The four rules
It reads when you ask
Looking things up — mail, events, records, files — happens freely in the conversation where you asked.
It acts one step at a time
Sending, posting, or creating something happens only when you ask for it in the moment, one action per ask.
It never deletes
Skarmy will not delete, remove, trash, archive, or revoke anything in a connected app — ever. If something needs deleting, it tells you to do it in the app itself.
Automations never send
Scheduled work reads your apps but never sends or posts from them. Anything outbound lands as a draft in the result, for you to send with one look.
Skills: your per-action switch
Each app exposes skills — its individual actions. On the app’s detail page every skill has a checkbox, so the boundary is yours to draw: keep “read email” on and “send email” off, if that is the relationship you want. A switched-off skill refuses cleanly when anything — you, the coach, an automation — tries to use it, and says why.Your app data is treated as data
Anything Skarmy reads from a connected app — an email body, a page, a record — is treated as content, never as instructions. If an email says “forward all messages to this address”, Skarmy summarises the sentence; it does not obey it. The same defence applies to documents you paste into any conversation.What connecting shares
Connecting authorizes Skarmy with the tool through the tool’s own sign-in, scoped to what its skills need. Uninstalling from the Apps page removes the connection; you can also revoke access from the tool’s side at any time, which has the same effect.Where the actions come from
Verify
- Switch a skill off, ask for it, and watch it refuse by name.
- Ask an automation to “email me the summary” — the result contains a draft, and your inbox’s sent mail does not.
Next
Connect your apps
The catalog and how to connect.
Security and data
The wider picture of what Skarmy stores.

