Connections and sites

An agent can only use what you give it. You add connections in the agent's settings under Connections; your Google accounts are listed in Settings › Connections.

Google: Gmail and Calendar

Choose Sign in with Google and allow everything on Google's page. Loom keeps the sign-in in your Mac's Keychain.

• Gmail: the agent can read your mail and write drafts. Sending follows your Rules.
• Calendar: choose see only, or see and add events.

Settings › Connections shows which agents use each Google account. To disconnect, remove it there; you can also remove Loom in your Google account's settings.

Weather

Needs no sign-in.

Folders

Give an agent a folder and it can read and save files there, and nowhere else. If you give it a very large folder, like all of Documents, or one shared with other people through iCloud, Loom explains what that means and asks you to confirm. Anything an agent writes to a shared folder reaches the people it's shared with.

Websites and sign-ins

Agents browse in a real browser on your Mac, on your own internet connection. For each site, and for each agent, you choose what it may do:

• Look and read
• Fill in forms
• Submit, book or pay

Each one is Always, Ask me or Never. On sites you haven't added, an agent may look and read, but must ask before typing or submitting. In a routine, where it can't ask, it doesn't.

To let an agent use your account on a site, add the site and choose Sign in. You sign in yourself, in a Loom window; the agent never sees your password, and no other agent uses that sign-in. It stays on this Mac, in its Keychain. Sign out removes it.

"Check you're human": some sites ask. Loom shows a card under Needs you; choose Open the page, pass the check, and the agent carries on.

Custom connections

If a service gives you a connection address (it must start with https://), add it under the agent's Connections. If it needs a key, keep the key in the Vault and choose it there.

The Vault

The Vault (under All agents › Vault) keeps numbers your agents may need, such as a membership, loyalty, policy or account number, in your Mac's Keychain. Every agent can use a number you add, unless you choose particular agents. An agent can also offer to save a number it comes across; you choose Save or Not now. Card numbers can't be kept in the Vault yet, and agents never offer to save passwords.