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Files

No folder can be granted today. This page is how file access works, kept for the day the Windows app is back: which folders it may work in, and what it does there.

NoteThere is no folder to grant at the moment. File access belongs to the Windows app, and the download page has no installer while that app is rebuilt around accounts, so everything below is how granting will work once it ships. The chat in your browser reaches no folder at all: it sees the files you attach to a message and nothing else.
Granted folder
A folder you allowed the app to work in, with everything inside it. Until you grant one, the app has no file access at all; an empty list means no, never everything.

Granting a folder

The first time a task needs a folder, the desktop app asks whether it may work there. Say yes and the folder is granted for good, until you remove it. Settings, Tools, lists the granted folders; add or remove them there any time. Your whole drive is a folder too, if you want that.

What it does

  • Reads, creates, renames, moves and edits files
  • Lists and searches folders (by name, by what is inside)
  • Organises folders (by type, by date, by what is inside)
  • Reads documents, spreadsheets and code to answer questions about them

What it asks first

Deleting, overwriting, and moving things out of a granted folder are asked about before they happen. See Approvals and safety.

What leaves your computer

Only what the task needs: the contents of the files it reads for that task go to the AI model to work on and are not used for training. Nothing is uploaded ahead of time, and nothing outside a granted folder is read.

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