What you can ask an assistant to do

Once an assistant is connected, it can reach your account directly. What it may do is set by the permissions on the connection, and there are four of them. Each one covers a different kind of request. This is the same whichever assistant you connected.

Read what you have

With permission to view your ideas, content and profile, an assistant can look through what you have already saved. Ask it to find the ideas you kept about a particular subject, or to remind you what you have written on a theme before.

Bring something new in

With permission to capture thoughts and extract ideas, you can hand it something without opening the app. Tell it what you have been thinking about and it captures that, then pulls content ideas out of it the same way the app does.

Write a draft

With permission to generate content in your voice, it can turn one of your ideas into a finished piece, using the same profile the app uses. The draft comes back in the conversation, so you can push it around before it goes anywhere.

Put a post in the queue

With permission to schedule posts to your connected accounts, it can place a post into your schedule. It reaches the same queue you see on the Schedule page, so a post it adds is a post you can open, change or remove yourself.

The four permissions

Seeing what it has done

Settings, then Connected Apps, lists recent activity under each connection, along with when the assistant was last used. Check there if you want to know what has been happening through the connection.