Insight Timer

MCP server openai

Used by 32 million people worldwide. Explore the world's largest free library of meditation, sleep tracks, music, breathwork, and spiritual talks — now available inside ChatGPT.

Ask ChatGPT to find guided meditations, Yoga Nidra, ambient soundscapes, breathwork sessions, mindfulness teachings, or videos instantly.

Use Insight Timer when you want something specific, fast. For example:

"5-minute guided meditation"
"Yoga Nidra session"
"Ambient sound for work"
"Paced breathing practice"
"Nature sounds"
"Buddhist talk on compassion"
"Meditation video for beginners"

What you can explore:

Guided meditation sessions
Relaxation and wind-down audio
Breathwork practices
Music, ambient sound, and nature soundscapes
Talks and teachings across mindfulness and contemplative traditions
Video sessions and visual teachings
Secular meditation and spiritual content, including Buddhism and beyond

Refine your results by:

Duration (5 minutes, 20 minutes, etc.)
Teacher
Language
Voice preference
Type (guided, music, talk)
Format (audio, video)
"More like this"

All recommendations come directly from Insight Timer's free meditation, audio, and video library.

This integration provides content discovery only. It does not provide medical, psychological, or therapeutic services.

Homepage: https://insighttimer.com
Remote URL: https://chatgpt-api.insighttimer-api.net/mcp
Auth: NONE

Tools (2)

Extracted live via the executor SDK.

search_content

Use this when the user wants to find or explore meditation, spiritual, or wellbeing-themed audio or video content to listen to or watch. Insight Timer has the world's largest free meditation library with 280,000+ tracks covering guided meditations, dharma talks, and meditation music for themes such as relaxation, mindfulness, spiritual practice, contemplative traditions, personal growth, and more.

This tool provides audio content discovery only. It does not provide medical, psychological, or therapeutic services, and it does not process health information.The tool does not interpret, assess, or respond to users' medical or psychological conditions.
IMPORTANT PLAYBACK RULE:- This tool ONLY searches and renders results. Never say you are "playing" audio or that playback has started.- After results render, tell the user to "Tap the Play button on a card to start listening."- If users ask for teacher / app / track link, give them the track link and don't hallucinate a separate profile link.
TRIGGER THIS TOOL FOR:- Explicit Insight Timer requests ("Find a meditation on Insight Timer")- Meditation/mindfulness listening intent ("find a body scan meditation", "sleep meditation", "play calming music")- Topic-based discovery for meditation or audio themes ("anxiety meditation", "stress relief music", "grief meditation", "focus music")- Spiritual and religious learning/practice ("Buddhist teachings", "Christian contemplative prayer", "Hindu mantras")- Learning about meditation practices through content ("teach me about mindfulness", "learn yoga nidra")
DO NOT USE FOR:- Pure educational/factual questions ChatGPT can answer directly ("What are the scientifically proven benefits of meditation?", "Explain the neuroscience of mindfulness")- Custom content generation ("Write me a personalized meditation script", "Create a guided visualization for my therapy session")- Product/feature comparisons or pricing questions ("Compare Insight Timer vs Headspace features")- In-person experiences, travel, or events (retreats, workshops, classes, teacher trainings; e.g., "Yoga retreats")- If the user asks for retreats, guide them to search on https://insighttimer.com/retreats instead of calling this tool.- If the user asks for meditation courses, guide them to search on https://insighttimer.com/meditation-courses instead of calling this tool.- Custom retreat planning or itineraries, including at-home/multi-day plans (e.g., "Build a 1-day or 3-day Insight Timer home retreat")- Workout or practice planning/programs (e.g., "Create a 7-day Hatha/Vinyasa yoga plan")- Task management (reminders, scheduling, tracking: "Set a meditation reminder", "How many hours have I meditated?")- Physical space design ("How do I design a meditation room?")- General life advice without meditation or audio content-discovery intent- Pure technique instruction without requesting audio content (e.g., "Give me breathing steps only") unless the user clearly wants a track to follow- Nonsense, filler, or low-signal input with no meaningful intent- Situations where clarification is needed before recommending content (ask a follow-up instead of triggering the tool)- Ambiguous statements where the user has not expressed a clear desire to listen to meditation, spiritual, or wellbeing-themed audio
AFTER RESULTS RENDER:- ALWAYS mention "Tap the Play button on a card to start listening." in the final response if the response have results.- Briefly describe each of the top 3 returned cards in 1 short line each (what it's for, voice/tradition/length if relevant).- Show the top 3 results in this exact 5-line format per item (no bullets, no extra labels):  <track title>  <number of plays> Plays • <duration in minutes> mins  by <publisher/teacher name>  <personalized 1-2 sentence description that references the user's stated need or context>  Link: <track_link>- If the user asked for more than the available results, explicitly say you can return only N tracks right now (use the actual number returned) and offer to fetch more.- After listing the 3 items, ask which one they want to start with.
LIMITATION:- Each tool call returns at most 3 tracks per query.
PUBLISHER RULE:- If the user asks for a specific teacher/publisher, set publisherName and do NOT set voiceGender.- If the user only asks for a teacher/publisher with no topic, omit query.- If a search using BOTH query and publisherName returns no results, retry the tool call with ONLY publisherName (remove query).
RESTRICTION:- ONLY list tracks returned by the tool results. Do NOT invent, guess, or add extra tracks beyond the returned list.- Follow-up prompts must be limited to what this tool can do (e.g., ask which track to start with, or offer to fetch more results). Do not suggest playlist creation/curation, retreat/plan/itinerary prompts, or other planning follow-ups.

Returns audio items rendered as playable cards with metadata, descriptions, teacher info, and direct links (the user starts playback by tapping Play).

This tool provides audio content discovery only. It does not provide medical, psychological, or therapeutic services, and it does not process health information.The tool does not interpret, assess, or respond to users' medical or psychological conditions.
IMPORTANT PLAYBACK RULE:- This tool ONLY searches and renders results. Never say you are "playing" audio or that playback has started.- After results render, tell the user to "Tap the Play button on a card to start listening."- If users ask for teacher / app / track link, give them the track link and don't hallucinate a separate profile link.
TRIGGER THIS TOOL FOR:- Explicit Insight Timer requests ("Find a meditation on Insight Timer")- Meditation/mindfulness listening intent ("find a body scan meditation", "sleep meditation", "play calming music")- Topic-based discovery for meditation or audio themes ("anxiety meditation", "stress relief music", "grief meditation", "focus music")- Spiritual and religious learning/practice ("Buddhist teachings", "Christian contemplative prayer", "Hindu mantras")- Learning about meditation practices through content ("teach me about mindfulness", "learn yoga nidra")
DO NOT USE FOR:- Pure educational/factual questions ChatGPT can answer directly ("What are the scientifically proven benefits of meditation?", "Explain the neuroscience of mindfulness")- Custom content generation ("Write me a personalized meditation script", "Create a guided visualization for my therapy session")- Product/feature comparisons or pricing questions ("Compare Insight Timer vs Headspace features")- In-person experiences, travel, or events (retreats, workshops, classes, teacher trainings; e.g., "Yoga retreats")- If the user asks for retreats, guide them to search on https://insighttimer.com/retreats instead of calling this tool.- If the user asks for meditation courses, guide them to search on https://insighttimer.com/meditation-courses instead of calling this tool.- Custom retreat planning or itineraries, including at-home/multi-day plans (e.g., "Build a 1-day or 3-day Insight Timer home retreat")- Workout or practice planning/programs (e.g., "Create a 7-day Hatha/Vinyasa yoga plan")- Task management (reminders, scheduling, tracking: "Set a meditation reminder", "How many hours have I meditated?")- Physical space design ("How do I design a meditation room?")- General life advice without meditation or audio content-discovery intent- Pure technique instruction without requesting audio content (e.g., "Give me breathing steps only") unless the user clearly wants a track to follow- Nonsense, filler, or low-signal input with no meaningful intent- Situations where clarification is needed before recommending content (ask a follow-up instead of triggering the tool)- Ambiguous statements where the user has not expressed a clear desire to listen to meditation, spiritual, or wellbeing-themed audio
AFTER RESULTS RENDER:- ALWAYS mention "Tap the Play button on a card to start listening." in the final response if the response have results.- Briefly describe each of the top 3 returned cards in 1 short line each (what it's for, voice/tradition/length if relevant).- Show the top 3 results in this exact 5-line format per item (no bullets, no extra labels):  <track title>  <number of plays> Plays • <duration in minutes> mins  by <publisher/teacher name>  <personalized 1-2 sentence description that references the user's stated need or context>  Link: <track_link>- If the user asked for more than the available results, explicitly say you can return only N tracks right now (use the actual number returned) and offer to fetch more.- After listing the 3 items, ask which one they want to start with.
LIMITATION:- Each tool call returns at most 3 tracks per query.
PUBLISHER RULE:- If the user asks for a specific teacher/publisher, set publisherName and do NOT set voiceGender.- If the user only asks for a teacher/publisher with no topic, omit query.- If a search using BOTH query and publisherName returns no results, retry the tool call with ONLY publisherName (remove query).
RESTRICTION:- ONLY list tracks returned by the tool results. Do NOT invent, guess, or add extra tracks beyond the returned list.- Follow-up prompts must be limited to what this tool can do (e.g., ask which track to start with, or offer to fetch more results). Do not suggest playlist creation/curation, retreat/plan/itinerary prompts, or other planning follow-ups.

send_event

Send one or more events with specified parameters for analytics purposes.