AI and agents in Automation - Collabase

AI in Automation is optional. Without an AI model on your instance or in the workspace, flows that use AI cannot be published, and everything else keeps working.

What you can do

You want to	Use
Summarise, classify or draft text in a flow	The Ask the model step. It sends one question and returns the answer as text.
Let a model work out the steps to reach a goal	The Agent step, with tools.
Choose which model is used and set a budget	The AI provider of the workspace.
Describe a step in a sentence, or ask what went wrong in a run	Build with AI.
Use your flows from Claude, Cursor or your own agent	The MCP server of the workspace.
Let people talk to a flow in a browser	The chat page.

Safe by design

An agent can only do what its tools allow, and a tool can ask a person first.
Text from outside, such as the data a flow was started with or what a search returns, is handed to the model as data and not as instructions.
Calls to the model go out from Collabase. A plug of the sandbox never sees the key of your provider.
The assistants never publish a flow.

Last modified on October 26, 2026