Ably, worked by an AI employee
Not another app for your team to learn, and not a set of rules for you to build. You hire an AI employee, you give it access to your Ably account, and you ask it for things in Slack or Teams the way you would ask anyone else on the team. There is nothing to map and nothing to maintain.
- Developer Tools
- Connects with a key
- 11 ready-made tools
- Asked in Slack or Teams
An illustration of how the conversation reads, not a transcript from a client account.
What Ably is
Ably is a real-time messaging platform helping developers build live features, including chat and data synchronization, with global scalability and robust reliability for modern applications
You paste in a key from your own Ably account. It is kept encrypted, and you can withdraw it from inside Ably whenever you like.
One message in, the work done in Ably.
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You ask
You message your AI employee in the chat your team already has open, in one sentence, in your own words.
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It works out the step
It decides what the job needs in Ably. You do not pick anything from a menu or wire anything together.
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It does the work
Signed in to your own Ably account, inside the access you granted it, doing the thing you asked for.
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It reports back
It tells you what it did, in the same thread. If it could not do something, it says so rather than guessing.
What it can do in Ably
These are the ready-made tools your AI employee already has in Ably. It is not limited to them, but it never has to be taught these.
- Create Ably ChannelCreates a new channel or retrieves an existing channel in ably. this tool allows you to programmatically create and initialize channels for real-time messaging. since ably creates
- Delete Channel SubscriptionThis tool allows you to unsubscribe devices or clients from push notifications for specific channels. the operation is asynchronous, so immediate requests after deletion may briefl
- Get Ably Service TimeThis tool retrieves the current server time from ably's service in milliseconds since the epoch. it is particularly useful for time synchronization and generating valid tokenreques
- Get Application StatsThis tool retrieves your application's usage statistics from ably. the stats endpoint returns a paginated list of your application's usage statistics by minute, hour, day, or month
- Get Channel DetailsThis tool retrieves metadata and details for a specific channel in ably. it returns a channeldetails object containing information about the channel's status, occupancy, and other
- Get Channel HistoryThis tool retrieves the message history for a specified ably channel. it uses the get /channels/{channelid}/messages endpoint to return a paginated list of messages in chronologica
- Get Channel Presence HistoryThis tool retrieves the history of presence messages for a specified channel in ably. it allows you to query presence events on a channel within a given time period.
- List Push Channel SubscriptionsThis tool retrieves a list of all push notification channel subscriptions. it allows you to view all active push notification subscriptions for channels in your ably application. a
- Publish Message to ChannelThis tool will allow users to publish a message to a specified ably channel using a post request. it covers the essentials like channel name, message data, optional event name/type
- Query Batch PresenceThis tool enables querying the presence states of multiple channels in a single api request. the api retrieves the member presence details of the specified channels in parallel.
- Query Batch Presence HistoryThis tool enables querying presence history for multiple channels in a single api request. it uses the get endpoint at https://rest.ably.io/presence to retrieve the member presence
You stay the boss of your Ably account.
Nothing connects until you approve it. You grant access one app at a time, you can take it back the same way, and everything your AI employee does in there is written down where you can see it.
How we handle your data- It signs in to your own Ably account. You are not moving anything into ours.
- You grant access one app at a time, and you can take it back the same way.
- Everything it does in Ably is written down, with what it did and when.
- Anything you tell it to check with you first, it checks with you first.
It works in Ably and the rest of your software in the same job
A real job rarely stays in one place. Reading a message in one app, checking a record in another and writing the result in a third is one request to your AI employee, not three.
Questions people ask about Ably
- Can an AI employee really work inside Ably?
- Yes. It signs in to your own Ably account and works in it the way a new hire would, from the chat your team already has open. Nobody installs anything, and nobody learns a new screen.
- Do I have to move anything out of Ably?
- No. Nothing moves and nothing is replaced. Your records stay in Ably, your team carries on in the same screens they used yesterday, and your AI employee works alongside them in there.
- How does it get into my Ably account?
- You paste in a key from your own Ably account. It is kept encrypted, and you can withdraw it from inside Ably whenever you like. You approve it before anything connects, and you can take the access back the same way you gave it.
- What can it actually do in Ably?
- It has 11 ready-made tools in Ably today, among them Create Ably Channel, Delete Channel Subscription and Get Ably Service Time. The full list is on this page. It is not limited to those, but it never has to be taught them.
- Can it use Ably and the rest of my software in the same job?
- Yes, and that is usually the point. Reading a message in one app, checking a record in Ably and writing the result somewhere else is one request to your AI employee, not three separate ones you stitch together.
- Who decides what it is allowed to do in Ably?
- You do. You grant access one app at a time and can withdraw it at any time, anything you ask it to check with you first it checks with you first, and everything it does in Ably is written down with what it did and when.