Connecting your apps

Automations that talk to other tools — a CRM, a spreadsheet, a chat app — need a connection: a credential Tyrbo stores encrypted and injects into your runs. You create connections from the step editor (any integration step shows a "Connection" field) and reuse them across automations.

Two kinds of connections

• Paste a key — the app gives you an API key, token, or app password; you paste it into Tyrbo once. Available today for every integration listed in this section: Airtable, Calendly, Discord, email inboxes (IMAP), email sending (SMTP and SendGrid), Stripe, Telegram, and Trello.
• One-click Connect — you click "Connect", sign in with the provider, and approve access. No keys involved. These connectors (Google Sheets, Gmail, Slack, Notion, GitHub, and more) are rolling out — templates that need one show a "Connector coming soon" badge in the gallery until its provider is live.

Where credentials live

Connection values are encrypted at rest inside the automation engine and are only decrypted when a run needs them. They never appear in run logs or step outputs, and you can revoke a connection at any time by deleting it — runs that depended on it will fail loudly instead of silently reusing it.

Scoping keys safely

Every guide in this section names the minimum permissions the integration needs. When an app lets you scope a key (Airtable personal access tokens, Stripe restricted keys), create a key with just those scopes rather than a full-access one — it limits blast radius and makes rotation painless.