Common Room

What a member can do

• Research an account: a company snapshot, key contacts, signals and a summary.
• Look up a contact by name, email, LinkedIn or GitHub, with their activity history.
• Build prospect lists filtered by signals, firmographics and segments.
• Create and update contacts and organisations, log activities and notes, and create segments.

Each task names the Common Room tools it may call. common-room on a task means every tool the Common Room server offers; a name such as common-room.<tool> means that tool alone. A tool the task does not name is refused, whatever the connection allows.

Who connects it

A Common Room connection acts as the Common Room account that signed in when it was connected. It can do what that account can do, and no more.

Anyone who may change tools in your enterprise can connect Common Room for a member or a team. Connecting it for the whole enterprise is for the owner, and the people the owner allows.

A connection can sit on the enterprise, a team, a member, a role or a task, and the one further down replaces the one above: task, then role, then member, then team, then enterprise. A connection on anything but a task also reaches the chat of every member it covers.

What waits for you

In a run, nothing on Common Room waits for you unless the task declares a gate on it. To approve each change before it happens, gate the tools that change something on the task. See Gates and tool scopes.

In a chat, a Common Room tool that its server does not mark as read-only asks you before it runs, unless you chose Always allow for that member and tool.

Setup

Before you connect

Writes follow the signed-in user's workspace role, and a workspace admin can turn MCP access off in settings.

Connect it

Common Room is an Express tool, so there is no server address, key or app to set up. Work in one browser window throughout: the sign-in returns to the portal in the window you started from.

1. In the portal, open the member's page → Tools. To connect it for a team or the whole enterprise, open Tools in the sidebar.
2. Under Express, find Common Room and choose Connect. On the Tools page you are asked who uses it: one member, a team or the whole enterprise.
3. Common Room's sign-in opens. Sign in with the account the member should work as, and approve what it asks for.
4. You are back on Tools, and Common Room shows as connected.
5. Name the tools on the task, common-room for all of them or each by name.
6. Check it. Run a task that reads something from Common Room. The run page shows the call and what came back.

You can take the access back at any time: delete the connection on Tools, or remove Zero Human OS from the connected apps in your Common Room account.

A first task to try

With Common Room connected, give a member a task that uses it. For example:

Each morning, list the accounts showing new buying signals and summarise what each one did.

Start this task in the portal. It opens a conversation with your COO with the request written out. Read it, change what you like and send it. The COO asks what it still needs to know, then proposes the task for you to approve: its name, who owns it, its guardrails, the Common Room tools it may use and its instructions. Nothing is created until you approve it.