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How do I add an integration that has no built-in card?

Use Settings → Integrations → Add custom integration to connect an API that has no built-in card. Save its address, authentication choice and usage documentation. This is different from adding an MCP server.

Before you start

Use a service you trust and an account you are authorised to connect. Check its charges and give the credential only the permissions needed. API means a service's interface for software to call.

Add the connection

  1. Open Settings → Integrations, then Add custom integration under Your custom integrations.
  2. Enter the service name, its identifier and Base URL.
  3. Choose Authentication to match the service documentation. Enter the header or query parameter name when the form asks for one.
  4. Paste the credential into API key or token, never into the documentation box.
  5. Add Agent documentation describing supported requests, restrictions and examples without secrets. Add helpful Links.
  6. Click Add integration.

Leaving the credential blank on a new authenticated integration saves a draft showing Needs key. Leaving it blank while editing an integration with a saved key keeps that key. Saving a draft is not proof that calls can authenticate.

Check or remove it

Ask for a small read-only check after saving, not a purchase or destructive change. Use the card's edit or remove actions when needed. Removing the connection does not cancel your subscription with the provider.

How do I know it worked?

The card has the expected address and authentication status, and a permitted read-only request succeeds. A masked-key label confirms storage, not the correctness of every endpoint or permission.

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