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An AI teammate for Stack Exchange.

Connect Stack Exchange and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 8 Stack Exchange 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 Stack Exchange
  • What broke in Stack Exchange overnight, and is it new?
  • Open a Stack Exchange issue for this bug with the steps from the Slack thread.
  • Summarise this week's Stack Exchange activity for the standup.
  • Tell me when something in Stack Exchange needs my attention.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Stack Exchange

8 Stack Exchange actions, picked for what you ask.

About Stack Exchange: Stack Exchange is a network of Q&A communities where users ask questions, share knowledge, and collaborate on topics like coding, math, and more

Reads

8 in all · always allowed
  • Get Sites
    Retrieve all Stack Exchange sites and their api site parameter values.
  • Get Comments
    Retrieve comments from a specified Stack Exchange site. use when you need to list comments with…
  • Get Collectives
    Retrieve all collectives on a Stack Exchange site in alphabetical order.
  • Search Questions
    Search the site for questions meeting certain criteria. use after defining tags or keywords to…
  • Get Collective Tags
    Retrieve tags associated with specified collectives. use when you need collective tags for display…
  • Get Revisions By IDs
    Retrieve revisions for specific posts by their ids. use when you need to examine the edit history…
  • Get Collective Questions
    Retrieve questions associated with the specified collective.
  • Get Comment Flag Options
    Fetch valid flag options for a given comment. use when you need to know which flags a user can…

Changes

0 in all · off when Stack Exchange is read-only

None in this app.

Showing 8 of 8. 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 Stack Exchange

    Open Connections, find Stack Exchange and press Connect. You sign in on Stack Exchange's own page; there's nothing to configure.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share Stack Exchange 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 Stack Exchange job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

Stack Exchange, 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

Stack Exchange and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Stack Exchange?

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

How do I connect Stack Exchange?

Open Connections, find Stack Exchange and press Connect. You sign in on Stack Exchange's own page; there's nothing to configure.

What can Cicada do in Stack Exchange?

8 actions: 8 that read from Stack Exchange and 0 that change things in it, for example get sites, get comments, get collectives. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Stack Exchange?

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

Is my Stack Exchange data safe?

Your Stack Exchange 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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