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Connect trusted assistants to selected family lists with explicit read or write permissions, expiration, auditing, and instant revocation.

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Choose a family
Grant minimum scopes
Connect an MCP client
Review and revoke access

Every connection is bound to one family.

Read and write permissions are granted separately.

OAuth connections and scoped keys can be revoked immediately.

In this guide

Section 01

What a connected assistant can do

A trusted assistant can use Familiar as shared household context—for example, planning meals from the current shopping list, adding the missing ingredients, preparing chores, or creating a note. It only receives the tools permitted by the connection you create.

  • Shopping read or write access.
  • Chore read or create access.
  • Note read or create access.
  • No access to billing, passwords, invitations, or other families.

Section 02

Connect safely

  1. 1Open Integrations and select the active family.
  2. 2Name the assistant so you can recognize it later.
  3. 3Start with read-only scopes and add write access only when necessary.
  4. 4For ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or VS Code, copy the MCP URL and approve access in Familiar browser consent screen.
  5. 5For a developer client that cannot use OAuth, create a scoped key and store the one-time value in its secret manager.
  6. 6Revoke the connection immediately if a device, client, or credential is no longer trusted.

Treat the credential like a password

Familiar stores only a hash and cannot reveal the credential again. Do not paste it into chats, screenshots, or public configuration files.

Section 03

You remain in control

Every request rechecks that the connection is active, unexpired, still belongs to a current family member, and has the exact required scope. Tool use is recorded for operational auditing without storing the credential itself.

Section 04

How agents learn Familiar tools and data shape

Connected agents should call familiar_read_documentation before using household data. The response describes available domains, scope rules, core record shapes, safety expectations, and the canonical Markdown documentation URL.

The complete public product guide is also available at /docs/familiar.md. It contains no private household data and can be copied or saved from the Help Center.

  • Shopping items include IDs, names, descriptions, quantity, priority, completion state, and planning fields.
  • Chores include IDs, titles, assignments, difficulty, urgency, due state, and completion workflow.
  • Notes include IDs, titles, content, sharing state, tags, reminders, comments, and attachments when enabled.
  • Every private read or write remains bound to the approved family and Familiar scope.
  • Useful starter workflows include meal planning, recurring restocks, turning shared notes into chores, and scheduled read-only list summaries.

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