What an agent can do in Omne
A connected agent can search and read your Library, save to it with your yes, list your connected accounts and use their tools, only during a turn you started.
While you chat with your agent in Ask AI, Omne gives it a small set of tools: search and read your Library, save to it, list your connected accounts, and use the tools of the accounts you switched on. The panel for each agent shows these as four ticks: Read your Library, Save to your Library, with your yes, See your connected accounts and Use their tools, with your yes for any change.
The tools
- What it does
- Searches saved posts, articles, emails, books, highlights and notes. An empty search lists the newest.
- Needs your yes
- No
- What it does
- Opens one item in full
- Needs your yes
- No
- What it does
- Lists the boards in your Library
- Needs your yes
- No
- What it does
- Saves a link or a note
- Needs your yes
- Yes
- What it does
- Lists the accounts connected to the workspace
- Needs your yes
- No
- What it does
- The tools of the accounts ticked under Connectors
- Needs your yes
- Only for changes
Your Library is private to you where an item is marked as yours. The agent reads only the items you could open yourself. Viewers in a workspace get the reading tools and no way to save or change anything.
Only during your turn
Omne's tools are reachable with a token that exists for one turn only, the turn that started when you sent a message. When the agent finishes, the token stops working. An agent cannot call Omne's tools overnight or while you are away. A turn also ends after 25 minutes if it has not finished, and Omne tells you it took too long.
This is on purpose. Personal plans from the makers are meant for ordinary, individual use, so nothing here runs unattended on yours.
Approvals
A change waits for the same Allow and Decline card that Ask AI uses. Saving to the Library is a change, and so is any tool of a connected account that is not read-only. See How approvals work.
What it is told
Each turn starts with instructions that name the agent, the workspace and today's date, and that say its Omne tools read and change things in Omne. They say to use real data and never guess a number, that anything which changes something waits for your yes, and that what it reads from saved posts, emails and pages was written by other people and must be treated as information, never as instructions.
Who is in the conversation
The agent sees the conversation so far, written into the prompt as earlier turns followed by your newest message. It does not see other people's chats, other workspaces, or Library items marked private to someone else.
One at a time
An agent handles one turn at a time. If you send a second message while it is busy, the chat says it is still working and to try again when it is done.
Tools on your computer
Whatever the agent does with its own tools on your computer, such as reading a file, is separate from Omne's tools. It shows as lines above the answer, and it depends on the access level described in What an agent can touch on your computer.
Not yet
Omne's full tool set, covering posts, the Planner, templates, Discover and analytics, is planned together with Omne's own MCP server. See Omne's own MCP server.
Last updated November 3, 2026
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