32Integrations, the Harness and InBrowser

Your agents can work beyond your Gridtop: through other companies' services, through other agent programs, and through the pages open in your browser. This chapter covers the three ways in and out: Integrations, the Harness app, and InBrowser. Email to your agents is described with Properties (15.6).

32.1 Integrations

An Integration is a connection to another service, kept as an object of its own. Placed on the grid and connected to an agent by a line, it gives that agent the service's tools; attached to a website, it records what the site is connected to.

To add one, right-click an empty cell and choose Create New... ▸ Integration, then choose its kind under Service in its window (Configure Integration... on its right-click menu reopens it); or open a Web Front's Integrations tab: Integrations belong to this Web Front. Add one here; you can also place it on the Gridtop later to wire it into a workflow.

Whatever an Integration needs to sign in (an address, a key, a token) goes to the server once, encrypted, and comes back only as a short hint; it is never written into your Gridtop or its files.

Permissions. A tool from an Integration that only reads needs the agent's Read permission; one that changes things, Edit; one that sends something out of Autocomputing, Send Outside (15.2). Sending an invoice or a refund asks you every time.

32.2 The Services

• MCP server. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a common way for a service to offer its tools to AI agents. Give the server's address and how it is signed in to (a bearer token, or a key in a header of your naming), and Refresh tools lists what it offers; the agents connected to the Integration can then use those tools.
• Zapier. Zapier links thousands of apps; a Zap is one of its automations, when something happens in one app, do something in another. Zaps your agents can start lists Zaps by name, each with the address of its Webhooks by Zapier → Catch Hook trigger. A Zap starts an agent gives you a private address for a Zap's Webhooks by Zapier → POST action, with the agent to run, what the agent should do with what the Zap sends, and Allow changes. Without it, a Zap's run only looks, since what a Zap sends may have been written by anyone; with it, the agent still changes no more than its own Edit permission allows.
• Obsidian. An Obsidian vault is a folder of linked notes. Keep it on A:/ (Vault folder, by default A:/Obsidian, with a Daily notes folder inside it), and the connected agents can search, read and write its notes; in Autocomputing '26 you can open the same folder in Obsidian itself.
• Salesforce. Leads go into your Salesforce through Web-to-Lead; only your Org ID is needed. Connected agents can add leads, and your website's forms can send theirs too.
• GitHub. Paste a fine-grained token: Give it access to one repository, with Contents: read and write. Nothing wider is needed. Then Choose a repository. Forget this token disconnects it.
• OpenClaw and Hermes, agent harnesses (32.3): connected agents can send messages through OpenClaw, out to WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack and the rest, or ask your Hermes agent and get its answer.
• Google Analytics, Mailchimp and Custom record a site's measurement ID, mailing list or other service, for the agents that work on it.

Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Stripe Integrations are held back in 1.0-beta, and are not offered.

32.3 The Harness App

An agent harness is a program that runs AI agents of its own, such as OpenClaw or Hermes, often on your own computer and connected to your messaging apps. The Harness app, in the app drawer, joins them to your Gridtop in both directions. Its tabs:

OpenClaw and Hermes, each in three parts:

1. It uses your Gridtop. The harness connects to your account as an outside agent, through its MCP settings. Give it a Name, tick what it may do (Read the drive, Write to the drive, Message your agents), and click Make a key. The tab shows the lines to paste into the harness's settings, key included: The key is shown only now. With Message your agents, a message to the harness on WhatsApp, Telegram or Slack can be answered by one of your Gridtop's agents.
2. Your agents use it. Place on the Gridtop places an Integration for the harness (32.2), which holds its address and token. It needs an https address the server can reach (a tunnel, for one running at home), and sending through it takes the agent's Send Outside permission.
3. Skills. Both programs keep skills as a folder with a SKILL.md, as Gridtop does (16.2), so Skills travel both ways on the Skills tab.

Connections lists every key made here, with its kind, hint and when it was last used. Rename it, change what it may do, or Revoke it (a second click confirms). Acts as makes one of your agents stand for the connection, so that the agent's permissions, standing rules and lines apply to it as well. Recent calls lists what outside agents have done, and what was refused.

Skills brings a skill in from A:/ (a folder holding a SKILL.md, or a .zip of one), screening it first, or sends one of your Skills out as a .zip.

This PC, inside Autocomputing '26, installs, runs and connects OpenClaw and Hermes on your own computer (chapter 40).

32.4 InBrowser

InBrowser, in the app drawer, lets you see, search, and group your open browser tabs, and let your agents read them: useful when your research is spread across many tabs, to find a page, close duplicates, or hand a page to an agent to read and summarise.

To connect your browser, InBrowser needs a small helper added to it. The Connect your browser card walks you through it in four steps, beginning with Download Browser Helper. With the helper installed and on, InBrowser shows Connected; without it, Extension not found.

The Tabs view lists your open tabs. Refresh reads them again, Close Duplicates closes repeated tabs, and Group arranges them by Site, by Window, or not at all. Each tab offers Open, Read (copies the page's text), Shared Items and Close. When a newer helper is available, Update helper appears.

Shared Items opens the InfoFace view: what this site stores and shares. It lists the site's cookies (uncheck one to delete it), the known trackers actually loaded on the page, the consent you gave through its cookie banner, and the advertising identifiers it can see. Scan open tabs finds trackers that follow you across several open tabs.