# Tutorials

Each walkthrough below is a Markdown file. The HTML page is the same path without .md.

## 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](https://toolpool.garden/tutorials/connect-claude.md): Add a custom connector on claude.ai, then press Allow. Nothing to paste back.
- [Connect ChatGPT to ToolPool.Garden](https://toolpool.garden/tutorials/connect-chatgpt.md): 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](https://toolpool.garden/tutorials/connect-grok.md): Add a custom connector on grok.com, then press Allow.
- [How to import tens of resources easily with AI](https://toolpool.garden/tutorials/import-with-ai-chat.md): 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](https://toolpool.garden/tutorials/import-with-ai.md): 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.

- [Add ToolPool.Garden to Slack](https://toolpool.garden/tutorials/add-to-slack.md): One person adds it to the workspace. Everybody who wants to search runs /garden login once.
- [Add ToolPool.Garden to Discord](https://toolpool.garden/tutorials/add-to-discord.md): One person adds it to the server. Everybody who wants to search runs /garden login once.

## 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](https://toolpool.garden/tutorials/start-a-tool-library.md): A comprehensive guide to getting a tool library off the ground and links to additional resources
- [How to start a makerspace](https://toolpool.garden/tutorials/start-a-makerspace.md): A comprehensive guide to getting a makerspace off the ground and links to additional resources
- [How to add your community to the tool pool](https://toolpool.garden/tutorials/add-your-community.md): 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](https://toolpool.garden/tutorials/embed-tool-library-inventory.md): 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](https://toolpool.garden/tutorials/manage-requests.md): Give each pool a request process that matches how the group gets things done.
- [How do I share group-owned tools?](https://toolpool.garden/tutorials/shared-account.md): 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](https://toolpool.garden/tutorials/3d-print-a-multicolor-sign.md): 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.