Consensus for ChatGPT: Plugin, Example Prompts & Reviews

Example prompts

3 from the official listing

Consensus What does research say about creatine supplementation and cognitive performance?
Consensus Find randomized controlled trials since 2020 on mindfulness for anxiety
Consensus Summarize the evidence on minimum wage increases and employment

Mention Consensus by name in your message, as the official examples do.

How to use Consensus in ChatGPT

Open Consensus in ChatGPT’s plugin directory

Open Consensus’s page on chatgpt.com. Sign in to ChatGPT if you are not already.
Install it from that page

Choose Install plugin there. It adds the Consensus app to ChatGPT.
Mention Consensus in a chat

Start a new chat and name it in your request, for example: “Consensus, what does research say about creatine supplementation and cognitive performance?”

Availability can depend on your ChatGPT plan, your region and, on work accounts, your admin’s settings.

What Consensus does

Consensus is the go-to MCP for academic research. Connect directly to 220M+ peer-reviewed papers to search, synthesize, and build structured research outputs from within your conversation.

Run literature reviews, build boolean search strategies, generate bibliographies, identify research gaps, and draft cited content — grounded in studies from PubMed, Semantic Scholar, and ArXiv. Pre-built workflows handle complex tasks in minutes: systematic reviews, curriculum reading lists, grant research with novelty analysis, and clinical evidence synthesis.

Built for researchers, students, faculty, and clinicians across biomedical, social science, STEM, and all academic disciplines.

From the official listing, written by Consensus.

What Consensus can access

The official listing names no Read or Write capability for Consensus. Check what it asks for when you add it, and connect only the accounts you want it to use.

Where it connects: ChatGPT reaches Consensus through a remote MCP server on mcp.consensus.app, named in the official listing.
Also listed: Search research papers and Read paper details

Before you connect it

OpenAI’s plugin pages note that a connected plugin may receive relevant parts of your chats to answer a request, and that Consensus’s own terms and privacy policy then cover that data. You can disconnect a plugin later in ChatGPT’s settings. Read the privacy policy (consensus.app) and terms (consensus.app).

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Consensus in ChatGPT: questions and answers

What does Consensus do in ChatGPT?

Consensus is the go-to MCP for academic research. Connect directly to 220M+ peer-reviewed papers to search, synthesize, and build structured research outputs from within your conversation.

What can I ask Consensus in ChatGPT?

The official listing suggests prompts like: “What does research say about creatine supplementation and cognitive performance?”; “Find randomized controlled trials since 2020 on mindfulness for anxiety”; “Summarize the evidence on minimum wage increases and employment”.

How do I use Consensus in ChatGPT?

Open Consensus’s page in ChatGPT’s plugin directory on chatgpt.com and install it there. Then mention Consensus in a chat, for example: “What does research say about creatine supplementation and cognitive performance?”.

Who makes the Consensus plugin?

Consensus, currently at version 5.0.0. Best GPT Apps is an independent directory and is not affiliated with OpenAI or Consensus.

Is Consensus one of the old ChatGPT plugins from 2023?

No. The 2023 ChatGPT plugins were a separate beta that OpenAI has since retired. Today’s ChatGPT plugins are the apps directory under a new name: since July 2026 a plugin can bundle apps, skills and MCP servers.