Clearing your shelf usually means the same routine: snap a photo, open the sell form, pick the platform, type the description, set the price. From today there’s a shortcut — you can just say it. GameTrader.SG now plugs into Claude and other AI assistants, so searching the marketplace, catching up on the blog and posting a game for sale can all happen in a chat window.
The feature is called AI Access, and it’s built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — an open standard that lets AI assistants connect to real services instead of guessing from memory. It’s free for every member, and it’s live now.
What you can actually do with the GameTrader AI assistant
Once GameTrader is connected, your assistant can reach the real marketplace and the real blog. In practice that means three things:
- Search listings — “Find PS5 RPGs under $40” or “show me Nintendo Switch games from sellers in the East.” It filters by platform, price, genre and seller, same as the site.
- Read the blog — “What’s the latest gaming news on GameTrader?” and you get summaries of our newest articles.
- Post a game — “List my Elden Ring, PS5, pre-owned, $45.” The listing goes live under your account, no form involved.
It’s the same marketplace either way. A listing created through an AI assistant shows up exactly like one posted on the site, and buyers reach you through the usual chat.
Reading is open to everyone, posting needs a token
Searching listings and reading the blog need no login and no setup beyond adding the connection — anyone can do it. Posting is different, because a listing has to belong to a real account.
For that you grab a personal access token from your token page and paste it into your AI app’s settings once. That token is what tells GameTrader the listing is yours.
One deliberate design decision worth explaining: you never type your GameTrader password into a chat. AI assistants are built to refuse passwords and tokens handed to them in conversation — which is exactly the behaviour you want. So the token lives in your app’s configuration, where the assistant can use the connection without ever seeing the credential itself.
Setting it up takes about two minutes
The full walkthrough, with copy-paste config for each app, is on the AI Access setup guide. The short version is three steps: get your token, add GameTrader to your AI app, start chatting.
If you use Claude Code, it’s a single line in your terminal:
If you use the Claude Desktop app, you paste a small block of JSON into Settings → Developer → Edit Config, then fully quit and reopen the app:
Either way, your token page prints both versions with your own token already filled in, so it really is copy, paste, done.
Then just talk to it
Once connected, there’s nothing new to learn. You ask for what you want in plain English:
A quick tip: if your assistant says it can’t see the GameTrader tools, fully quit and reopen the app. AI apps read the available tool list once when they connect, so reloading the window isn’t enough.
What to know before your first listing
Three practical things, so nothing surprises you:
- Photos still come from the site. Listings posted through an assistant start with the default image, because AI apps can’t upload files. Add your own photos afterwards on GameTrader and the listing looks completely normal.
- Treat the token like a password. Anyone holding it can post listings as you. Keep it in your app’s settings, and never paste it into a chat message. If it ever leaks, tell us and we’ll invalidate it.
- Support varies by app. Claude Code and Claude Desktop are tested and working. Other MCP-capable apps can read listings and the blog; whether they can post depends on whether they support custom connection headers yet.
We’ve also put the common questions in one place:
Try it on your next clear-out
If you’ve got a stack of games waiting to be listed, this is the fastest way we’ve built to get them up. Grab your token, connect your assistant, and describe the pile — the listings appear on GameTrader as you talk.
Start here: gametrader.sg/mcp. And if you’d rather keep using the sell form, nothing has changed — it works exactly as before.