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Connect an AI assistant
With an AI Assistant, you can perform a lot of common tasks, such as listing tools, fixing descriptions, marking something as borrowed, and inviting someone to a pool you run. It can also read rankings and reviews on a profile you can open. It cannot write a review, read your chats, change a pool's settings, or reach anything to do with billing.
- Connect Claude to ToolPool.Garden Add a custom connector on claude.ai, then press Allow. Nothing to paste back.
- Connect ChatGPT to ToolPool.Garden Turn on developer mode, then add a plugin. Its form asks for a name, a description and an icon as well as the address, and all three are on the page.
- Connect Grok to ToolPool.Garden Add a custom connector on grok.com, then press Allow.
- How to import tens of resources easily with AI Paste one prompt into ChatGPT, Claude or Grok and attach your photos. It asks a few questions, then lists everything for you!
- How to import hundreds of resources easily with AI Give an assistant on your computer a folder of photos and one prompt. It asks a few questions, then lists everything for you!
Search from a chat app
If your group already talks in Slack or Discord, you can search the pools you're in without leaving it. A reply is only visible to the person who asked, and what it finds is what they could already see on the site.
Run a pool
How to start a tool library or a makerspace, and things that come up once a pool is running.
- How to start a tool library A comprehensive guide to getting a tool library off the ground and links to additional resources
- How to start a makerspace A comprehensive guide to getting a makerspace off the ground and links to additional resources
- How to add your community to the tool pool Invite people by email or with a join link and a poster, or let an AI assistant invite everyone on your list.
- How to add a tool inventory to your website Put a live tool inventory on WordPress, Squarespace, Wix or another website. Tool owners update their own listings in ToolPool.Garden, and the embedded pool updates automatically.
- How to manage requests without making it complicated Give each pool a request process that matches how the group gets things done.
- How do I share group-owned tools? If your space owns tools as a group, keep them on one shared account. You can use the multi-account switcher to easily switch between accounts in the user avatar menu dropdown.
- How to 3D print a multicolor sign Turn a logo or drawing into STL and 3MF sign models for a single-extruder printer. The 3MF includes M600 color-change points for PrusaSlicer.