Connect Airtable to your AI agent
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
We set up the connection using your own Airtable 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 Airtable
Each one is a real action the agent can take on its own, the same things a person clicking around Airtable could do. Read-only by default; write actions are confirmed against your policy.
- 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 t…
- 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…
- 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.
- Delete Comment Tool to delete a comment from a record in an Airtable table. Use when you need to remove an existing comment. Non-admin users can only delete their own comments; Enterprise Admins can delete any comment.
- Delete multiple records Tool to delete up to 10 specified records from a table within an Airtable base. Use when you need to remove multiple records in a single operation.
- Delete Record Permanently deletes a specific record from an existing table within an existing Airtable base.
- Get Attachment Info Retrieves attachment information from a specific field in an Airtable record. Returns metadata including file URLs, sizes, types, and thumbnails for all attachments in the specified field. Use this action when you need…
- Get Base Schema Retrieves the detailed schema for a specified Airtable base, including its tables, fields, field types, and configurations, using the `baseId`.
- Get Record Retrieves a specific record from an Airtable table by its record ID. Requires a known, valid record ID obtained from listing records or another API call - this tool cannot search or list records. Use the list records to…
- Get user information Retrieves information, such as ID and permission scopes, for the currently authenticated Airtable user from the `/meta/whoami` endpoint.
- List bases Retrieves all Airtable bases accessible to the authenticated user, which may include an 'offset' for pagination.
- List Comments Tool to list comments on a specific Airtable record. Use when retrieving comments for a record, with optional pagination support for large comment threads.
- List records Tool to list records from an Airtable table with filtering, sorting, and pagination. Use when you need to retrieve multiple records from a table with optional query parameters.
- Update Comment Tool to update an existing comment on a specific Airtable record. Use when modifying comment text or updating user mentions using @[userId] syntax. API users can only update comments they have created.
- Update Field Updates a field's name or description in an Airtable table. Use this action to modify field metadata without changing the field's type or options. At least one of 'name' or 'description' must be provided.
- Update multiple records Tool to update up to 10 records in an Airtable table with selective field modifications. Use when you need to modify multiple existing records or perform upsert operations. Updates are not performed atomically.
- Update multiple records (PUT) Tool to destructively update multiple records in Airtable using PUT, clearing unspecified fields. Use when you need to fully replace record data or perform upsert operations. Supports up to 10 records per request.
- Update record Modifies specified fields of an existing record in an Airtable base and table; the base, table, and record must exist.
- Update record (PUT) Updates an existing record in an Airtable base using PUT method. Use when you want to replace all field values, clearing any unspecified fields. For partial updates that preserve unspecified fields, use the PATCH-based…
- Update Table Updates the name, description, and/or date dependency settings of a table in Airtable. Use this action to modify table metadata without changing the table's fields or views. At least one of 'name', 'description', or 'da…
- Upload attachment Uploads a file attachment to a specified field in an Airtable record. Use when you need to add a file to an attachment field. The file must be provided as a base64-encoded string.
Setup
How we connect it
- 1
Connect your account
You log in with your own Airtable account. We never see your password, and you can revoke access from Airtable at any time.
- 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.
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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
Airtable questions, answered.
You sign in with your own Airtable account. Permissions are scoped to the minimum the agent needs, the connection is health-checked, and you can revoke access from Airtable at any time.
The actions Airtable'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 Airtable 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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