Why bother

A 30-item sale is three or four hours of writing listings, then days of answering the same three questions. The app already cuts most of the writing. What it cannot do is come to you.

An assistant can. It is already open, it can see your photos, and it can check on the sale without you remembering to. That last part turns out to matter more than the listing speed.

What it can do

23 tools, but you never name a tool. You say what you want.

Get the sale up

Send photos and say “list these.” It sorts out which photos are the same item, writes each listing, prices it, and puts up the ones it’s sure about. Then “publish my sale, I’m in Austin, Venmo or cash” and you have a link to share.

Two things get held back rather than published, and your assistant tells you when either happens. If the photos are not clear enough to tell what something actually is, that listing waits for you to confirm it, so you end up checking the two odd ones rather than all thirty. And anything past your plan’s active-item limit is saved but stays invisible to buyers until you free a slot or upgrade. On the free plan that limit is three, so if a batch works out to more separate items than you have room for, the extras are saved and wait their turn.

Fifty photos per message. More than that is fine, it just takes a few messages.

Change things without opening anything

“Drop the sofa to $250.” “The dresser is oak, not pine.” “Take the lamp down, my sister wants it.” “Everything under $20, mark it free, I want the garage empty by Sunday.”

Ask about your own sale

It reads your real inventory back to you, so you can ask the questions a spreadsheet would answer:

What are my ten priciest items still available?
Which ones have nobody in the queue after a week?
How many people have looked at my page?
What is reserved right now, and by whom?

Hand it the buyers, with rules

It reads the messages and can answer them. Most of what buyers ask is “is this still available” and “when can I come,” and you do not need to be the one typing that.

The useful part is that you decide which ones it handles. Tell it once:

“If someone asks whether an item is still available, check and answer them. If they ask about pickup times, give them my Saturday window. If anyone asks where I live, do not answer, bring it to me. If someone offers less than 20% under asking, bring that to me too.”

Now the ordinary questions get answered in minutes without you, and the only things that reach you are the ones that actually need a decision. That is the difference between an inbox and an assistant.

Let it handle the calendar

Tell it when you are around, “Saturdays 10 to 2, hour-long slots,” and buyers book themselves in. Nobody has to agree a time over five messages.

If you connect your Google Calendar in Settings, it gets better: ClearList reads your free and busy times and stops offering slots you are not actually free for. It never writes anything to your calendar, and it never looks at your event details. The only thing it asks Google is which blocks of time are busy, not what you are doing in them.

Close things out

“The bookshelf sold.” “Mark that picked up.” The page updates so nobody reserves something that has already gone. It can also set your pickup times, take the page offline, extend it, or format a listing for posting somewhere else.

The part people miss

Everything above is a one-off request. The bigger unlock is standing instructions: rules you give once that keep applying, like the buyer rules above.

Assistants are also adding ways to run something on a schedule. If yours can, and if it can reach ClearList while doing it, point it at your sale and you stop checking it. Both parts are up to your assistant rather than to us, so treat this as worth trying rather than as a promise.

Set one up and say something like:

“Every morning at 8, check my ClearList sale. Tell me what got reserved overnight, who messaged me, how many people looked at the page, and anything that has been sitting with no interest for a week.”

You get one message a day instead of a dashboard you keep forgetting to open. On a busy weekend, make it hourly. During the week, Monday only.

The same trick works for anything you would otherwise do by hand: a Friday note listing everything with no queue so you can cut those prices, or a message the moment something gets reserved so you know to keep the afternoon free.

Connecting it

One address, and it is the same one for both.

Claude

Open Settings, then Customize, then Connectors.
Add a custom connector and paste the address below.
Sign in when your browser opens. You only do this once.
Start a new chat with the connector switched on from the plus button.

Works on the free plan. One thing that trips people up: pasting the address into a chat message does nothing. The connector lives in settings, not in the conversation.

https://clearlist.me/api/mcp

ChatGPT

Through agent mode, and it is a different shape: you paste the address into the chat itself rather than into a settings screen.

Start a chat in agent mode.
Paste the address below and say you want to use ClearList.
It emails you a 6-digit code. Read the code back to it in the chat.
That is it. It is signed in and can do everything Claude can, because it is reaching the same tools.

You need a ChatGPT plan that includes agent mode. You paste the address because ClearList is not in ChatGPT’s app directory yet, so there is no entry to pick off a list. That listing is in review, with no published date, and it is not up to us. Agent mode is the way in until it lands.

Adding ClearList as a proper ChatGPT connector is separately gated: it is a Business and Enterprise feature a workspace admin has to switch on.

Anything else that speaks MCP

The same URL works. Some clients want it in a config file rather than a settings screen, and headless agents that can’t open a browser for sign-in can use an API key instead. Codex CLI and Google Antigravity connect this way.

One detail worth knowing: the read-a-code-back-in-chat signup happens when the assistant works the API directly, which is what ChatGPT agent mode and the npm package do. The hosted connector URL above signs you in through the browser instead, so there is no code to read back there. Either way it is your email plus a 6-digit code, never a password.

Good to know

The connector asks for permission the first time and then remembers you.
Your assistant can do less than you can, on purpose. Sharing your address takes two steps and your yes in the middle: it has to name the buyer who would receive it and show you the exact address first, and only someone who reserved an item and verified their email can be that buyer. You get an email every time one goes out, so nothing happens quietly. It also can’t read an address you shared earlier — those messages come back as a placeholder, so it can’t retype one into an ordinary reply. The one thing we can’t stop is you typing it into the chat yourself, so don’t.
Photos go straight to the assistant. There’s no camera screen in the middle, which is the point.

Step-by-step guides

Building on ClearList?

The developer page has the MCP server details, REST API, OpenAPI spec, and agent discovery metadata.