Connectors

What are connectors?

A connector is a ready-made link between two services. Instead of wiring up an interface (API) yourself, you connect an account once, and the software can then read data or trigger actions within the permitted scope, such as finding messages in a chat tool or opening files from cloud storage.

Most connectors use OAuth 2.0. You do not hand the software a password; you confirm with the service which permissions it gets. The service issues a token for that, which can be revoked at any time. Things to look at:

• Scope: which permissions (scopes) does the connector ask for?
• Whose account: does the software act with one person's permissions or with a shared account?
• Revocation: can the connection be cut easily?

Connectors at Openbase.one

Openbase.one has connectors to tools your teams already use, for example Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, Microsoft 365, HubSpot, Jira and Asana. The connection runs via OAuth.

Each person connects their own accounts. The personal assistant works with exactly that person's permissions across installed apps, files and connected accounts, and brings every change for approval. App code itself has no network access and does not call outside services directly; every data access by an app goes through the permission checks of the Openbase.one runtime.