[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":19},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f2ag6v4gzds6ky":3},{"href":4,"title":5,"description":6,"kind":7,"mark":7,"planned":8,"contributors":9,"provenance":7,"express":8,"html":10,"headings":11},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ftools\u002Fbridges","Bridges","The Zero Human bridges: what each reads, what it writes, and how to connect it.",null,false,[],"\u003Cp>A bridge lets your team's tasks use a system that has no direct connection of its own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Members call tools through MCP, the Model Context Protocol: a standard way for an AI to call another system's\ntools. Many systems offer an MCP server of their own, which you connect directly. A bridge is an MCP server in front of a\nsystem that has no hosted MCP server of its own, or whose sign-in a connection cannot use. A member reaches a bridge\nas it reaches any other tool: through a connection on \u003Cstrong>Tools\u003C\u002Fstrong> in the portal, signed in with your own account at the\nvendor. In a run, a member reaches it only through the tools the task names.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"the-bridges\">The bridges\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"\u002Fdocs\u002Ftools\u002Fgoogle\">Google Search Console and GA4\u003C\u002Fa>: read-only. It reads Search Console and GA4, and writes nothing.\nFrom Search Console it reads search performance, index status and sitemaps; from GA4, reports and realtime data.\nZero Human hosts it, and you connect it by signing in with Google.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"\u002Fdocs\u002Ftools\u002Fpostmark\">Postmark\u003C\u002Fa>: reads sent messages and templates, and writes: it sends email and changes templates.\nIt also reads bounces, suppressions and delivery statistics, and changes suppressions and webhooks. You run it\nyourself, in front of Postmark's own server.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Cp>Each bridge's page names every tool it serves, under the name a task uses, and says what it reads, what it writes,\nwho signs in, what waits for you, and its limits and cost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"what-every-bridge-has-in-common\">What every bridge has in common\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Your own account.\u003C\u002Fstrong> A bridge signs in to the vendor as your account, and reaches only what that account can.\nNo account, key or rule of one enterprise is shared with another.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>In a run, only the tools the task names.\u003C\u002Fstrong> A tool the task does not name is refused, whatever the connection\nallows. A connection on a member, team, role or the enterprise also reaches the \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fdocs\u002Fwork\u002Fchat\">chat\u003C\u002Fa> of every\nmember it covers, with every tool the bridge serves; a connection on a task never reaches chat.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>In a run, a write waits only when the task gates it.\u003C\u002Fstrong> To approve each change before it is made, gate the tool\nthat makes it. See \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fdocs\u002Fcontrol\u002Fgates\">Gates and tool scopes\u003C\u002Fa>. In a chat, a tool its server does not mark\nread-only asks you before it runs, unless you chose \u003Cstrong>Always allow\u003C\u002Fstrong> for that member and tool.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>No Zero Human charge of its own.\u003C\u002Fstrong> A bridge's calls happen inside runs, and your plan counts those runs as it\ncounts any other. Any charge the vendor makes is on your own account with that vendor.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Who hosts it changes what running it costs.\u003C\u002Fstrong> A bridge Zero Human hosts, as it hosts Google's, has nothing for\nyou to run or pay for. A bridge you run yourself, as you run Postmark's, also costs whatever the place you host it\ncharges.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Cp>A system whose vendor hosts an MCP server a binding can use needs no bridge: you bind the vendor's own server, as\nthe guides in the \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fdocs\u002Ftools\">Tools directory\u003C\u002Fa> show.\u003C\u002Fp>\n",[12,16],{"id":13,"text":14,"level":15,"planned":8},"the-bridges","The bridges",2,{"id":17,"text":18,"level":15,"planned":8},"what-every-bridge-has-in-common","What every bridge has in common",1793379252797]