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Design & media · Connects with an API key

An AI teammate for Placid.

Connect Placid and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 3 Placid 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 Placid
  • Find the latest Placid files for the launch and send me the links.
  • What changed in Placid this week?
  • Who's waiting on feedback in Placid?
  • Pull the approved Placid assets into the shared folder.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Placid

3 Placid actions, picked for what you ask.

About Placid: Placid is a creative automation toolkit that enables users to generate images, PDFs, and videos from custom templates via REST or URL APIs.

Reads

1 in all · always allowed
  • Get Collections
    Retrieve a list of all template collections. use after authentication to paginate through your…

Changes

2 in all · off when Placid is read-only
  • Create Template
    Create a new Placid template. use when you need a template with specific dimensions and optional…
  • Delete Template
    Delete a specific template identified by uuid. use after confirming the template is no longer…

Showing 3 of 3. 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 Placid

    Open Connections, find Placid and paste an API key from your Placid 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 Placid 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 Placid job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

Placid, 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

Placid and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Placid?

Yes. Placid 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 Placid?

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

What can Cicada do in Placid?

3 actions: 1 that read from Placid and 2 that change things in it, for example get collections, create template, delete template. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Placid?

Yes. In Connections, set Placid 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 Placid 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 Placid jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my Placid data safe?

Your Placid 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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