Connecting apps · Manwe docs

What you know is spread across your Mac: meeting notes in one app, files in another, a long conversation with an AI coding tool in a third. Connections let that knowledge flow in both directions, so Manwe can look things up in your apps, and your other AI tools can stop asking you to explain yourself again.

Set everything up in Settings › Connected apps: online services, Apple apps, apps on this Mac, and Telegram. Control what outside AI tools can read or ask Manwe to do in Settings › Access & approvals.

Connected services

Notion, Linear and Slack each have a row. For Notion and Linear, press Connect and sign in through your browser. Slack needs a one-time Set up first, because each workspace registers its own Slack app; the setup sheet and its guide walk you through it.

Once connected and assigned to the selected context, Manwe can search and read them when a question needs it, and prepare changes: new or updated Notion pages, Linear issues and comments, Slack messages and canvases. The row shows how many tools the account offers, and Permissions and authorization shows what it can reach. Disconnect stops new use.

Recent app changes lists what Manwe changed and whether each change was confirmed. When Manwe couldn't confirm one, press Review result, check the app, and say whether you found the change.

Choose where a source is available

Under each connected account or local MCP app, use Available in to choose its Worlds. Select Chats explicitly if it should also be usable in conversations outside any World. A connection with no assignment stays connected but is unavailable to chats. A work account assigned to one World does not supply context to an unrelated World.

Use parent sources separately lets a Moon read its parent's assigned sources. That access is read-only; making changes needs a direct assignment to the Moon. Parent source access is independent of Use parent context for memory. Clearing an assignment or disconnecting stops further use in that scope.

Apple apps

Calendar, Reminders, Contacts, Notes, Mail, Maps, Photos, Music and Shortcuts work without setup; macOS asks for permission the first time. Each has a switch in the Apple apps card. See Apple apps for what each one can do.

Apps on this Mac

Many apps and tools share their data with AI tools through MCP. When one is connected, Manwe can look things up in it when a question needs your own meetings, notes, or files, the same way it searches the web when a question needs current facts.

How Manwe finds them

Manwe lists every MCP server set up in Claude Code, Claude Desktop and Codex, plus apps in your Applications folder that come with an MCP helper built in. When you install a new one, Manwe asks once whether to connect it. Apps that were already there when you started are simply listed, not prompted.

Some entries carry a note in plain words, so you know what connecting means. A server might download code when it starts, run a command that isn't part of an app, or pass settings from your AI tool's configuration, which may include a key. It's your choice: connect the ones you trust.

Connect and disconnect

Each app has a Connect button. Connecting starts the app's helper and reads the tools it offers. The row then shows how many of them read, and how many make changes. Disconnect stops Manwe using the app at any time.

Changes follow your approval mode

Reading is direct. A change, in a connected service, an Apple app or an app on your Mac, follows your Action approvals setting. Under Ask for approval, the card explains the action in plain language, with exact details available to expand. Approve, Deny and, for eligible actions, Always allow similar control it. Approve for me authorizes requested routine changes within the task's access. Full access permits work within granted access, too; destructive changes still require explicit approval in every mode. See Tasks and approvals.

A change always needs a conversation where you can see it. Scheduled workflows and watches only read, and if you deny a change, Manwe doesn't try it again.

AI tools reading Manwe

The other direction, configured in Settings › Access & approvals. Manwe ships a small MCP helper that lets AI tools on your Mac read what Manwe knows about you: your profile, your worlds, your confirmed memory, and past decisions. Ask Claude Code for help with a project, and it can check your goals and constraints instead of asking. With your permission, it can also hand Manwe work to do.

Under Tools on this Mac, Manwe lists Claude Code, Codex, and Claude Desktop, with whether each is installed and connected. Connect registers Manwe with that tool for you; Disconnect removes it; Reconnect fixes a registration that points somewhere else.

What they can see and do

Everything here is off until you turn on Let other AI tools read Manwe (connecting a tool turns it on). Then each part is its own switch:

Let other AI tools read ManweYour profile, worlds, confirmed memory, and past decisions. Drafts and suggestions are never shared, because you haven't approved them.

Share past decisionsOn by default. Decision records are labelled as Manwe's analysis, not as facts you confirmed.

Let AI tools delegate tasksOff by default. Lets a tool ask Manwe a question, research, convene a panel, or hand over a whole task that uses Manwe's browser, connected services and saved work. Tasks run in Manwe with your model and your approval settings; questions and approvals appear in Manwe, never in the other tool.

Let AI tools file suggestionsOff by default. What a tool learns about you lands in memory review as a suggestion, and it can prepare a whole world for review. Nothing becomes memory or a world until you approve it. See Memory.

Let AI tools work on skillsOff by default. A tool can read your skills and add or edit them as drafts. A draft does nothing until you activate it. See Skills.

Why suggestions, not memory. Another tool can misread you, or remember something that was true for one afternoon. Making its findings wait for your approval keeps your memory yours: Manwe only acts on what you've confirmed.

Other MCP tools

Using an AI tool that isn't on the list? Choose Copy setup JSON under Other MCP tools, and paste it into that tool's MCP settings. It points the tool at Manwe's helper on your Mac. The same switches above decide what it can see and do.