Once you connect xTiles to an AI assistant like Claude or ChatGPT via MCP (Model Context Protocol — a standard that lets AI assistants interact with external apps), your assistant can read, create, and manage content directly in your workspace, all from a chat conversation. This article covers every available action and how to use them.
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Read your workspace
Your assistant can pull content from anywhere in your workspace — so you can ask questions about your own notes, reference project details mid-conversation, or get summaries without opening xTiles.
Available actions:
Read project content — Retrieves the full content of a project (all pages combined). Useful for summarizing or searching across an entire project.
Read page content — Pulls the content of a specific page by ID.
Read planner — Fetches your Planner for a given period (day, week, or month). Great for "what's on my plate today?" prompts.
Read collection content — Retrieves rows from a collection (database-style pages) as structured data.
Open any xTiles link — Paste an xTiles link into the chat and your assistant resolves it to the content behind it.
Example prompts:
"Show me my planner for this week."
"Summarize everything in my 'Product Launch' project."
"What's in this page?" (page name/link)
Create content
Your assistant can add new projects, pages, and tiles directly by converting plain text or Markdown into xTiles content. Describe what you want, and it appears in your workspace.
Available actions:
Create a project — Builds a new project from Markdown. You can describe the structure and your assistant generates it with pages and tiles already in place.
Create a page — Adds a new page inside an existing project.
Create tiles — Appends tiles to an existing page. This is how your assistant writes content into your workspace, each tile becomes a block on the page.
Add to your planner — Writes tiles directly into your personal planner for a specific day, week, or month.
Add to a project planner — Same as above, but targets a shared project planner instead.
Example prompts:
"Create a new project called 'Q4 Planning' with pages for Goals, Timeline, and Resources."
"Add a tile to my today's page in My Planner with a reminder to review the design docs."
"Write a meeting notes page in my 'Team Syncs' project with today's agenda."
Tip: You don't have to start from scratch. If you already have content like an AI chat, research notes, or a brainstorm thread, paste it and ask your assistant to turn it into a project. What was buried in a conversation becomes structured pages and tiles in your workspace.
Manage tasks
Your assistant can create, update, list, and delete tasks — including setting due dates, priorities, and assignees. If you manage your to-dos in xTiles, you can do it entirely from the chat.
Available actions:
Create tasks — Add one or more tasks at once.
Update a task — Change the due date, priority, assignee, or status of an existing task.
List tasks — Retrieve your task list, with optional filters.
Get a single task — Look up a specific task by ID.
Delete tasks — Remove tasks by ID.
Example prompts:
"Create a task 'Review landing page mockup' due Thursday, assigned to me."
"Move the 'Send invoice' task to next Monday and set it to high priority."
"What tasks do I have due this week?"
"Show me all open tasks in the 'Product Launch' project."
Tasks with a due date automatically appear in My Planner and Calendar, so you can see them under the right dates. You can also assign a task to a specific xTiles project, which adds it to that project's Task Collection.
Edit existing content
Your assistant can update pages that already have content — finding and replacing text, changing descriptions, or rearranging tile layouts.
Available actions:
Edit page content — Uses find-and-replace to update specific text on a page without rewriting the whole thing.
Set page description — Adds or changes the description shown at the top of a page.
Change page layout — Repositions tiles on a page grid.
Style tiles — Applies or changes colors on individual tiles.
Reset tile styles — Clears custom colors from tiles.
Example prompts:
"On my 'Brand Guidelines' page, replace 'old logo URL' with 'new logo URL'."
"Set the description of my 'Sprint 12' page to 'June 16–27, focus on onboarding flow.'"
"Make the header tile on my 'Dashboard' page blue."
Search and discover
Your assistant can search across your workspace to find projects, pages, and people — so you don't have to dig through it yourself.
Available actions:
Search projects — Full-text search across all project names and content.
List all projects — Returns every workspace and project you have access to.
Search users — Find workspace members by name or email.
Get current user — Returns your own profile info (name, email, ID).
Get user timezone — Returns your timezone and current local time.
Example prompts:
"Find any project that mentions 'rebranding'."
"Who's in my workspace?"
Check your calendar
If you have Google Calendar or Outlook connected to xTiles, your assistant can also pull calendar events.
Available action:
List calendar events — Shows events from calendars connected to your xTiles account.
Example prompt:
"What meetings do I have tomorrow?"
Note: This reads events from calendars connected in xTiles (Settings → Integrations), not from a separate calendar MCP connection.
Run pre-built workflows
xTiles includes ready-to-use workflows (called Skills) that combine multiple MCP actions into a single automated routine. Connect once, then run them with one prompt.
Available workflows:
Daily Brief — Pulls meetings, messages, and open items from your connected apps into a morning summary tile on your daily planner page.
Evening Reflection — Reviews your day across apps and chat history, writes a summary tile with key decisions and seeds actions for tomorrow.
Weekly Review — Turns the week's activity into a recap on your Weekly page: accomplishments, patterns, and priorities for next week.
Today News — Searches the web for your topics and writes a source-linked news digest to your daily page.
Each workflow may need additional connectors (Slack, Gmail, Google Calendar) alongside xTiles. Your assistant will ask you to connect them if they're missing.
Browse all workflows at xtiles.app/en/skills.
What MCP can't do (yet)
A few things your assistant can't handle through MCP today:
Delete projects or pages — You can delete tasks, but removing entire projects or pages must be done in xTiles directly.
Edit collections — Your assistant can read collections and pull data from them, but creating or editing collections is not yet supported. Use xTiles to make changes.
Upload files or images — MCP works with text content. To add images or attachments, use xTiles directly.
Change workspace settings — Account settings, billing, and member permissions are managed in xTiles, not through MCP.
Access other people's private content — Your assistant only sees what your xTiles account can see. Nothing crosses permission boundaries.
The list of available actions is regularly updated as the integration evolves.
Full tool reference
Here's a complete list of every action the xTiles MCP server supports. Use it as a reference to see exactly what your assistant can and can't do. This list is regularly updated as new capabilities are added.
Tool name | What it does |
xtiles_create_project_from_markdown | Creates a new project from Markdown. # heading becomes the project title, ## becomes pages, ### becomes tiles. |
xtiles_create_view_from_markdown | Creates a new page inside an existing project from Markdown. |
xtiles_create_tiles_from_markdown_by_view | Adds tiles to an existing page. Content is added, not replaced. |
xtiles_create_tiles_from_markdown_in_my_planner | Adds tiles to your personal planner for a specific day, week, or month. |
xtiles_create_tiles_from_markdown_in_project_planner | Adds tiles to a shared project planner for a specific period. |
xtiles_create_tasks | Creates one or more tasks with optional due date, priority, and assignees. |
xtiles_update_task | Updates a task's title, due date, priority, assignees, or completed status. |
xtiles_delete_tasks | Permanently deletes one or more tasks by ID. |
xtiles_get_task | Retrieves a single task by ID. |
xtiles_list_tasks | Lists tasks with filters: completed status, date range, priority. Supports sorting and pagination. |
xtiles_list_projects | Lists all workspaces and projects the user has access to. |
xtiles_search_projects | Full-text search across project titles and content. |
xtiles_get_project_content | Reads the combined content of a project (all pages). Supports pagination. |
xtiles_get_view_content | Reads the content of a specific page. For collections, returns the schema. |
xtiles_patch_view_content | Edits a page in place using find-and-replace. All changes apply at once. |
xtiles_set_page_description | Sets or clears the description shown under a page title. |
xtiles_get_content_by_link | Opens any xTiles URL and shows the content behind it (page, tile, or copy-link). |
xtiles_get_planner_content | Reads personal or project planner content for a given period. |
xtiles_get_collection_content | Fetches rows from a collection (database view) as structured data. |
xtiles_list_calendar_events | Lists events from Google/Outlook calendars connected in xTiles. Read-only. |
xtiles_get_page_layout | Reads the grid layout of a page: tile positions and sizes. |
xtiles_set_page_layout | Repositions and resizes tiles on a page grid. |
xtiles_get_tile_styles | Reads palette colors and color variants for every tile on a page. |
xtiles_set_tile_styles | Applies or changes palette colors on tiles. |
xtiles_reset_tile_styles | Clears palette colors from tiles. |
xtiles_search_users | Searches workspace members by name or email. |
xtiles_get_current_user | Returns the authenticated user's profile (id, name, email). |
xtiles_get_user_timezone | Returns the user's timezone and current local time. |
xtiles_get_docs | Fetches xTiles Markdown syntax guides (used internally by the AI to format content correctly). |
xtiles_list_workflows | Lists all available pre-built workflows with IDs and descriptions. |
xtiles_get_workflow | Fetches a specific workflow's step-by-step instructions. |
xtiles_create_notification | Sends an in-app notification summarizing what the AI did while you were away. |