(Yet Another) AI Coach - Montis.icu

[Clive_King]

It should be there - if not it has fallen though the gaps; will take a look.

edit they are in Micro report ; Physiology (easy to miss) and now also full wellness report; recovery markers

fyi, they display the subjective markers for the current day.

ps. also updated https://wellness.montis.icu/

[Clive_King]

supernice update to https://wellness.montis.icu that allows you to capture your daily subjective updates. Works well on touchscreens, touch and drag your update.

Clive

[R_M]

Yes, Claude is for me the first choice when things start to get technical.

I am a loyal OpenAI user from day 1, but Claude is just too good for day by day business use.

[Clive_King]

Montis check-in: four ways to use Montis today, three soon

Hi everyone,

A quick check-in with all Montis users, and a heads-up on a change coming for ChatGPT.

Four ways to use Montis today

All four use the same Intervals.icu sign-in and the same Montis analysis underneath, so pick whichever fits how you like to work. They’re all linked from montis.icu/app.

1. Montis Wellness: a daily recovery score and readiness view built from your sleep, HRV, resting HR and training load in Intervals.icu, with 42 days of history. You can also log a quick daily check-in (fatigue, stress, soreness, mood, motivation, injury, hydration) plus your weight and nutrition, and it saves straight back to Intervals.icu. Free, with no AI account or API key needed.
2. Montis App: the full browser app with Gemini coaching, including reports, dashboards, calendar and workout tools, activity analysis and coached-athlete access. Use your own free or pay-as-you-go Gemini key, or subscribe for the included Gemini allowance.
3. ChatGPT (Custom GPT): Montis coaching inside ChatGPT, with weekly, wellness, season and summary reports, calendar work and guided training decisions.
4. Claude (MCP connector + Skills): connect Claude straight to Montis, then add the montis-coaching and montis-plan-builder Skills for the full coaching method and block-periodised plans. Full steps are in the setup guide. The connection details are:

Server URL: https://montis.icu/mcp
OAuth client ID: intervals-mcp

Why it’s going to three

OpenAI is retiring Custom GPTs on 11 December 2026 and moving ChatGPT to apps and Skills (OpenAI’s FAQ). Custom GPT actions, which are how the Montis GPT talks to Montis, don’t carry over, so the GPT can’t simply be migrated.

Montis already runs as an MCP server (it’s what Claude uses), so ChatGPT will move onto that same connection:

• The Montis ChatGPT app is built and submitted to OpenAI, waiting for review.
• The Montis Skills are ready for ChatGPT as well.
• The Claude connector has also been submitted to Anthropic’s directory (again), - the only difference is that you dont need to enter the client ID manually (once).

After that, ChatGPT and Claude become one option, with the same tools, the same Skills and the same sign-in:

1. Montis Wellness
2. Montis App
3. Montis in ChatGPT or Claude (MCP + Skills)

What you need to do

Nothing yet. The Custom GPT keeps working for now, and I’ll post switch-over steps here as soon as the ChatGPT app is approved.

If you’d like to try the MCP route today, Claude works now as does ChatGPT in dev mode=on as a personal Plugin, however Skills may not be available in all plans for uploading, OpenAI documentation is out of date here, as I know it is seen in some plans already.

Thanks for all the feedback so far. It shapes every release.

Clive

[b3nschiii]

Hey Clive, one question.
Do you know if I can install all of these skills and mcp connections on a VPS where Claude Code is hosted? I would love to connect the Montis MCP with my local files / a github, where claude code could directly interact and work with.
I think this should work right?

[Clive_King]

@b3nschiii

Do you know if I can install all of these skills and mcp connections on a VPS where Claude Code is hosted? I would love to connect the Montis MCP with my local files / a github, where claude code could directly interact and work with.
I think this should work right?

yes, this would work like a regular Claude.ai does, you are rate limited to 30calls/min.

[Clive_King]

Coaching update: invite links, coach branding and more

Coaching in Montis has had a big update. The short version: no more Coached_Athletes folder. You now invite athletes with a one-time link.

Invite an athlete

1. Open montis.icu/app → Coaching tab.
2. Press Create invite link. You can add a private note, e.g. “Anna – marathon”. Only you see it.
3. Send the link yourself (WhatsApp, email, text). Montis doesn’t send anything.
4. Your athlete opens it, signs in with Intervals.icu and presses Accept and share. They then appear under Your athletes.

Each link works once, for one athlete, for 14 days. New to Intervals.icu? The invite page walks them through it. You can plan workouts straight away; reports need about a week of training.

Already using the folder?

Nothing breaks. Your folder athletes have been moved over automatically and show as Moved to Montis. When the banner on the Coaching tab says so, you can delete the folder in Intervals.icu. Anyone marked Folder only needs an invite first.

Who needs what

• Coach: an active Montis Subscriber membership (your Intervals.icu email must match your membership email).
• Athletes: free.

Athletes stay in control

• Athletes see who can see their data under Your coaches at montis.icu/app, and can Stop sharing at any time.
• Athletes never see other athletes or your roster.

Coach branding

Upload your logo, add your website and pick a brand colour on the Coaching tab. They show on:

• your invite page
• your athletes’ “Coached by” in the Montis App
• the Coach Cockpit and coaching workflow in the Montis App
• the emails you send from the Montis App

Where to use your athletes

• Claude (MCP): all coaching tools, including the Coach Cockpit.
• ChatGPT: ask about an athlete by name or ID.
• Montis App: Coach Roster, Coach Cockpit and the coaching workflow.

Also new

• A refreshed App Hub at montis.icu/app.
• Search in the Montis App Help.

Full guide (PDF): Coaching athletes with Montis.icu. It’s also in the Montis App under Help → Coached Athletes Setup.

Feedback welcome, especially from coaches trying it with new athletes.

Clive

P.s. There is now an entire Help section for Coaching also with links to PDFs.

[Clive_King]

Montis 101, now staring in cinemas near you

After great amount of script writing and scene editing (not again in a hurry), I’ve added some 101 Montis videos to the website.

https://www.montis.icu/#101

and for the coaches; an explainer for setup

https://www.montis.icu/coaches

Br

Clive

[ohmax]

You look good on the videos

[Bart_Zurings]

Hi Clive,

I really appreciate the adaptive decision engine. However, the current “Adaptive Decision” messages are often difficult to interpret in a practical, training‑day context.

Would it be possible to make these decisions more concrete or actionable?
For example: instead of “Maintain Training Structure” or “Overridden by Phase”, it would help to receive a short, explicit instruction such as:

• what this means for today’s training,

• whether I should keep the planned session, adjust it, or reduce load,

• do i have to change planned workouts in de the next days

• and why the system recommends that choice.

In other words, a brief “operational translation” of the adaptive decision would make it much easier to understand how the underlying metrics (readiness, load trend, recovery, phase governance, etc.) should influence my training on that specific day.

Thanks in advance — I really like the system, and clearer decision outputs would make it even more valuable.

or if i’m just stupid you can also say it

[Filippo]

@Bart_Zurings

I really appreciate the adaptive decision engine. However, the current “Adaptive Decision” messages are often difficult to interpret in a practical, training‑day context.

I second that!

sometimes I don’t understand what’s Montis’ advice so I end up doing what was planned or what I want to do

also the red color in the ADE card is confusing me too

[Clive_King]

@Bart_Zurings

I really appreciate the adaptive decision engine. However, the current “Adaptive Decision” messages are often difficult to interpret in a practical, training‑day context.

Would it be possible to make these decisions more concrete or actionable?
For example: instead of “Maintain Training Structure” or “Overridden by Phase”, it would help to receive a short, explicit instruction such as:

• what this means for today’s training,

• whether I should keep the planned session, adjust it, or reduce load,

• do i have to change planned workouts in de the next days

• and why the system recommends that choice.

In other words, a brief “operational translation” of the adaptive decision would make it much easier to understand how the underlying metrics (readiness, load trend, recovery, phase governance, etc.) should influence my training on that specific day.

Thanks in advance — I really like the system, and clearer decision outputs would make it even more valuable.

I will explain to you both soon, and will make it easier by asking it to provide answer to this question:

“What does this decision mean for today’s training: keep the planned session, adjust it or reduce it? Do the planned sessions in the next few days need to change? And why?”

which is actually all you need to ask after the report in GPT or MCP clients. In app.montis.icu I will also include the answer to this.

[Clive_King]

Update for ChatGPT and MCP I’ve added “What next?” this replaces the reflection and prompt questions for a weekly report.

ChatGPT

and Claude

Montis app changes: AI Coach chat will see What Next also and also now available in UI.

Clive

[ogni65]

Hi i have a plus plan at ChatGPT and it seems that i can not use the MCP with that plan as today i wanted to integrate it into a health project of mine. I use also icuvisor but that can only read not modify. ChatGPT was asking for a plugin but there is none. Is this planned?

Thanks and i was very surprised to find out just yet about your solution. I hooked it up to intervals.icu and at first the App is overwhelming. I used ChatGPT and it looks like i have to manually interact between my health project and your App , so if my health has changed, i like to modify my training plan, which syncs from Training Peaks at the moment.

[Clive_King]

Hi ogni65,

Sadly, the way OpenAI has implemented Personal MCP today is a little more convoluted but as soon as the OpenAI migration is approved from GPT to MCP it will be just a Publicly available Plugin and easily accessible ; you can do this manually today by:

In ChatGPT, you have to enable Developer mode

Then add the MCP version in Plugins:

Then add this info and click “Create”

It will then prompt to sign in and you can refresh tools.

Clive

P.s. The UI version has plenty of data for sure and can like TP, feel a little complex first time, it isn’t honestly, do have a look at the 101 videos on the website, understand the five tiers in the intelligence stack, then its more about ‘am I doing the right thing’. I will do more videos in time (urgh) as there are some gems in the UI that need to be explored, like SIL, TEA (for runners), Performance Progression → AI Plan Builder and Readiness. To get the best from Montis its designed to inform AI to provide the narrative, and not make decision where there are gaps. That was the goal from day 1 when we found out that giving AI raw data by MCP is unreliable.

Thank you for your support.

[Clive_King]

Change Note v5.4.119 RELEASE · Issue #68 · revo2wheels/intervalsicugptcoach-public

Montis 5.4.119 turns each weekly report into a practical “What next plan for today” and the coming days, and brings clearer intensity figures: Seiler week type, a corrected Treff index and ZQI. The engine now checks race-day form for every A race and gives a fairer heat-strain picture. Help is now published at www.montis.icu/help, with 14 new pages.

Br

Clive

[Clive_King]

Interim update:

Upgraded https://wellness.montis.icu to be more mobile friendly and visualise the feedback of your subjective input against your wellness data.

[Clive_King]

Interim update: SIL in https://app.montis.icu

What’s new in SIL:

• session grade card;
• calmer Metrics tab;
• compact mobile header;
• same compact ride card on every tab.

[Clive_King]

Hi All,

If you havent see this new interval feature, i recommend you take a closer look, it’s a premium intervals supporters feature and is very useful for tracking submaximal fatigue.

Automatic Submaximal Fatigue Testing - New Features - Intervals.icu Forum

Will now appear in a SIL tab in Montis also when #sft is applicable for a ride.

Clive

[Clive_King]

New for Montis Subscribers: AI Coach chat history on all your devices

Your AI Coach chats now follow you from device to device.

• A chat history sits next to the AI Coach: a column on wider screens, and a History button on phones.
• Open any chat on your phone, laptop or tablet and carry on where you left off.
• New chat starts fresh, and older chats stay in the list. You can delete any chat.
• Messages are kept for 55 days. The chat itself is kept by Google’s Gemini service: Montis stores only the chat IDs, never the chat text.
• Using your own Gemini key? Your chats stay on each device, as before (No chat history is available for Free plans)
  
  

Also new this week:

• The app also now correctly shows your Intervals units in Imperial or Metric everywhere: Units (Metric and Imperial) — Montis Help
• A Fatigue Test tab in the Session Intensity Lab, for rides with an Intervals.icu fatigue test.

v5.4.120 Full list: Change Note 3–4 October 2026 (AI Coach chat history · Units · Workout Builder · SIL · Wellness) · Issue #69 · revo2wheels/intervalsicugptcoach-public · GitHub

Clive