What is a connector?
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Reusable, encrypted credentials your agents use to talk to external services.
Connectors are agent-agnostic — set up Outlook once, every email-sending agent picks it up. They live in your local OS keychain (or the AES-256-GCM file vault when the OS keychain isn't suitable). Two flavours: OAuth-based (Outlook, Gmail, Slack, GitHub, …) where Avery runs the consent flow + caches the refresh token; API-key (SMTP, Resend, SendGrid, Twilio, Tavily, …) where you paste a key and Avery encrypts it on disk. The runtime auto-resolves which connector to use based on the node's domain (e.g. an email.send node picks any active email connector).
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