Trouble Setting Up MCP Connector over OAuth– Refresh Error & Missing Search Action

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Hi everyone,

I’m trying to set up the MCP connector in ChatGPT and running into issues.

  • Connected on: Sep 29, 2025

  • Safety Scan: Passed

  • Authorization Supported/Used: OAuth

The connector shows as connected, but when I click Refresh, I get this error:

Refresh error: unhandled errors in a TaskGroup (1 sub-exception)

And below that:

This MCP server can’t be used by ChatGPT to search information because it doesn’t implement our specification: search action not found.

It looks like the connection itself is valid, but ChatGPT can’t use the MCP server since it doesn’t expose a search action.

Has anyone else run into this? Do I need to configure something on the MCP server side to implement search, or is there another step I’m missing?

Any guidance would be much appreciated!
(Screenshot attached for reference.)

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Having similar issue, says error refreshing actions, connector not safe…

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Get “Connector not safe” too, have tried everything - and it seems to get 200 from my MCP endpoints, token verified etc.

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Because it fails at listing tools (server shows as “Connected” in chatgpt for me), I thought it may be related to securitySchemes (developers. openai. com. apps-sdk/build/auth)

But I wasn’t able to figure out how to use them properly. securitySchemes are not available in MCP TS SDK, so that code listed on that page just won’t compile

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I have the exact same issue

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has anybody solved this error? I am running into the same issue, tried all different kind of ways.