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ChatGPT Desktop

ChatGPT Desktop for Windows can start a local MCP server. chatgpt.com in a browser and the phone apps cannot reach a program on your computer.

  1. Open ChatGPT Desktop and sign in.
  2. Open Settings, then Plugins. Click Add, then Add MCP Server.
  3. Name: MCP for Tally. Command to launch and arguments: copy them from MCP for Tally (Connect AI apps, ChatGPT Desktop, Copy setup), or use these:
Windows
Command to launch
C:\Users\<you>\AppData\Local\Programs\MCP for Tally\runtime\node.exe

Arguments
C:\Users\<you>\AppData\Local\Programs\MCP for Tally\app\mcpfortally.js mcp
  1. Save, then close ChatGPT Desktop and open it again.

Menu names in ChatGPT change often. If yours differ, look for the place to add an MCP server with a command.

Why not chatgpt.com?

A website cannot start a program on your computer. Making it work would mean opening a public tunnel from the internet to your books, and MCP for Tally will not do that.

Something not working? Write to [email protected] with the app’s Copy diagnostics text. It never includes figures from your books.