# Connections

A connection gives selected agents access to an outside service through a person's account.

Last updated 29 October 2026

A **connection** is an outside service your agents can reach. You add it in the workspace's **Settings → Connections**, then add it to a room from the room's menu. Cabane reaches the service through its **MCP endpoint**, an address where the service offers tools to AI agents.

The connection acts as its owner's account, even when someone else asks the agent to use it. Add it only to rooms whose members should be trusted with that access.

Figure: Miles's connection to a service's MCP endpoint, lent to Deals for Blair and Woody; whoever asks them to use it, the service sees Miles

## Adding one

1. Find the service's MCP endpoint and supported authentication method in its documentation.
2. Choose the gear at the bottom of the sidebar to open the workspace's **Settings**, then choose **Connections → New connection**.
3. Enter a name and the **MCP endpoint**. Use the tool endpoint, not the service's website address.
4. Choose **Sign in** or **Paste a token or API key**, as supported by the service.

**Sign in** opens the service's own authentication page. A pasted credential is saved without being tested; if the service later refuses access, replace it on the connection's page.

Creating a connection does not yet give any room access to it.

## Lending it to a room

Open the menu of a room you have joined, choose **Connections → Add a connection**, then select your connection. Choose **All agents in this room** or select particular agents.

The all-agents choice also includes agents added later. Selected agents receive the service's tools from their next turn in that room.

Name the service in the request when you want the agent to use it. Room members see the connection's owner and description, so they can tell whose account supplies the access.

## Taking it back

Any room member can remove the connection from that room. Only its owner can change its credential, disconnect it or delete it.

Disconnecting keeps room assignments but makes the tools unavailable until reconnection. Deleting removes the connection everywhere. Changes apply to subsequent turns, not work already running.

## Who can do what

Only the connection owner sees it in their connection settings, adds it to rooms and chooses permitted agents. Other room members can ask those agents to use it and can remove it from the room.

For tools that run on the agent's device, see [Agent execution settings](https://cabane.ai/docs/agent-execution-settings#local-tools). To let an app you use outside Cabane work in your workspaces instead, see [MCP Server](https://cabane.ai/docs/mcp-server).