You can let an assistant of your own search and read your files and, if you allow it, save what it writes in your account. It works with assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Connect
- In the web app open Settings → Connected apps and copy the address under Address to give the assistant.
- Add it in your assistant as a custom connector (an MCP server). The page shows the steps for Claude and ChatGPT as their makers published them; their menus can change.
- The assistant sends you to a page of this service. Check which app is asking and where it takes you back to, tick what it may do, and choose Connect.
Approve only a connection you started yourself, just now. The assistant never gets your password.
What it may do
- See, search and read your files is always part of a connection: everything you can open, including what others shared with you.
- Create and change files only if you tick it: save text files, make folders, rename, move, move to the trash.
A connected assistant cannot delete anything for good, a file it rewrites keeps its earlier versions, and backups of servers, websites and mailboxes are closed to it. Your activity shows which app a change came through.
Disconnect
Settings → Connected apps lists every connection, what it may do and when it was last used. Disconnect ends it at once. A connection that is not used for a long time ends by itself.
Good to know
- What an assistant reads from your files is sent to the company that runs it, under your agreement with that company.
- If an assistant only has to answer questions, leave Create and change files unticked.
- A row marked as kept out by the settings of the service does not work for now; it works again by itself if the service allows it again.
- If Connected apps says that connecting assistants is switched off, the operator of this service has decided so.