Integration · Legal
AI agents for Actionstep
Find and open matters, look up and add contacts, add tasks, appointments, file notes and time entries, and read bills and matter documents in Actionstep, in whichever region the firm's Actionstep lives.
- Actions
- 16
- Read
- 10
- Write
- 6
Actions
What your agents can do in Actionstep
Find and open matters, look up and add contacts, add tasks, appointments, file notes and time entries, and read bills and matter documents in Actionstep, in whichever region the firm's Actionstep lives (credentials come from Actionstep support).
Read 10
Look things up. Nothing changes.
Find matters
Lists matters ("actions" in the API), newest change first, filtered by words in the name, the reference, status, matter type, assigned participant or change time.
Get a matter
Reads one matter by ID: name, reference, status, priority, restricted flag, created, changed and last-accessed times, banner text, and links to its matter type, assigned participant.
Find contacts
Lists contacts ("participants": people and organisations, staff included) whose display name or email contains some text, people only or companies only, or changed since a time.
List tasks
Lists tasks on a matter or assigned to a participant, by status or due date range, soonest due first.
List file notes
Lists the file notes on a matter, newest first.
List time entries
Lists time entries on a matter or owned by a participant, optionally within a date range, newest first.
List bills
Lists bills (invoices), newest first, by status, matter, or invoice date range.
List appointments
Lists calendar appointments starting within a time range, optionally on one calendar or for one matter, soonest first.
List a matter's documents
Lists the documents on a matter (names and details, not their contents), optionally whose name contains some text, newest change first.
List records
Lists any other kind of Actionstep record, 25 a page.
Write 6
Create, change or send.
Add a contact
Adds a contact (participant): a person with a first and last name, or a company with a company name, plus the display name the firm sees, and optionally an email, phone number.
Add a task
Adds a task on a matter for an Actionstep user (their participant ID, from "List records" with users), with a name, due date and time, and optionally a description and priority (Normal by default).
Add a file note
Adds a file note with its text to a matter, dated now unless a date and time is given.
Record time
Records time on a matter for its owner (a user's participant ID).
Open a matter
Opens a matter of a matter type (IDs from "List records" with actiontypes; the type sets its workflow, steps and fields) with a name.
Add an appointment
Adds a confirmed appointment to a calendar (IDs from "List records" with calendars), with a title, start and end times with their offset.
A person can approve first
Any write action can be set to wait for a person's approval before it runs, so an agent asks before it changes anything.
Connection
How it connects
Connect it once in the console, then give it to the agents and workflows that need it.
Sign in with Actionstep and approve access (OAuth).
Kept safe
- Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys.
- They are opened only by the process that makes the call, at the moment it runs, and never go into a prompt or the browser.
- Calls go only to the tool's own servers.
Ideas
Ideas to start with
Starting points made only from the actions above. Mix them with any other tool your agents can use.
- 01
Ask about your Actionstep data
Ask a question in plain words. The agent can find matters, get a matter or find contacts in Actionstep, then answers with what it found.
- 02
Let an agent update Actionstep
Have the agent add a contact or add a task in Actionstep as part of a larger task. Turn on approval and a person signs off on each change first.
- 03
Share what it finds in Slack
Give one agent Actionstep and Slack: it can find matters in Actionstep and post a summary to a Slack channel in the same run.
FAQ
Actionstep and MyDeepAgents
Can MyDeepAgents connect to Actionstep?
Yes. The Actionstep connector has 16 actions: 10 read and 6 make changes. Your agents can call them as tools, and your workflows can run them as steps.
How do I connect Actionstep?
Sign in with Actionstep and approve access (OAuth). Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys and are opened only at the moment of a call.
Can an agent change data in Actionstep without asking?
Only if you let it. Each of the 6 actions that change data can be set to wait for a person's approval before it runs.
Can I use Actionstep in workflows as well as agents?
Yes. Every Actionstep action also works as a step in a workflow, and the same connection serves your agents and your workflows.
Early access
Put Actionstep to work
Connect it in a few minutes, give an agent the actions it needs, and decide which changes wait for a person.