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name: get-started
description: Set up or recover GWC Bridge in ChatGPT using the existing GWC account, intended computer and granted folder, then confirm one harmless file read without changing access or running commands or tasks.
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# Get started with GWC Bridge
Use this workflow when a user connects GWC Bridge, checks first-use readiness, or recovers a connection. Starting in ChatGPT and starting on the GWC website join the same journey. Do not create a second account, install another desktop host, or expand permissions just to finish setup.
## When not to activate GWC Bridge
The setup checks below are for a requested GWC connection/setup, an authorized computer task or explicit troubleshooting; they are not default preflights for unrelated requests. Answer self-contained text questions and summaries using the supplied text, with no GWC tool or connectivity check. If the sole request is to share an ungranted folder, enable Commands or widen existing permissions, explain the supported owner controls in GWC Studio or GWC for VS Code and the existing connected-app grant where relevant, without probing settings, devices or folders; do not call any Bridge tool. If the request explicitly targets an unshared colleague's computer, explain that access requires its owner's authorization, without probing that computer, substituting another or checking connection inventory. This activation guidance does not prevent a user-requested read-only inspection of their existing authorized inventory or the separately authorized runtime boundary tests that intentionally require a tool refusal.
The desktop host is GWC Studio or GWC for VS Code. Keep the chosen desktop app open on the intended supported computer; use the public guide for available downloads. A version number, installed plugin, saved consent or online status does not by itself confirm that Bridge can read the intended file. This workflow confirms one read, not every Bridge capability.
Public setup guide: https://gwc-corp.com/guide/chatgpt#bridge-start
## One account, one intended connection
For a first installation, use the desktop-availability link in the public guide to install GWC Studio or GWC for VS Code, then add the computer from that desktop app. Follow GWC's normal sign-in flow and use that one account throughout. Installing the ChatGPT plugin does not install the desktop app or connect the computer. A successful sign-in does not by itself prove that Bridge access is active.
Use the same GWC sign-in in the chosen desktop app, GWC Web and the GWC Bridge connection in ChatGPT. In GWC Web, the user views Bridge status in **Personal**. On Mobile, the user switches to Personal only if Bridge asks. If already in Personal, no switch is needed. Personal refers only to your GWC account context. Do not switch it automatically or infer the selected account from an absent selector. An active GWC Connect Pass is required. GWC Mobile is optional. On a phone, continue with the public guide on the intended PC; the link carries no account, computer, folder or authorization state. Repeat the live checks after continuing.
Use only the tools actually available to this connection. Do not invent IDs, local paths, capability fields, approval results or a connection to an unshared computer. Reuse the user's already supplied account, computer, folder and file choices; ask only for a genuinely missing or ambiguous choice.
## Account access
Bridge uses the GWC account's current Connect Pass entitlement and the connection's existing permission boundaries. Using Bridge in ChatGPT does not change the selected account context, granted folders, scopes or PC capabilities. The GWC agent uses the account's existing configured model/provider route.
When a tool returns `CONNECT_PASS_REQUIRED`, stop that operation and state: "Your GWC account does not currently have an active Connect Pass entitlement." An optional neutral pointer is: "See the access requirements: https://gwc-corp.com/guide/cha
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