ChatGPT Context Bridge

Private, draft-only tooling for staging ChatGPT or Codex conversations into reviewable Homebase markdown, Notion draft payloads, and image-generation asset manifests.

What It Does

• Parses official ChatGPT conversations.json exports and manual markdown chat captures.

• Redacts secrets and common personal contact data before writing staged records.

• Classifies staged conversations into Homebase-style destinations.

• Exposes MCP tools for ChatGPT/Codex clients.

• Bundles Codex skills and OpenAI skill copies for reusable agent behavior.

• Appends audit events for every staging write operation.

• Writes only under CONTEXT_BRIDGE_DATA_DIR; it does not mutate Notion or Homebase canon.

Related MCP server: Time Tracking MCP

Install

npm install
npm run build
npm test
npm run verify

Optional environment:

Copy-Item .env.example .env.local
$env:CONTEXT_BRIDGE_DATA_DIR = "C:\Users\built\Documents\Codex\context-bridge-data"
$env:CONTEXT_BRIDGE_IMPORT_ROOTS = "C:\Users\built\Downloads,C:\Users\built\Documents"

CLI

npm run cli -- stage --source .\tests\fixtures\conversations.json --tags chatgpt,homebase
npm run cli -- search --query bridge
npm run cli -- homebase --id <staged-chat-id>
npm run cli -- notion --id <staged-chat-id>
npm run cli -- image --source .\image.png --source-kind local_file --chat-id <staged-chat-id>
npm run cli -- generate-image --prompt "A clean visual system diagram"

MCP Tools

• stage_chat: read an export/markdown file, redact, classify, and write staging artifacts.

• search_context: search staged records.

• summarize_thread: inspect one staged chat summary.

• propose_homebase_note: create a staged Homebase markdown draft.

• propose_notion_page: create a staged Notion payload.

• register_image_asset: record image prompt/source/rights metadata and optionally copy a local image into staging.

• generate_image_asset: generate an OpenAI image into staging and return the local file path. Requires OPENAI_API_KEY.

Codex Plugin

The plugin bundle lives in plugin/ and includes:

• .codex-plugin/plugin.json

• .mcp.json

• skills/context-bridge-ingest

• skills/context-bridge-routing

For local testing from the package root, build first, then point a local plugin marketplace at the plugin folder or copy the package as a whole so plugin/scripts/context-bridge-mcp.mjs can find dist/index.js.

ChatGPT Apps SDK Connector

Use the phrase "ChatGPT Apps SDK connector backed by this MCP server" for the ChatGPT side. The local Codex plugin is separate from a ChatGPT app connector.

• Local MCP development can use stdio or http://127.0.0.1:<PORT>/mcp.

• ChatGPT developer-mode connection should use a reachable HTTPS /mcp endpoint.

• Authenticated or customer-specific use should add OAuth 2.1 or scoped bearer-token auth, server-side scope enforcement, and audit review.

• v0.1 deliberately exposes staging tools only; any future canonical write tool must be a separate tool with explicit human confirmation.

OpenAI Skills

OpenAI skill copies live in openai-skills/. They are intentionally small wrappers around the MCP tool contract:

• context-bridge-ingest

• context-bridge-routing

Official OpenAI docs support Skills for gpt-5.5. Treat gpt-5.5-pro as MCP/tool-capable but not Skills-capable unless OpenAI documentation changes.

Safety Boundaries

• No browser scraping in v0.1.

• No live sync in v0.1.

• No Notion mutation in v0.1.

• No Homebase canonical writes in v0.1.

• No image publication in v0.1; generated images stay in staging until reviewed.

• Staged Notion payloads include a direct-fetch verification reminder because Notion search can lag or miss items.

• Prompt-injection content inside imported chats is treated as staged source text, not executable routing authority.

Verification

The test suite covers parsers, staging, duplicate imports, redaction, path traversal, prompt-injection containment, every MCP handler, plugin packaging, and one acceptance path from source chat to Homebase and Notion drafts.