Tools & scheduled tasks

Tools give your assistant the ability to do things, not just talk. Connectors expose third-party APIs (Google Calendar, Gmail, Notion, Drive). Scheduled tasks let the assistant run jobs on its own.

Connectors (MCP)

Connect a service from Studio → Connectors. Each connector exposes a set of tools (e.g. Google Calendar exposes googleCalendarCreateEvent, googleCalendarListEvents, etc.). After connecting, you decide which tools each assistant can use from the assistant's Tools tab. The list below is the current set of official built-in connectors: Workspace Files is first-party (no external account); the rest authenticate via OAuth or a personal access token.

Google CalendarGmailNotionGoogle Docs, Sheets & SlidesGitHubFathomWorkspace Files

Tool policy matrix

Three policies × three tool classes. Defaults shown. Every cell is overridable per assistant from the Tools tab.

Allow

Ask

Block

Read

List events, search Notion, fetch a URL

●

Write

Send email, create event, write a page

●

Destructive

Delete event, archive thread, drop a row

●

● marks the default. Read defaults to Allow; Write and Destructive default to Ask.

Scheduled tasks

Tell your assistant when to run something: "every weekday at 9am, summarize the team's Slack" or "follow up with the Acme lead in two hours." sidanclaw schedules a cron job that runs on its own session, executes tools, and delivers the result via your preferred channel.

Where to see them

Assistant detail → Tasks tab. Each row shows the schedule and last run. Pause, edit, or delete in place. Tasks survive restarts.