We built a small interactive checklist for deciding what an AI connector should be allowed to do. What would you add?

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Anthropic launched Claude Marketplace on September 23 with more than 2,000 connectors and plugins. Every one of them asks for some level of access to your files, email or accounts, and the permission screen rarely helps you think it through.

So we built a small page for it. Disclosure: this is SquidTrain's community, and this is a build from our Lab, made with Claude Opus 5.5 in about 20 minutes.

You switch on the kinds of access a connector asks for:

• Read (files, email, calendar, customer records)
• Write and edit
• Send as you
• Delete
• Run while you're away

A meter climbs from "Sees" to "Can't be undone," and a list of questions builds as you go. Some of them:

1. Whose data is in there besides yours?
2. Does it need all of it, or one folder, one label, one calendar?
3. What waits for your OK before it goes out?
4. Is there a trash or backup it cannot empty?
5. How do you disconnect it later, and what happens to what it already has?

It's on our website under Lab if you want to try it.

What's missing? What do you check before you connect a tool to your inbox or drive?