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An AI teammate for Grist.

Connect Grist and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 32 Grist actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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300 free credits. No card. Read-only if you want.

Things to ask about Grist
  • What's overdue in Grist, and who owns it?
  • Turn the action items from today's call into Grist tasks.
  • Post a Friday summary of what got done in Grist to #team.
  • Which Grist projects have had no updates in two weeks?
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Grist

32 Grist actions, picked for what you ask.

About Grist: Grist is a relational spreadsheet platform that combines the flexibility of a spreadsheet with the robustness of a database, allowing users to create custom applications tailored to their data needs.

Reads

16 in all · always allowed
  • Get Users
    Retrieve a list of users via SCIM v2. Use when you need to page through and filter enterprise users…
  • List Tables
    List all tables within a specified document. Use after obtaining the document ID to retrieve its…
  • List Records
    Retrieve records from a specified table within a Grist document.
  • Run SQL Query
    Execute a read-only SQL SELECT query on a Grist document.
  • Get Org Access
    Fetch org access details. Use when you need to retrieve numeric user IDs for actions like SCIM user…
  • Fetch Table Metadata
    Retrieve metadata for a specified table in a Grist document.
  • Fetch Column Metadata
    Fetch metadata for a specific column in a Grist document table.
  • Fetch Document Metadata
    Fetch metadata for a specified Grist document. Use after obtaining the document ID.
  • List Columns
    List all columns in a specified Grist table. Use after selecting the document and table to inspect…
  • List Webhooks
    List webhooks configured for a document. Use when you need to retrieve all webhooks for a document…

Changes

16 in all · off when Grist is read-only
  • Add Records
    Add records to a specified table in a Grist document. Use after confirming doc and table IDs.
  • Update Records
    Update records in a specified table within a document. Use after fetching record IDs.
  • Delete Grist Table Records
    Delete records from a specified Grist table. Use when you need to remove specific rows by their…
  • Create Table
    Create tables in a document. Use after confirming the document ID.
  • Delete Column
    Delete a column from a Grist document table. Use after confirming document, table, and column IDs.
  • Delete Webhook
    Delete a webhook from a Grist document. Use when you need to remove a specific webhook after…
  • Update Webhook
    Update an existing webhook for a specified document. Use when you need to modify webhook settings…
  • Create Document
    Create a document in a workspace. Use when you need to add a new document programmatically after…
  • Create SCIM User
    Create a new SCIM user. Use when provisioning new user accounts via SCIM.
  • Delete SCIM User
    Delete a specified user via SCIM. Use after confirming the user's SCIM user ID exists.

Showing 20 of 32. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect Grist

    Open Connections, find Grist and paste an API key from your Grist account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share Grist with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a Grist job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

Grist, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

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Questions

Grist and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Grist?

Yes. Grist is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with an API key. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect Grist?

Open Connections, find Grist and paste an API key from your Grist account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

What can Cicada do in Grist?

32 actions: 16 that read from Grist and 16 that change things in it, for example get users, list tables, list records. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Grist?

Yes. In Connections, set Grist to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about Grist from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run Grist jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my Grist data safe?

Your Grist login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

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