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ChatGPT installation guide

Install the Version Story plugin from ChatGPT's plugin directory and connect your Version Story account.

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You will need:

  • A Version Story account
  • ChatGPT

Version Story is listed in ChatGPT's plugin directory. Installing it is two steps: add the plugin, then authorize it to use your Version Story account. There is no connector URL to enter and no network setting to change. ChatGPT hands the documents you attach to Version Story directly.

1. Install the plugin

  1. In ChatGPT, open Plugins in the sidebar.
  2. Search for Version Story and open it, or go straight to the plugin page. The listing is named Version Story Redline Compare, with the developer shown as Version Story.
  3. Click Install plugin. A Version Story tab opens.

2. Connect your Version Story account

  1. In the tab that opened, sign in to Version Story if you are not already signed in.
  2. Click Authorize. The tab closes and you are returned to ChatGPT.
  3. The plugin page now lists your account under Connected accounts, and the Install plugin button has become Try in chat.

Every comparison ChatGPT runs is saved to the projects of the account you connected.

Test it

  1. On the plugin page, click Try in chat. A new chat opens with Version Story selected. In any other chat, pick Version Story Redline Compare from the Plugins menu below the message box.

  2. Attach two versions of a document.

  3. Send:

    Compare these documents and give me a redline.

ChatGPT replies with a link to download the PDF redline and a link to the interactive redline in Version Story. To get a Word document with tracked changes instead, ask for it by name.

What the plugin includes

The plugin connects ChatGPT to the same MCP server the other clients use, and adds four skills that tell ChatGPT when to use it:

SkillUse
compareCompare document versions and create a PDF redline or a Word tracked-changes file
mergeMerge parallel revisions of the same original into one Word document with attributed tracked changes
combineCombine independently written documents into one Word draft with attributed tracked changes
version-historyTrace changes through successive versions and attribute each surviving change to its source version

Disconnect or remove

On the plugin page, open the More actions menu and choose Manage to change the connected account, or Uninstall to remove the plugin.