A connection is a saved link to an outside service, with your key for it. Agents use connections as tools: an assistant can search your Notion, look up a Stripe customer, open a GitHub issue or search the web. Open AI → Connections to add one. You can search the list, pick an app, paste its key and connect. Your key is sealed on arrival and never shown again.

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Connect an app

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AI → Connections → Add a connection

Search the list and choose the app. For an app that is not listed, choose Any MCP server.
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Paste its key

Each app tells you where to find its key and what it is called (for example Personal access token). Some need no key, and a few ask for extra details such as your shop name.
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Check it

Choose Check. Pawabase calls the app with the key and tells you what it found, or why it could not connect.
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Give it to an agent

On the agent, Add → An app and choose the connection. See Tools.

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Apps you can connect

Most apps connect through MCP, a standard way for apps to offer tools to AI. Notion has its own connection that can search, read, create and add to pages. Tavily and Exa are web search services.

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Any MCP server

If an app or your own service offers an MCP server, choose Any MCP server, enter its address (it starts with https://) and, if it needs one, a key.

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Control what an agent may do with an app

When you add an app to an agent you choose what it may use:
  • Notion: find pages, read pages, create pages, add to pages.
  • Other apps: all of its tools, or only some under Only these of its tools.
Anything that changes something follows the agent’s approval settings.
Give an app key the least permission it needs. For example a read-only token, or a Stripe restricted key that can only read customers. The agent can do anything the key allows.

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Keys and secrets

Each connection’s key is kept as a secret in the environment, so it is encrypted, can be rotated, and is never part of anything you export.

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If a check fails

  • Check the key is complete and has not expired.
  • Make sure the key has permission for what the agent needs.
  • Remove the connection and add it again with a fresh key.