Interactive Apps and Agent Connectors

This page lists the providers you can connect to Lava Desktop and how each one surfaces — as an Interactive App, an Agent Connector, or both. For the step-by-step of connecting one, see Connecting Your Apps.

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One Provider, Two Surfaces

A provider is a service the agent can work with — Gmail, Slack, HubSpot, LinkedIn. Each provider surfaces in Lava Desktop one or both ways:

• Interactive App (App): you sign in and the provider opens as a live tab in your sidebar. You work in it directly, and the agent can read and act on the page beside you.
• Agent Connector (Connector): the agent calls the provider for you in the background — fast, thorough, and without opening a tab.

A provider can be both. Gmail, for example, is a tab you read your mail in and a connector the agent uses to search, draft, and triage behind the scenes. Every connected app has a connector working behind it. Connection state is per surface. You can be signed into an app’s tab while the agent still can’t call its connector. When that happens, the picker’s Complete setup section shows the connector with an Authorize button — authorize it to finish. In the picker, every provider carries an App or Connector badge (or both) so you can see at a glance how it surfaces. Included Agent Connectors come ready out of the box. Lava provides the credential, so the agent can call them with no setup from you. They carry the Included mark in the picker.

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How You Connect

Each surface connects its own way:

• Authorize the connector: sign in with your account on an authorization screen, or paste an API key from the provider’s settings. The agent can then call the provider on your behalf.
• Sign in on the app’s tab: the provider opens as a live tab and you sign in there, so you can see and use it yourself.

Most providers walk you through both in one flow. The card’s Connect or Authorize button starts it.

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Email

Apps: Gmail How you connect: Sign in with your Google account. An authorization screen opens and you approve access. What the agent can do: Read, draft, and triage your mail.

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Calendar

Apps: Google Calendar How you connect: Sign in with your Google account. An authorization screen opens and you approve access. What the agent can do: Check availability, find events, and help plan your time.

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Messaging

Apps: Slack How you connect: Sign in with your Slack account. An authorization screen opens and you approve access. What the agent can do: Read, summarize, and reply to your messages.

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CRM

Apps: Salesforce, HubSpot, Affinity How you connect: Sign in with your Salesforce or HubSpot account via the authorization screen. For Affinity, paste an API key from your Affinity settings. What the agent can do: Search, summarize, and update your contacts, deals, and pipeline.

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Accounting

Apps: QuickBooks How you connect: Sign in with your QuickBooks account. An authorization screen opens and you approve access. What the agent can do: Read invoices, customers, and reports, and record transactions.

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Recruiting

Apps: LinkedIn How you connect: Sign in on the tab. LinkedIn opens in the sidebar; once you’re signed in, the agent detects your session and the connection is live. Here the sign-in is the connection — there is no separate authorization step. What the agent can do: Read your inbox, search connections, and message candidates across your network.

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Notes

Apps: Grain, Fireflies, Granola How you connect: Sign in with your account. An authorization screen opens and you approve access. What the agent can do: Search your meeting notes, summarize them, and pull action items.

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Lava CRM

Lava CRM is built into Lava Desktop — an Included provider. It appears in the sidebar automatically, Lava carries the credential, and your agent can use it as soon as you’re signed into Lava. No connection step. What the agent can do: Search, summarize, and update contacts, accounts, deals, and pipeline.

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Agent Connectors

Beyond the apps above, many providers surface as connectors only: they never open as a sidebar tab, and the agent calls them for you in the background. Examples include Airtable, GitHub, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Linear, and Notion. To authorize one, tap + in the sidebar to open the picker, find the provider on the Browse providers tab (or search), and select Connect. You either sign in with your account or paste an API key; the card walks you through it.

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Included Agent Connectors

Some connectors need nothing from you at all. Lava provides the credential, so the agent can already call them — data and web services it uses to search, enrich, and look things up while working on your tasks. They live in the picker’s Included Agent Connectors section, marked Included. There is nothing to configure; they are part of what the agent can do from day one. If a provider you need isn’t in the catalog, use Request a provider in the picker to tell us which one.

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