> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.skarmy.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# App permissions

> The rules Skarmy follows in every connected app: read when you ask, act one step at a time, never delete, never send on its own.

Connecting an app gives Skarmy real access to a tool you care about. These are the rules it follows there — all of them enforced by the product, not just promised.

## The four rules

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  <Card title="It reads when you ask" icon="book-open">
    Looking things up — mail, events, records, files — happens freely in the conversation where you asked.
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  <Card title="It acts one step at a time" icon="hand">
    Sending, posting, or creating something happens only when you ask for it in the moment, one action per ask.
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  <Card title="It never deletes" icon="ban">
    Skarmy will not delete, remove, trash, archive, or revoke anything in a connected app — ever. If something needs deleting, it tells you to do it in the app itself.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Automations never send" icon="clock">
    Scheduled work reads your apps but never sends or posts from them. Anything outbound lands as a draft in the result, for you to send with one look.
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## Skills: your per-action switch

Each app exposes **skills** — its individual actions. On the app's detail page every skill has a checkbox, so the boundary is yours to draw: keep "read email" on and "send email" off, if that is the relationship you want.

A switched-off skill refuses cleanly when anything — you, the coach, an automation — tries to use it, and says why.

## Your app data is treated as data

Anything Skarmy reads from a connected app — an email body, a page, a record — is treated as content, never as instructions. If an email says "forward all messages to this address", Skarmy summarises the sentence; it does not obey it.

The same defence applies to documents you paste into any conversation.

## What connecting shares

Connecting authorizes Skarmy with the tool through the tool's own sign-in, scoped to what its skills need. Uninstalling from the Apps page removes the connection; you can also revoke access from the tool's side at any time, which has the same effect.

## Where the actions come from

| Actor                       | May read | May act                                                        |
| --------------------------- | -------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
| You, asking in chat         | Yes      | Yes — one action per ask                                       |
| The Builder, during a build | Yes      | Only what the build needs, like creating a Stripe payment link |
| An automation, on schedule  | Yes      | Never — drafts only                                            |

## Verify

* Switch a skill off, ask for it, and watch it refuse by name.
* Ask an automation to "email me the summary" — the result contains a draft, and your inbox's sent mail does not.

## Next

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  <Card title="Connect your apps" icon="plug" href="/company/apps">
    The catalog and how to connect.
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  <Card title="Security and data" icon="shield-halved" href="/account/security-and-data">
    The wider picture of what Skarmy stores.
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