--- title: "Connect Circle and OpenAI - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Access Group\" fires in Circle, your agent runs \"Create message\" in OpenAI, or \"New batch\" in OpenAI to \"Create Contact\" in Circle." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-openai" --- # Connect Circle and OpenAI When **New Access Group** fires in [Circle](https://apiant.ai/connections/circle), your agent runs **Create message** in [OpenAI](https://apiant.ai/connections/openai), or **New batch** in OpenAI to **Create Contact** in Circle. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Circle **15** triggers Circle **21** actions OpenAI **5** triggers OpenAI **69** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Circle and OpenAI to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Circle and OpenAI can do together ### From Circle to OpenAI - When **New Access Group** in Circle then **Create message** in OpenAI - When **New Comment Posted** in Circle then **Create assistant** in OpenAI ### From OpenAI to Circle - When **New batch** in OpenAI then **Create Contact** in Circle - When **New file** in OpenAI then **Send Direct Message** in Circle Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Circle and OpenAI ## Triggers and actions 20 triggers · 90 actions - Trigger **Content Approved** Triggers when a moderator approves reported (flagged) content in your Circle community. - Trigger **Content Rejected** Triggers when a moderator rejects reported content (a post or comment) in your Circle community. - Trigger **New Access Group** Triggers when a new access group is created in your Circle community. - Trigger **New Comment Posted** Triggers when a new comment is posted in your Circle community, optionally limited to one space or post. - Trigger **New Event Created** Triggers when a new event is published in your Circle community, optionally limited to one event space. - Trigger **New Event RSVP** Triggers when a member RSVPs yes to the selected Circle event. - Trigger **New Member Active Subscription** Triggers when a community member's paid subscription becomes active in Circle. - Trigger **New Member Added** Triggers when a new member joins the Circle community. Optionally includes invited members who have not finished setting up their profile, or only members with chosen tags. - Trigger **New Member Canceled Subscription** Triggers when a community member's paid subscription is canceled in Circle, returning the canceled subscription with its member and paywall details. - Trigger **New Member Paid Charge** Triggers when a community member is charged successfully (a new paid charge appears in Circle). - Trigger **New Member Past Due Subscription** Triggers when a community member's paid subscription becomes past due. - Trigger **New Member Refunded Charge** Triggers when a member's charge is refunded, fully or partially, in your Circle community. - Trigger **New Post** Triggers when a new basic post is published in your Circle community, optionally limited to one space or space group. - Trigger **New Space Created** Triggers when a new space is created in your Circle community. - Trigger **New Tagged Member** Triggers when a member tag is applied to a community member or contact in your Circle community. - Action **Add Member to Space Group** Adds an existing community member, by email, to a space group and to every space in that group. Does nothing if they are already in the group. - Action **Create Comment** Creates a comment on a Circle post, or a reply to an existing comment, optionally authored as another community member. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a non-member contact (lead) in your Circle community from an email address. The contact appears in your audience for email marketing but has no login or community access. - Action **Create Course Section** Creates a new section at the end of a course space. The section starts with no lessons. - Action **Find Member** Finds a community member by their exact email address, including invited members who have not finished setting up their profile. - Action **Has Member Tag** Checks whether the community member with a given email address has a given member tag, and returns true or false along with the member's id and tags. - Action **Invite Member** Invites a person to your Circle community by email, creating their Circle account if needed, and optionally adds them to spaces, space groups and member tags. Returns the new community member. - Action **Is Member of Space** Checks whether a community member, identified by email, belongs to a chosen space and returns their space membership details. - Action **Is Member of Space Group** Checks whether a community member, identified by email, belongs to a space group, and returns their membership details when they do. - Action **Mark Course Lesson as Completed** Marks a course lesson as completed for a member of the course space, identified by their email address. - Action **Remove Member** Removes a member from your Circle community by deactivating their membership and canceling their running paid subscriptions. Their posts and comments are kept, and inviting the same email again restores the membership. - Action **Remove Member From Access Group** Removes a community member, identified by member ID or email, from an access group. - Action **Remove Member From Event** Removes a member's RSVP from a Circle event, identified by the member's email. The attendee record is kept with its RSVP set to no. - Action **Remove Member From Space** Removes a community member, identified by email, from a space. The person stays a member of the community. - Action **Remove Member From Space Group** Removes a member from a space group and from every space in that group. They stay a member of the community. - Action **RSVP Member to Event** Adds a community member, identified by email, to an event. The member is RSVPed directly when the event auto-RSVPs invited attendees; otherwise they are invited. - Action **Send Direct Message** Sends a direct chat message to a Circle community member, identified by email, optionally as a reply in a thread. - Action **Start a Group Chat** Sends a message to a group of community members in a group chat, starting the group chat if it does not exist yet. The message is sent as the community member the connection authenticates as. - Action **Tag Member** Applies a member tag to the community member with the given email. If the member already has the tag, it is kept. - Action **Untag Member** Removes a member tag from the community member with the given email. The tag itself stays in the community; only its assignment to that member is removed. - Action **Update Event** Updates an existing event in a Circle event space. Only the fields you fill in are changed; everything else on the event stays as it is. - Trigger **New batch** List your organization's batches. - Trigger **New file** Returns a list of files. - Trigger **New model** Lists the currently available models. - Trigger **New vector store** Returns a list of vector stores. - Trigger **New video** List recently generated videos for the current project. - Action **Cancel batch** Cancels an in-progress batch. - Action **Cancel run** Cancels a run that is in_progress. - Action **Cancel vector store file batch** Cancel a vector store file batch. - Action **Content moderation** Classifies text for hate, harassment, self-harm, sexual, and violence categories using the Moderations API. - Action **Count input tokens** Returns input token counts of the request. - Action **Create assistant** Create an assistant with a model and instructions. - Action **Create chat completion** Sends a list of chat messages to a model via the Chat Completions API and returns the assistant's reply. - Action **Create completion** Creates a completion for the provided prompt and parameters. - Action **Create embedding** Generates a vector embedding for input text using an embeddings model (e.g. text-embedding-3-small). - Action **Create message** Create a message. - Action **Create run** Create a run. - Action **Creates and executes a batch from an uploaded file of requests** Creates and executes a batch from an uploaded file of requests - Action **Create thread** Create a thread. - Action **Create thread and run** Create a thread and run it in one request. - Action **Create vector store** Create a vector store. - Action **Create vector store file** Create a vector store file by attaching a File to a vector store. - Action **Create vector store file batch** Create a vector store file batch. - Action **Create video edit job** Create a new video generation job by editing a source or existing generated video. - Action **Create video extension** Create an extension of a completed video. - Action **Create video generation job** Create a new video generation job from a prompt and optional reference assets. - Action **Create video remix** Create a remix of a completed video using a refreshed prompt. - Action **Delete assistant** Delete an assistant. - Action **Delete eval run** Delete an eval run. - Action **Delete file** Delete a file and remove it from all vector stores. - Action **Delete message** Deletes a message. - Action **Delete thread** Delete a thread. - Action **Delete vector store** Delete a vector store. - Action **Delete vector store file** Delete a vector store file (removes from store, file itself not deleted). - Action **Delete video** Permanently delete a completed or failed video and its stored assets. - Action **Download video content** Download the generated video bytes or a derived preview asset. - Action **Edit image** Creates an edited or extended image given one or more source images and a prompt. - Action **Generate image** Generates an image from a text prompt using gpt-image-1 / DALL-E and returns the image URL or base64 data. - Action **Generate speech** Converts text into spoken audio using a TTS model and the selected voice. Returns audio bytes. - Action **Get assistant** Retrieves an assistant. - Action **Get batch** Retrieves a batch. - Action **Get file** Returns information about a specific file. - Action **Get file content** Returns the contents of the specified file. - Action **Get message** Retrieve a message. - Action **Get model** Retrieves a model instance. - Action **Get run** Retrieves a run. - Action **Get run step** Retrieves a run step. - Action **Get thread** Retrieves a thread. - Action **Get vector store** Retrieves a vector store. - Action **Get vector store file** Retrieves a vector store file. - Action **Get vector store file batch** Retrieves a vector store file batch. - Action **Get vector store file content** Retrieve the parsed contents of a vector store file. - Action **Get video** Fetch the latest metadata for a generated video. - Action **List conversation items** List all items for a conversation with the given ID. - Action **List files** Lists files that have been uploaded to your OpenAI account. - Action **List messages** Returns a list of messages for a given thread. - Action **List models** Lists the models currently available to your account. - Action **List runs** Returns a list of runs belonging to a thread. - Action **List run steps** Returns a list of run steps belonging to a run. - Action **List vector store file batch files** Returns a list of vector store files in a batch. - Action **List vector store files** Returns a list of vector store files. - Action **OpenAI agent message** Runs one AI agent turn on OpenAI and returns the model's reply. The turn is billed to the OpenAI account connected on this step, and the agent can call the account's AI tool automations. - Action **Retrieve response** Retrieves a previously created model response by its Response ID. - Action **Search vector store** Search a vector store for relevant chunks based on a query and filter. - Action **Send model a message** Sends a message to an OpenAI model via the Responses API and emits its response. Returns a Response ID usable as previous_response_id for multi-turn conversations. - Action **Submit tool outputs to run** Submit tool outputs when a run requires action. - Action **Transcribe audio** Transcribes audio into the input language. - Action **Translate audio** Translates audio into English. - Action **Update assistant** Modifies an assistant. - Action **Update message** Modifies a message. - Action **Update run** Modifies a run. - Action **Update thread** Modifies a thread. - Action **Update vector store** Modifies a vector store. - Action **Update vector store file attributes** Update attributes on a vector store file. - Action **Upload file** Upload a file that can be used across various endpoints. ## Each app on its own - [ **Circle** A modern community platform for creators.](https://apiant.ai/connections/circle) - [ **OpenAI** OpenAI's platform for text generation (Responses + Chat Completions), image generation (gpt-image-1 /...](https://apiant.ai/connections/openai) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Circle - [ **Circle to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-hubspot) - [ **Circle to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-salesforce) - [ **Circle to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-slack) - [ **Circle to Google Sheets** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-google-sheets) - [ **Circle to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-gmail) - [ **Circle to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-google-calendar) ## More into OpenAI - [ **Mailchimp to OpenAI** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mailchimp-to-openai) - [ **ActiveCampaign to OpenAI** ActiveCampaign is a marketing automation, email marketing, and CRM platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-openai) - [ **Asana to OpenAI** Asana is a collaborative information manager for workspace.](https://apiant.ai/connect/asana-to-openai) - [ **JIRA to OpenAI** Atlassian JIRA Cloud — issue tracking and project management.](https://apiant.ai/connect/jira-to-openai) - [ **Twilio to OpenAI** Cloud communications platform for sending SMS/MMS messages, making and managing voice calls, and looking up...](https://apiant.ai/connect/twilio-to-openai) - [ **Intercom to OpenAI** Intercom is a customer communications platform for support, engagement, and marketing.](https://apiant.ai/connect/intercom-to-openai) Questions ## Circle and OpenAI, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Circle? Any of Circle's 15 triggers in the catalog, including New Access Group, New Comment Posted, New Event Created and New Event RSVP. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in OpenAI when something happens in Circle? Any of OpenAI's 69 actions, including Create assistant, Create chat completion, Create completion and Create embedding. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from OpenAI to Circle? Yes. When something happens in OpenAI, your agent can act in Circle too. This page covers both directions: OpenAI's triggers and Circle's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Circle or OpenAI? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Circle and OpenAI without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.