Everyday decision 03 of 10
Connect with control: what your agent can reach, and what it remembers
Your agent can only use what you connect, and it keeps what it saves. This page covers both: access you approve, and memories you review.
Example 01 of 02
Connecting an app to your agent? Check what it can reach.
Give an app only the access the task needs. Tracking your spending needs your transactions. It doesn't need your email, or the ability to move money.
Right now
Tap each step as you do it.
All three done.
If you already connected it
- Open your agent's connected-apps settings and remove access you don't need, or disconnect the app.
- If it could reach your email or accounts, look for activity you don't recognize. If you find any, change the password and turn on two-step verification.
The pattern
Permission screens ask once, all at once, right when you want the thing to work, and "Allow" is the fastest button. After that, an agent can use what you approved again and again without asking.
The access that matters most isn't reading. It's acting: sending as you, deleting, paying.
What Agency Check shows
Say "Check this first before I connect that app."
Track my spending.
Connect the budgeting app to your agent.
- It could send email as you without asking you first
- It could move money between your accounts without asking you first
- read your email
- send email as you
- move money between your accounts
Agency Check reviewed what you shared. You decide what happens next.
Example 02 of 02Coming soon
What has your agent learned about you?
Your agent may save details from your conversations to use later. Look through them now and then, and keep only what helps.
Right now
Tap each step as you do it.
All three done.
If something sensitive already showed up somewhere
Remove the memory, then check where it appeared (a draft, a shared plan or a suggestion) and fix that too.
The pattern
Memories get saved in passing, from a search or a planning chat, and they can come back later in drafts, suggestions or family plans. The ones that matter most are often about other people.
What Agency Check shows
Say "Agency Check what you learned about me this week."
- Leo has a peanut allergy: suggest limit
- Going through a separation: suggest forget
- Looking at apartments on the east side: suggest forget
- "My sister-in-law is exhausting": suggest forget
Agency Check reviewed the memories your agent shared. You decide what happens next.
What this check looks at
- Access a connected app asks for that the task doesn't need
- Access that would let it send, delete or pay without asking you first
- Saved memories that are sensitive, or that are about other people
When it says Clarify one thing: when an app asks for more access than the task needs. It asks one question, "What should it be able to do?", and your answer decides the next step. It never changes a setting for you.
Coming soon to Muse and any agent chat
How to use it
Before your agent acts, say it out loud or type it. Agency Check reviews what you shared and hands back one Decision Card.
See how Agency Check works"Check this first before I connect that app."
Questions
What access does an app connected to my agent really need?
Only what the task needs. A spending tracker needs your transactions. It doesn't need your email, and it doesn't need to move money.
Why does "send" or "pay" access matter more than "read"?
Reading shows the app your information. Sending or paying lets it act as you, and your agent may use that access without asking again.
Does Agency Check change my settings or delete memories?
No. It shows what it found and suggests what to change. You make the change.
Other everyday decisions
Sources
Frameworks behind this check
Research and guidance
- FTC Consumer Advice, "How Websites and Apps Collect and Use Your Information"consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-protect-your-privacy-apps
Last reviewed September 27, 2026. Agency Check is an independent tool from Cyber Strategy Institute, built on its open frameworks and coming soon to Muse and any agent chat. Muse is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc.All ten checks on the Agency Check hub