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name: connectors-and-capabilities
description: "Records which connectors are live and what each enables. Use when a person asks to install or apply \"Connectors & Capabilities\" (FTR-05) in a project, or when working in a project that has it installed."
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# Connectors & Capabilities (FTR-05, version 1.0)

> Generated from library record FTR-05 version 1.0, publish 20261102a. Review status: unreviewed. The complete specification is in references/spec.md and is the authority; this file is the operating procedure drawn from it.

## What this does

Records which connectors are live and what each enables

## When to use this skill

- A person asks to install, apply or update "Connectors & Capabilities" (FTR-05) in a project.
- A project's agent instructions list connectors-and-capabilities as installed and the task touches what it covers.
- No other feature is required first.
- Required by: FTR-06 (skill file-storage-and-transfer).

## Install procedure

Steps run in order. Assess comes first, every question in the Ask step is answered by the person before anything is written, and every write merges additively into the existing project files (read the file first, update an existing section in place, never overwrite).

### Assess first
- Test each connector's live status now:
  - Filesystem MCP: attempt a directory listing. Live if it responds.
  - Windows MCP: connected / not connected / N/A.
  - Gmail, Microsoft 365, Cowork: connected or not.
- Read `admin\AGENT_INSTRUCTIONS.md` for a previously recorded connector list. If a previously-active connector is now missing, note it — it will be flagged in the Write block.
- Record the registered Filesystem MCP working directory (needed by the File Storage feature and for every file operation).

### Ask, only if needed
- If a connector's status is genuinely undeterminable from testing (e.g., an email connector that can't be probed without an action): "Which connectors do you have active for this project — Filesystem, Windows MCP, Gmail, Microsoft 365, Cowork?"
- If a connector was added since last setup: "Tell me what you connected and I'll update your agent instructions."

### Write

The full Write payload is in references/write-payload.md. It is applied exactly as written, with the merge rule above.

### Confirm
Confirm: your connector inventory is recorded in the agent instructions — the agent knows which tools are live and will flag anything that drops. Want to install another, or is that everything for now?

## Files in this skill

- references/spec.md: the complete specification, unabridged.
- references/write-payload.md: the Write step on its own.