MCP Server 99% does not work in ChatGPT (Web to Desktop)

[Travis Polland]

Team,

Have you really "tested" the MCP server in ChatGPT? 

I did get it to read a Jira ticket only once in the past week, for the first time. Outside of that, ChatGPT either cannot find the MCP server (selected as a tool in the chat) or if it does, it cannot connect. It is 100% authorised, disconnected and reconnected. Nothing works.

Note: this is the MCP built into ChatGPT Business. I am the admin for our Atlassian and ChatGPT platforms. The MCP works just fine in other tools (despite the continued disconnections - another thread).

I'm approaching month 4 and have no way of getting this to work.

[Becky Brooks - MCP Gateway for Jira]

OpenAI has formally embraced MCP but practically speaking, it is not the best client for MCP at the moment. Claude is far, far superior and more reliable. 

[Tomislav Tobijas]

I was playing with this over the weekend, but I also got stuck setting up the local bridge. As it's not really plug-and-play, I'm not sure how many people actually tried it. I know there were some discussions and questions about that integration here, but I don't recall anyone talking specifically about the post-config/setup part 👀

It would be great if there were some kind of tutorial on how to actually build this 🤔
I'll try to check with my colleagues who are more focused on dev part to help me out with the initial setup.