Ideas and Usage · Assist With Animals

An idea to try	What your AI can help with	Your AI with this site
What was that bird on the fence? Encounter	Examine your photo and description, suggest possibilities, and explain which details would help distinguish them.	Save the Encounter with your photo, date, and notes, plus your AI's tentative identification. When you get a clearer view, add it to the record and revisit the question. Your original sighting stays separate from the identification proposed afterward.
What might have left this track in the mud? Encounter	Compare visible features and context, explain plausible candidates, and ask for scale or another photo if needed.	Keep the track photo and location context with the Encounter. A later sighting can be linked as a possible connection without turning “might be the same animal” into a fact. You can build a small record of the wildlife passing through.
Tell me something interesting about the animal I just saw. Encounter	Research its possible species, explain behavior or habitat, and follow the details that catch your interest.	Connect the Encounter to the research and its sources. Your next sighting can open onto the same reference material, with your own observations beside it. A moment outdoors can grow into a subject you enjoy learning about.
Is this the same visitor I photographed last month? Encounter	Compare markings and circumstances, point out similarities and differences, and explain the limits of the match.	Keep both Encounters and a proposed connection to an individual animal. You can inspect the photos together and revise the connection as evidence grows. Similar-looking animals do not have to be silently merged into one life story.
Help me prepare for the kitten we are bringing home. Individual	Research the questions you have, help organize preparations, and adapt the discussion to your household and preferences.	Give the kitten its own page with your notes, background, sources, and instructions for your AI. As plans turn into experience, add what happened and what you learned. Later discussions can use that individual history rather than only general kitten information.
I want to describe a change in my dog's behavior clearly. Individual	Help organize your observations, ask about context, and prepare questions you want to discuss with someone who knows the animal.	Save dated observations, original media, and the account your AI helps you write on the dog's record. Keep returned opinions attributed. When you revisit the situation, the record shows what you noticed, what someone suggested, and what happened next.
Help another person get to know the animals they will look after. Group	Turn the details you supply into an understandable handover, with individual differences, routines, and questions to clarify.	Gather the selected animal records, group context, photos, and your instructions into a document you can review. Keep a copy and add the person's later observations to the appropriate animals. Next time, your AI can improve the handover from real experience.
I am learning about a species and the sources disagree. Encounter	Compare books, research, and other references, distinguish kinds of evidence, and write a balanced account of the questions.	Keep the sources and a full research document connected to the species and relevant Encounters or animals. Your AI can extend the research when you bring it a new source. You can follow an interesting paragraph back to what supported it, rather than treating a polished summary as the whole story.
How are the individual animals in our group changing? Group	Work through the observations you provide, compare individuals, and help formulate questions about patterns or exceptions.	Keep the group, dated membership, and each animal's history connected. Compare individuals in a table or follow their observations through time. A note about the whole flock can coexist with a different observation about one hen. Your AI can work across those levels while you can still see who was in the group at the time.
What have we learned from three years watching this pond? Group	Synthesize seasonal sightings, research, photos, and your questions into a story, comparison, or longer study.	Connect Encounters, possible recurring individuals, species references, and research. Explore by place, species, date, or your own collection of interesting questions. The context and your discussion preferences stay here as you change AIs. You can also keep a second AI's interpretation beside the first, with the original observations available to examine.

You, your AI, and this site

You decide

You choose what to record, what to ask, and what is true about your animals. Identifications, links and decisions are yours to confirm.

Your AI reasons and researches

Today's AI can examine a photo, compare look-alikes, read a vet's notes in plain language and research a question in depth. You bring the AI you already use.

This site keeps it, connected and ready

Encounters, animals, groups, places, research and documents stay attached to what they were about, so the next conversation, or the next AI, starts from the whole story.

Connect your AIAll questions

Connect the AI you already use, and it can read your records and save its work here, labelled as its own. You sign in with your Assist With Animals account and approve the connection; that is the whole setup.

For your AI

Connector address

https://www.assistwithanimals.com/mcp

In Claude: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste the address.
In ChatGPT and other apps that support remote MCP connectors: add a custom connector the same way, where your plan allows it.
Sign in with your Assist With Animals account when asked, and approve.
Try it: ask your AI what is waiting in your Assist With Animals Queue.

Starter message

Paste it into your AI, with or without a connector. Edit it first if you like.

Full connection details

The Assist family

Assist With Animals is one of a family of sites that each keep one part of life for your AI. Each keeps its own records; nothing private crosses between them.

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