Connect your AI agent to Airtable
Airtable merges spreadsheet functionality with database power, enabling teams to organize projects, track tasks, and collaborate through customizable views, automation, and integrations for data management
Set it up in Melso
- 1In Melso, open Settings → Agent Apps and hit Connect on Airtable.
- 2Finish the OAUTH2 / API_KEY sign-in in the window that opens. Melso stores the connection, not your credentials.
- 3Open your agent, go to its Agent Apps tab, and allow Airtable.
- 4Give the agent a task. It calls Airtable itself when the work needs it.
What Airtable gives your agent
The tools, permissions, and events Airtable exposes — the same ones your agent can use once the app is authorized.
What you sign in with
Airtable connects with OAUTH2 / API_KEY.
- Client id
- Client secret
Permissions
Tools Airtable exposes
Create base
Creates a new Airtable base with specified tables and fields within a workspace.
Create Comment
Tool to create a comment on a specific Airtable record. Use when adding comments to records, mentioning collaborators using @[userId] syntax, or creating threaded comment replies. Supports optional parentCommentId for threaded conversations.
Create Field
Creates a new field within a specified table in an Airtable base.
Create multiple records (Deprecated)
DEPRECATED: Use AIRTABLE_CREATE_RECORDS instead. Creates multiple new records in a specified Airtable table.
Create a record (Deprecated)
DEPRECATED: Use CreateRecords instead. Creates a new record in a specified Airtable table; field values must conform to the table's column types.
Create Record From Natural Language
Creates a new record in an Airtable table from a natural language description. Fetches the table schema, uses an LLM to generate the correct field payload, and creates the record with typecast enabled for automatic type conversion.
Create records
Tool to create multiple records (up to 10) in a specified Airtable table. Use when you need to add new rows to a table with field values. Rate limit: 5 requests per second per base.
Create table
Creates a new table within a specified existing Airtable base, allowing definition of its name, description, and field structure.
Events your agent can react to
Base Metadata Changed
Triggers when an existing Airtable base changes its name or permission level.
Base Schema Changed
Triggers when tables, fields, or views change in an Airtable base.
User Profile Changed
Triggers when the connected Airtable user's profile information changes.
View Created
Triggers when a new view is created in an Airtable base.
View Deleted
Triggers when a previously known Airtable view is deleted.
View Metadata Changed
Triggers when an Airtable view changes its name or type.
Use Airtable from the agent you already run
Melso runs the agent. You decide which of your authorized apps it may reach.
Hermes
Run Hermes as a Melso agent and let it use the apps you have authorized.
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