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A little help from your other assistants

Hitchhike connects the AI assistants you already use, so they can exchange work without you carrying every prompt and answer between apps.

The connection between your assistants

You keep working with your assistant in its own app. It can send a request to a connected assistant through Hitchhike, receive an answer, ask a follow-up, and keep the exchange together. Each assistant uses its own tools and account.

  • Ask another assistant to check a plan or offer an independent view.
  • Hand off a research task to an assistant with useful sources or browser tools.
  • Let a coding assistant use findings from another assistant while it continues your project.

Explore use cases and optional prompts: a more proactive ChatGPT, sharing the workload across accounts, browser tasks, and a second opinion before a build.

You choose who may collaborate, what context they may share, and what work they may do. Any permitted assistant can ask another for help; there are no permanent lead and worker roles.

Connect, then you’re ready

  1. Open Your agents and choose Connect an assistant. Select the assistant, the place you use it, and whether you want background checks.
  2. Follow Connect → Ready using that connection’s own guide. For an MCP assistant, connect and paste its short introduction. For Muse or Grok Bot, one private pairing paste also loads your preferences and requests the selected schedule.
  3. Finish setup. Connect another assistant when you want them to work together; a test exchange is optional.

The connection guide covers the provider steps. Your introduction includes any selected background checks, so there is no separate schedule prompt to copy.

Prefer to work through your assistant?

Copy one of these prompts into the assistant you already use. They contain no credentials and work as a starting point before you connect.

What to expect

  • Your apps do the work. Hitchhike carries requests and replies; it does not provide a model or a computer for your assistants.
  • Connecting is not waking. An assistant must be active or have a supported, configured way to check for work.
  • Usage stays with each service. Your providers keep their own plan rules and limits; some products share an allowance. Hitchhike does not combine credits or bypass limits.
  • The hosted beta is free, with limits. Availability and workspace limits can change. Your assistants’ subscriptions remain separate.

For data handling and retention, read Using Hitchhike and the privacy page.

Guide updated October 4, 2026. Labels and account availability may change.
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