# Planning with Instinct? How to get your friends to actually show up AI agents · https://lfg.gm/instinct-plans-with-friends · Updated 2026-10-16 Instinct is a personal AI agent you text or call, and it can now coordinate plans with the agents of people you trust, and join a group chat to help plan a trip, a carpool or who brings what. The plan is the easy part. Getting everyone to actually show up is where LFG Alarm comes in: one social alarm, shared as a link in the same group chat, rings every phone that joined at the moment it matters. LFG Alarm is not affiliated with Instinct. This page is about using the two together. ## What Instinct does for plans As of October 2026, Instinct describes itself as "a personal assistant that understands what you're working on and what's important to you", and you use it by text or by phone call. Its privacy policy lists Google Workspace connections such as Gmail and Calendar. It has a "Trusted Person network", where your Instinct coordinates plans with the Instincts of people you trust, and on 5 October 2026 it announced group chats in early access, where a new Instinct joins and works for the whole group, even for friends without an account. That covers picking the date, the place and who is coming. ## What it does not do: ring anyone A plan in a group chat is still a message. On the day, it is one notification among hundreds, and a reply in a thread does not wake anyone up or get them out the door. That is the gap an alarm fills. ## Three plans, from Instinct's chat to everyone's phone **The carpool to the lake.** Six friends are driving to a lake house on Saturday. In the group chat, Instinct works out that two cars leave from Maya's at 8:00 and who sits where. Maya then makes one LFG Alarm alarm for 7:15 on Saturday called "Cars leave Maya's at 8" and drops the link in the same chat. Everyone who taps it is riding. At 7:15 six phones ring, and the [wake board](https://lfg.gm/wiki/wake-board) shows that Theo has not tapped I'm up, so someone calls him at 7:20, not 8:05. **Who brings what.** For a potluck on Sunday at 1:00, Instinct keeps the list: Ines brings bread, Kai brings the salad. The list is the plan; the alarm is the moment. A friends alarm at 11:30 called "Potluck 1pm, bring your dish" rings everyone with time to stop at a shop, and the creator's note repeats who brings what. **The trip with a dawn start.** Instinct settles a 6:00 hike meeting point. A one-off alarm at 5:15 with a siren and the Drill sergeant voice is the part that gets people out of bed. Snooze is each person's own setting, and the board counts every snooze. ## How to use them together 1. **Let Instinct settle the plan** in your group chat: the date, the time, the place. 2. **Make an LFG Alarm alarm for it.** Set it as a heads-up: two hours before a night out, so people start getting ready, or at the start of something online, so everyone hops on at once. 3. **Drop the alarm link in the same chat**, `lfg.gm/a/`. Everyone who taps it and joins is riding the alarm. 4. **When it rings, it rings everyone** in the same second, with the song or hype video you picked, and the wake board shows who answered first. A time alarm is a real alarm on both phones: through silent mode and Focus on iPhone, full screen on Android even when the phone is locked. Instinct can make the alarm itself once LFG Alarm is connected: send it LFG Alarm's docs and MCP server address once, and sign in. See [Connect LFG Alarm to Instinct](https://lfg.gm/agents/instinct). Claude, ChatGPT, Grok and other AI agents connect the same way; see [Using LFG Alarm from your AI agent](https://lfg.gm/wiki/ai-agents). **Try this.** Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or another AI agent that has the LFG Alarm connector (https://mcp.lfg.gm), not into the LFG Alarm app. The person needs the LFG Alarm app on their phone. > Use LFG Alarm to make a friends alarm for 5:00pm this Saturday called "Dinner at Sol, 7pm", with "DINNER AT 7" drawn on the wallpaper, and give me the link to post in our group chat. Why it works: Asked of Instinct once LFG Alarm is connected, it turns the plan it just settled into one link the whole chat can join, ringing two hours before the reservation. ## Questions ### Does LFG Alarm connect to Instinct? Yes. Send Instinct LFG Alarm's docs and MCP server address once, sign in, and it can make alarms for you. See [Connect LFG Alarm to Instinct](https://lfg.gm/agents/instinct). ### Do my friends need Instinct? No. To be rung they need the free LFG Alarm app, on iPhone or Android. ### Can Instinct set the alarm itself? Yes, once it is connected. Ask it to make the alarm and post the link in the chat. See [Connect LFG Alarm to Instinct](https://lfg.gm/agents/instinct). ### Why an alarm and not another message? Because a message waits to be read and an alarm rings. And people who join it chose to, so it reads as a real yes. ## Sources and further reading - [Instinct](https://instinct.com/) - [Instinct privacy policy](https://instinct.com/privacy-policy) - [TechCrunch: Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/instinct-brings-its-ai-agent-to-group-chats-even-for-friends-without-an-account/) ## Keep exploring - [Connect LFG Alarm to your AI app](https://lfg.gm/agents.md): The LFG Alarm MCP server: set alarms from ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, OpenClaw and more, and they ring on your phone. - [Connect LFG Alarm to ChatGPT](https://lfg.gm/agents/chatgpt.md): Add LFG Alarm to ChatGPT with the address mcp.lfg.gm, sign in once, and ask ChatGPT to set alarms that ring on your phone. - [Connect LFG Alarm to Claude](https://lfg.gm/agents/claude.md): Add LFG Alarm to Claude as a custom connector, sign in once, and ask Claude to set alarms that ring on your phone. Claude Code too. - [Connect LFG Alarm to Grok](https://lfg.gm/agents/grok.md): Add LFG Alarm to Grok as a custom connector, sign in once, and ask Grok to set alarms that ring on your phone. - [Connect LFG Alarm to Gemini](https://lfg.gm/agents/gemini.md): Add LFG Alarm to Gemini as a custom app, sign in once, and ask Gemini to set alarms that ring on your phone. - [Connect LFG Alarm to Perplexity](https://lfg.gm/agents/perplexity.md): Add LFG Alarm to Perplexity as a custom remote connector, sign in once, and ask Perplexity to set alarms. ## About LFG Alarm LFG Alarm is a social alarm clock for iPhone, iPad and Android. It rings for times and for moments (a post on X, a stream going live, a token price, a wallet buying, an event starting), and one shared link makes every phone that joined ring together. Rocco, the cat inside the app, does the watching and the waking. - Get it on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gm.lfg.app - Download on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6821089085 - Use it from an AI agent: add the MCP server https://mcp.lfg.gm as a connector, then ask in plain words. - Every page for agents: https://lfg.gm/llms.txt