Begin AI reads your workspace through your permissions and uses Begin’s official help centre for product guidance. You decide whether it may also search the wider web and read other pages you link, before you send each message.
Sources separates optional Web access from Help centre and System data, which are always on.
Choose what the next message may read
In the composer, open Files, skills and sources → Sources.
The count beside Sources is 3 with web access on and 2 with it off. The choice applies to the next message and is remembered for this workspace in this browser. It does not follow you to another device, and there is no separate workspace setting for web access.
With Web access off, Begin AI can still answer from your workspace and search the official help centre. Specialists working on that message follow the same web access choice.
Expect approval after outside content
Once a help article, web page, search result, uploaded file, or text another person wrote (such as a comment, post, message or note) enters a chat, every later change in that chat shows a card for you to approve. This protection applies even when Approval mode is set to approve automatically or skip approvals, because the outside content may contain instructions you did not write. A loop’s follow-up conversation works this way from its first message, because it opens by quoting the run’s result and the loop’s title. Changes that never show a card, such as editing your post draft or a report, are refused in that chat instead: make them yourself, or ask in a new chat. Start a new chat to use automatic approval again. Switching web access off inside the existing chat does not remove content it has already read.Add another source
The same Files, skills and sources menu offers Upload file for a document or spreadsheet, Add context for a saved report or view, and Skills for saved instructions. An uploaded file counts as outside content. Adding a saved report, view or skill from this menu does not count by itself. Reading a report another member wrote in does count, even its name in a list, because its name and block names are theirs. Begin AI can find a channel, group chat or shared file by name, but it never reads what people said in messages.Next
Using skills in a chat
Add reusable workspace instructions without adding outside content.
Taking actions
Choose which changes need confirmation.
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