Giving an agent access to an integration

Every agent has its own list of plugins on its Plugins tab. You decide which apps it can use, and within each app, which tools.

Switching a plugin on or off

Open the agent, click the settings button at the top of its page, and go to Plugins. Each connected plugin has a switch. Turn it off and the agent stops using that app. Turn it back on whenever you like. Changes save on their own.

Switching off single tools

Click a connected plugin to see its tools, each with a short description of what it lets the agent do. Switch off any tool you don't want this agent to have. The plugin's row then shows how many are on, for example "5 of 7 tools".

A common use: let an agent read and search your mail, but switch off sending.

To give the agent every tool again, click Use all.

Which account an agent uses

The plugin's row shows the account the agent uses and how many other agents share it. To change it, open the plugin's menu (...) and choose Switch account. See Connecting an integration.

Tell the agent what to do with it

Connecting an app gives the agent the ability. Its instructions tell it when to use it. If you add Google Sheets to an agent, say so on its Instructions tab, for example: "Every Monday, add last week's sign-ups to the Growth sheet."

Then try it once and look at what the agent did. Adjust the instructions if it picked the wrong tool.

Keep each agent focused

• One agent, one job, the apps that job needs. An agent that drafts customer replies needs Gmail, not GitHub.
• A new kind of work usually means a new agent, not more plugins on an old one.
• Read before write. If an agent only needs to look things up, switch off the tools that change things.

Related

• What are integrations?
• Connecting an integration
• Approvals and sensitive actions