What this is

AIS Fleet can answer questions from an AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT. Once you connect one, you can ask it things like "where is my boat" or "which boats on my Harbour list moved today", and it reads your AIS Fleet account to answer.

The assistant only ever reads. It cannot follow a boat for you, change a list, join a fleet, send a message or change anything about your account.

Connecting an assistant is part of Plus and Pro. Plans and billing covers the plans.

Before you start

You need:

• an AIS Fleet account on Plus or Pro,
• an assistant that can connect to an external tool. In Claude and ChatGPT this is usually under a "Connectors" or "Apps" setting; the wording changes as those products change.

The address to give the assistant is:

https://aisfleet.com/mcp

Connect one

1. In the assistant, add a connector or app and give it the address above.
2. The assistant opens an AIS Fleet page in your browser.
3. Sign in to AIS Fleet if you are not signed in already. If asked, accept the current Terms or finish entering your name. You then return to the access page automatically.
4. Read the page. It names the account, where the access goes and whether AIS Fleet could confirm the app's name.
5. Choose Allow access, or Cancel if anything looks wrong.

When you reconnect an assistant, AIS Fleet asks you to review and allow access again.

If the page says AIS Fleet could not confirm which app is asking, nothing has been shared. Start again from the assistant you are connecting, and if it happens a second time, leave it and write to us.

What an assistant can read

Everything an assistant reads is something you can already see when you sign in:

• your account: your plan, what it includes and how much of it you are using,
• your own boat, and where she was last heard,
• the boats you follow, your lists and the fleets you are in,
• public AIS information about other vessels, such as a name, position, recent track and photos,
• a Saillogger log a boat shares with you: her journal and the passage she is on,
• your AIS Fleet notices, and your own AIS receivers.

You can narrow nearby-vessel questions to a kind of vessel, such as sailing boats or cargo ships. Searches with many matches may need a more specific name or MMSI to find the boat you want.

Track history follows your current plan. Track summaries use a selection of reports, so distances and speeds describe that selection. A gap between its points does not mean a boat stopped reporting.

A fleet boat without an MMSI is still listed by name. If she appears in more than one fleet, she may be listed separately in each.

What it cannot read or do

• It cannot change anything.
• It cannot read your messages or your followers.
• It cannot read the sign-in details of your AIS receivers.
• It is not a watch. AIS Fleet sends an assistant no alerts, so an assistant only knows what it finds when you ask. Departure and arrival notices still reach you the usual way, which Departures and arrivals covers.

A position is only ever as recent as the last report AIS Fleet received. Gaps between reports are common, especially offshore, and a gap does not say why reports stopped. If you think someone may be in danger, call the coastguard.

Disconnect an assistant

Open Account. Under Connected apps you will see each assistant that is connected. Choose Disconnect beside the one you want to end, then confirm. You can also disconnect an assistant while your account is on Basic.

Disconnecting takes effect at once: the assistant's next request is refused, and it has to be connected again if you want it back. Disconnecting does not remove anything the assistant has already read.

The section is hidden once AIS Fleet confirms that no assistant is connected. If the list cannot be loaded, choose Retry.

If it stops working

• The assistant says it cannot read your account, and mentions the plan. Assistant access is part of Plus and Pro. If your plan has lapsed, the connection stays in place: put the account back on Plus or Pro and it works again, with nothing to reconnect.
• The assistant says a longer track needs another plan. Ask for a shorter period, or review Plans and billing.
• The assistant says it needs you to accept the Terms, or to enter your name. Sign in to AIS Fleet, do that once, and ask the assistant again.
• The assistant says a short-term limit was reached. Wait a few minutes and ask again. The same limits apply whether you are reading AIS Fleet yourself or asking an assistant.
• The assistant says its notice search is incomplete. Older matching notices may be missing. Open Notifications to read more.
• You want to start over. Disconnect it in Account, then connect it again from the assistant.