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Connect Airtable
Read and update records across your Airtable bases.
Create the personal access token
- Visit airtable.com/create/tokens and click “Create new token”.
- Name it “Cortex”.
- Add scopes: data.records:read to look things up, data.records:write to let AIs add or edit records, and schema.bases:read so tables and fields can be discovered.
- Under “Access”, add the bases (or whole workspaces) the token may touch.
- Create the token and copy it — Airtable shows it once.
Why those scopes
Scopes are the verbs, base access is the nouns: schema.bases:read lets your AIs learn what tables exist, data.records:read lets them read rows, and data.records:write is only needed if they should change anything. A token without base access sees nothing at all, no matter its scopes.
Paste it into Cortex
- Connect AI page → Connected tools → “Connect a tool” → pick Airtable.
- Paste the token into the “Personal access token” field and click Connect.
Confirm it worked
After the tool-count check passes, ask a connected AI to “list records from <your table> in Airtable”.