# AI Interviews in Gemini: Create and Review Interviews From a Chat > Run AI interviews in Gemini with Tracy AI Interviewer: add the custom app, ask in a chat, approve the tool and read results with evidence. - URL: https://tracyinterview.ai/blog/tracy-gemini-integration - Published: 2026-11-13 - Author: Tracy team > **In short** **Tracy AI Interviewer** connects to Gemini as a custom MCP server, so you set up an interview, invite people and read results by asking in a chat. > > Tracy still runs the interview on video, with follow-ups on what each person says, and leaves a recording, transcript and assessment per question for you to decide from. > > The Gemini app takes it today only for a personal Google Account in the US; Gemini Enterprise is set up by an administrator. > > Next step: connect Gemini and draft one interview. Most teams already keep a Gemini tab open. Running AI interviews in Gemini means you stop opening a second tool to build an interview: you ask for it in the chat, Gemini calls Tracy AI Interviewer, and the answer comes back where you asked. Think of it as a Gemini recruiting assistant for setup and review, while Tracy does the interviewing. Google offers custom MCP servers in two chat places, the Gemini app and Gemini Enterprise, and each has its own steps. Gemini CLI, the command-line tool, connects the same server with its own commands. This page covers all three, in the order the guide gives them, and says where each one has limits. ## What you can ask Gemini to do MCP, the Model Context Protocol, is a standard way for an AI app to call tools in another service. Tracy publishes one at tracyinterview.ai/mcp, and the [Connect page](/connect) lists Gemini next to the other AI apps that can add it, including [ChatGPT](/blog/tracy-chatgpt-integration). Tracy's guide gives one first prompt: "Use Tracy AI Interviewer to set up a customer discovery interview for people who cancelled in the last month, then give me the public link." Once connected, Gemini lists the actions it found on the server when you save the app. Through them you can set up an interview, invite people and read results by asking. Two rules from the guide keep this safe. Gemini asks for one permission, named tracy, and acts only on your own Tracy account. And to draft an interview, Gemini asks before it uses the tool: you choose Allow once or Always allow. ![Four steps: add Tracy as a custom app, ask in a Gemini chat, approve the tool, read results.](/blog/images/tracy-gemini-integration-1.png) *Gemini sets up and reads, Tracy interviews and keeps the evidence. No second tool to learn. Illustration with sample data. Source: setup steps from the public Tracy AI Interviewer Gemini guide.* Four steps take you from a Gemini chat to a result a person can review. ## Which Gemini you have decides the steps The Gemini app is for a personal Google Account. Gemini Enterprise is set up for a whole team by an administrator. For chat, Tracy's guide covers only those two, because Google's documentation for custom MCP servers names only those two. Gemini CLI is a separate command-line tool with its own steps, covered after Gemini Enterprise. No other Gemini surface or plan is covered here. Whichever you use, Gemini asks for a server address. Paste this wherever it asks for a server URL, and use Tracy AI Interviewer as the name: `https://tracyinterview.ai/mcp` Tracy needs you to sign in and approve it, and Gemini opens that sign-in for you. ## AI interviews in Gemini: set up the Gemini app Google calls these custom apps. For now you can add one only if all of this is true: - You are 18 or over and in the US. - You sign in with a personal Google Account. A work or school Google Account cannot add a custom app yet. - Keep Activity is on. Custom apps are unavailable when it is off. - You use Gemini in English, in the web app at gemini.google.com or in the Gemini mobile app. Once added on the web, the custom app is in both. Then, on your computer: 1. Go to gemini.google.com. Custom apps can only be added in the web app. 2. At the bottom, click **Settings > Connected Apps**. If you do not find Connected Apps, click Personal Intelligence first, then Connected Apps. 3. Click **Custom** at the top right, next to the search box. 4. Paste the server address as the app's MCP server URL. Leave Additional settings closed, because Tracy supports dynamic client registration, then click **Next**. 5. Read Gemini's warning, tick the box to accept the risks, then click **Connect**. 6. When Gemini opens the Tracy AI Interviewer sign-in, finish it and click **Allow** on the consent screen. 7. Gemini lists the actions it found on the server. Click **Connect** to save the app. Ready to try it? Connect Gemini and draft one interview. ## Set up Gemini Enterprise An administrator adds Tracy for the team. Google lists these limits: Gemini Enterprise reaches a server over Streamable HTTP only, and the server must sit at a secure public HTTPS address with a certificate signed by a publicly trusted authority. ### Business edition Google lists this as a Pre-GA offering, which might have limited support. 1. Sign in at business.gemini.google, click Settings & help, select your team, then open Manage team > Connected apps. 2. Click Add MCP Server, paste the server address as the Server URL, enter Tracy AI Interviewer as the Name and click Next. 3. Under Authentication settings choose OAuth 2.0, fill in the fields below, then click Verify Auth and Continue. 4. Choose a location and a connector name, then click Add. 5. The connection is disabled by default, so enable it to make it visible to your team. ### Google's Standard, Plus, Pay-as-you-go and Frontline editions of Gemini Enterprise These use the Google Cloud console. You need the Discovery Engine Editor role, and an organization policy has to allow custom MCP data stores, so an organization policy administrator may need to act first. Allow tracyinterview.ai as an egress domain, since Tracy serves the server, authorization and token hosts from one host. 1. In Gemini Enterprise, open Data stores, click Create data store, search for Custom MCP Server and click Add MCP server. 2. Choose OAuth 2.0, paste the server address as the MCP Server URL, select Enable PKCE Support (Tracy requires PKCE), then click Verify Auth and Continue. 3. Pick a location and a name, create the data store and wait for it to read Active. 4. Every action starts off, so open the data store and choose Actions > Reload custom actions. 5. Select the Tracy actions and click Enable actions. ### The OAuth 2.0 fields Register Gemini Enterprise as an OAuth client, then enter: - Redirect URL: `https://vertexaisearch.cloud.google.com/oauth-redirect` - Authorization URL: `https://tracyinterview.ai/oauth/authorize` - Token URL: `https://tracyinterview.ai/oauth/token` - Scopes: `tracy` Enter the URLs exactly as shown. One caveat from the guide: Google's forms also ask for a Client ID and a Client Secret. Tracy registers each app itself and issues no client secret, and Google's docs do not say what the form takes for a server like that. Setup may stop at this step. If it does, write to Tracy support rather than guess a value. ## Set up Gemini CLI Gemini CLI adds Tracy as a remote MCP server from a terminal. In a terminal, run: `gemini mcp add --transport http tracy https://tracyinterview.ai/mcp` This saves the server in your project's .gemini/settings.json. Add `--scope user` to save it in ~/.gemini/settings.json and have it in every project. Then start Gemini CLI and run `/mcp auth tracy`. Your browser opens on Tracy AI Interviewer. Sign in and approve access once, and the CLI keeps it. Sign-in needs a browser on the same computer as the CLI, so it will not finish over SSH or in a container without one. Check it with `/mcp`: tracy should read CONNECTED. Then send the first prompt from above. To remove it, run `gemini mcp remove tracy`. The [Connect page](/connect) has the full guide. ![Sample Tracy interview: Tracy asks about a production change, hears the answer, then asks a follow-up about it.](/blog/images/tracy-gemini-integration-2.png) *Follow-ups in the person's own words. You read the reasoning, not only the first answer. Illustration with sample data* Tracy follows up on what the person just said, inside the interview. ## A first prompt, and what happens next Once connected, start a new chat and send the prompt from the guide. In the Gemini app, type @ and pick the custom app first, so Gemini uses it. Gemini answers from your Tracy account, and for the draft it asks before it uses the tool. That is where Gemini's job ends. Tracy runs the interview itself. The person you invite opens a link in a browser, needs no account, and is told on the join screen that the conversation is recorded and transcribed. Tracy asks questions in their own field, follows up on what they say and waits for the answer. This works for [customer research](/use-cases/customer-research) calls as much as for hiring. Back in the chat, ask who has finished. Each result opens to a recording, a timestamped transcript and a written assessment for each question. Integrity signals, with their evidence, are there for a human reviewer to interpret. They are a prompt to look, not proof, and the decision stays with you. The [web app](/product) holds the same reports. ## What it costs Cost follows the web app. Pay as you go is $1 per credit, one credit per started 20 minutes of an interview that produced a result. The first 3 results are free with no card, there are no seats, and a session with no answers is never charged. Full API and MCP access is included, so there is no separate fee for the connection. The [pricing page](/pricing) has the current plan. ## Remove access, or fix a stuck setup - **Cut Gemini off.** Open your Tracy account, find Connected AI apps and revoke it. - **In the Gemini app.** Open Settings > Connected Apps, find the app under Custom apps, click More details, then choose Disconnect to revoke its permissions or Remove app to delete it. - **In Gemini Enterprise Business edition.** Select the MCP server in the connectors list and delete it. - **Connected but not used.** In the Gemini app, start the message with @ and the app's name. Without it, Gemini may not call Tracy. - **No Connected Apps entry.** Click Personal Intelligence first, then Connected Apps. Still stuck? Write to Tracy support. Teams on Slack can use the [Slack guide](/blog/tracy-slack-integration) instead, and candidates see what to expect on the [participant experience](/participant-experience) page. ## Common questions ### Can Gemini run the interview itself? No. Gemini sets the interview up and reads results. Tracy interviews each person on video in a browser, with follow-ups on what they say. ### Is this a Gemini AI interview for candidates to practise with? No. The connection is for the person running interviews. People who are interviewed open a link and need no account. ### Can I use a work or school Google Account in the Gemini app? Not yet. Per Tracy's guide, the Gemini app needs a personal Google Account, and a work or school account cannot add a custom app. Gemini Enterprise is the route for a team, set up by an administrator. ### Does Gemini get access to my other data? Gemini asks for one permission, named tracy, and acts only on your own Tracy account. You can revoke it under Connected AI apps in your account. ### Is there an extra charge for Tracy in Gemini? No separate charge. Pay as you go includes full API and MCP access, at $1 per credit. ### What if Gemini Enterprise asks for a client secret? Tracy issues none, and Google's docs do not say what to enter. Setup may stop there. Write to Tracy support rather than guess. --- Connect Gemini and draft one interview, or send us one role and we will build the interview plan, with a recording and report you can check. [Try it free](https://tracyinterview.ai/connect?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=seo&utm_campaign=tracy-gemini-integration&utm_content=try-free) ยท [Book a demo](https://cal.com/tracy-ai/tracy-demo-web?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=seo&utm_campaign=tracy-gemini-integration&utm_content=demo) ## Sources - [Tracy AI Interviewer Connect page](https://tracyinterview.ai/connect), retrieved 10 Nov 2026. - [Add Tracy AI Interviewer to Gemini (public guide)](https://tracyinterview.ai/help/gemini), retrieved 10 Nov 2026. - [Tracy AI Interviewer pricing](https://tracyinterview.ai/pricing), retrieved 5 Nov 2026. - [Add Tracy AI Interviewer to Gemini CLI (Tracy guide)](https://tracyinterview.ai/help/gemini-cli), retrieved 10 Nov 2026.