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Documentation Index

Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.bowerlabs.ai/llms.txt

Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

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8 always-on sources — no setup

Out of the box, Bird grounds answers in eight open sources with no connection step. The new citation trail primitive walks both the references and the forward citations of any paper you give it, then ranks by citation-graph proximity — much stronger relevance than keyword overlap.

OpenAlex

~250M scholarly works, topical search + DOI fetch.

Semantic Scholar

TLDRs, citation graph, embedding-based recommendations.

Crossref

Canonical DOI registry — fallback + cross-check.

Unpaywall

Best-known open-access copy of any DOI.

arXiv

Preprints — CS, ML, physics, math, stats, biology.

Europe PMC

Biomedical + life sciences, with full-text URLs.

ORCID

Researcher identity + public publication histories.

Web search

Google search, including journal sites and repositories.
Save your ORCID iD on your profile (Settings → Profile → Research identity) and Bird will pull from your publication list when you ask things like “what have I published recently on coral alkalinity?” — no need to share the iD each turn. We only ever read your public ORCID profile.

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14 connectors — one-click OAuth

Connectors extend Bird into the tools you’ve licensed. Each is connected per user, per workspace — your OAuth, your access. A colleague’s connections aren’t visible from your account.

Google Drive

Google Docs

Google Sheets

Dropbox

OneDrive

Box

Slack

Microsoft Teams

Notion

Airtable

Linear

Asana

Monday

GitHub

Don’t see a tool you rely on? Send us feedback.

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How to connect

Open Account Settings → Connectors, click Connect on the tool you want, sign in at the provider, and you’re done. The card flips to Connected when authorisation completes.

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Picking which connectors are active in a chat

Connecting a tool makes it available. To use it in a conversation, open the connector picker in the composer and tick which connectors should be active. Fewer active sources = faster, more focused answers. Selections persist per chat. The picker also has a master Public sources switch. When off, every external source (the eight above, plus connectors) is blocked at the framework level — not just discouraged in the prompt — for that chat.

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Privacy and security

Authorisation runs through the provider’s standard OAuth flow. We never touch your credentials.
Access tokens are held by our managed gateway (Composio). Bower stores only an opaque connection ID.
Bird sees only what your account has access to in the provider. If your admin removes your access, Bird loses it on the next search.
Bird never writes back to your connected tools. Content enters your knowledge base only when you explicitly ask Bird to save a result.
Click Disconnect and the connection is revoked at the gateway; the token is destroyed. Items previously saved into your knowledge base stay put.
Our gateway provider’s BAA isn’t signed. Connectors are blocked in PHI-enabled workspaces — enforced server-side — until that’s in place.

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Troubleshooting

OAuth tokens expire. When that happens the card shows a Re-auth badge and Bird stops using that connector until you reconnect. Click Reconnect.
Disconnect the existing connection and click Connect again. The next OAuth flow lets you sign in with the new account.
If an OAuth dance was interrupted, the card stays in Connecting… and counts toward your cap. Click Disconnect to discard the attempt and free the slot.
Bird returns a clickable link to binary files in storage tools. To analyse the contents, upload the file to your Bower workspace and Bird will read it with its built-in spreadsheet, PDF, and OCR tools.