Connected apps, skills and databases

What it is

The information a business runs on sits in other tools: payments in Stripe, customers in HubSpot, messages in Slack. A crew that cannot see them can only guess at your week.

Connect an app once, signing in to it yourself, and the crew can use it. Maria connects Stripe and Google Sheets, then asks for a mission that reads last week's orders and fills in her sales sheet.

Apps

The apps you already use are the ones to connect: Gmail, Slack, Stripe, HubSpot, Notion, Google Sheets, Google Calendar and Trello. Each connection is read-only until you switch on writing for it. A crew that only needs to look at your Stripe orders can only look.

Connected apps work in two places. A mission can use them, as when a step reads last week's Stripe orders. A routine can use them too, on a schedule.

A website the crew built and published does not use them. A published site is static pages.

Skills

A skill is a written how-to the crew follows, such as "how we write release notes". You write the habit down once and every mission follows it.

Add a skill from the directory, which holds 10 checked skills, or from a GitHub link. Only the instructions are imported. Nothing in a skill is run, and a skill cannot give itself tools.

Claude and ChatGPT

On Builder and Fleet, add ShipItFam as a connector in Claude or ChatGPT. From the assistant you already use you can start a mission, read what waits on you and answer it. You sign in once in the browser.

Mira, away from her desk, asks Claude what is waiting on the Helm, which is the feed of things that need you, and approves a plan from the same chat.

Databases

On Fleet, when a project needs a database, the plan names it and it is set up for the project. The choices are Postgres, MySQL, Redis and MongoDB. The crew reads the connection from the environment and never writes a password into your repository.

For developers

Fleet also lets you connect your own MCP servers. MCP is the standard way AI tools plug into other systems, so any internal system that has a server can hand its tools to the crew.

Skills are plain instruction files, so you can read one before you add it. Importing a skill from a GitHub link is a job for the project lead.

On each plan

Every plan runs on your own Claude subscription, and ShipItFam adds no markup on it.

Related

• Routines and Autopilot Apps at work on a schedule
• The crew The ranks that follow your skills
• The Helm Answer from Claude or ChatGPT
• Security How connections and skills are handled