Web app

The Airbyte Agents web app at app.airbyte.ai is the fastest way to use Airbyte Agents without writing code. Describe what you want in natural language, and Airbyte picks the right connectors, makes the necessary tool calls, and replies with an answer grounded in your data.

Use the web app when you want Airbyte itself to be your agent. For Python agents you build yourself, use the SDK. For agents in any other language, use the API. For agents that already speak Model Context Protocol, use the MCP server.

Chats and Automations

The web app has two primary surfaces for working with an Airbyte agent.

• Chats: Interactive conversations with an Airbyte agent. Ask a question, iterate on the answer, and explore your data in natural language. Chats are the fastest way to get a one-off answer or prototype an idea.
• Automations: Agent tasks that run without a person in the loop. Trigger an Automation manually, on a schedule, or from a webhook. Use Automations when you need the same work to happen repeatedly and reliably.

Every Chat and Automation runs against the connectors you've authenticated in your workspace. Manage connectors from the Credentials page in the sidebar. For the catalog of available connectors, see Agent connectors.

Set up connectors and context

Administrators can add connectors and configure the Context Store from the web app.

• Add a connector: Authenticate data sources so agents in Chats, Automations, and every other interface can use them.
• Context Store: Configure the searchable replica of select entities from your connected data sources that powers grounded answers and large-scale analytics.

Related administration

Other parts of the web app are covered in Account and administration:

• Profile for account settings.
• Sessions for the run history of every Chat and Automation in your organization.
• Review tool calls for inspecting and approving deferred tool calls.
• Billing for plans, usage, and invoices.

Chats

A Chat is a conversation between you and an Airbyte agent in the web app. You send a prompt, the agent decides which connectors to use and which tool calls to make, and it replies with an answer grounded in your data. Chats are the fastest way to explore data, get a one-off answer, or prototype an idea before turning it into a reusable Automation.

Automations

An Automation is an agent task that runs on its own, without a human in the loop. You describe what you want done once, pick how you want to trigger it—manually, on a schedule, or from a webhook—and Airbyte runs the task every time the trigger fires. Automations are the right choice when you need the same work to happen repeatedly, reliably, and without someone sitting at a keyboard.

Add a connector

Before an Airbyte agent can read from or write to a data source, someone has to authenticate that source for the workspace. In the web app, that happens on the Credentials page. Adding a connector means picking a workspace, picking a data source, and completing an authentication flow once; after that, every interface you use—Chats, Automations, the SDK, the API, and the MCP server—can use the resulting connector.