Currents API, 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 Currents API 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.
- News & Lifestyle
- Connects with a key
- 5 ready-made tools
- Asked in Slack or Teams
An illustration of how the conversation reads, not a transcript from a client account.
What Currents API is
Currents News API provides access to the latest news articles from various sources worldwide, supporting multiple languages and categories.
You paste in a key from your own Currents API account. It is kept encrypted, and you can withdraw it from inside Currents API whenever you like.
One message in, the work done in Currents API.
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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 Currents API. 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 Currents API 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 Currents API
These are the ready-made tools your AI employee already has in Currents API. It is not limited to them, but it never has to be taught these.
- Activities WatchTool to start a notification channel to watch activities for a specified user and application. Use when needing to receive push notifications for user activity; call after OAuth cr
- Get Entity Usage ReportsTool to retrieve usage statistics for a specific Google Workspace entity. Use when you need to analyze entity usage on a particular date.
- Get User Usage ReportTool to retrieve the usage report for a specified user on a given date. Use after confirming the userKey and date. Use when detailed usage metrics are needed for auditing or monito
- List Latest NewsTool to retrieve the latest news articles from Currents News API. Use when you need a real-time feed of recent articles.
- List UsersTool to list users in a Google Workspace domain. Note: - When the provided baseurl points to Currents News API (api.currentsapi.services), this action will gracefully fall back to
You stay the boss of your Currents API 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 Currents API 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 Currents API 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 Currents API 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 Currents API
- Can an AI employee really work inside Currents API?
- Yes. It signs in to your own Currents API 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 Currents API?
- No. Nothing moves and nothing is replaced. Your records stay in Currents API, 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 Currents API account?
- You paste in a key from your own Currents API account. It is kept encrypted, and you can withdraw it from inside Currents API 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 Currents API?
- It has 5 ready-made tools in Currents API today, among them Activities Watch, Get Entity Usage Reports and Get User Usage Report. The full list is on this page. It is not limited to those, but it never has to be taught them.
- Can it use Currents API 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 Currents API 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 Currents API?
- 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 Currents API is written down with what it did and when.