 1

    Add Airtable in Flowplane

    In the Flowplane console, add Airtable, sign in with Airtable and pick the bases to share.

    Each person signs in with their own Airtable account and, on Airtable’s consent screen, picks the workspaces and bases Flowplane may use. The assistant sees only those. There is no key to paste, and Flowplane keeps the login sealed; the assistant never sees it.

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  2. 2

    Add Flowplane to ChatGPT

    Your address is shown in the Flowplane console; it looks like

    https://mcp.flowplane.eu/<your-label>

    1. In ChatGPT on the web, open Plugins, choose + and Add custom MCP server.
    2. Give it a name and, under Connection, paste https://mcp.flowplane.eu/<your-label>. Set authentication to OAuth.
    3. Tick I understand and want to continue and choose Create as a plugin.
    4. Install it, sign in to Flowplane and allow ChatGPT. In a chat, type @ and pick it.

    Steps checked against the vendor’s documentation (OpenAI)

  3. 3

    Ask ChatGPT

    • “Which tables and fields are in our Content calendar base?”
    • “List the records in Projects with status “In progress”, sorted by deadline.”
    • “Show the details of the supplier record for Drukkerij Van Damme.”
    • “Add three tasks to the Tasks table for next week’s product launch.”
    • “Set the status of the “Website refresh” project to Done.”
What it can do

What ChatGPT can do in Airtable

Airtable is where many teams keep their projects, content calendars, inventories and lightweight databases. Through Flowplane an AI assistant can look at the bases you shared, their tables and fields, and read their records. It can add, update and delete records, and each change waits for your approval by default.

On ChatGPT Pro the connection only reads: create records, update records, delete records are not offered there.

Reads4

  • List basesThe bases you sharedlist_bases
  • Get base schemaTables and fields of a baseget_base_schema
  • List recordsRecords of a tablelist_records
  • Get recordOne recordget_record

Changesasks first3

  • Create recordsAdds recordscreate_records
  • Update recordsChanges recordsupdate_records
  • Delete recordsDeletes records, asked first by defaultdelete_records
FAQ

Questions

What can the assistant change in Airtable?
Records only: it can add, update and delete them, at most ten per call, and each change waits for your approval by default. Updates change only the cells sent, never clear the rest. Deleting cannot be undone, so it waits for your approval by default. Creating tables and fields, comments and webhooks are not offered.
Which bases can the assistant see?
Only the workspaces and bases picked on Airtable’s consent screen when you signed in. To add a base, sign in again and pick it.
Does ChatGPT see the password or key for Airtable?
No. You sign in to Airtable through Flowplane, which keeps that sign-in sealed. ChatGPT only gets a Flowplane sign-in for you, which you can revoke in the console.
Can ChatGPT change things in Airtable without asking?
Not by default: every change in Airtable waits for your approval in the browser. Your workspace’s rules decide, per tool.
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