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title: AI tools overview
description: What happens when you connect Claude, Cursor or your own agent to Vythos — and what changes about the work they produce.
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<span class="vy-eyebrow">AI tools</span>

# AI tools

A capable AI tool with no idea what your agency charges will write a confident
proposal at a made-up rate. Not because it's careless — because nobody told it.

Connecting your tools to Vythos tells it. Your rules travel to the place the
work is being written.

## What a connected tool can do

| It can | What that means in practice |
|---|---|
| **Ask for the rules that apply to a task** | "Write a proposal for Acme" returns Acme's terms ahead of your defaults, with the current version of each |
| **Check a draft before it goes out** | Words your brand rules ban, payment terms that contradict the rule it was given — each reported with the rule it breaks |
| **Search your own memory** | "What did we quote them last time?" — from your material, not from guesswork |
| **Report what it did** | Which rules it followed, and where it knowingly departed and why |

## How it connects

Through **MCP**, the Model Context Protocol — the way AI tools connect to
outside systems. Anything that speaks MCP can connect: Claude Desktop, Claude
Code, Cursor, Windsurf, custom agents.

You don't need to know the protocol. In the app, **AI tools** gives you the
address and a ready-made snippet per tool. See
[Connect a tool](/ai-tools/connect).

## What the tool receives

Not your whole Playbook. The rules that bear on the task, for the client named,
within the access of the person whose key it is, ordered so the tool knows
which beats which — plus the values stated as values, a note of anything
relevant that was left out, and who your agency is and which clients you have.

See [What your agent receives](/ai-tools/what-agents-receive).

## What it can't do

- **See past permissions.** A key carries the access of the person who made it.
  A freelancer's tool gets what the freelancer gets.
- **Change your Playbook.** Nothing an agent reports becomes a rule. Ever.
- **Reach another person's memory.** Memory is private to each person, and a
  key doesn't widen that.

## What changes for you

The visible change is fewer corrections: fewer proposals at the wrong rate,
fewer drafts using the three words a client hates.

The less obvious one is that you can see which rules are actually being used.
When a tool reports what it followed, and what it deliberately departed from
and why, you learn which rules work and which ones everyone quietly routes
around — usually because they're out of date.

## Getting started

1. [Connect a tool](/ai-tools/connect) — five minutes per tool.
2. Ask it to do a real piece of work for a named client.
3. Ask it to check the draft before you send it.