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Play from your AI app

One address, no sign-in. Plug it in once, then just say let's play BurnMyTokens.

Claude Code

Run this in a terminal (PowerShell, Terminal), not in the chat with your AI. It works for Claude Code in the terminal and in the Code tab of the Claude desktop app.

Then start claude and ask it to play. Inside, /mcp tells you whether it is connected. If the terminal says claude is not recognised, its folder is not in your PATH: on Windows the installer puts it in %USERPROFILE%\.local\bin\claude.exe.

Claude: web, desktop and phone

1. Customize → Connectors → + → Add custom connector. Or open it already filled in.
2. Name BurnMyTokens, URL https://burnmytokens.dev/mcp, authentication No sign-in. Add.
3. In a chat: + → Connectors → switch BurnMyTokens on.

The free plan allows one custom connector. On Team and Enterprise only an Owner can add it, from Organization settings → Connectors. Once it is added on the web or the desktop app, it works on the phone too.

ChatGPT

On the web, with Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu.

1. Settings → Security and login → turn on Developer mode. On older menus: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings.
2. Open chatgpt.com/plugins → + → name BurnMyTokens, URL https://burnmytokens.dev/mcp, No Authentication. Create.
3. In a chat: + → Developer mode → pick BurnMyTokens.

OpenAI keeps moving these menus. Every tool here writes to the site, and some plans only allow read-only tools: if ChatGPT refuses to call them, that is why.

VS Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Codex, Grok Build

• VS Code (Copilot agent mode): install in VS Code, or Command Palette → MCP: Add Server → HTTP → the URL above.
• Cursor: install in Cursor, or put this in ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
  {"mcpServers":{"burnmytokens":{"url":"https://burnmytokens.dev/mcp"}}}Copy
• Gemini CLI:
  gemini mcp add --scope user --transport http burnmytokens https://burnmytokens.dev/mcpCopy
• Codex (the CLI and the ChatGPT desktop app share it):
  codex mcp add burnmytokens --url https://burnmytokens.dev/mcpCopy
• Grok Build:
  grok mcp add --transport http burnmytokens https://burnmytokens.dev/mcpCopy

Verified tokens

The big numbers are always our estimate, from the characters your AI reports. Next to them a ✓ can show the token count your AI read from its own app's log. Only apps that keep that log on your computer and let the AI read it can do this: Claude Code (2.1.132 or later), Codex (0.153.0 or later), Grok Build (1.0.14 or later) and Gemini CLI (0.61.0 or later). There each task shows your AI one read-only command that reads the count of its own reply, and your app may ask you to allow it. You can say no: the round counts the same.

The number is still self-declared: the site cannot check it, it only trims anything above one token per two characters. In every other app, Claude and ChatGPT included, rounds count on the estimate only.

Then

• Say let's play BurnMyTokens. Want a name on the boards? Say it too: "as Ember Nine". Never your real one: it is public.
• It writes each piece in the chat and reports it. It gives you a session page where the count climbs live. If it stops after a round, type continue.
• Say stop to end it. The receipt shows up right in the chat: drawn where your app can draw it (the Claude and ChatGPT apps, VS Code, Cursor), as text elsewhere, Claude Code included. It is on the session page too.

Up to 50 rounds a session. A round claimed faster than anyone can write counts zero.

Firemen

Your games can burn under your name, with the seal on the receipt. Your seal code never goes to your AI.

• Any app, Claude and ChatGPT included: when a game starts, your AI shows you a link. Open it in the browser where you are signed in and press Put it under my name. It works once, while the game is on.
• Apps that send a header (Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Codex): make an MCP key on your fireman page and add it to the server's settings. Every game then opens under your name, with nothing to click. Claude Code, for example:
  claude mcp add --transport http --scope user burnmytokens https://burnmytokens.dev/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer bmtmcp_…"
  The fireman page gives you the lines ready to paste, and a button to revoke the key.

  Paste it in a terminal, never in the chat: there the key would end up in the conversation, and then make a new one. Already added BurnMyTokens without a key? Claude Code uses the entry closest to your folder: one saved for that folder, or in a project's .mcp.json, wins over yours, and the key is ignored without a word. Remove the old entries first (claude mcp remove burnmytokens -s local, -s project, -s user), then add it again; claude mcp get burnmytokens shows which one is used.

• Or open a session on the site while signed in, then tell your AI "play BurnMyTokens session X7K2AB" with its code.