Manage connectors for your workspace

Last updated: September 4, 2026

Connectors link Rhythms to the apps your teams already use — Linear, Google Sheets, Salesforce, HubSpot, Atlassian, Snowflake and roughly two hundred more — so Key Results and Initiatives update themselves and the Rhythms agent can read the right context. Every released connector is switched on when your workspace is created. As a Rhythms Admin you decide which connectors to keep, control which agent tools each connector exposes, and see who has connected what, all from Settings › Workspace › Connectors.

How connectors work: admins enable, people connect

Two different actions are involved, and it helps to keep them apart.

  • Enabling a connector is an admin decision about whether the connector is available in your workspace at all. Every released connector is enabled by default, so there is nothing to switch on and no master toggle to find. Your job as a Rhythms Admin is to switch off the connectors you do not want people to use.
  • Connecting a connector is what each person does with their own account under My connectors, in the bottom-left corner of the sidebar. Almost every connector is user-scoped: the person signs in to the app with their own credentials, and Rhythms can only read what that person can read. A Rhythms Admin can also connect once and share that connection with a team or the whole workspace — see Share a connector with your team.
  • Workspace-level bots are the exception. The Slack bot and the Microsoft Teams bot are installed once for the whole workspace under Settings › Workspace › Collaboration platforms, not on the Connectors page. See Connect Rhythms to Your Favorite Collaboration Platforms.

Open the Connectors page

  1. Click Settings in the sidebar. Only Rhythms Admins see Settings.
  2. Under Workspace, choose Connectors.

The Connectors page lists the whole catalogue, with a search box, category filters and a running total of connectors. Each row shows the connector's name, how many connections exist for it in your workspace, and a status:

  • Enabled — members can connect it.
  • Needs attention — enabled, but at least one connection has an error (usually an expired sign-in) and should be reconnected by its owner.
  • Disabled — you have switched it off for this workspace.
  • Coming soon — in the catalogue but not released yet. You can request it.

Click any row to open a side panel with two tabs, Tools and Connections, described below.

Disable a connector you do not want in the workspace

  1. Find the connector with the Search connectors box.
  2. Open the row's actions menu (the three dots at the right of the row) and choose Disable.
  3. Read the confirmation and click Disable.

Disabling a connector takes effect immediately for everyone in the workspace:

  • Nobody can create a new connection. In My connectors the connector shows an Admin disabled badge.
  • Existing connections stop working. Auto-updates on Key Results and Initiatives that use the connector stop syncing, and the Rhythms agent stops using the connector's tools in chat and in playbooks.
  • Goals keep their configuration and their last synced value; nothing is deleted.

Tell the people who use the connector before you disable it — they lose the data in chats and summaries as well as in auto-updates.

Re-enable a connector

  1. On the Connectors page, open the row's actions menu and choose Enable. Rhythms Admins also see an Enable button on the connector's card in My connectors.
  2. Some connectors show a short set-up note first. Read it and confirm.

Existing connections come back without anyone having to sign in again. If a sign-in expired while the connector was disabled, the connector shows Needs attention and its owner reconnects from My connectors.

Control which agent tools a connector exposes

Most connectors are MCP servers, and each one offers a set of tools — some read data from the connected app, some change it. By default every tool is allowed. Tool controls let you narrow that per connector, and they apply to every connection of that connector, in chat and in playbooks.

  1. Click the connector's row and open the Tools tab. The connector needs at least one working connection before its tools can be listed; until then the panel says "Connect this connector before configuring individual tool access."
  2. Tools are grouped into Read-only tools (read data without changing the connected app) and Write tools (create, edit, delete or trigger changes). Tick or untick individual tools, or use Allow all and Clear all. Use Search tools for long lists.
  3. Click Save controls.

The panel header summarises the result — All tools allowed, Selected tools allowed or No tools allowed — with a count of read and write tools selected. A common pattern is to leave read tools on and switch off write tools for systems that should never be changed from Rhythms.

See who has connected a connector

The Connections tab of the side panel shows one card per connection: who owns it, whether it is healthy or has an error, and how it is shared — Workspace (everyone can use it), Limited with the number of people and teams, or Private (only the owner). Each card has an actions menu with Manage sharing and Disconnect. Disconnecting removes the connection for everyone who uses it, and auto-updates and playbooks that depend on it stop; the confirmation lists what is affected. Click the number in the Connections column for a full-page list of the same connections.

Decide who can add custom connectors

Anyone in the workspace can register their own MCP server from My connectors with Add custom connector. To limit this to admins, open the Custom connector permissions control at the top right of the Connectors page and choose Admins Only instead of All Members. Members then see the Add custom connector button greyed out with a note to contact their workspace admin.

Request a connector that is not in the catalogue

  1. Type the tool's name into Search connectors.
  2. If the tool appears with a Coming soon status, click Request. If nothing matches, enter the name in the box under "Can't find what you're looking for?" and click Request.

You will see "Request submitted. We'll notify you when it's available." Rhythms keeps one request per tool per workspace, so if a colleague already asked you will see Already requested instead. Members can request connectors from My connectors in the same way.

Deprecated connectors

Occasionally a connector is replaced by a better one. A deprecated connector is not available for new connections and cannot be re-enabled, but existing connections keep working until their owners remove them. Today Jira is deprecated in favour of Atlassian, which covers both Jira and Confluence through Atlassian's own MCP server. Ask Jira users to connect Atlassian instead.

Frequently asked questions

Who can manage connectors? Only Rhythms Admins can enable, disable, share, disconnect or set tool controls on connectors. Members connect their own accounts, request connectors and, unless you restrict it, add custom connectors.

Do I need to turn connectors on for my team? No. Every released connector is enabled when the workspace is created. Only disable the ones you do not want.

Can I restrict a connector to certain teams? Not at the connector level — an enabled connector is available to every member. If one team should use a specific account, connect it once and share that connection with the team; other members can still connect their own accounts. Tool controls limit what any connection of the connector can do.

If I disable a connector, do people lose their sign-ins? No. Connections are kept but inactive. Re-enabling the connector restores them; only sign-ins that expired in the meantime need reconnecting.

Can I connect a connector on behalf of my team? Not with their credentials — each person signs in themselves. You can connect with your own account using Connect on the Connectors page or in My connectors, then share that connection with a team or the whole workspace.

Why does a connector show Needs attention? At least one connection has an error, most often an expired or revoked sign-in. Its owner should open My connectors and choose Reconnect.

Do I have to handle API keys or passwords? Not for OAuth connectors, which are the majority — each person signs in through the tool's own login page. A few connectors take a personal access token that the person pastes in; Rhythms stores it encrypted and never shows it again.

Where do Slack and Microsoft Teams live? The Slack and Teams bots that post notifications and answer questions are workspace-level and are installed under Settings › Workspace › Collaboration platforms. The connectors named Slack and Microsoft Teams Messaging on the Connectors page are personal connections for reading messages and meetings.

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