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How to connect Instinct to ands and control your computer

Instinct is an AI agent that does tasks for you in the cloud. As of today it can’t add an MCP server by URL, so it can’t be connected to ands yet. Once it supports that, connecting works like LVLZ and Claude: paste the link from ands and it gets hands on your computer. Until then, ask the ands app directly, or use an agent that already supports it.

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What you can do now

  1. Check whether it’s possible yetAsk Instinct: “can I connect an MCP server to you by URL?”. If the answer is no, connecting isn’t possible yet.
  2. Ask them for supportIf Instinct offers to pass a request on to its team, say yes. The more people ask, the likelier it gets built.
  3. Meanwhile: ands itselfDownload ands and ask it directly, by text or voice. Or connect an agent that already supports it, like LVLZ, Claude or ChatGPT.

What to ask Instinct

  • “Can I connect an MCP server to you by URL?”
  • “Please tell your team I want to connect ands.sh as an MCP server”

Your agent asks, you approve

Approve on the computer or from your phone

Every action your agent takes goes through the same check as yours. Reading goes through. Sending, paying, deleting, installing and signing in wait for your OK: on the computer’s screen or, when you’re away from it, through a link ands sends you via your agent that opens on your phone.

The agent can’t approve itself

Only you, signed in to your ands account, can press “Approve”. A phone that signed in only after the request was sent can’t approve it, so even an agent that reads your email can’t approve its own step.

The link is stored hashed

We keep only a fingerprint of the link, not the link itself. Pressing “Disconnect” cancels it at once.

Autopilot, if you want it

In autopilot ands doesn’t ask, it just does. You turn it on only in the app’s settings on the computer, never from the agent, and apps you marked “don’t touch” stay blocked.

A guide for each agent

LVLZthe AI agent you message on WhatsAppRead the guide Claudean AI assistant in the app, on the web and on your phoneRead the guide ChatGPTon paid plans, through developer modeRead the guide Manusan AI agent that runs long tasks in the cloudRead the guide Pokean AI assistant you text in iMessage and other messengersRead the guide Perplexityan answer engine, on paid plansRead the guide Le ChatMistral’s assistant, an admin adds the connectorRead the guide Pallya personal assistant on iMessage, RCS and TelegramRead the guide Orchidcan’t add an MCP server yetRead the guide Folkcan’t add an MCP server yetRead the guide A different agent?If your agent lets you add an MCP server by URL (sometimes called a “custom connector”), it works with ands the same way: paste the link from the app. Not sure? Ask your agent “can I connect an MCP server to you by URL?”.

Questions

Through the link, your cloud agent gets ands’s tools: see what’s on the screen, click, type and open apps. It sends a request, ands carries it out on your computer and sends back the result.

No. On the computer you press a button and copy a link. In the agent you paste it. That’s it.

No. Sending, paying, deleting, installing and signing in always wait for your OK, on the computer or through the link on your phone. If you don’t answer within 15 minutes, it doesn’t happen. The only exception is autopilot, which only you can turn on, on the computer.

ands works only while the computer is on and the app is open. When it’s off, your agent is told the computer isn’t available, and nothing happens.

Yes. Each press of “Connect an agent” makes a separate link, and you can disconnect each one on its own.

They can ask for actions but can’t approve them, and you see everything on screen. If a link leaks, press “Disconnect” and make a new one.

No. In the app it’s included in the $20 a month plan. Developers can connect an agent for free from the terminal with npx andsh link.