Connect

Use Miles inside the AI you already use

Your wallet, your valuations, and Miles’ transfer math, available in Claude, Codex, and ChatGPT.

What an AI app sends Miles, and what never leaves your device: Your data and your AI.

Server URLhttps://mcp.askmiles.ai/mcp

Requires a free Miles account. Read-only unless you say otherwise.

Start here

Let your AI set it up

Never added a connector before? Copy this and paste it to Claude, Codex, or ChatGPT; it’ll connect Miles for you, or walk you through the clicks.

Connect Miles to this app for me. Miles is a credit card rewards assistant that plugs into AI apps over MCP; the server URL is https://mcp.askmiles.ai/mcp and the setup steps for every app are at https://askmiles.ai/connect.txt. Read that first, then add the server yourself if this app lets you, or tell me exactly where to click if it doesn't. It's free with a Miles account and read-only unless I say otherwise.

Prefer to do it yourself? The exact commands and click-by-click steps are below.

Whichever way you connect, Miles opens an approval screen in your browser. It lists exactly what the app can see, and write access is off unless you turn it on; see what a connected app can see.

Point and click

claude.ai and Claude Desktop

In any chat, open the + menu next to the message box → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste the server URL above. Settings → Connectors gets you to the same screen. Nothing needs to go under Advanced settings; Miles tells Claude how to sign you in.

Free plans allow one custom connector at a time. Add it on desktop or web; it then works in the Claude mobile app too. That same Connectors menu is where you switch Miles off for a while without disconnecting it.

One command

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http Miles https://mcp.askmiles.ai/mcp

Add --scope user to use it in every project.

Codex CLI

codex mcp add Miles --url https://mcp.askmiles.ai/mcp

Opens your browser to approve. Codex requests write access by default; leave that toggle off on the approval screen unless you want it.

OpenClaw

openclaw mcp set miles '{"url":"https://mcp.askmiles.ai/mcp","transport":"streamable-http","auth":"oauth"}'

Then openclaw mcp login miles to approve in your browser. Miles for OpenClaw is the full walkthrough, including Miles’ own reasoning as a skill.

Advanced

ChatGPT

ChatGPT requires turning on Developer mode, which OpenAI marks as elevated risk. The toggle itself lives under Settings → Security and login; the Developer mode row under Settings → Plugins links there.

Then open chatgpt.com/plugins, click + at the top right, give it a name, choose Server URL and paste the URL above. Leave authentication set to OAuth, not “No auth”, and ChatGPT fills in the rest of the sign-in settings by itself.

ChatGPT will warn you. It says custom connectors are unreviewed and could steal your data or destroy it. That warning is about connectors in general; Miles is read-only unless you turn on write access yourself. See what a connected app can see.

You’ll need to turn Ask Miles on again in each new chat, and connectors aren’t available in ChatGPT’s voice mode at all, only in text chats.

Save the Miles icon for the connector’s manual upload (256×256, under 10KB).

Write access

Miles’ connection can write

Adding a card or recording which credits you used this month is one conversation. Your wallet stays current without a second place to keep up to date. Two levels of write access exist on the approval screen: everything, or just recording credit and certificate usage — grant whichever fits what you want the connection to do.

Running your own agent against this connection? The miles-wallet skill is the conduct that goes with the tools: which fields replace rather than merge, how to record one benefit selection without deleting the rest, and why closing a card is not the same as removing it. Paste this to your agent:

Fetch https://askmiles.ai/skills/miles-wallet.md and install it as a skill named miles-wallet. Then tell me whether my Miles connection has wallet-change access.

Bring your wallet

Already keep your cards somewhere else?

One conversation moves them. The AI app reads your card list from where it lives today and adds each card to Miles. A name that could be more than one card comes back as a question, not a guess.

From CardPointers

CardPointers has its own connector for Claude and other AI apps (CardPointers+ subscribers, at no extra charge as of September 2026; check their site for current terms). Connect it and Miles to the same AI app, then paste this:

I keep my credit cards in CardPointers, and Miles is connected too. Read my full card list from CardPointers: issuer, card name, and the open date for each card if you can see it. Then add every card to my Miles wallet with Miles' add_card tool, all in one call. If a name could match more than one card in Miles' catalog, ask me before adding it instead of guessing. When you are done, list what you added and anything you skipped.

From AwardWallet, a spreadsheet, or a list

No connector needed. Export or type your card list, paste it under this prompt, and send both together. Issuer and card name are enough; an open date helps with eligibility rules.

Below is my credit card list from another app. Add every card to my Miles wallet with Miles' add_card tool, all in one call, using the issuer, card name, and open date where I gave one. If a name could match more than one card in Miles' catalog, ask me before adding it instead of guessing. When you are done, list what you added and anything you skipped.

My cards:

Miles only reads the card names and dates you hand it. Balances, logins, and account numbers stay where they are.

Privacy

What a connected app can see

Your wallet: cards and per-card details (including the last four digits, your notes, any retention offers you've recorded, and who in your household holds each card), benefits, spending strategy, gift cards (merchant and balance only), and cards you're watching but haven't applied for
Your point valuations
Card data, transfer partners, current offers, and what changed this week
Next-card recommendations, spending analysis, what needs attention right now, upgrade and downgrade paths, and travel-day checklists
Points-transfer planning: ranks the currencies you hold by cheapest path to an award, and where to focus your points across every balance you've reported
Credit a flight: for a flight you're taking, which program to credit a flight to, ranked by what the miles are worth to you. Earning rates come from wheretocredit.com, so the airline and booking class you ask about are sent there.
Your points ledger: balances you've reported, the elite status you've told Miles about, which credits you've used, reconciliation questions, certificates and lounge passes
Points and miles guides: indexed articles and reviews, falling back to a paid web search when nothing relevant is indexed

Your email, phone, or chat history
Applying for cards or making payments
Changing your wallet, unless you allow it

Read access is the default. Letting an app change your wallet is a separate toggle on the approval screen, off unless you turn it on. Codex requests write access by default; Claude Code and ChatGPT don’t. Pause or disconnect any app anytime in Settings → Connected AI Apps.

Managing access

Pause or disconnect

“Allow AI app connections” in Settings → Connected AI Apps pauses every connected app at once. Turn it back on and they resume; nothing is lost. To remove a single app permanently, disconnect it there instead.

Try asking

Once you’re connected

“Should I keep my Venture X or downgrade it?”
“Which programs transfer to United?”
“Which card should I use at Costco?”

Running other connectors beside Miles (award search, trip planning, spending)? See what chains together.

Troubleshooting

If something isn’t working

The app says it has no access, and nothing happens: Check whether “Allow AI app connections” is switched off in Settings. That pauses every connected app at once.
Your wallet looks empty: Check the “Connecting as” line on the approval screen: it’s easy to approve with a second account. Use Switch to change it.
Sign-in fails right after adding the server: Close the window and click sign in again. The first attempt can fire before setup finishes.
Codex is stuck in a login loop: Don’t delete ~/.mcp-auth; Codex keeps its tokens in the macOS login Keychain instead. Run codex mcp logout askmiles to clear it.

Building your own app?

This page is about using Miles inside an AI you already have. If you are building something other people will use, the catalog, these same tools, and Miles’ own answer in one call are documented on Developers.