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An AI teammate for Retable.

Connect Retable and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 11 Retable 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 Retable
  • What's overdue in Retable, and who owns it?
  • Turn the action items from today's call into Retable tasks.
  • Post a Friday summary of what got done in Retable to #team.
  • Which Retable 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 Retable

11 Retable actions, picked for what you ask.

About Retable: Retable is a collaborative spreadsheet and database platform for organizing workspaces, projects, tables, columns, rows, and files.

Reads

6 in all · always allowed
  • Get Rows
    Return all rows or up to 50 selected rows using stable column IDs or title-keyed fields.
  • Get Table
    Get one table's metadata, column IDs and types, and views before reading or changing its data.
  • Search Rows
    Search a table for a value in a primary column and return matching rows from an optional starting…
  • List Workspaces
    List workspaces visible to the connected Retable account, including each workspace ID needed to…
  • List Project Tables
    List tables in one Retable project with their IDs, columns, and parent workspace and project IDs.
  • List Workspace Projects
    List projects accessible in one workspace, including project IDs needed to discover tables.

Changes

5 in all · off when Retable is read-only
  • Add Columns
    Append one or more typed columns to a table and return the complete resulting column list.
  • Delete Rows
    Permanently delete one or more rows from a table; missing row IDs are ignored and count as zero…
  • Insert Rows
    Insert one or more rows into a table in one request and return the created rows with their IDs.
  • Update Rows
    Update cells in one or more existing rows in one request and return the updated row IDs.
  • Delete Columns
    Permanently delete one or more columns and their cell data, then return the complete remaining…

Showing 11 of 11. 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 Retable

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

Works with your other tools

Retable, 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

Retable and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Retable?

Yes. Retable 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 Retable?

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

What can Cicada do in Retable?

11 actions: 6 that read from Retable and 5 that change things in it, for example get rows, get table, search rows. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Retable?

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

Is my Retable data safe?

Your Retable 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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