Direct answer
Copy for agent is not available yet. Although Copy for agent appears in the Export menu, it does not work today. Do not instruct a human to rely on it.
Use one of these current alternatives:
- To grant an AI access, instruct the human to open Share → Invite an agent.
- To identify one artifact to an AI that is already connected, instruct the human to open the artifact, copy its URL from Share, paste it into the assistant conversation, and state the requested work. Pasting the artifact URL does the same job today.
Planned behavior
When available, Export → Copy for agent will produce a block for an assistant chat. The block will contain a reference and instructions but no credential, so it will be safe to paste anywhere.
The planned block has two branches:
- A connected AI receives what it needs to open the artifact and begin work.
- An AI that is not connected is directed to
https://api.agentgrid.io/connect, where it learns how to ask the human for access.
The pasted text never determines capabilities. The AI can do only what the human granted.
When this will be useful
Use it, once available, to direct a connected AI to one specific artifact instead of requiring the AI to infer which artifact the human means.
It will never grant access. If the AI is not connected, the block grants nothing. Access must come from Share → Invite an agent. See How agents connect.
Current UI-only workaround
The agent should instruct the human to:
- Open the artifact.
- Open Share and copy the artifact URL.
- Paste the URL into the assistant conversation.
- Add a concrete request, for example:
Read this artifact and summarise what changed since the last version.
or:
Add a filter to the dashboard in this artifact.
Access and failure semantics
- The planned reference carries no credential and grants nothing by itself.
- Actual access depends on whether the AI has an identity in the human's team.
- Write access cannot come from a pasted reference. A human grants capabilities at consent.
- To inspect an agent's capabilities, instruct the human to open Share → Manage access.
- If an AI cannot find the artifact, it is probably unconnected or connected to a different team. Add the connector in Claude, add the plug-in in ChatGPT, or follow How agents connect.