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Shipped 2026-05-04 · Integrations Most of what your lab knows doesn’t live in your notebook. It’s spread across Drive folders, Notion pages, Slack threads, Linear tickets, GitHub repos, and a handful of other places. Bird is now allowed to read all of them, on your behalf, while you ask questions.

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What’s new

A new Connectors tab in Account Settings lets you OAuth-connect the tools you already use. Once a tool is connected, Bird can search it during a chat and ground its answer with citations — alongside the notes already in your Bower workspace. You can connect any of:
  • Storage — Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box
  • Communication — Slack, Microsoft Teams
  • Notes and wikis — Notion, Airtable
  • Project management — Linear, Asana, Monday
Each connection is per user, per workspace. Your colleague’s Drive isn’t visible from your account; your home workspace’s Slack isn’t pulled into your work workspace. OAuth tokens are bound to the person who authorised them — the provider does the access control, so Bower can’t accidentally surface a file you weren’t allowed to see.

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Federated search by default, ingestion only on request

Connecting a tool doesn’t copy anything into Bower. Bird searches the provider live, returns results with clickable links, and only writes a result into your knowledge base when you explicitly ask — “save this Google Doc as a note.” Until then, Bird just reads. Saved items keep their provenance, so you can always trace a note back to the connector and source URL it came from.

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How credentials are kept safe

  • Bower never sees your password. OAuth runs through the provider’s standard sign-in screen.
  • Tokens never live in Bower. A managed gateway holds the OAuth token; Bower stores only an opaque connection id so it knows which token to ask the gateway to use.
  • Read-only by default. The gateway is filtered to read tools only. Bird can’t write back to your connected tools.
  • Disconnecting actually disconnects — the connection is revoked at the gateway and the token is destroyed. Anything previously saved into your knowledge base stays put.

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Picking which connectors are active in a chat

Connecting a tool makes it available. To use it in a particular chat, open the connector picker in the composer and tick the connectors you want active for that thread. Scoping a chat to “just Slack and GitHub” makes Bird’s answer faster and more focused. The picker remembers your selection per chat.

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Tier limits

Connectors aren’t yet available in Restricted-mode workspaces — our gateway provider’s BAA isn’t signed yet. Server-side enforced.