Connect Ably to your AI agent
Ably is a real-time messaging platform helping developers build live features, including chat and data synchronization, with global scalability and robust reliability for modern applications
We set up the connection using your own Ably account, with keys you control, and keep it running. Your agent picks it up and starts doing the work.
Actions
What your agent can do in Ably
Each one is a real action the agent can take on its own, the same things a person clicking around Ably could do. Read-only by default; write actions are confirmed against your policy.
- Query Batch Presence This tool enables querying the presence states of multiple channels in a single API request. The API retrieves the member presence details of the specified channels in parallel.
- Query Batch Presence History This tool enables querying presence history for multiple channels in a single API request. It uses the GET endpoint at https://rest.ably.io/presence to retrieve the member presence history details of the specified chann…
- Delete Channel Subscription This tool allows you to unsubscribe devices or clients from push notifications for specific channels. The operation is asynchronous, so immediate requests after deletion may briefly still return the subscription.
- Get Channel Details This tool retrieves metadata and details for a specific channel in Ably. It returns a ChannelDetails object containing information about the channel's status, occupancy, and other metadata. The endpoint provides visibil…
- Get Channel History This tool retrieves the message history for a specified Ably channel. It uses the GET /channels/{channelId}/messages endpoint to return a paginated list of messages in chronological order, subject to parameters such as…
- Get Channel Presence Tool to obtain the set of members currently present for a channel. Use when you need to check which clients are currently connected and active on a specific Ably channel.
- Get Message Versions Tool to retrieve all historical versions of a specific message from an Ably channel. Use when you need to track message history, including the original message and all subsequent updates or delete operations. Each versi…
- Get Channel Presence History This tool retrieves the history of presence messages for a specified channel in Ably. It allows you to query presence events on a channel within a given time period.
- Get Push Device Registration Tool to get the full details of a device registration for push notifications. Use when you need to retrieve information about a specific device registered for push notifications, including its platform, state, recipient…
- Get Ably Service Time This tool retrieves the current server time from Ably's service in milliseconds since the epoch. It is particularly useful for time synchronization and generating valid TokenRequest timestamps to prevent replay attacks.…
- Get Application Stats This tool retrieves your application's usage statistics from Ably. The stats endpoint returns a paginated list of your application's usage statistics by minute, hour, day, or month. It supports optional parameters such…
- List Channels Tool to enumerate all active channels in the Ably application. Use when you need to discover available channels or monitor channel activity. Returns paginated results and is heavily rate-limited. Can return either chann…
- List Push Channels Tool to list all channels with at least one subscribed device. Use when you need to discover which channels have active push notification subscriptions in your Ably application.
- List Push Channel Subscriptions This tool retrieves a list of all push notification channel subscriptions. It allows you to view all active push notification subscriptions for channels in your Ably application. Allows filtering by channel, deviceId, a…
- List Registered Push Devices Tool to list all devices registered for receiving push notifications in your Ably application. Use when you need to view, filter, or audit push notification device registrations. Supports filtering by deviceId and clien…
- Patch Push Device Registration Tool to partially update specific attributes of an existing device registration in Ably's push notification system. Use when you need to modify device properties like formFactor, clientId, platform, or push recipient de…
- Batch Publish Messages Tool to batch publish messages to multiple channels in parallel. Use when you need to send the same set of messages to multiple channels simultaneously for efficient broadcasting.
- Publish Message to Channel This tool will allow users to publish a message to a specified Ably channel using a POST request. It covers the essentials like channel name, message data, optional event name/type, and additional metadata for push noti…
- Publish Push Notification Tool to publish a push notification directly to device(s) via Ably's Push Notifications API. Use when you need to send push notifications to specific devices identified by device ID, client ID, or platform-specific toke…
- Batch Publish Push Notifications Tool to batch publish push notifications directly to specific recipients. Use when you need to send multiple push notifications efficiently in a single request. Supports up to 10,000 notifications per batch.
- Register Push Device Tool to register a device for receiving push notifications in Ably. Use when you need to enable push notifications for a specific device across various platforms including iOS (APNs), Android (FCM/GCM), and web browsers…
- Request Access Token Request an access token for Ably authentication. Use this when you need to generate a token with specific capabilities and client identifiers for secure authentication. The token can be used to authenticate clients with…
- Unregister All Push Devices Tool to unregister matching devices for push notifications. Use when you need to remove device registrations from Ably's push notification system. You can filter by deviceId or clientId, but not both simultaneously.
- Unregister Push Device Tool to unregister a single device from push notifications in Ably. Use when you need to remove a device's push notification registration. This permanently removes the device from receiving push notifications until it i…
- Update Push Device Registration Tool to update (upsert) a device registration for push notifications in Ably. Use when registering a new device or updating an existing device's push notification configuration. This is an upsert operation - if the devi…
Setup
How we connect it
- 1
Connect your account
You create a key in Ably, a key you create and control, and paste it in once. It lives in a secrets store on your server, not with us.
- 2
Set the guardrails
Read-only by default. You choose which write actions the agent may take, and anything outside that policy gets confirmed with you first.
- 3
We keep it running
Health checks on every connection, updates handled for you, and we watch the first week of activity to make sure the work lands.
FAQ
Ably questions, answered.
With a key you create and control. You paste it in once, it is stored in a secrets store on your server, permissions are scoped to the minimum the agent needs, and you can revoke it at any time.
The actions Ably's API allows, the same things a person clicking around the app could do. Connections start read-only by default; write actions are confirmed against the policy you set before the agent takes them.
Connections are priced per tool on top of the base plan. Some are included, some are premium. See pricing for how connection charges work.
Standard tools are ready inside 7 business days of the setup call. We test the connection end to end, walk you through how the agent uses it, and watch the first week of activity.
Ready to put Ably to work?
Tell us what your team runs on. We set up the connection, secure it, and your agent takes it from there.
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