Connect Sketchy to your AI assistant so it can search the Sketchy library directly, finding lessons, identifying sketch symbols, matching cases to your syllabus, and linking you straight to the material.

What does the Sketchy plugin/connector let me do?

With the connector active, your assistant can:

• Find lessons by topic, organism, disease, or concept, and return the cover image, a direct link, and the course and chapter it belongs to.

• Identify sketches from a visual description. Describe what you remember seeing, like "golden staff in the desert," and the connector finds the lesson and explains the symbols.

• Find cases, the interactive patient encounters that test diagnostic reasoning, matched to what you're studying.

• Build study plans that organize lessons and cases into a schedule mapped to your syllabus or rotation.

You'll need to log in to your Sketchy account to see full lessons or cases. Links the assistant returns open on app.sketchy.com, and you'll need to be signed in with access to that content to view it.

How do I access the Sketchy connector?

Claude

1. Open claude.ai and sign in.

2. Go to Customize → Connectors.

3. Click the + next to Connectors.

4. Find Sketchy in the directory and click it.

5. Review the description and capabilities, then click Connect.

6. Follow the authentication prompts.

ChatGPT

1. Open chatgpt.com and sign in.

2. Open the Plugins Directory.

3. Find the Sketchy plugin and open its details.

4. Select Connect.

5. Complete the login and authorization flow.

6. Sketchy is now available in your conversations.

If you're on a school or work account and Sketchy doesn't appear, your workspace administrator may need to approve it first.

Any other MCP-compatible client

Add the following endpoint:

https://cortex-api.sketchy.com/mcp

The connector uses the Streamable HTTP transport.

How do I use the Sketchy connector in a conversation?

1. Start a new chat. Connectors are enabled per conversation and don't carry over from previous chats.

2. Enable the connector. In Claude, click + at the bottom of the composer, open Connectors, and toggle Sketchy on. In ChatGPT, enable it from the tools menu.

3. Tell the assistant your program. The connector supports all Sketchy programs, including Medical, MCAT, PA, and NP. The assistant will ask which program you're studying before it searches. You can also say so up front: "I'm a medical student" or "I'm studying for the MCAT."

4. Ask your question.

5. Allow tool use. The first time, you may be prompted to approve. Click Allow, or Allow always to skip the prompt in future chats.
   

What can the Sketchy connector help me do?

Find a lesson by topic

• "What Sketchy lesson covers Staphylococcus aureus?"

• "Show me the heart failure sketch"

• "Teach me about beta-lactam antibiotics?"

• "Find the Sketchy for HIV"

Get a concept explained with Sketchy links

• "Explain the HIV life cycle including the related Sketchy symbols"

• "Walk me through the difference between staph and strep"

• "What does Sketchy teach about TB treatment?"

Review weak areas

• "I keep missing questions about gram-negative rods, what should I review?"

• "I don't understand beta-lactamase resistance, find me the right sketch"

• "I got a question about Neisseria wrong, which lesson covers that?"

Build a study plan

Share your syllabus, exam schedule, or rotation block and the assistant will map it to Sketchy lessons and cases week by week, with links.

• "Build me an 8-week study plan for Sketchy Micro"

• "Map my cardiology rotation to Sketchy lessons"

• "I have a pharmacology exam in 3 weeks, what should I watch and in what order?"

• "Create a study schedule for Sketchy Pharm covering autonomic drugs"

Identify a sketch from a visual description

Describe what you remember, including characters, objects, setting, or colors, and the connector searches Sketchy's symbol database to identify the lesson and explain the symbols.

• "Find me the sketch where someone is in a desert with a golden staff"

• "Which sketch has grape clusters and a golden shield?"

• "What's the Sketchy with the Red Sea splitting?"

• "I remember a sketch with a Roman gladiator, which one is that?"

Look up symbol meanings

• "What does the golden staff mean in the S. aureus sketch?"

• "What are all the symbols in the Streptococcus pyogenes lesson?"

• "What does the grape cluster represent?

Practice with cases

• "What Sketchy cases can I practice for pneumonia?"

• "Find me cases related to gram-negative bacteria"

• "I need to practice endocrine cases"

Privacy and data

Sketchy receives the search queries your assistant sends on your behalf, your selected program, and basic request metadata. Sketchy does not receive your conversation with the assistant, your AI account identity, or any personal information unless you include it in a search query. Queries are logged for service monitoring and search quality, without association to any individual user or account.

The connector returns catalog information only. Your account details, subscription status, and usage history are not transmitted to the AI assistant.

Your use of Claude, ChatGPT, or any other assistant is governed by that service's own privacy policy. For full details, please review the Sketchy Privacy Policy.

For IT administrators

The connector is read-only. It exposes search and retrieval tools only, with no ability to write, update, or delete anything, and no ability to modify user accounts or institutional data.

Search queries and the user's selected program are sent to Sketchy. No conversation content, credentials, or assistant-side identity is transmitted, and query logs are not associated with individual users. What comes back is catalog metadata only, with no student records, performance data, subscription status, or usage history.

Please reach out with any institutional deployment questions to institutionalsupport@sketchy.com

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