---
title: "Personal integrations and private sessions"
description: "Keep a session to yourself, and connect an integration as yourself with a personal MCP server."
---

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# Personal integrations and private sessions

A private session is visible only to you; by default, sessions are visible to everyone in your
organization. Personal integrations rely on private sessions, so the two work together.

## Make a session private

Open the share control in the session header and make the session private. Only you can see it
afterward.

> **Caution**
>
> Making a session private is permanent. Anyone viewing it loses access, and you can't make it
> organization-visible again.

Some sessions are private automatically:

- A direct message with Indent in Slack.
- Any session that runs on your computer in the [desktop app](/working-locally/desktop).

Slack channel threads stay visible to your organization.

## Organization and personal integrations

Every integration connects at one of two scopes:

- **Organization** — shared with your team. Indent connects with a shared account, and anyone in the
  organization can use it.
- **Personal** — yours alone. Indent connects as you, with your own account, and only you can see or
  use it.

Only MCP servers can be personal. GitHub, Slack, and databases are always organization-scoped.

## Connect a personal integration

Go to
[**Settings → Integrations → Personal**](https://app.indent.com/settings/integrations/personal) and
connect the tool or custom MCP server. You authorize it with your own account, and Indent acts with
your access rather than the team's.

## Use a personal integration in a session

Open the integrations picker in a session. It has three tabs: **All**, **Shared**, and **Personal**.
When you select a personal integration, Indent makes the session private first, because personal
integrations work only in private sessions.

For how scope and visibility affect what Indent can reach, see
[Permissions and data](/administration/permissions-and-data).

Source: https://docs.indent.com/collaborating/personal-and-private/index.mdx