Integration · Docs and data
AI agents for Outline
Search, list and read documents in an Outline team wiki, ask it questions in plain language, create and update documents in Markdown, list collections and comment on documents.
- Actions
- 8
- Read
- 5
- Write
- 3
Actions
What your agents can do in Outline
Search, list and read documents in an Outline team wiki, ask it questions in plain language, create and update documents in Markdown, list collections and comment on documents, on Outline's cloud or your own Outline server.
Read 5
Look things up. Nothing changes.
Search documents
Finds documents by keywords, ranked by relevance, optionally only in one collection or with some statuses.
List documents
Lists published documents and the person's own drafts, newest change first, optionally only in one collection or under one parent document.
Get a document
Reads one document by its ID (the UUID, or the short urlId at the end of its link).
Ask the wiki a question
Asks a question in plain language and gets an answer written from the documents the key can see, with the documents it used.
List collections
Lists the collections (top-level spaces) the key can see, with id, name, description, url and permission.
Write 3
Create, change or send.
Create a document
Creates a document from a title and a Markdown body in a collection, or nested under a parent document.
Update a document
Changes a document's title or body.
Comment on a document
Adds a comment in Markdown to a document, or a reply to another comment.
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.
Paste an API key from your Outline account.
What you enter
- API key
Settings
- Outline address
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 Outline data
Ask a question in plain words. The agent can search documents, list documents or get a document in Outline, then answers with what it found.
- 02
Let an agent update Outline
Have the agent create a document or update a document in Outline 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 Outline and Slack: it can search documents in Outline and post a summary to a Slack channel in the same run.
Works well with
More Docs and data tools
- Google Sheets3 actionsAdd rows to a Google Sheets spreadsheet, read a range of cells, and write over a range, signed in with the person's own Google account.
- Google Docs3 actionsCreate Google Docs documents, read their text, and add text to the end of them, signed in with the person's own Google account.
- Notion4 actionsAdd pages to Notion databases, append text to pages, query databases and search the pages shared with an internal integration.
- Confluence4 actionsCreate, read and search Confluence Cloud pages on your Atlassian site, signed in with an email address and an API token.
- Airtable4 actionsCreate, update, list and read records in Airtable bases that a personal access token can reach.
- Docusign3 actionsSend documents for signature from a Docusign template, check an envelope's status and list recent envelopes, as the person who connects.
FAQ
Outline and MyDeepAgents
Can MyDeepAgents connect to Outline?
Yes. The Outline connector has 8 actions: 5 read and 3 make changes. Your agents can call them as tools, and your workflows can run them as steps.
How do I connect Outline?
Paste an API key from your Outline account. You'll need: API key. The connection also asks for: Outline address. 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 Outline without asking?
Only if you let it. Each of the 3 actions that change data can be set to wait for a person's approval before it runs.
Can I use Outline in workflows as well as agents?
Yes. Every Outline action also works as a step in a workflow, and the same connection serves your agents and your workflows.
Early access
Put Outline to work
Connect it in a few minutes, give an agent the actions it needs, and decide which changes wait for a person.