Connect an always-on assistant

Threadlines runs coding agents on your computer. An always-on assistant runs in its maker's cloud. Connecting them lets the assistant tell you what needs you, what finished and what changed, and start work when you ask.

What you need

  • Threadlines on a computer that's on.
  • An assistant that can add a custom connector or plugin. Some need a paid plan.

Connect it

  1. In your assistant, add a custom connector with this address: https://connect.threadlines.dev/mcp
  2. Its sign-in page asks for a code. In Threadlines, open Settings, Connections, Assistants and choose Connect an assistant.
  3. Type the code into the page. Only type it into a page your own assistant just opened.
  4. Threadlines asks you to allow the assistant. Pick its projects, what it can do and its highest access, then choose Allow.

Muse takes a key instead of signing in. Choose Create a key under Add an assistant. Then, in a chat, ask Muse to add a custom connector with the address, and type the key into the box Muse opens for it, never into the chat. Choose Always allow when Muse asks to reach threadlines.dev: Muse gives up on a request after about 45 seconds.

What it can do

  • See threads: your projects, agents, and each thread's status and messages.
  • Start threads: that, plus start threads and message or stop the ones it started.
  • Work with all threads: that, plus message, stop and answer agents' questions in other threads in its projects, up to the highest access you set.

Assistants never answer approvals or plans. Those wait for you in Threadlines. General Chats are never shared. You can change an assistant's access or remove it under Settings, Connections, Assistants.

Hear about things as they happen

ChatGPT dots and Work chats can subscribe to a thread needing you, finishing or failing. Ask them to. Their replies can take a while to start: in our tests, 10 to 25 minutes after the alert. For other assistants, Alerts to a web address under the same settings sends a signed alert to an address you add, such as a Grok routine's webhook.

Good to know

  • Your computer has to be on. While it's asleep or Threadlines is closed, assistants are told it's offline.
  • The relay can read assistant traffic in transit. It doesn't store or log what tools return. The privacy policy has the details.
  • Agents write thread text. Your assistant should treat it as information, not instructions.

If it won't connect

  • Stuck waiting after you choose Allow: reopen the sign-in from your assistant and try again with a new code.
  • The code is refused: codes work once and last 10 minutes. Make a new one.
  • It says the computer is offline: open Threadlines on that computer and check that it's awake.

Still stuck? Get in touch.