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Episode 7 — Connectors & the outside world

The doors out of the workspace — connectors whose operations and allowed hosts you can read, the deep-research payoff of a bound connector, an MCP segment recorded on the earlier version's server panel, and fail-closed egress.

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Your workspace does not live alone. This episode walks the doors to the outside world and the discipline built into each one: a connector you can read before you open it, the capability that lights up when a connector is bound, the MCP door as the earlier version showed it, and a sandbox network that answers no by default.

Episode 7 — Connectors & the outside world (2:30, captions available)

What the episode shows

AtScene
0:13The catalog: connect once, the whole workspace borrows it
0:30Reading the door: operations and allowed hosts, before anything runs
0:46The payoff: deep research exists because Tavily is bound
1:00MCP: your own tools, served to agents like native ones
1:15Per-tool approval flags — native-looking is not native-trusted
1:51The pattern at every door

Where to go next

The connectors overview covers connecting and sharing connectors; MCP servers what stands in for the MCP door in this version. For the network boundary, read Hardening — and for what a bound connector unlocks, see automation concepts.

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