ZachLaik wires Mike into outside tools, no engineer required
A new Connectors feature lets users bolt their own external services onto Mike from a settings page, without touching the codebase.
The feature is called Connectors, and it does something Mike couldn't do before: let a user plug in their own outside services from a settings screen, no development work involved. It builds on the Model Context Protocol, an emerging open standard for wiring AI assistants to external tools and data sources. You point Mike at a service's address, choose how to authenticate - paste an API key, or do a one-click sign-in that handles the handshake and quietly refreshes access in the background - and whatever that service offers shows up as something Mike can call mid-conversation.
When Mike reaches out, the chat shows its work: an expandable block naming the service, what it asked for, and what came back. ZachLaik tested the full sign-in flow live against a third-party legal-data service.
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