Connect Instagram to Codex

• Catch you up

  Ask what you missed and Codex reads your unread Instagram chats, then gives you the short version: who needs an answer, what was decided, what can wait.

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• Find any message

  The address someone sent last month, the price a client agreed to, the link from a group chat. Codex searches your Instagram history and quotes the message.

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• Draft replies

  Codex writes the reply in your tone, in the chat's language, with the context of the whole thread. You read it, edit it, and send it.

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• Send with your OK

  When you approve a draft, ConnectChats sends it from your own Instagram account and confirms delivery. Auto-send only runs in chats where you switch it on.

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• Codex

  Which Instagram DMs need an answer from me?

• Codex

  Summarize my unread Instagram messages.

• Codex

  Find the Instagram conversation where the brand offered a collaboration.

• Codex

  Translate the last Instagram message from Marie and draft a reply.

• Codex

  Draft a polite no to the Instagram request from yesterday.

1. 1

   Add ConnectChats to Codex

   • In your terminal, run: codex mcp add connectchats --url https://api.connectchats.com/mcp
   • Run codex mcp login connectchats. Your browser opens the ConnectChats sign-in page. Sign in with your passkey.
   • Start Codex and ask about your messages.
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   Link your Instagram account

   • Open https://connectchats.com/app and choose Link a chat app, then Instagram.
   • Sign in to your Instagram account through Meta's own sign-in page.
   • If you use two-factor authentication, confirm the sign-in on your phone.
   • Your chats appear in the dashboard, where you choose which ones your AI app can see.
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   Pick the chats Codex can see

   Every chat is listed in your ConnectChats dashboard. Share all of them or only the ones you choose. Codex never sees the rest.

4. 4

   Ask Codex about your Instagram

   Open a new conversation in Codex and ask about your chats. Codex calls ConnectChats when it needs your messages.

• Instagram in ConnectChats

  One to one DMs and group chats are supported, including message requests. Shared posts, reels, photos and voice messages show up as short text descriptions. Each linked chat starts with its last 200 messages, then every new message arrives as it is sent. Creator and business accounts work too, which helps when your inbox is mostly people asking the same questions.

• ConnectChats in Codex

  Codex adds remote MCP servers from the command line and keeps them in config.toml. Add ConnectChats once, sign in with your passkey, and Codex can read and search the chats you share. The command writes a [mcp_servers.connectchats] entry with url = "https://api.connectchats.com/mcp" to ~/.codex/config.toml. You can also add it there by hand. Codex CLI, the Codex IDE extension and the desktop app share this configuration, so you set it up once. On a machine without a browser, run codex mcp login connectchats --no-browser, open the printed link elsewhere and paste the redirect URL back. Codex needs a ChatGPT plan that includes Codex, or an OpenAI API key.

• You pick the chats

  Codex only sees the Instagram chats you share. Unshare a chat and it disappears from every AI app at once.

• Drafts by default

  Codex prepares replies. You approve each one before it reaches Instagram, unless you turn on auto-send for that chat.

• Stored messages are encrypted

  Stored messages are encrypted with a key that only your passkey can unlock. We never train models on your messages.

How we protect your messages