Agent Mode can orchestrate multi-step workflows across your connected apps — reading data, taking actions, and delivering results without you manually switching between tools. Here’s what it can do across each category.
Capabilities by Category
Communication
Requires Gmail, Outlook, or Slack connector.
| Action | What it looks like |
|---|
| Draft and send emails | ”Draft a weekly summary email and send it to my team via Gmail” |
| Reply to messages | ”Reply to the last email from Sarah saying I’ll follow up Friday” |
| Search inbox | ”Find all unread emails from my manager this week” |
| Post to Slack | ”Post this update to the #engineering channel in Slack” |
| Create calendar invites | ”Create a 30-minute meeting invite on Thursday at 2pm with the design team” |
Documents and Knowledge
Requires Notion, Google Drive, Dropbox, or Box connector.
| Action | What it looks like |
|---|
| Create pages | ”Create a new Notion page titled ‘Q2 Planning’ with a task table” |
| Update documents | ”Add this week’s action items to the existing meeting notes doc in Google Drive” |
| Organize folders | ”Move all files named ‘draft’ in my Drive to the Archive folder” |
| Extract information | ”Read the attached PDF and extract all dates and deadlines into a list” |
| Generate structured docs | ”Create a Google Doc with a project brief based on this chat context” |
Development
Requires GitHub or Linear connector.
| Action | What it looks like |
|---|
| Create issues | ”Create a GitHub issue for each bug in this list and label them ‘bug‘“ |
| Comment on PRs | ”Add a review comment to PR #42 in api-service asking about error handling” |
| Search code | ”Search my repositories for any uses of the deprecated fetchUser function” |
| List open items | ”Get all open Linear issues assigned to me and sort by priority” |
| Create branches | ”Create a branch called ‘fix/login-timeout’ in the frontend-app repo” |
Calendar and Scheduling
Requires Google Calendar connector.
| Action | What it looks like |
|---|
| Read schedule | ”What meetings do I have today and tomorrow?” |
| Check availability | ”Am I free for a 1-hour meeting anytime Tuesday afternoon?” |
| Create events | ”Schedule a daily standup at 9:30 AM Monday through Friday with the team” |
| Summarize upcoming meetings | ”Summarize next week’s meetings and suggest prep tasks for each” |
Data and Databases
Requires Supabase or Neon connector.
| Action | What it looks like |
|---|
| Query data | ”How many users signed up in the past 7 days? Query the users table.” |
| Generate reports | ”Pull the last 30 days of revenue from the transactions table and summarize it” |
| Insert records | ”Add a new row to the feedback table with this data” |
Research
Uses web browsing — no additional connector required.
| Action | What it looks like |
|---|
| Browse web pages | ”Go to this URL and extract the pricing information” |
| Run web searches | ”Search for recent news about [company] and compile a summary” |
| Scrape structured data | ”Extract the job listings from this careers page into a table” |
| Multi-source synthesis | ”Research the top 3 competitors’ pricing pages and write a comparison” |
End-to-End Multi-Step Example
Here’s what a complex Agent Mode workflow looks like in practice.
Your prompt:
Find all GitHub issues labeled 'bug' opened this week.
Create a Notion page titled "Weekly Bug Report - [today's date]" with a table:
Issue Title | Repository | Date Opened | URL
Then email me the Notion page link.
- Connects to GitHub → searches for open issues labeled ‘bug’ opened in the past 7 days
- Collects title, repository name, date opened, and URL for each
- Connects to Notion → creates a new page with the specified title
- Builds and populates the table with all issue data
- Retrieves the Notion page URL
- Connects to Gmail → composes an email with the subject “Weekly Bug Report” and the Notion link
- Shows a confirmation dialog: “Send email to [your address]?” — you review and approve
- Sends the email
- Reports completion with a summary of all steps taken
All of this from a single prompt.
Writing Good Agent Prompts
Be explicit about the goal
Specify which apps to use
Include stopping conditions
Add relevant data directly
// Less effective
"Summarize my GitHub issues and put them somewhere"
// More effective
"Find all open GitHub issues assigned to me. Create a Notion page
titled 'My Open Issues' with a table: Issue Title | Repository | Status | URL"
// Less effective
"Send this to my team"
// More effective
"Post this summary to the #engineering channel in Slack"
// Less effective
"Search for competitor pricing"
// More effective
"Search for the current pricing pages of Acme, BetaCorp, and GammaApp.
If a pricing page is not publicly available, note it in the output.
Stop after checking these three companies."
"Create GitHub issues for the following bugs:
1. Login button unresponsive on mobile — affects iOS Safari
2. CSV export includes headers twice — all export types
3. Notification badge not clearing after read
Use label 'bug' and assign all to me."
What Agent Mode Cannot Do
Agent Mode works within the boundaries of your connected apps and their granted OAuth permissions:
- Actions requiring physical access — Agent Mode operates digitally only
- Apps not connected in Settings → Connectors — if an app isn’t connected, Agent Mode cannot use it
- Actions outside your OAuth scopes — if you connected GitHub read-only, the agent cannot create issues or open PRs; it can only read
- Actions on accounts you don’t own — Agent Mode can only access apps you’ve authorized with your own credentials
Test Agent Mode with read-only tasks when setting up a new connector. Confirm it can read data correctly before granting write access.
